Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-08-11
Virginia News.

AnOld punchbowl used at jamestown
will be a feature of the coming Expo
sition in Virginia.
The Virginia Bar Association met
at Hot Springs, Tuesday, August z,
and ended Thursday evening. NJ
The corporation commission has is
sued an order citing all the railways
operating in Virginia to appear before
n November to show cause why the
2-cent mileage rate should not be en-
forced.
A reliable mn who has recently
travelled extensively through the
counties of Surrey, Sussex, Isle OF
Wight, Dinwiddie and Prince George
saws that in each of the counties
named not more than one-half a crop
of peanuts or corn will be harvested:
The shortage is due to heavy and
frequent rains.
The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching has official
ly notified DR.. w. w. Smith, president
of Randolph-Macon Woman's College,
Lynchburg, that the latter measures
up to its collegiate standards, and has
voted to place it upon the permanent
list of institutions entitled to retiring
pensions for their professors, being
the only one in the South of forty
seven institutions in the United States
so far chosen.
w. K. Ryan, son of the New York
millionaire, has invited all the white
people of Nelson county to his father
home at Oak Ridge i'll that county
Saturday to a barbecue, for which six
beeves will be killed, a hundred sheep
and hogs, and an innumerable number
Of chickens. There will also be barrels
of lemonade and all manner of soft
drinks. Mr.. Ryan has leased merry
go-round, hired brass band, and
built a fine dancing pavilion. If the
affair is a success, it is said, it will be
given annually.
Figures from the report of Auditor
Marye, for 1905, do not bear out the
statements made in Washington by
Giles Jackson, that the negroes own
one-eight of the land in Virginia.
The figures from the report are as
follows: Acreage owned by whites
"a ,291 1928; black, 1892, 697, which is
little less than one-ninel zenith owned
by the blacks. If values and town
lots and improvements are included,
| the whites are assessed with 1851 ,6S2, ;.
217, while the blacks are accountable
for SIC, 500, 1872, or little less than one
twenty-second of tn } total.
The contrac. his been awarded fol
the erection of toe State exposition
building and September II fixed az
the date for inangurating work on it
The building is to cost $24, $50. 1t il
to be of Colonial design and Contractor
R. H. Monk will build it. September
~ is the date that the Maryland com
mission has selected for laying the
cornerstone for the Maryland build
ing, and the day will be therefore &
big one in the construction period O.
the Jamestown Exposition. Governor
Swanson, of Virginia, and Governor
Warfield, of Maryland, will meet anC
will be the central figures in the cere
monte
The State Corporation Commission
which has ever since its creation beer
working to improve existing condi
tions between the public and tn
larger corporations, has issued al
order recurring that every railroad
operating in Virginia shall forthwith
and by not later than the first day o
, September, comply fully with the re
luuirements of the statute providing
for the establishment of telephone
in the Office of every depot or station
{ It further requires that the railroad
shall instruct their agents to observ
the more important rules ofpohtenes
! and courtesy in answering telephon
2 inquiries. Any failure to comply VII
the order within the given time - /
mean that the roads failing will b
heavily fued, as prescribed by the &C
? of the General Assembly.
The annual report of the Commi'
.. sioner of Internal Revenue, just mad
l public, shows that during the fisc;
S year ending June 80, 1906, the intel
, nal revenue taxes collected in Virgin
LA amounted to "a, 139, 25S, "a. TIL
p amount collected for the fiscal yea
S ending June 80, 1905, was SO, 535, 1897 o.
o Of the amount collected this year, As
;, Rogers, collector of the Richmon
: district, collected S491, S04.9S befol
e be was succeeded by Marion X. Lowr.
t who collected g, 1898, 315.45. The tot
@ for the district wasS2. $50, 120.43. III
:, remainder for the State was collecte
by Lewis G. Summers, collector of I'll
s Fifth Virginia District, and amountt
e to 81, 249, 1871. The total of Virgin
does not include the counties Of Acc
mac and Northampton, which are
the district composed of the States
e Maryland, Delaware and the Distri
n of Columbia.