Peninsula Enterprise, April 23, 1887
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Transportation -- Railroad - Rates and faresTransportation -- Railroad - Regulation
The Inter-State Commerce Commissioners passed an order on last Saturday suspending the long-and-short haul clause for the benefit of the following additional roads, viz: The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk, the Tennessee and Ohio, the Norfolk and Western, the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley, the Louisville and New Orleans and Texas, and the Newport News and Mississippi Valley roads. This order will enable the N.Y., P. & N. Road to carry Norfolk freight for less than Eastern Shore products.
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Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetings
A camp-meeting under the auspices of the M. E. Church, will be held in the grove near Parksley station to commence Saturday, July 23rd and continue ten days.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Residential construction
A handsome dwelling is now being erected for Mr. Benj. T. Melson, at Accomac C. H., and rumor has it after the cage has been prepared to suit the gentleman's fancy an occupant will be wanted for it, if she has not been already engaged.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - MillineriesWomen -- Work - Outside the home
Mrs. O. D. Doughty has opened a fashionable millinery and dressmaking establishment at Pungoteague and is now in the city purchasing her stock. She will return on Monday, accompanied by a first-class dressmaker, whom she has procured as an assistant from Baltimore.
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Fields -- Crops - Other fruitFields -- Crops - Strawberries
Messrs. Geo. W. McMath & Bro., have started a general nursery business at Onley station on the N. Y., P. & N. R.R. They have sowed seeds and planted thousands of seedlings of the most desirable varieties of evergreen and deciduous ornamental trees, besides planting largely of apple, peach, pear, quince and small fruits. They make a specialty of strawberries and blackberries of which they are growing extensively of all the best old, and most promising varieties. A nursery of the class which they have started has long been needed on the Eastern Shore, and will no doubt give an impetus to the growing of large and small fruits in our county.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal ordersInfrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial constructionInfrastructure -- Public : Schools
Craddockville.
The Good Templars of this place will elect officers on Thursday, 28th inst., and desire a full attendance of members.
The storehouse of our enterprising merchant, Mr. J. E. West, has been enlarged and is soon to be filled with new goods.
Craddockville and vicinity can furnish the requisite number of pupils for a graded school and why can we not have one another session?
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Seed
Greenbackville.
The schooner, Peter J. Hart, commanded by J. S. Pruitt, arrived here from the Chesapeake with a cargo of small oysters on last Saturday, discharged cargo and sailed on last Tuesday for the same point, after another cargo of the same kind of oyster.
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Infrastructure -- Public : TownsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionInfrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial constructionForests -- SawmillsForests -- Forest products - LumberForests -- Shipping : Rail
Hallwood.
J. A. Hall has contracted to build 10 houses this spring and a large cannery will be erected here at an early day -- this coupled with a barrel factory and brick yard also to be established, will give Hallwood rank among our promising towns -- such is "Peninsula Enterprise."
J. W. Short's new saw mill is turning out 60 to 70 thousand feet of lumber per day, and his daily shipments will average five car loads.
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Moral -- Vandalism
Keller.
On the 20th inst., about 2 a.m., Judie Morris, colored, living on the premises of Mr. Geo. T. Coleburn, in this vicinity, was aroused from her slumbers by a light near her bed and an investigation showed that an incendiary had with a bundle of fodder and a bottle of coal oil prepared to cremate her. The fire was discovered fortunately in time to be put out before much damage was done.
Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair.
Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - FairsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing
Pursuant to adjournment at Belle Haven on the 2nd day of March, the E. Shore Agricultural Fair Committee met on the 12th of April at the Grange Hall and completed the revision of Fair pamphlets, premium list, &c., for the year 1887.
Fair will open on the 30th day of August and continue four days.
Pamphlets will be distributed in June. Trials of speed will be open only to Accomac and Northampton horses, and premiums for same offered to classes as follows: 3 minute class, 2-50, 2-40, and free for all. Special premiums will be given to fastest 3 year old colts. By this arrangement none are ruled out by having taken premiums in any of the past fairs. Mr. Morse again offers his liberal premiums on products raised by the popular "Virginius."
Any one wishing to advertise in the Fair pamphlets will please send the same to secretary on or before the 15th of May. Rate of charges for business card notices $2.50.
GEO. H. ADAIR, Pres.
JNO. E. MAPP, Sec'y.
Public School Report.
Infrastructure -- Public : Schools
Record of attendance and scholarship of Chincoteague high school, for ten weeks ending April 8th:
Enrollment, 44; average daily attendance, 41; per cent. of attendance, 92. -- These scholars have not missed a day: Isaac Hudson, Nat Kenney, Will Sharpley, Ansley Whealton, Lewis Whealton, Charles Wimbrough, Josie Hill, Manie Hill, Bertie Hudson, Bessie Clayville, John Fields and Lee Hudson; the last three have not missed a day during the entire term. These pupils attained the highest rank in their respective studies: Arithmetic -- John Birch, Will Whealton, Will Sharpley and Ezra Adams; history -- John Birch; reading -- Ida Hudson and Janie Whealton; geography -- Lee Hudson, Jesse Powers and Ezra Adams; grammar -- Bessie Clayville, Will Whealton and Josie Hill; highest average in all studies -- Lee Hudson, Will Whealton and Ida Hudson. Extract from term report: Total enrollment 45; average daily attendance 39; per cent. of attendance 86; average age 13; visits by county superintendent 1 -- trustees 3.
CHAS S. MURRAY, Principal.
Truckers' and Fruit Growers Association.
