110 YEARS AGO

Thursday, Oct. 15, 1908

from the Mathews Journal

The most striking and enjoyable event of this week was a delightful launch ride and oyster roast. The participants were: Misses Nettie, Della and Lucy Bell Powell, and Messrs. Wm. M. Marchant, Edgar Foster, Howard Fleet, Andrew Davis, Ennis Gwynn and Reed Traverse. The boat left Cricket Hill about 3 o’clock in the afternoon for the home of Mr. Saunders, of Middlesex, where his three daughters, Misses Levanda, Ola and Nannie Saunders, and his son, Mr. John Saunders, joined the merry party making the event gayer and happier. The party left the Saunders shore about 5:30 and reached Cherry Point shortly afterwards where a good many oysters were purchased.

100 YEARS AGO

Thursday, Oct. 17, 1918

from the Mathews Journal

At a recent meeting of the Cardinal Library Association it was decided to go over the many volumes of books there and whenever a duplicate was found to lay it aside for some branch of the Y.M.C.A. at o...