Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-06-06
LOCAL NEWS.


way Baptist Church will hold a fair
on July 4th. Particulars given later.
Mrs. Margaret X, Fox and daugh-
ter, Miss Mildred, of Tuckerton, NJ,
are guests of Mrs. Robt. P. Coleburn
at Accomac Q. H.
Mr.. S. A. Milliner, of Brighton,
Northampton Co., is at Accomac @.
H., this week. visiting his parents,
Capt. and Mrs. Sam1. S. Milliner.
Mr.. James G.. Mock, of Wacha-
preague, is assisting Mr.. John D.
Grant, clerk of the court, in some
special work at his office this week.
Reports of the Banking Co. of L. L.
Dirickson, Jr., and of the Bank of
Keller, Inc, at the close of business
May 14th, 1908, appear in this issue.
A festival will be held in the after
noon of June Sth, Whitsuntide, at
Conquest NJ. P. Church, proceeds to
be applied to church improvements.
Mr.. Thos. w. Blackstone, quite
sick at his home at Accomac CHI. for
several weeks, is improving and ex-
pected soon to be in his usual health
again.
A lawn party will be held at Saw
ageville under the auspices of the
Baptist Sunday School at that place
on Saturday, p. M, to-day. Public
invited.
Prof. George B. Ish, principal of
Accomac High School, left Monday
for his home in Loudoun county to
spend the summer there with his
parents.
The name of Oscar w. Fletcher,
son of DIR. Frank Fletcher, of Jenkins
Bridge, appears in the list of gradu-
ates in medicine at the University of
Maryland this week.
The Missionary and Rosebud So
cieties of Andrew Chapel will hold
a lawn party at the church Saturday
afternoon, June 10, beginning at P.
m. Public cordially invited.
Mr.. Harry E. Parsons, of Accomac,
is graduate of the Naval Academy
at Annapolis this session. He has
been assigned to duty on Cruiser Des
Moines and leaves to day for Cuba.
Among the visitors to Baltimore
from Accomac g. H., this week, were
Mrs. Thomas Gardner, MeSsrs. j.
Wesley Coleburn, John W. Hickman
and Charles U. Ayres.
Mr.. William T. Bundick, of Oman
cock, left on Wednesday for Nebraska
to fill engagements to deliver temper
ance lectures daily in that and other
States in the West until September
10Th, next.
Misses Miriam and Sarah Mock,
daughters of Mr.. L. Floyd Mock, and
Misses Mary and Hardenia Fletcher,
daughters of Mr.. James H. Fletcher,
pupils at Randolph-MacOn Womans
College the past session, arrived home
this week.
The Board of Supervisors, in ses-
sion last Monday to consider plans
and specifications for a new Jail at
Accomac @. H, did not arrive at any
conclusion and will meet again next
Monday to give the matter further
consideration.
New advertisement appear in this
issue as follows: E. F. Guillette,
Temperanceville-s sale; RI.
Shield & Co., Observation-Disclosures
in clothing &C.. Leatherbury, BelOte
& Co., Onancock-d goods, furni
ture &c. real estate, known as Eyre
Rectory," near Eastville; Paul De-
wees, plumb Der, Pocomoke City.
Jos. r. Riggs, trustee, offers for
sale at private contract the entire
stock of goods of Douglas Hickman
in store near Bloxom, and if said
stock is not sold privately before
Saturday, June 9Th, next, will sell
the same at public auction on that
day, beginning at II a. m. and con-
tinuing the sale every Saturday there
after until same is sold.
A Sunday School will be organized
at Greenbush next Sunday afternoon
and steps will be taken at an early
day for the erection of a church
building at that place. Rev. Mr..
johnson, of the Methodist Protestant
Church, also will be present and
preach. An effort will be made to
have service every Sunday afternoon
conducted by ministers of the differ
emit denominations.
On last Wednesday 100000 ale
wifes were unloaded at Harborton
from the three steamers of the Men,
haden Oil and Fish Guano Co. They
were caught off Currituck light on
the Carolina coast and the catch is
the largest ever made by said COM
pany. The fish were very fat and
their value is estimated at about
$1,000. A catch of 100000 fish also
was made on same day by the crew
OF a steamer of the Martin & Mason
Co., Harborton.
The valuable tract of land, known
as Little Rest, situated about equi-
distant from Melfa Station, Wacha-