Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-24
LOCAL NEWS.
County court next Monday.

Supervisors will be held at Accomat
G. H., Wednesday, November 18th.
A nice line of goods especially suit.
ed for wedding presents, fresh from
factories, now at Duncan's, Oman
cock.
II you wish bridal or birthday
present, do not purchase until you
have examined w. T. Wise's "Mori>
age" Bric-a-b rac, fancy and decorat-
ed china, pictures, etc. A new line
just received.
An advertisement Of Hancock &
Tyndall in another column is of in
terest to you, if you have house to
be moved and want it moved quick
ly and at the lowest figure. Read it
and call on or write to them.
Advertisements appear in this issue
of interest to you, viz: Ames, Shield
Il Co., Onancock; W. s. Dickinson &
Son, Pocomoke City; Rogers s. Bro,
Finney. Read them aud call and ex-
anime the bargains they have to offer
you.
Mr.. John Il. Hopkins, treasurer,
prevented by inclement weather from
filling his appointments at Bloxom,
will be there Monday and Tuesday,
November 10th and 18th, to receive
the taxes of the people in that Sec
ton.
The announcement is made by re-
quest of the Worshipful Master, that
the next stated communication of
Ocean Lodge, A. F. & A. NJ, No. 116.
will be held in their hall at Wacha-
preague, in afternoon of Thursday,
November 9Th.
The Savageville Chapel will be
dedicated on Sunday next, 25th inst,
II a. IN. Rev. A. <. Owen, D. D., will
preach the dedicatory sermon. Rev.
j. M. Street and other pastors are ex-
pected to be present and take part in
the services.
Mr.. Heze Fitzgerald, Hunting
Greek, with the view of closing out
his mercantile busin ess offers regard
less of cost, his entire stock of goods
Read his advertisement In another
column this week and call on him at
once If you want bargains.
Invitations have been issued by DR..
and Mrs. John W. Field to the mar
riage of their daughter. Miss Nellie
Corbin Field, to DR.. William Meade
Burwell, Wednesday morning, Co.
tober 2Sth, 1908, at half after nine
o'clock, Method ist Episcopal church, !
Chincoteague Island, Virginia.
II in arrears for subscription to En-
terprise and in attendance at Court
next Monday please pay the dollar
due us. If not present let us have it
in some other way and save us the
trouble and expense of sending bill to
you by mail. Let us have the dol
lar If you have to send it at our ex-
pense.
An oyster supper, under the aus
pices of Charlottesville Jr. o. o. A.
NJ, will be served in their hall at
Charlottesville on Wednesday .4th day
OF November. Prominent speakers
are expected to be ia attendance and
deliver addresses on the occasion. A
cordial invitation is extended by the
council to the public.
Mackenzie Presbyterian Church in
our town Is being beautifed this
week by coat of paint and other
improvements are soon to be made
by cementing the pillars, steps, and
walk leading to 1t, which will make
It one of the neatest church ediflces
10 the county. 1t will also be enclosed
by a substantial and pretty iron rail-
ing.
A bugeye, Sc feet long, 22 feet beam,
capacity 1000 barrels of potatoes and
with saloon accommodations for ten
or more passengers, 10 be propelled
by gasoline and sails, is to be bui t
soon at Pocomoke City for Mr.. James
A. Hail She will be completed by
next April and put on line from
Marsh Market, via Chesconnessix to
Baltimore.
Sam Lawrence, colored, who ar
rived home from Philadelphia last
week sick with small pox, died few
days ago. No other cases have de-
veloped, bat sixteen colored people,
exposed to the disease, are being
strictly guarded in the pest house, re-
Gently built in swamp above Horn
town, under the direction of the
Board of Health of Accomac.
At the meeting of the State Coun-
Gil of the Jr. o. q. A. NJ. at Newport
News on Tuesday the councils in Ac-
comac were represented by the fol-
lowing: Greenbackville, j. T. Sharp
ley; Bloxom, A. W. Short; Hallwood
4. G. Kelly; louisville, DR.. J. W.
Kellam; Wachapreague, Rev. j. A.
VIM; Charlottesville, Stonewall j.
Bull. Mr.. }. T. Sharpley was elected
as Inside Sentinel of the Grand Coun-
Gil.
Rev. DR.. Thomas A. Tidball, just
home from a six months tour of Nor II
way, Russia, England and other
European countries, arrived In Ac.
comac on Satur day and will be the
guest for several days of DR.. and Mrs. ,