Chincoteague Island News in The Peninsula Enterprise in 1892
Missing the 2 January 1892 issue. From The Peninsula Enterprise newspaper, edition of Saturday, 9 January 1892, on page 3, column 2, under the "Neighborhood Notes" heading: "Chincoteague. Mr. Nat Kenney left last week to accept a clerkship in a large hardware house in Wilmington, Del. Schooner Kelsey, John B. Whealton, captain, sailed from our port via North Carolina for the West Indies, last week. Uncle Tom's Cabin rendered here on 28th and 29th ult., drew a large crowd both nights. The receipts were $72.50. Mr. M. Sturgis and family have moved from Stockton to this place, to open a boot and shoemaking establishment. Ice cream is served at a restaurant in our town, of which Mr. Emory Maffitt is proprietor, every day in the year, Sundays excepted. Arrivals at Atlantic Hotel this week: Rev. Robert Parker, Judge James L. Brown, Dr. N. J. Sterling, Hon. G. H. Moore, Philadelphia; J. P. Hyde, Wilmington, Del.; Chas. West, Frankford; M. H. Pope, Jas.