110 YEARS AGO

Thursday, July 11, 1907

from the Mathews Journal

Mr. Edwin Foster of Put-in Creek, brought into the office the other day two early rose potatoes. One weighed 14 ounces and the other 15. They are perfectly sound and are as large and pretty as any we have seen this year.

Monday is Court Day, and we would be pleased to have some of our subscribers who are in arrears drop in on us. We feel a certain delicacy in making such a request, but as some of our people come out only on that day, we think it would be only right and proper for them to pay up.

90 YEARS AGO

Thursday, July 14, 1927

from the Mathews Journal

The Summer issue of “Virginia,” the pictorial magazine published by The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, is off the press and contains a full page of pictures of the fields at Cradle Point Bulb Farm, near North, this county. The pictures show the fields in full bloom and as the publication is widely circulated both in this country and abroad the fav...