Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-08-15
LOCAL NEWS.


The secretary requests all exhibit
tors at Keller fair this year to send
In their list of exhibits by mail and
get their entry number.
All who wish to join the Accomack |
Book Club are requested to send their |
names and state preference as to |
books to the drug store by August IS.
Miss Margaret Groton will resume
her music lessons in Drummondtown
on Thursday, September 10th, and
in Onancock on Friday, September
18th.
The secretary authorizes the state
ment, that he has made arrange
ments for excursion trains to and
from the grounds every day during
the Keller Fair.
Miss Constance Taylor will open
her school for girls and small boys
at the Margaret Academy, Septem-
Der 9TH land cordially solicits the pat
ronage of the public.
Attention is invited to new adver.
tisements in another column: V. A.
Stewart & Co., New York; VIM. Hey
ser, Baltimore; A. h. q. Mears, Wach-
apreague; A. P. White. Parksley.
Mr.. Ernest T. Koenig, after an alb
sence of several weeks in Germany
visiting his mother and other rela-
tives and friends, arrived at his
home at Accomac c. H., on Friday.
WIN. P Bell s. Co. have just got
ten in large and we'll selected stock
OF Eaton-Hurlbut's celebrated box
papers and tablets. Those desiring
the latest style should call and ex-
anime the supply.
Speeds entries at the Keller Fair
close August 18th, II p. IN. Condi-
tional entries are forbidden by the
rules of the National Trotting Asso-
citation. Five per cent. must accom-
pany all speed entries.
The annual picnic on Burton's
Shore, under the auspices of the
louisville III. E. Church, South, this
year takes place on Wednesday, the
10Th inst, or if weather is unfavor
able at that time, on next fair day.
Supper and the usual refreshments
will be served.
Gilbert Walden, noted cowboy ora
tor, rough rider, scholar and dialect
humorist, will be at the Keller Fair
and entertain the people in attend
ance every day with songs and scenes
OF Dixie Land, assisted by noted
musicians on flute, guitars, banjo,
mandolin, harps, sc.
Tickets at excursion rates will be
sold at all stations on THE N. Y. P. Il
N. R. R., August Goth, Goth, 31st and
on September 1st, good to return
September Sd to Turlingtons Camp
ground, on account OF Temperance
meetings to be held there, cOMmen!
ing August 30;h.
At the meeting Of AccoUAc B .pt.st
Association ~ith Red Bank Church
this week, 3r. Ben l. Gunter was
reelected MODERATOR and JOhn E..
N,t.iugh IN, Jr clerk. Rev. Walter
Rhodes was elected vice moderator.
The next Association will be held
probably with Chincoteague Baptist
Church.
An entertainment consisting of
recitations, music, instrumental and
vocal, will be given at the hall in
Craddockville, Tuesday eve, 18th
inst. If this should be rainy even
ing, the entertainment will be given
on the 10Th inst. The object of this
entertainment, is to buy pulpit fur
nishings for Charlottesville church.
Mr. T. Berkeley Smith, a worthy
and highly respected citizen, died at
bis home in GUSTS Neck Wednesday
aged so years, and was laid to rest on
the following day in the family bury
ing ground, near Wachapreague,
after funeral services at Clarke;
Chapel, of which he was member
His wife and two children survive
him.
MIR. D. ]. Wheaton, of this county
has purchased for $4,000 one of the
taverns of the Revolutionary period
located at the southeast corner O
Front and Spruce streets, Philadel
phia. A deed of it dated 1869 gives it
value as then in English money thu
equivalent OF 100000. Mr.. Wheaton
has decided to tear down the ole
building and erect on the site mod
ern warehouse, four stories high, 2
by 40 feet.
The New York, Philadelphia ant
Norfolk Railroad Co. will cell excur
sion tickets from Delmar to Yves
Point and return next Tuesday
leaving New Church at Cos a. In
Tasley Gas a. m, arriving at Cap
Charles at $40 a. H., and at Yves
Point at 1890 p. m, for the sum G
$3.50 from all stations from Bloom
town to Cobbs station. The return
ing steamer will leave West Point q
5p.m. Meals served on steamer q
30 cents each.
Cards of the following candidate
appear in this weeks issue: Fo
treasurer and deputysJ"H. Hopkir