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Newspaper
Suffolk Casket
Location
Suffolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1878
Page
1
Residents report visits from relatives and guests across multiple towns including Berlin Norfolk Portsmouth Salisbury Salisbury Md. Glen Rock Pa. and Wachapreague Hotel with several attending gatherings and one injury reported when John Edward Young dislocated his hip while hauling shingles.
Community notices list visitors and residents in Accomac and surrounding counties along with local events. Names include Edward Ross Baltimore Miss Mattie Corbin Thelma Stant Hilda Justis George Feddeman Garland Spencer Virgil Bailey and many others. Obituaries note deaths of Mrs Elizabeth Hall and Donald C Whaley.
Messrs Lewis and Robins bought a Marian car. Florence Brooks of Baltimore visits friends here. E D Broun and wife return to town. Emily Gladstone stayed with Helen Heath at Ward Town last week. Ella Smith hopes home from New York where she visited daughter Grant Emmons. Hattie Kellam and two daughters from Norfolk and Chrystine Ames of Hadlock stay with J W Chandler. James H Ashby moved into a new drug store and upstairs cinema. Margaret Mears spent week on Cedar Island. J Fred Kellam lost a valuable colt. Doris Turner of Parksley visits J L Drum. S T Martin of Raleigh, NC, stays with W H Cooper. Mrs Arthur Winn and children of Richmond visit Madeline Stockley. W F King and Carolyn King of Cape Charles visit J Brooks Mapp. J Brooks Mapp and Frank Hyslop make brief Ocean City stay. Florence Parker and Warnest Scarborough of Philadelphia visit T J Killmon’s home.
The Woodberry M E Church will hold its annual fair on Wednesday September 6 at the church grounds. Supper ice cream and confectioneries will be served. The young people will offer a fancy table to raise funds for a new church. Weather postponement to the next fair day.
The Randolph Macon Woman's College Club of the Eastern Shore of Virginia met at Miss Pearle Perdue's home in Painter on Wednesday afternoon August 9. Sixteen members attended a business meeting and the club announced a scholarship for the 1917 1918 session open to any 1917 graduate of Accomack or Northampton High School. Information will be sent to principals of all accredited high schools. A lunch followed the meeting as members renewed college friendships.
A regular meeting of the Business Men's Credit Association of the Eastern Shore of Virginia will be held in Mason's Hall at Parksley on Tuesday September 5 at 7 p.m. sharp. Merchants and business men from the two counties are urged to attend as several important subjects will be acted upon. By order of A. W. Short Pres. A. H. Stevenson Secty.
A. J. Lilliston Deputy Treasurer Accomack County will be at Keller Fair daily to receive settlements from all in arrears for 1915 taxes.
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