Peninsula Enterprise, September 3, 1887
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Newspapers
A newspaper has been started at Cape Charles City, known as the Cape Charles Echo, of which Mr. Frank Hollis is proprietor. The first number was newsy and neatly gotten up. It is Independent in politics.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders
Craddockville Lodge of Good Templars will hold a picnic near Craddockville church, Wednesday, September 28th, which promises to be a delightful affair in every respect. Col. J. R. Miller, Grand Worthy chief Templar of the State, will deliver a lecture on the occasion. Dinner, supper, &c., will be served on the grounds. Read the notice elsewhere and help a good cause by attending and spending liberally your money.
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Fields -- Livestock - Diseases and pestsFields -- Livestock - Horses
Greenbackville.
Thomas B. C. Gibb, Esq., residing near this place, lost a valuable colt on last Saturday with a disease, termed by some "blind staggers" and by others "cerebral spinal meningitis." Messrs. Wm. Mumford and Jas. H. Merrill who live near by, each has a horse sick with the same disease which must certainly die in a very few hours. A great many horses in the upper part of this county and especially in the neighborhood of Horntown have recently died from the effect of the same disease. What has produced the much dreaded disease among horses, and how to successfully treat it, is now the question? Who will aid in the investigation and make known the result?
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeedFields -- Livestock - Diseases and pestsFields -- Livestock - SwineInfrastructure -- Public : ChurchesInfrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial constructionInfrastructure -- Commercial - General Stores
Marsh Market.
It is reported that there was a "general strike" of young oyster spats in our sound this summer. Shells planted by W. J. Hall -- Son, S. W. Sparrow and others in June and July are full of spat from the size of a three-cent piece to a quarter of a dollar.
Oysters from Gwin's Island are being planted in our waters. The quantity of oysters to be planted in Messongo creek will be much larger than it has ever been.
Cholera is destroying many hogs in this locality.
Sanford church is to be dedicated soon. It is now receiving the finishing touches of the painters.
The storehouse of Messrs. W. J. Hall & Son has been enlarged and thereby greatly improved in appearance. A part of their fall goods has been received and their summer stock is being offered at cost, to make room for the large stock of new goods ordered. They offer special bargains to those who make an early call.
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Fields -- Livestock - Diseases and pestsFields -- Livestock - HorsesMoral -- Other violent crime
Oak Hall.
A disease is raging in the vicinity of Horntown, which is slaying horses by the dozens.
A shooting affray occurred at Assawaman Hill, last Saturday night, between Luke Davis and Isaac Hall, two colored men. Davis overtook Hall on the road and after an interchange of hot words between them, Davis drew his pistol and fired twice, the balls taking effect in Hall's breast and side. The wounds are not of a serious character. Davis has been arrested and committed to jail.
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Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesInfrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial constructionMoral -- Property crime
Onancock.
The Baptist Parsonage has been thoroughly renovated and is nearly ready for occupation.
Slocomb & Ames, R. W. Lewis and W. R. Hallett's new storehouses and Parker's hotel are all nearly completed.
A negro named Bill Hopkins, who has been at work for Mr. J. Lee Winder for some time past, stole $25 from him last Tuesday morning. Billy was caught just as he was about to leave town, and brought before Mayor Robertson who sent him to jail to await the next grand jury.
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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : PricesFields -- Crops - CornTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders
Temperanceville.
The present prospects for a large yield of corn in this community are better than for several years past. The sweet potato crop is being rapidly forwarded to market, and satisfactory prices are being realized.
A Lodge of the Ancient Order of the United Workmen will be organized in this place in a few days. Twenty-three persons have already been examined as charter members. Three other orders are now in operation here and are in a most flourishing condition -- namely: the Masonic, Knights of Honor, and Knights Templars.
Our Home School.
Infrastructure -- Public : Schools
MR. EDITOR -- I am surprised that year after year, those having children to educate should overlook the educational advantages offered them right at their doors, and among their own people. It is wonderful, that those who earnestly believe in protecting and building up home enterprises and industries as our people appear to do, should overlook the merits of our home schools and send their children and spend their money where in many instances the schools are not so good, and very seldom better. We have in the schools of Onancock I believe as good ones of their grade as are to be found in all Virginia, and with the encouragement offered by the patronage that now goes abroad, the [Onancock] Academy at that place would soon be placed in such a position as to command our admiration, and be the pride of the Shore. I protest that it is unpatriotic and financially ruinous to spend our money and send our children abroad when the advantages offered are in no wise superior to those at our doors. Onancock offers moral and social advantages to the young that are second to none in Virginia, or elsewhere, and her Academy has already secured by honest worth, a place in the very front rank of Virginia schools. Then why not avail ourselves of the excellent opportunity right at hand, why not build up a college aye an university even, right at our doors? It is certainly possible to do so but we can never do it if we continue to send our children and money abroad. If we have any judgment let us use it, if patriotism exercise it, and divest ourselves of that false idea that a certain amount of eclat is attached to the fact that our children have been "away" to school. Away with such a delusion, it is unworthy of us as sensible people; it but exhibits our weakness and sacrifices the advantages at our thresholds. In this thing let us have a reform and thereby build up an unrivalled school at home; let us stop this annual outflow of money and children to other lands and turn the tide this way by building up such a school among us as will by merit, command the patronage and admiration of those lands. Education is the lever that now moves the world; it is the die by which the fate of individuals, as well as nations, is cast. It is time that many sections of our county had realized this fact, and awakened from that lethargic sleep in this respect, into which they were born and beheld the glories of that beneficent agency which is raising up humanity and dispensing power, knowledge and goodness itself, to all those who will but stretch forth their hands and receive them. The writer has hardly sufficient education to fully appreciate its value and power, but is earnestly desirous that our people and county, shall be second to none in this matter, and to that end would be glad to see our people concentrate their efforts and money, to the building up of a superior school at home, by which all would be benefitted, and not fritter away the opportunities of their children, and waste their money upon the dozens of languishing and mediocre schools in other sections.
Earnestly Yours,
FARMER.
Seaside, Va., Aug. 29th, '87.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fairs
The Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair which closed Friday, was considered to have been a success in most respects. The weather being fine, the number of people in attendance was large each day and the receipts therefore, were larger than the managers had any right to expect, no effort having been made to boom it. Financially, we presume it was a success. Regarded in other aspects while there was much to commend, it was not what it should have been, because of a lack of variety and quantity of exhibits in some of the departments. Too much praise cannot be given to the exhibits in the ladies department. It was full of useful and attractive articles -- a display of the handiwork of our ladies, in fact, which will not be surpassed at any exhibition of a similar kind, perhaps, during the year in our State. The stock on exhibition was very [illegible], but there was not enough of them except of horses, which in quantity and quality both, would be creditable to any people. The exhibits of agricultural products and implements, too, merit our encomiums if quality alone is to be considered -- they were excellent, but in such small quantities that a stranger would not be likely to consider agriculture our principal employment and the main source from which our revenues are derived. -- The good order which prevailed during the Fair is especially to be commended and the thanks of all the visitors should be tendered to the Pocomoke [City] band for the excellent music rendered. A list of the premiums will be published in our next issue.