Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-05-14
LOCAL NEWS.

The Farmers and Merchants Bank,
of Onley, will open next Monday.
The prizes offered for races at the
Tssley Fair on August 9, 10, II and
10, aggregate $1,000.
The firm of Ames, Shield & Co. has
been dissolved by mutual consent, as
will appear from an advertiser mt In
another column
In a game Of base ball at Tasley
last Saturday between the Mutton
Hunk and homo mines, the former
won by the score of - to 10
Liquor license was issued to the
h ,tel at Keller last Saturday night
and this with one at Accomsc G. b ,
are the only ones In the county.
Strawberry checks, good for life
time, 500 for $1.OO. 1000 for 81 rs, are
now being printed at the ENTER
prise Office" Your order is solicited.
The Accomac Baptist Sunday
School Convention will be held on
Wednesday aud Thursday, June Sth
and 9th, with Onancock Baptist
Church.
New advertisements i4sthis issue to
which especial attention is invited:
Eagle Mills, Pocomoke city; M. c..
Click, Onancock; real estate, jeff D..
Jacob
The harry Lindley Theatre Co.
will be at Old Masonic 81 Ill, Accomsc
G. H., May 10 b and 10th, and give a
performance g ,ch evening full of in
terest to all 10 attendance.
Mr. Frank P. Brent, secretary of
the State Education Board, has &C.
cepted an invitation to deliver an
address at commencement exercises,
OF Eastville Academy, June 10th.
A stra berry and Ice cream festival
will be given 10 the Rectory yard at
Accomac G. q by the young people
en- Friday afternoon, May Goth. Pub
lie cordially invited and expected.
The personal property Of Edward
Thomas White, deceased, will be sold
at public auction, on his late prem-
ises, near Atlantic, Saturday, 14th
inst. See advertisement for full par
ticulars.
A meeting of the III ia division of
the Produce Exchange will be held
Saturday, May 14th, 2 p IN. BUSH
less of Importance to be attended to
on the day and full attend ,nce of
the members requested.
Miss Sadie P. Duncan, of the mil.
linery firm OF Miss Duncan s. Co..
Belle Haven,is 10 the city purchasir &
summer millinery and notions, which
will be opened next week. See ad 10
our next issue for full particulars
l.. Floyd Mock, special commits
sioner, will sell at public auction, on
Saturday, June An. 1904, at 100
O'Clock q. NJ, in front of the hotel at
Bloxom, the house and lot belongit &
to Harry w. Dickerson. For terms,
see posters.
A strawberry festival will be given
under the auspices of the members
OF Modestown Baptist Church, Mol =
day, May 23d, b ginning at $50 o.
IN. A lecture may also he expected
on the occasion. Proceeds to be APP
piled to payment of church repairs
The very valuable farm of Mr.. L.
Frank Ellsworth, situated near Horn
town, containing PAL acres, more OF
Ter. will be sold at public III ton on
the r misses on Saturday, tupe 4. H.
by mes burlington, attorne!
in sc. >e advertisement In :his
issue.
The fourth annual IL citing of the
Virginia Conference OF Charities and
Correction will be held in Christ
Church Parish House, Norfolk, May
1919 Mr.. l.. James Hyslur, Of
Keller, is a member of the committee
on local organic d charities of the
cities and towns.
Rev. John K. Goode is in attend
ance this week at Southern Baptist
Convention, Nashville, Tenn, an(
will not therefore fill his appoint
ments to morrow, but will return il
time to preach at Drummondtown Oh
Sunday morning, May 22d, and a.
Holies In the afternoon of that day
Mrs. Annie Benson, mother of Mr.
George T Benson, of Keller, and Mr.
w. T. Benson, OF New York, ant
sister of Hon. Teackle T. Wescott
died Thursday, 5th inst. at her hom
Lear Keller, aged 81 years. The de
ceased was a most estimable lady AM
was deservedly held in the highes
respect and esteem by a large circl
Of relatives and friends.
Two tracts OF land, known as tn
Fox land" containing 81 and l
acres. respectively. situated on roa'
between Onley Station and Accoma
G. H., will be sold at public auction
to the highest bidder, by James d
Fletcher, Jr. and g Walter Mapr
special commissioners, in front O
courthouse door. on Saturday, Jun
4th, 1904, 2 p. IN. For full particular
see posters