The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-17
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM NASHVILLE, VA.

NASHVILLE. VA, March 18th, 1905.
Messrs. Longnecker Bros.-Dear Sirs:-I have
been at this place for several days and find that
it lisa great Irish potato-growing section. Every
body who has land plants them-it is the main
crop. As one person expressed it, ''they plant
potatoes everywhere. even in the back yard"
Eastville is the county seat of Northampton
county and is on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Every two months they have Court Day." the
court holding sessions and farmers from all over
the county drive to town. Those who have no
court business come to see the others. and it is
great day with all, several hundred being here
during the day. Yesterday was one of these
days. 1t is similar to a farmers picnic. They
meet and talk and transact business among
themselves, have dinner at the hotel, which is
run without a liquor license, and last year the
proprietor cleared thousand dollars showing
that the country don't go to the dogs when they
get rid of the licensed liquor business. Both
Accomack and Northampton counties are dry
except Cape Charles City and that will take a
quiet, peaceable attitude on April LIST next. as
the people have voted it "dry" also.
The sentiment In Pocomoke City and through
out Somerset county, Md, is strong against the
license business, and as this is the only Eastern
Shore county in the State that has license the be-
lief is that the advocates of license are going to
win. The hotel proprietor at Pocomoke told me
that when they took his license away he was
going out on his farm to live. said to him:
II hope they will soon put you out there"
The editor of the Eastern Shore Herald, at
Esstville, Va, Mr.. T. d. Robertson, is anxious
to get canning establishment started in this
section to pack sweet potatoes. Those inter-
ested in canning should write him for particu-
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They know how to grow sweet potatoes and have
to store them to keep them so that cannery
could be run for a good many months in the
year, perhaps all the year. Accomack county
grows many hundreds of thousands of bushels
annually. Many farmers grow 40 to IS acres of
late sweet and Irish potatoes.
Eastville is a very old town, it being known in
history as far back as 1880. 1t is close to both
the Chesapeake bay and Atlantic ocean and al
most opposite to jamestown, just across the
bay.
The jamestown Centennial Exposition, to
come off next year. is being largely advertised.
1t is to celebrate the three hundredth anniver-
sary of the settling of America by English people
at jamestown, and promises to be big affair.
The Exposition will be held just below Norfolk,
the grounds and buildings being now prepared.
Congress will make the necessary appropriation
to carry it to a successful issue.
Coming down by rail stopped at Parksley,
Accomack county. 1t has monument of gran
tie erected by "Marmason- Test Camp, Confeder-
ate Volunteers, in memory of their dead COM
rades from Accomack and Northampton coun-
ties" The other sides of the monument are in
scribed as follows: "At the call of patriotism
and duty they encountered the perils of the
field and were faithful even unto death" "They
fought for conscience sake and died for right"
"They died for the principle upon which all true
Republics are founded"
Near Pocomoke City passed the ground where
the old court house stood that once served for
Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester counties
and where, it is said, Washington city was once
located. W. H. r.
THE LOUISVILLE COMMERCIAL CLUB is arous-
ing enthusiasm among ex Kentuckians over
the Homecoming for Kentuckians," which
is to be held June 13th-17th, 1906, inclusive.
At that time all former residents of the State
are urged to return to take part in the ceebra-
ton at Louisville. Railroads will make
special rates and it is thought that large num-
Der of oId-time inhabitants of the bluegrass
country will be able to revisit their native
State. The club in charge will furnish detailed
information to inquirers.