Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-11
Virginia News.
The ice In Chesapeake bay Is said
to be the heaviest for eighteen years

The ice In Chesapeake bay IL SAID
to be the heaviest for eighteen years
Spinach, kale and cabbage on the
truck farms about Norfolk have been
killed or frosted so that the crops
will be late or lost.
Gen. Fitz Lee has been asked to
accept the command OF a civic d.
vision of the inaugural parade In
Washington on March 4th.
Roth houses of the West Virginia
Legislature adopted resolutions In
structing finance committees 10 rec
port bills providing for an appropri'
alton for a building at the tercen
tennial at jamestown.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
will hereafter build it's own engines
and will erect large shops either In
Richmond, Huntington or Chiton
Forge. The shops, 1t Ia SAID, Will
employ from 1900 to 5000 men.
A Joint resolution has been adop-
ted by the North Carolina Assembly
endorsing the jamestown EXPOSITION
and calling on the North Carolina
delegation in Congress to support
measure providing adequate appro-
priations.
Fire Sunday morning destroyed
the Armory rolling mill OF the Treu
eear Iron Works, on an island In the
LANES river, between Richmond and
Manchester; damage $4,000. The
property was recently acquired by
Frank Gould, of New YORK.
The North Caro- ina monument al
Appomattox il to be unveiled April
@. Governor Montague, Governor
Glenn. Senator Martin and Congress
man ri. d. Flood will be the speak
ers. Henry Jerome Stockard, the
North Carolina poet, will read an
ode.
1.-THE Lions Skin," book by John
8. Wise; will be issued in New York
early next month. 1t Is novel OF
Southern history and tells the story
of a couple who go to Virginia after
the Civil War and have part in the
course of dramatic reconstruction
events.
Prof. George Il. Hulvey, superin'
tendent of schools for Rockingham
county. has announced himself q
candidate for State superintendent
of Public Instruction. Prof. HulveJ
is a Confederate veteran. kesolu'
tious were adopted by the Rocking
ham Teachers Association indorsine
Prof. Hulvey's candidacy.
The House Committee on Indus
trial Arts and Expositions Friday
authorized by vote of z to 4, a fay
orable report on the bill for the hold
ing of an international naval, marin'
and military exposition at James
town. Va, in 1907 The amounts o
the appropriation to be hereafter
made, IL the bill passes, were no
named.
The Board of Sinking Fund Com
missioners held meeting al TN
office of the second auditor toda.
and decided to advertise for Virginii
bonds, on account Of the commits
sioners to the amount OF $20O,OOO
The advertisement will appear in
DIV or two and will ask for the tota
of 5000, 900 or any part thereof. Th
finances of the State are in very goo
shape, the bonds bearing low rat
of interest, being quoted at W
to day.-News Leader, 9th.
The State Board of Education
now engaged in the work OF reds
tricting the State for division super
) intendents of schools, combining tn
r smaller counties and cities oil IN
| State into larger units for supervls
ion and administration. In April o
, Nav the State Board will elect or ar
point division superintendent 10
the term of four years, beginnln
, 1ofInto1e(enl u5,, az INC new pihn WI
. considerably decrease this numbe
, Representative Maynard has IL
troduced in the House bill appro
priating $4,000 to erect monumen
to the memory of Matthew Fontain
Maury. 1t is stipulated that th
monument shall be erected either a
Cape Henry or on Hampton Roads
Commodore Maury, known as tn
Pathfinder of the Seas" was one Q
the foremost scientists in the world
He was a noted geographer, and hi
books and charts have been adopte,
as standards. He was a native o
Spottsylvania county.