Dispatch, July 17, 1888

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Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesMoral -- Property crimeTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Boat racing

Onancock, July 14, 1888.

Extensive preparations are making on Chincoteague Island for the Baptist Association which assembles there on the 16th of August. An arbor is to be erected to seat 2,000 people or more, and the local committee will make ample arrangements to entertain the visitors. Chincoteague is becoming a favorite summer resort, and the prospect is that the attendance on the association will be the largest for many years. Visitors will be conveyed from New Church Station to Franklin Cityon Chincoteague bay, from which point they will take the steamer to the island. Chincoteague Bay is from four to seven miles wide and is a beautiful expanse of water dotted here and there with little islets that are sometimes covered by high tides. Rev. S. U. Grimsley, a Richmond boy and an old Confederate, is pastor of the Baptist church on the island. Under his ministrations the church has greatly prospered there.

Douglas Manual (colored) has been committed to the county jail for housebreaking and stealing $60 belonging to Stephen Taylor, of Greenbackville.

The skiff John W. Edmonds that recently won the first race at Wachapreague will sail a race with William J. Bunting's skiff in Chincoteague bay at an early day for a purse of $100, boats to sail against wind and water.