115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 14, 1908from the Mathews Journal

Miss Bertha Miller had the misfortune to fall down a flight of steps Tuesday, breaking her left arm just above the wrist and scarring her face very badly. Dr. A.G. Vaden was called in and set the broken bone.

Master Andrew Davis, a son of Mr. W.E. Davis of Hookemfare, is now a full-fledged apprentice at the office of the MATHEWS JOURNAL. We have known Andrew for some time, and have every confidence in ability and integrity, and we are going to see if we cannot make a useful newspaper man out of him.

110 YEARS AGOThursday, May 15, 1913from the Mathews Journal

The Susan correspondent writes: The hail and frost of the past week has had its natural effect upon vegetation. I am not smart enough to know whether the hail caused the frost or whether the frost in the atmosphere caused the hail; suffice it to say, they both came, and both did their work, but after a storm is a calm, and after the norther we are having the s...