115 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 7, 1908
from the Mathews Journal
The new Methodist Church recently erected at Five Points near Cricket Hill will be used, for the first time next Sunday, Rev. Richard Ferguson, the pastor, preaching at 3:30 P.M. When completed it will be an attractive little church.
Mr. William B. Sutton, who is predicting the end of the world in 1914, is in the county. He is travelling for the Stephen Putney Shoe Co., of Richmond, and is trying to dispose of their immense stock before that period arrives.
110 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 8, 1913
from the Mathews Journal
In news from Foster, Mrs. J.R. Haynes, Misses Annie and Susie Ingram visited at Soles the early part of this week.
Mrs. S.W. Ingram has returned from Dixondale.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 10, 1923
from the Gloucester Gazette
Achilles Annual May Day was held Wednesday and was, as usual, a brilliant success. The May Pole dance, drills, basket ball games and other athletic events furnished much entertainment for the big crowd in attendance, and the speaker of the day, Senator J. Douglas Mitchell, was well received. The ladies had provided all sorts of good things to eat, and full justice was done to them. In the evening the play, “Deacon Dubbs,” was presented at the auditorium and thoroughly delighted the large audience.
90 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 11, 1933
from the Gloucester Gazette
Happy days are here again, according to reports, for several hundred Gloucester men who make their living from the tidal waters and who have experienced hard times to the fullest measure and running over. The lowly crab is the medium of their present prosperity. A crab market is enjoying an unusual boom and, contrary to the usual condition, crabs are plentiful! A dollar a bushel is offered for the crustaceans and buy boats come for all that are available.
from the Mathews Journal
Thirteen men were passed today by the Board of Supervisors as applicants for government forest camp work. The men were selected from a list of twenty applicants and are as follows: Norris Jarvis, William Hurst, Granville Ellingsworth, Crewe Shinault, Lewis Ashberry, Aubrey Daniel, Emmett Miller, Franklin Cosby, John Ruff, Albert Lee, Alfred Carper, Junius Lee and Clarence Miller.
80 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 13, 1943
from the Gazette-Journal
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Kemp announce this week that they have moved the Long Bridge Coffee Shop to the building formerly occupied by James Edwards, opposite the Country Club of Gloucester, where they have made extensive improvements calculated to enable them to render better restaurant and filling station service.
70 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 14, 1953
from the Gazette-Journal
Mrs. J.K. Sinclair, chairman of the Men’s Beauty Contest and Variety Show which Gloucester Unit No. 75, American Legion Auxiliary will present at Botetourt gym next Wednesday, May 20, released yesterday the following names of beauty contestants who will compete for the “Miss Gloucester” title, and their sponsors:
Hugh Longest, Bank of Gloucester; J.K. Sinclair, Commission of Fisheries; Sinclair Rhodes, Gloucester Men’s Shop; M.R. Chapman, Gloucester Post Office; Melvin R. Hogge, York Wholesale Co.; Carroll Clements, Virginia Electric and Power Company; Donald Ambrose and Willard Robins, American Legion; Waverly Dunn, State Highway Dept.; Boyd S. Clements, Morgan’s Drug Store.
60 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 9, 1963
from the Gazette-Journal
C. Aubrey White, treasurer of Mathews County, reports more taxes collected in April than in any previous month in the history of the county. The treasurer said that the larger part of the total amount is state income taxes, of which more than $100,000 was received. He continued that paid income returns, filed prior to penalty date (midnight May 1) numbered 1877, and averaged $68.72 each.
50 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 10, 1973
from the Gazette-Journal
The Gloucester county school system is one of thirteen in the State which has received approval for a summer project to aid educationally disadvantaged children.
40 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 12, 1983
from the Gazette-Journal
A parade celebrating the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mathews Intermediate School, and wind through Mathews Court House. The parade will end at Mathews High School, where the rescue squad will hold a health fair and first aid competition among participating area squads.
Dr. Gaylord Ray, emergency room physician at Walter Reed Memorial Hospital, will be the parade’s grand marshal.
30 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 13, 1993
from the Gazette-Journal
Water rates would rise almost 25 percent under a proposed county water system fee structure being considered here.
The Gloucester County supervisors voted Tuesday night to advertise for public hearing the revised water rate plan. The hearing will be held at 8 p.m. June 15 as part of a regular board meeting in the old courthouse.
The minimum water rate will be $14.89 under the new plan, up from the present minimum of $11.98. The minimum is 2,000 gallons of water.
20 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 8, 2003
from the Gazette-Journal
The year’s 16th annual Mathews High School Regatta, held on the East River at Williams Wharf, started off with the threat of rain, wind and cloudy weather throughout the day. Regatta organizers were concerned about handling all the rowers, equipment, and spectators expected with a record 21 crews registered to race.
With over 800 rowers, an estimated 2,500 people were in attendance. Mathews enjoyed good results at this regatta entering 23 of the 40 events, and coming away with 10 gold, seven silver, two bronze, three fourths, and one fifth place.
10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, May 9, 2013
from the Gazette-Journal
After nearly a decade of planning, fundraising and saving, ground was broken Tuesday morning on a 900-square-foot addition to the Gwynn’s Island Museum.
Gwynn’s Island Civic League president Tom Edwards said the project has been an example of the “wonderful, charitable” residents of Gwynn’s Island and Mathews County.
The expansion, which will include more room for exhibit space and 120 square feet of office space, is set to be completed later this summer, with a price tag of just under $70,000.