Accomack News, January 5, 1907
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Transportation -- Water - Power boats
Chincoteague.
An explosion on the gasoline boat of John Winder while moored at the dock of Conant & Sons done $300.00 damage Monday last.
Negroes Arrested.
Moral -- Property crime
The wholesale arrest of a seemingly organized band of negroes took place in this town last Saturday and Sunday and most of them, twelve in number, are either in jail or out on bond. It appears that for the past two or more years robberies have been committed in several store houses here but efforts to locate the burglars was to no avail until the store house of Glick & Co., was entered the Saturday night before Christmas, when a further determined search was made to locate some of the goods taken. Some days later a clue was secured and parties found out who had purchased some of the clothing and by following this up a negro man, Will Finney, and his accomplice Andrew Drummond were taken in charge by Constable Kellam. The man Finney after being trapped gave the names of several other negroes who were promptly arrested and in this manner others were accused with the result as above stated. Glick & Co., have alone recovered upwards of $300 worth of clothing, shoes &c., some of which was stolen as long as one year ago. The men and one woman, who with her husband run a small store in the lower end of Slutkiln Neck and are now charged with receiving stolen goods, are in the county jail awaiting the action of the Grand Jury being bound over by Magistrate Parker.
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Infrastructure -- Public : TownsInfrastructure -- Public : SchoolsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential construction
What we did in 1906 is now a thing of the past and will be recorded in the ages of history. If we committed follies, made mistakes, dealt unjustly with our fellow men or left undone any of those things which we ought to have done, there is a remedy in the bright future before us and each and every one should stop for a moment to examine ourselves and look over our past in order that such follies, mistakes and unjust dealings might be corrected and make sure that in the activities of another year more good can be accomplished and the betterment of ourselves and those dependent on us can be brought about with less mistakes to be charged off to our loss account. It would be well at this time to speak of the healthy, steady growth of our town during the past year and to call attention to the great number of homes erected here, more probably than any year in its history. Various causes have brought about this result but the main cause is the general prosperity of our farming interests and those who have been engaged in it so long who are now enabled to enjoy the fruits of their labors and have moved into our town, where their children can be educated and the social features of an up-to-date town can be enjoyed. New enterprises and new industries have come with the already large business interests of our town backed by sufficient capital and brains to make a success and as we go forward into another year let it behoove us to look forward and not backward so that the year 1907 may be made a record breaker so far as the growth of our community is concerned, in its moral, material and industrial welfare and development. There are a number of new business enterprises strongly talked of and no doubt several various kinds of business especially manufacturies for canned goods, ice plant, etc., that will soon materialize provided the proper support and encouragement is given the parties interested and as each of these various enterprises spring into existence and become a reality then it will be said and wondered at how we ever managed to do without them. Our proximity to Norfolk and the Exposition to be held there this year will bring by way of the N. Y. P. & N. R. R., many thousands of people, who have never seen our country, through this very county and these travelers on making inquiry as to the principal towns of the peninsula will be told that our town is the largest and most progressive on the shore. By this means we expect to see a great many visitors here during the coming year although we may be considered somewhat remote from their destination at the same time there will be a number of people to visit us and we the citizens of Onancock, want to make it a part of our business to speak to these strangers whenever the opportunity affords itself and talk up to them the advantages to be derived from a location here against any other point on the Eastern Shore.
A suggestion has been made that a special exhibit in some form be made from this town in connection with the county exhibits at this great exposition and it would be a wise thing for our citizens to gather in public meeting and formulate some plans looking towards a representation of some kind which would do credit to us in this exhibit. We have the resources and the people to place behind such a movement, then why not be up and doing before it is too late. We are for a long, strong pull in 1907 for further reaching out and broader development of our natural advantages, and the NEWS would gladly aid through its columns any advancement that may be started to the end that Onancock, so long the central point of prosperity and development on the Eastern Shore, may continue to [illegible] hold this vantage ground, but [illegible] its forward steps in development [illegible] that other towns will be willing [illegible]cede the crown to us. What say you, citizens?