Fields -- Crops - StrawberriesFarmers -- Farmers' organizationsTransportation -- Railroad - Rates and faresTransportation -- Railroad - Regulation
A meeting of the Truckers' and Fruit Growers Association of Accomac was held at the Fair Ground on Saturday, April 9th. Various questions of vital importance to the truckers and fruit growers were discussed, the most prominent of which was the subject of freight rates which are now being promulgated in accordance with the stipulations of the Inter-State Commerce Law which went into effect on the 5th last. The committees on freights and on barrels and packages reported communications from Mr. R. B. Cooke, general freight agent, N. Y., P. & N. R.R. in regard to freight rates on same products which seemed to be satisfactory. Objection was raised against the freights on berries, especially the high rate on returned empties; and the committee on barrels and packages were instructed to ask for better rates either on berries or return crates. The gift crate subject which is now being agitated by commission men and common carriers was discussed in its various phases, and a resolution adopted to the effect that the Association considered the use of gift crates as an additional expense to the shipper, and that it would sternly resist any effort toward the selling of crates with the berries. The Association which was organized about a year ago by a few enterprising truckers and fruit growers residing in the neighborhood of Onancock and Onley station has gradually grown, until now, the most influential truckers and fruit growers in all sections of the county are embraced among its membership.
The Association proposes to hold a strawberry exhibition during the coming season, at which premiums will be offered and every effort made to advance the fruit growing interests on the Eastern Shore. The next meeting will be held at Onancock on May 7th, at 2 o'clock p.m. when permanent arrangements will be made for the strawberry exhibition.
MEMBER.
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Transportation -- Road - Maintenance
MR. EDITOR. -- I have been interested in your proposed road law, your editorial and the letters on the subject; and I beg to differ with all of them, because if proper efforts on the part of the officers now in charge of our roads be made there is no reason why they should not be good. "Pocomoke" who tells of the dreadful condition of his roads, and their impassibility has only his own neighborhood to blame. The law allows the officer in charge to call their hands on the roads as often as may be necessary; and if duty be done in drainage &c., as suggested by "Pocomoke" there would now be nothing to complain of and he has the right to indict his overseer if he fails in his duty.
It is useless to talk about a tax of 20 cents on the $100 to fix up roads; why that is an enormous sum -- some men in this county would be taxed as high as $100 or more for road purposes alone. Let the labor employed in barrelling and handling oysters be called to fit up the roads they help to cut up. In this a partial remedy will be found.
"X" speaks more to the point, and says the present road system costs $3,800. Well, if that sum does no more good than we see it will cost $10,000 to make the slightest show on our roads -- a sum vastly too much for us to think of raising. Some progress might be made by publishing an itemized account of the expenditure of $3800. Where does it go to? Where is the work to show for it? And what is worse yet "X" says the close of the next fiscal year will show an increase over this amount. And this too when many people who pay nothing in the way of taxes go scotfree of road duty. There is no doubt that the present system is much more in keeping with the wishes of the people than any proposed law which promises to lay exorbitant taxes -- and relieve all labor of its share in the work. Every change is not progress, and the writer doubts if this is true progress. True progress in this line consists in perfecting the system we have. Whose duty is that? We have not so many roads that there is not labor sufficient in the county to keep them in repair.
MODOC.
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Moral -- Alcohol
MR. EDITOR. -- I just want to say in the matter of controversy between "Life Long Democrat" the representative of the saloon, and "Jonidab" the representative of local option or prohibition, that in discussing such issues, sneers and reckless statements are out of place. A man engaged in either intellectual or physical combat never throws "mud" when he can put his hand on a "rock," and when an individual stops to use the mud of epithets in a discussion, it is prima facia evidence that he has nothing else to use, hence his epithets and charges against "Jonidab" is not argument, but rather an indication of a cerebral vacuum in this "temperance man's(?)" head, and I would just remind him that it does not take a high order of brain to abuse a man. A parrot could do that. "If you have no case, abuse the opposing attorney" is the motto of pettifoggers the world over.
JONIDAB.
Chincoteague, April 20, '87.
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcement
To the owner or owners of the schooner "Daisy" and all others concerned:
You are hereby notified that I shall on the 1st day of April term of the County Court of Accomack county, State of Virginia, (it being the 25th day of April next), move the said court to take up, decide upon, and enter judgment according to law upon the questions involved in the following petition, which was regularly filed at the February term last of the said court.
The said petition was as follows:
"To the Hon. George T. Garrison, Judge of the County Court for Accomack county, State of Virginia"
Your Petitioner, James H. Fletcher, Jr., attorney for the Commonwealth of the said county, begs leave to submit to your Honor the following case: that on the 11th day of December, A. D., 1886, the schooner "Daisy" was found employed by George Highland and Delaney Wright in dredging for oysters within the waters of this Commonwealth, to wit, in Pocomoke Sound, they, the said George Highland and Delaney Wright not then being residents of this State; and your petitioner further states the owner or owners of said schooner, tackle and appurtenances are to your petitioner unknown. Your petitioner therefore prays that the said schooner, "Daisy", together with her tackle and appurtenances be forfeited to the Commonwealth of Virginia. And your petitioner will ever pray &c.
Given under my hand as Commonwealth's attorney for the county of Accomack, this 29th day of March, A. D. 1887.
James H. Fletcher, Jr.
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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Seed and slips
SWEET POTATO SEED -- I have for sale at either wholesale or retail, sweet potato seed of the Jersey variety called Sussex Golden. They are kept in my house at Exmore, the same way as Jersey folks keep theirs. Give me your orders and I will try to give satisfaction. For further particulars and prices address
W. L. Elzey,
Exmore station, Va.