Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-06-29
Saturday, June 20, 1907.
LOCAL NEWS.

The question or Incense VI III
license" will be voted upon in Lee
District, Saturday, June 29th.
The regular term of the circuit
court of Accomac begins next Mon
day. The special term ended lasU
Tuesday.
Mrs. Landon B. Derby of Wake For
est. West Va, is at Accomac T.. III.
on visit to Miss Eta Wise and other
relatives and friends.
A valuable farm at Horntown is
offered for sale at private contract Dy
Mr.A.T.W. Wallop See advertisement
in another column for particulars.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Markley, of
Muncie, Indiana, arrived at Accomac
G. H, Wednesday, on visit to her
sisters, Mrs. A. J. Lilliston and Mrs.
Saml. L. Ross.
Mrs. John X. Goode and son return
ed from visit of several weeks 10
her parents, near CoVlngtoh, va ac
companied by Miss Z, Kate Moore OF
Augusta county, on Tuesday.
Mr.. Howard f. Cole, of Leesburg,
Va. EN- route from the Virginia Bank
er's Association held at the Inside
Inn, Jamestown, spent few days AT
the home of Mrs. Thomas Il. Nelson
this week.
New advertisements appear this
week of j. S. Mills, Onancock and
Jos. S. Bunting, BloOmtown. The
farmer has bargains for you IN cIoth-
ING and bathing suits, the latter IN
barrels. Read them.
A fair will be held at Sanford NJ. E:
Church, South, for beneht Oh salo
church, on July 4th. Contectlonanes,
ice cream and all the delicacies OF the
season will be served. Temperance
lecture in the evening by Rev. Z. ID.
Crawley.
The sale of the farm of James |.
Lewis. on Hunting Creek, advertised
bv Warner Ames, attorney In fact,
will take place on Saturday June 29Lh
at O'Clock D. m. in front of the store
house of Jesse J. Hurst at Grape, in
stead of June 22nd, as previously adj
vertised.
The first regular meeting OF the
Ministerial Union for AccOmac will
he held in the NJ. Z. Church, South, |
Accomac CHI, next Monday II a. m.
july 1st Seventeen ministers are In
vited and number of papers on in
teresting subjects will be read and
discussed.
Two valuable dwellings in town of
Onancock "for purpose of making |
partition" will be sold at public auc-
tion by John P. L. Hopkins and
George B. Fosque in front of hotel of
William Comrades, on Saturday, July
6, SD. m. For particulars see adyer-
tisement in this issue.
Warner Ames, trustee, will on Sat
urday, July 18th, next, at 2:3O O'CLOCK
d. M, in front of the hotel IN the
village of Bloxom, sell at public auc-
ton the house and lot of VIM. L.
Poulson, located near the said village
of Bloxom. For further information
see posters or trustee.
At the closing of the schools of
Portsmouth, Va, on June 21, Miss
Irene E. Daugherty, daughter of Mr..
Jas. p. Daugherty, formerly of this
county, was the recipient of the j. +.
King scholarship medal, which was
presented by Judge Frank F. Croker,
in happy and graceful manner.
The regular monthly meeting of
Thos. @. Kelley Chapter, L. D. O.,
will be held at the home of Mrs. John
Hack Ayres on Wednesday, July 3rd,
at 4:3O D. m. All members who have
not sent in their application blanks
are especially requested to I'LL them
out and bring or send them to this
meeting.
VIII. B. GUSTS, HarbOrton, Va,
desires to call attention to the cele-
brated Fairbanks and Victor gasoline
motors for boats. Mr.. GUSTS is agent |
for the above motors and calls parti-
cular attention to the Victor engines |
practical working demonstration of
which can be seen by persons calling
at his place of business on Harborton
Wharf.
Especial attention is invited to the
attractions to be at the jamestown /
Exposition on the 4th of July publish
ed in another column. 1t is the OPP
portunity of life time for those who
wish to spend the day away from
home. The program shows that there
will be something doing, that will be
interesting every minute OF the day.
Read it.
G. Walter Mapp, special commits
sioner, will sell on July 18th, 1907,
between the hours of two and three
at Wachapreague, Va, the real es-
81, Doplylnxy Smith died |
seized and possessed, situated at
Locustmount, Va, containing about
seventy acres 90 A. This property
is well located and has upon it a con-
siderable quantity of timber. For
particulars see posters.
During the electrical storm of We'd |
nesday a lightning bolt knocked off |
a portion of the chimney of the house
occupied by Mr.. Robt. P. Coleburn,
Accomac 9. H., entered the kitchen,
shocking an old colored woman and |
passed through the hall, then up !
stairs. passed out in corner of the |
hall through the wall. The escape |
of Mrs. Coleburn and children was
perhaps a narrow one, as they had
lust left the hall when the bolt passed |
through it.
Master G Bently Bird, son of Mr..
E. James Bird, Keller, pupil of Wal
ZACH Grammar School, Washington,
d. c., won highest honors in recent
examination held to determine fit
ness for promotion to the High School
of that city. His cousin, Miss Jessie |
FAINT, who is well known and has
host of admirers in lower Accomac,
has been promoted to position of
training teacher in Washington Nor
NAL School at a salary of 81 900 a
wear and an annual increase of 500.
The privileges of the Peninsula Fair
Aanoniatinn sold at nnhlic auction on