Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-08-18
SATURDAY, AUGUST Is, 1906.
LOCAL NEWS.

exhibitors at the Keller Far on ohe
last day of August.
Mrs. James P. Daugherty ana
children, OF Portsmouth, are visiting
relatives at Wachapreague.
Rev. Geo. w. Jones, of Norfolk,
will preach at Drummondtown and
Woodbury. Sunday at usual hours.
The usual services will be held at
Mackenzie Presbyterian church, Drum
hometown, on Sunday at IL a. m.
Mrs. N. Polk Kilmon returned from
hospital in Baltimore to her home at
Accomac @. H. last Tuesday morning.
Owners and drivers of speed horses
at Keller Fair will please take notice
that by order of the Board of Direc-
tors the 2:35 trot is changed to 2:2O
trot. Prem UNI s1OO-1st $50; End, $40;
3rd, SIS; 4th, $40.
TIE members of Evergreen M. III
Church, South, will serve supper with
the usual refreshments on Saturday,
August 25th, from 2 p. m. for benent
of parsonage and pews for church.
The public is cordially invited.
Warner Ames, trustee, will sell
public auction on Saturday, August
18TH, 10 a. m. on the premises OF
Everett ]. Beloate, near Onancock'
saw mill, horses, mules, wagons
timber carts &C. O Andrew j. Thomas.
For full particulars see advertisement
10 this issue.
Excursion trips are being made
from Folly Wharf to Metompklu
Beach every Tuesday and Thursday
ON boats of Capt. w. H. Lang, leaving
at 2:3Op d. m. and returning at $50 p.
M. Fare for round trip 25 cents. He
is open also for engagements for other
DAYS, Sundays excepted, during the
week.
A bank has been organized at Belle
Haven with a capital stock of $4,000.
DIR. Jno. T. B. Hyslop is president and
Capt. VIM. J. Rue the vice-president.
Negotiations are in progress for the
construction of a suitable building also
for the equipment. The directors ex-
poet to open for business in temporary
quarters in September.
The ladies of Painter will hold a
festival at the hall Thursday afternoon
August 23rd., beginning at 2:3O
O'Clock. Supper will be served in
baskets from to after which an en-
tertainment VIII be given by the best
local talent on the Shore, consisting
of duets and solos, instrumental and
vocal, recitations and tableaux.
John T. Mock, trustee, will sell a
public auction, on Saturday, August
25th, 1906, at o'clock p. M, at
"I.ocksville," all that tract or parcel
of land known as the "Winder farm
and belonging to Turner Bros, stu
ated near Locksville, opposite ano
near Melfa Station. Terms most lib
eral. This is a valuable truck farm.
Garrisoa's Chapel Sunday Schoo
will hold its annual picnic in Upshur'
Neck, on the Machipungo Greek, neal
Smiths Chapel, Wednesday, Angus
the 22nd. Sailing and bathing vii
be among the chief attractions. he
freshments and fruits will be sold OF
the grounds. The invitation is ex
tended to the public to carry luncl
and spend the day.
John 8. Parsons, special commits
sioner, will sell by bublic auction a
Bloomtown, on Saturday, August IL
2.3O p. M, the very valuable tract c
land on which Thomas Shay now re
sides. about three-fourths of a mil
from Bloomtown, containing 1856
acres by actual survey, and the intel
est in a certain lot at Bloomtowr
For full particulars see posters.
The Accomac Baptist Association
which was convened in Onancoc
Baptist Church. on Wednesday, az
iourned Friday to meet with Atlant
Baptist Church, next year. Ben.
Gunter was reelected moderate
Jno. E. Nottingham, Jr., secretal
and H. r. Boggs, treasurer. Re
Charles Clement was elected vic
moderator in place of Rev. Chas. Co
bitt. now Superintendent OF Bapti
Orphanage.
Mess. VIM. Waterfall & Compar
have removed their factory fro
their old stand at 4th and Race ST.
where they have been located for Il
past forty years to Front al
Mechanic Sts., Camden, N. j., whe
they have one of the most compile
and up-to-date factoriesin the cou
try. They will continue to manufa
ture their famous brands of Combir
ton and Universal Mixed paint. 3
advertisement.
The valuable tract of land, conta
ing 2S41 acres, more or less, of aral
and woodland and 14o acres, more
less, of fine pasture land belonging
the widow and heirs of the late j.
valid Mears and in addition theret'
acres, more or less, of nice thicl
land adjoining the same, situated nj
Davis Wharf and Craddockville,
spectively. will be sold to the high
bidder on Saturday, September i
1906. at 2:3O O'Clock, p. M, at Pun
teague by L. Floyd Mock, trust