Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-03-03
Virginia Items.

Governor Swanson Monday author
lied the announcement that DIR. f. >.
Hope will be quarantine officer for the
Norfolk district.
Captain John L. Roper, of Norfolk,
has recently given $4,000 toward the
Improvement and extension OF the
Methodist Orphanage of Virginia, OF
which he is trustee.
The hundred and fifty-six employees
of the steam engineering department.
of the navy yard at Norfolk have been
laid off as a result of a temporary lack
of work in that department..
The Mary GUSTS Lee Chapter,
Daughters of the COnfederacy, of
Lexington, has purchased the Stone
wall Jackson residence in that town
for 81, 900 and will use it as hospital.
The average cost at the three Vir-
ginia hospitals for the insane is stated
to be Sl04 per capita, per annum,
which is lower than at the majority
of the asylums throughout the country.
The minority report of the Virginia
delegation in the recent oyster con-
ference with representatives of the
Maryland legislature was voted down
by the house committee on the Chesa-
peake, Wednesday afternoon. The
minority report favored closing the
Potomac river to oyster fishers for
two years.
The bitter cold weather of Monday
night greatly damaged the large spi-
mach crop now up in the trucking
section around Norfolk and it is be-
lieved to have killed all early planted
peas and radishes as well as other
early crops which had been planted
as the result of what was taken To be
very early spring.
The jamestown Exposition Com
pany is anxious TO adopt some official
emblem which will suggest TO any
imaginative person the subject of
their exposition, and is Offering 500
to the artist or amateur who can Gre
ate a thought which will subserve
their purpose and will typify the be-
ginning of the nation.
The Methodist preachers of Norfolk,
Portsmouth and vicinity took the first
step Monday looking toward the clos
ing of the jamestown Exposition on
SUNDAYS, and the Rev. DR.. W. G..
Starr was appointed committee to
communicate with the Rev. DR.. Viii
bur f. Craft, at the head of the re-
form bureau, Washington, ID. c., to
see what the mode of procedure should
be.
Governor Swanson has received
from Judge Charles Mayer a letter in
which the Judge tenders TO the State
of Virginia a bronze bust of John
Smith, ''some time Governor of Nir-
ginia and Admiral of New England
The bust was modelled by General
Baden-PoweI, of the British Army,
the hero of Mafeking, a lineal de-
scendant of the Virginia hero, who,
according to tradition, was saved
from death by Pocahontas.
Maryland has a larger oyster navy
than we have and has less oyster
ground to protect. Last year Mary
lands oyster revenue was $50, 0S9. Is
and the cost was $50, 02S.S4. That
same year 5000 Virginia's revenue
was SOS, OPS. 81. the expense S24, 2O2. 30.
So Virginia was in S43, $3.50 net on
the oyster question alone. That's a
pretty good showing, but it shows
also that we can afford another good
police steamer for the Potomac
Northern Neck News.
DR.. j. H. Cochran, foater member
of the House of Delegates from Fau
quior and LOudOun counties, died Sat
urday at the Memorial Hospital, Rich
mOnd, after an illness of less than a
week. He was taken with a chill on
Saturday last, but apOpleXy was the
immediate cause of his death. DR..
Cochran was sixty-three yeras of age
and was native of Fauquier county.
He was a lieutenant in Pages Artillery
in the war between the States, and is
remembered tenderly as a gallant
soldier.
The board of governors of the James
town Exposition company opened
bids Saturday evening for the con-
struction of the largest buildings that
will be erected on the site at Sewell's
Point. They are for transportation
and varied industries exhibits under
one roof and for machinery and cleo
tricity under the other roof, each
building towering about seventy-five
feet above ground and measuring APP
proximately 535 feet by 300 feet in di-
mensions.' They will be sister BULL
ings and will be erected in the court,
one on either side, being in full view
of all vessels passing through Hamp-
ton Roads. Two lowest bids for both
buildings was 1922, $50.