110 YEARS AGO

Thursday, Aug. 29, 1907

from the Mathews Journal

Wanted: A boy to learn blacksmithing; a good job and the right kind of a home for an appreciative boy. Apply G.N. Atherton, Blakes, Va.

Notice: A fine heavy yoke of oxen for sale, five years old and well broken. Apply to Geo. W. Adams, near Beulah Church, New Point.

For sale, one gasoline launch in good shape, 32 feet long, 6 1/2 feet wide. Also one sail canoe, 27 feet long six feet wide, which I will sell cheap or trade for colt. Wm. Penn Lewis, Hallieford, Va.

Mr. Joe Brooks of Diggs returned Sunday to his work on the buoy tender.

Mr. Jos. Diggs of Susan started for Norfolk last Tuesday as supercargo on a part of a bugeye loaded with watermelons for Norfolk, of his own raising.

90 YEARS AGO

Thursday, Sept. 1, 1927

from the Mathews Journal

Friday, Sept. 16 will be “Children’s Day” at the Mathews Fair. Mr. Foster will give free tickets for all Mathews County school children for that day. The tic...