115 YEARS AGOThursday, Aug. 18, 1910from the Mathews Journal
Automobiles are getting to be as common as buggies used to be; in the coming centuries the horse will have to be carried to the menagerie and kept as a relic of bygone days like the buffalo and Indian arrow heads.
The way business was progressing a few days ago, I think Mr. Joseph Diggs will have but little trouble in finding a market for his fine crop of melons. The farmers who have been wishing for rain are now wishing for dry weather as the fodder is getting ripe and the weather is or has been rainy for several days.
100 YEARS AGOThursday, Aug. 20, 1925from the Gloucester Gazette
Believing that an earlier closing hour for Gloucester stores will be conductive to a more normal and healthful life for the merchants and clerks without being in anyway disadvantageous to the patrons of the stores and the community in general, the undersigned merchants have agreed that, beginning Monday, Aug. 25, 1925, they will close their stores...