Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-11-14
LOCAL NEWS.

A hill of sweet potatoes weighing
16 pounds, grown by Mr.. Chas. B..
Mason, is on exhibition at Hotel
Doughty.
Hon. William T. Bundick will speak
on temperance at Red Bank Baptist
Church next Sunday, November 18th,
at 1880 a. IN. and 7:S0 p. IN.
The next annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Eastern Shore
Produce Exchange will be held at
Esstville, Thursday, December 10th,
1908.
Mr.. s. F. Parks, of Parksley, repre-
senting the Leatherbury Shoe Co.,
left this week for West Virginia and
will not return until about 18th Of
December.
The junior guild of st. George
Episcopal Church, Pungoteague, will
give an oyster supper at the l. o..
Heptasoph Hall Saturday, November
last. Public cordially invited.
Mr.. Fred E. Ruediger, county sur
veyor, left Monday for Rsppahan-
mock county, to fill an engagement
in the line of his duties, and Will be
absent from the county about 30
days.
New advertisements in this issue
to which special attention is invited:
Ames, Shield g. Co, Miss Cora W.
Riley, Onancock; Henry E. Byrd &
Son, E. F. Guillette, Temperance
vile; Harry T. White. Bloomtown.
Rev. Walter Rhodes, of New
Church, Va, will accept the call ex
tended him by the congregation of
the Second Baptist Church, Luzerne
and Orleans streets. he is expected
to take charge in few weeks.-Bal-
timore sun, 18th.
The latest advices in regard to
smallpox are, that there are no new
cases at Horntown, and that those
now sick with the disease are practi-
cally out of danger. The guard at
pest house, near the town, was dis
charged on Wednesday.
VIM. P. Bell & Co. have secured a
limited supply of Chinese lily bulbs
which they will sell at 10 cents each.
They have also in fresh from
Stephens, Whitman g. Son an assort-
ment of their celebrated fruit juice
tablets. Call and try them.
The case of Ellinger VS.. Common
wealth was argued in the Supreme
Court at Richmond, this week, by J.
Il. Fletcher, Jr., and G. V. Meredith
for the plaintiff and by the Attor-
ney-General for the Commonwealth
and submitted. The decision will be
rendered next week.
Auction sale of horses and mules,
of Smyth Bros McCleary>McClellan
Live Stock Co., Norfolk, advertised
In another column, is OF interest to
you, if you need horse or mule.
The supply is greater than the de-
mand at present, as will be noted.
and the prices are lower.
Mr.. John T. Bradford, graduate
OF Wachapreague High School, for
merIy in the postoffice of that town,
and later with A. H. &. Mears, of the
same place, has recently secured
through Hapgoods, 800 Broadway,
New York, very good position with
the Bayonne Barrel Works, of Bay
onne, N. j.
L. Floyd Mock, special commission
er, will sell at public auction on Sat-
urday, November 2Sth, 1908, at 2
O'Clock p. H., at the late residence of
VIM. r. Lewis, deceased, all the real
estate of which said VIM. r. Lewis
died seised and possessed, consisting
OF eight (8) tracts or parcels. For
terms, sc. see posters.
All candidates at the late election,
snder recent Act of Legislature, are
,equired to file, within 30 days, with
the clerk OF the county court sworn
statement of expenses. Certificate OF
election will not be issued to any
officer who fails to attend to this
duty. Expense blanks will be for
warded to all who desire them from
this Office on receipt OF 10 cents in
stamps.
Mrs. Jerusha @. Johnson, a most
estimable lady, wife of Mr.. Thomas
II. johnson, died Tuesday, after a
long illness at her home near Acco-
mac @. H., aged SO years. She was
buried from Drummondtown Meth
odisr Church, on Thursday, 18th inst,
Rev. W. b Judefind, conducting the
ervices-interment at Edge Hill
Cemetery. Her husband and four
sons Edward sydney William and