Peninsula Enterprise, September 29, 1894

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Banks

The bank building at Onancock is nearly completed.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Churches

Lynch and three others, the "sanctified crowd" committed to jail recently, were released on bail last Saturday.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estate

Lands of the heirs of Thomas R. Gray, deceased, sold at public auction last Saturday, were bid off to the following parties: Gray's Point, by James H. Lewis, at $1,825 -- Wise's Point, by Mrs. Sallie Gray, at $1,375 -- 10 acres of swamp land by Mrs. Sallie Gray, at $225.

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Moral -- Alcohol

The Prohibitionists will have a "grand rally," at the Town Hall, Belle Haven, Tuesday night, October 2d. An address will be delivered on the occasion by Rev. Q. L. Morrow, editor of the Peninsula Press, Snow Hill, Md. Ladies as well as gentlemen are invited to be present and participate in the exercises.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial construction

Belle Haven.

Two persons were baptised at Read's wharf, last Sunday, by Rev. Mr. Purnell.

The mammoth storehouse being erected here by Mr. A. P. Kellam will be completed by October 15th.

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Surveying

Parksley.

The citizens of Hunting Creek have made application to the county court for correction of oyster survey, stating that twenty five acres or more of natural oyster ground were omitted in the survey made by Capt. J. B. Baylor, and asking that commissioners be sent up to investigate the matter.

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Transportation -- Water - FreightTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Baseball

Wachapreague.

Business brisk. Two schooners loading at our wharf with sweets for New York market.

The Wachapreague nine defeated a combination nine from Grangeville, Mappsburg and Belle Haven, at this place, last Saturday, by a score of 36 to 17.

Fatality Among Horses.

Fields -- Livestock - Diseases and pestsFields -- Livestock - Horses

A disease, which is believed to be cerebro spinal meningitis, is killing the horses in several sections in upper Accomac. The loss of a dozen or more is reported in the last 10 days in the neighborhoods of Messongo and Oak Hall. The disease exists in Somerset county, Md., also, some 20 horses having died in a few days around Westover. Treatment is of little avail to horses attacked by the disease and they die in a day or so after taken with it, sometimes on same day. The symptoms are loss of motor power, evidenced by staggering gait, and partial loss of power of swallowing.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - VeteransInfrastructure -- Public : Monuments

The meeting, which was to have been held at Parksley, today, for the purpose of raising funds for a monument to be erected to the memory of the heroes from the Eastern Shore, who died for the "Lost Cause," has been wisely postponed by the Executive Committee of Harmanson-West Camp, Confederate Veterans until Thursday, November 22d. Failure to secure speakers for the occasion and lack of interest among the people of the Eastern Shore, because the matter had not been properly brought to their attention, made the change necessary. For the time named, however, in November, we are advised, there is little doubt that orators from Virginia and other parts of the South, whose names are inseparably linked with the "Lost Cause," by honors won in battles waged for it, can be secured and as to the time, place, and objects of the meeting, the columns of every paper on the Eastern Shore will be so freely open for any information which the Executive Committee may wish to impart, that no one will be able to plead ignorance for failing to participate in the exercises of the day. That the erection of a monument to our dead heroes will be approved generally by the citizens of the two counties, goes without saying, but that does not suffice -- the question now confronting us, will we so act, that funds will be no longer wanting, for a monument commemorative of their valor and the justice of the cause which they espoused and for which they died? The people of the Eastern Shore were too [illegible] in the matter. A dinner of course must be provided for the day -- and the people will give it and then be on hand to enjoy it and pay for it -- but we would suggest in connection therewith a bazaar for the sale of articles which would be contributed if proper efforts are put forth in that direction. The day cannot be a failure, it can be made a grand success, and will be. The members of Harmanson-West Camp have only to lead in the matter, and they will, for the people to fall into line and make it a success worthy of the heroes, whose memory the shaft to be erected is meant to perpetuate.

Peninsula Enterprise
Accomac Court House
September 29, 1894