Chincoteague News From The Peninsula Enterprise in 1888
From The Peninsula Enterprise of Saturday, 7 January 1888, on page 3, column 2, under the heading "Local News:" "Chincoteague. Mr. W. C. Payne, of Georgetown, Delaware, spent Christmas in our town. Mr. Derickson, of Lankford, Del., was in our town last week looking for a site for the establishment of a lumber yard. On Saturday before Christmas the cash receipts of our merchants exceeded $1,600, the results of fat oysters and good prices. {Note: in 2022, that $1,600 equals $49,905} Mrs. C. E. Wilcox and daughter of Mystic, Conn., are stopping at the Atlantic with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. E. Matthews. Mr. Charles Powell, of Ocean City, Md., and Miss Lillia A. Watson, of Chincoteague, were married at Snow Hill, Md., on 24th ult. Mr. O. W. Dunton, of this place, and Miss Ida Hartover, of Portsmouth, Va., were married at the parsonage of the M. E. Church, South, of that place, on the 29th ult., Rev. C. D...