I W. Bagwell,Mrs. Bessie Hopkins
Mrs. E Merrill aud others of our
town are entertaining a number of
guests.
W. S. Holland k Co., have sold the
Dr. LeCato saw mill farm in Upshurs
Neck to Capt. Ike Savage of Chinco?
teague.
Prof. Crowder Mason, of the Mar?
garet Academy, who has been on a
visit to his parents at South Bostou,
is home and ready for work.
Our clever cashier of First Natiou
al Bank thinks this is the happiest
4th of July he has ever witnessed.
His little girl is pr*tty, bright and
strong.
Herbert Nock, who was operated
on for appendicitis during the win
ter, is convalescing slowly. He left
for Baltimore this week for special
consultation.
The Onancock School Board called
a meeting of tne citizens at the Town
Hall last Monday night to discuss the
interests of the public school for the
ensuing year. Several good speeches
were made. A committee of the
citizens of the town was appointed
by chairman Robt. L. Hopkins, to
solicit subscriptions to be applied as
au auxiliary fund to aid in thc pay?
ment of the teachers, in order to se?
cure the very best teachers for the
school.
Proprietor Fox made a business
trip to Norfolk this week
Mrs. John Beachboard was called
to the bedside of her sick father,
Richard E. Miles, July 1st, and he
died on the following day.
Mrs. Althea. Rogers, in respouse to
a summon to go to Baltimore on the
2d, to see her mother, Mrs. Sarah
Winder, critically ill in that city,left
by train at once.
The Sunday school of Onley M. E.
Church, South, had their Children's
day service on Sunday night last.
