115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 21, 1908from the Mathews Journal

Twenty-one strawberries make a quart. That is the kind Mr. Daniel Richardson raises on his farm, near Fitchetts. And they’re ready now.

Among the travelling men registered at Hotel Mathews this week were: McKay, Hammonds, Clopton, Harris, Guy and Scher.

Mr. Myron Bristow and mother, of Gloucester Point, spent from Friday to Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Blake at Hotel Mathews.

Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Mae Hudgins to Mr. Philip Alonzo Cason, on Wednesday, June 3, 1908. Miss Hudgins is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hudgins, of Norfolk, who are well known in this county and have many friends and relatives here.

110 YEARS AGOThursday, May 22, 1913from the Mathews Journal

In news from Diggs, Little Ollie Sadler is quite sick at this writing.

Wortley Banks who has been under the treatment of Dr. White for two weeks is improving nicely.

100 YEARS AGOThursday, May 25, 1922from the ...