Peninsula Enterprise, April 27, 1895
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Fields -- Crops - StrawberriesLaborers -- FarmSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Crabbing : BaysideInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential construction
Belinda.
A great many of our people are going to Maryland to pick strawberries this year. New patches are being put out in this section quite extensively, so the people will find employment at home another year.
The oyster season is up and has been the poorest in 15 years. Money is very scarce and the people will have to depend on clamming and crabbing this summer.
Mr. R. J. Corbin, formerly of Crisfield, Md., has bought a house and lot in this neighborhood, and is fixing up for the crabbing business.
Mr. James H. Hall expects to erect a large dwelling house at this place in the near future.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionInfrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial constructionSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideTransportation -- Water - Freight
Chincoteague.
Our building boom continues. Thomas Pruitt, Andrew Tarr and Mrs. William Collick are having handsome dwellings erected, James Painter is enlarging his dwelling and William P. Reed is having new barber shop built.
Sloop John Wesley loaded with oysters here this week for Atlantic City, N. J.
H. F. Kenney and R. L. Halliday and several other railroad officials, made us a business visit this week.
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Professionals -- SurveyorsInfrastructure -- Commercial - House moving
Onancock.
Mr. J. H. Fell, engineer of "The Onancock Engineering and Surveying Co.," is engaged in making a survey and plats of the grounds and buildings of the Margaret Academy property for the use of the trustees thereof. He has for assistants several of the senior students of the Academy, who are thus gaining some valuable instruction in practical survey work. Last week Mr. Fell also surveyed and computed the acreage of some farm lands for Dr. Oswald Finney. The establishment of the above mentioned company which will undertake work anywhere on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland, will be a great convenience to owners of landed property and oyster grounds and to people selling or purchasing such.
Mr. S. R. Nelson has had the dwelling and all the farm buildings on his property at Mount Prospect removed to a considerable distance from their previous location, most of them having to be taken across the public road. The removal has been skillfully effected by Mr. Pennewell, who was employed for six days on the work with a gang of men and teams.
The young people are taking advantage of the balmy spring weather, parties of 15 or 20 may be seen every afternoon scouring the woods round Onancock for violets and other floral prizes.
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Transportation -- Road - MaintenanceTourists and sportsmen -- Field sportsfield sports - Hunting : Personal injuryTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Lodges
Wachapreague.
The road plow is doing excellent service on the miserable roads of this vicinity.
The body of Capt. John Stevens, drowned in Hudd's Narrows February 26th, was recovered on Wednesday last, having been found by some Chincoteague oystermen, on Sandy Island, more than a mile from the spot where the accident occurred. The body was placed in charge of undertaker B. O. Bell and after funeral services here on Thursday, was interred at Capt. James Milliners, near Drummondtown.
The annual regatta of the Accomac Club will take place at the club about June 1st.
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Infrastructure -- Public : Colleges
Information has been received that Mr. John R. Rew, son of Mr. Frank T. Rew, of this county, has been successful in carrying off the debater's medal of the Washington Society at the University of Virginia, where he has been a student for nearly two sessions. There were eight contestants for the honor selected from the best debaters at the University, and the contest was decided by a committee of the University professors. When in addition to all this it is remembered that there are now at the University between five and six hundred students, the flower of the young men of our land, the value of the honor won by our talented young countyman is greatly enhanced, and we heartily congratulate him on the honor he has won for himself and the lustre he has shed on his native Eastern Shore.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal ordersInfrastructure -- Public : Schools
The April number of the Masonic Journal, published at Portland, Maine, and the most widely circulated Masonic publication in this country, contains the full text of the excellent address delivered by Hon. John W. H. Parker, of this county, at the recent laying of the cornerstone of the Margaret Academy Annex. In this speech Mr. Parker pays a glowing tribute to the Eastern Shore of Virginia as well as to the historic old Academy. Every Eastern Shoreman will feel prouder of his section when he reads Mr. Parker's eloquent address.