115 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 16, 1908
from the Mathews Journal
A sock social will be given by the Ladies Aid Society of Providence Church, on Tuesday, April 21, 1908, at the Bohannon school house at 7 p.m. There will be ice cream, cake and hot chocolate served and the social promises to be an enjoyable event. The proceeds from the entertainment will go for the purpose of repairing the walls of Providence Church.
110 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 17, 1913
from the Mathews Journal
Special! 500 men’s dress shirts white pleated bosoms, plain and fancy madras coat style, cuffs attached, all good styles, worth 50c and 75c; special 39c. We desire to call your attention to our millinery department. We have just received a large shipment of the newest shapes, also a nice line of panamas at special prices. —Wyatt Wolffe
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 19, 1923
from the Gloucester Gazette
The passage through the county and village of the wagon train of the 34th Infantry, en route from Camp Eustis to Camp Meade, attracted much attention Tuesday. There were 15 wagons, comprising field kitchens and supply wagons, each drawn by four large mules, between 50 and 75 men and several autos and motor cycles. This cavalcade was preceded by about 30 fine horses. It is understood that while the wagon train went overland the main body of troops was transferred by train.
from the Mathews Journal
Cattail Branch School at Hudgins closed Monday, six young ladies graduating from the seventh grade. They were Misses Lucile Winder, Mary Ogden, Audrey and Alice Powell, Margaret Hodges and Mildred Billups. We want to congratulated these girls on the good work they have done during the past school term.
90 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 20, 1933
from the Gloucester Gazette
The annual report of Miss Mary C. White, visiting nurse, whose work here has been sustained by the Gloucester Nursing Activities, has just been released. Its statistical figures are as follows:
Mileage, 15,054. Visits 1,353, night visits 13, 176 county visits, 11 visits for out of State organizations. Visits and instructions in TB cases 86. Also, 161 baths, 176 alcohol rubs, 308 dressings and treatment, 163 temperature recordings, 128 instructions in care of patients, 56 babies weighed and mothers instructed, 11 patients personally taken to hospital, 17 taken to Richmond clinics, 6 taken to Richmond doctors, 20 taken to local doctors, 6 taken to dentists, 5 cases of which hospital bill was paid, 15 cases in which hospital bill was secured at a reduction, 22 cases supplied with medicine, 2 cases (a young boy and a young girl) maintained at Catawba since December and January, 1 pass secured for patient to Catawba, 1 young girl returned from Catawba after a stay of 17 months, does her share of work at home now and is apparently well. $10 was sent for her expenses back. Letters written 58, long distance telephone calls made 12, families given clothes 27, food 128. —Mary C. White, Visiting Nurse
from the Mathews Journal
Mr. Gerard Hopkins, of Wan, Va., who is one of the largest native producers of the best known varieties of cultivated daffodils, reports a successful season in spite of depression prices. Carefully selected bulbs and proper cultivation are necessary for best results, he states. Mr. Hopkins will advertise regularly in this newspaper and will be glad to see or hear from those interested in flower bulbs.
80 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 22, 1943
from the Gazette-Journal
William B. Leigh was recently promoted to second class petty officer in the Navy. He is stationed at San Francisco. His brother Harry S. Leigh is a seaman second class in the Navy and is stationed at Boston.
W.M. Minter, commonwealth’s attorney of Mathews County since an appointment in 1931, has announced his candidacy for the State Senate of Virginia, from the Thirty-Second Senatorial District, comprising the counties of Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, Middlesex, Mathews and York. For many years, as publisher of the Mathews Journal, member of the county school board, practicing attorney, commonwealth’s attorney and leading citizen, Mr. Minter has served the people of his county faithfully and well. He served as a lieutenant in World War I, having given up his business and practice to enter officers’ training school.
70 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 23, 1953
from the Gazette-Journal
Mathews: Hazel’s Beauty Shop at Hudgins, opened for business after holding “Open House” yesterday (Wednesday) from 2 to 5 p.m.
The shop, under the management of Mrs. Hazel Dillehay, is attractively fitted with modern equipment and will be open each day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with the exception of Wednesday, when it will be closed all day.
Miss Audrey Respress, a graduate of Kirby’s School of Beauty Culture, of Norfolk, will be associated with Mrs. Dillehay, and will specialize in hair cutting.
60 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 18, 1963
from the Gazette-Journal
Mathews: “Leroy,” a four-week-old lamb, was won by Deena Hudgins, of Diggs, by registering in Butler’s Shoe Store, Richmond, on Friday. After residing in the store window located on Broad Street, “Leroy” seems please with the country atmosphere and this statement by Deena’s parents: “As long as he is in our possession he will not be eaten as lamb chops.”
The Lee-Jackson PTA will sponsor a fried chicken dinner to be held Friday, April 26, at the school. There will be box suppers to go and seating for dinner will start at 5 p.m. Prices will be $1.25 for adults and 75¢ for children under 12 years of age. Contact your PTA members for tickets, as no tickets will be on sale at the door.
50 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 19, 1973
from the Gazette-Journal
Mr. and Mrs. David Love are receiving congratulations of the birth of a son, weighing 7 lb. and 8 oz. on Friday, April 13, 1973, in Mary Immaculate Hospital, Newport News.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Callis have returned to their home after spending the winter in Florida.
Mrs. David Hurst was hostess of a Stanley party at her home on Thursday night.
40 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 21, 1983
from the Gazette-Journal
Anne Forrest of Pampa, is a lady of action who means what she says. When she said she would help the Gloucester Sheriff’s Department for catching an intruder to her home, she meant it. Less than a week after the incident, she had established a fund to help the department buy Citizens Band radios and other items they might need.
“We have the most fantastic sheriff’s department—and the county should back them,” she said last week. “They can’t do anything if we don’t.”
30 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 22, 1993
from the Gazette-Journal
Gloucester public schools superintendent J. Larry Hoover proposed some cuts in the schools budget request from the county during a work session with the school board and supervisors April 15.
But Arena H. Stone, School Board chairman, emphasized several times during the afternoon session in the old courthouse that the school board had not yet approved the suggested changes. The supervisors took no votes on the proposed $53.7 million budget at the meeting, but said they will adopt if prior to May 1.
20 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 17, 2003
from the Gazette-Journal
Now that street signs have gone up, Mathews County officials are busy on the next step in the implementation of an Enhanced-911 emergency telephone system—the time-consuming task of calling every resident and property owner who didn’t respond to the questionnaire included in last year’s E-911 packets.
The county is also moving ahead with advertising for proposals for an integrated Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), records management and computer mapping system that will become the heart of the new E-911 system. Julie A. Kaylor, assistant to County Administrator Stephen K. Whiteway, said that it is her hope that the successful vendors will install the new computer system at the same time as the final touches are put on the new courthouse, sometime in early 2004.
10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 18, 2013
from the Gazette-Journal
The Gloucester County Health Department reported its second positive rabies case for 2013 recently.
Environmental health supervisor M.B. Sheppard Jr. said his department received notification from a property owner off Robins Neck Road at Naxera on April 5 that a dead racoon was found in a dog pen that morning.
Two dogs were involved, Sheppard said, but both were up to date on rabies vaccinations. Both dogs are now on 45-day observation.