115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 21, 1910from the Mathews Journal
For sale: Will sell Mercantile business, rent store house or sell place of 40 acres near North. Address XYZ, Journal Office, Mathews, Va.
Shells for sale: 50,000 bushels shells for sale at 1¾ cent per bushel on board vessel, E.W. Long & Co.
100 YEARS AGOThursday, April 23, 1925from the Gloucester Gazette
Botetourt High School’s first base-ball team journeyed to Cobbs Creek Saturday where the Cobbs Creek team was victorious by a score of 7 to 5. Botetourt’s second team played Lee-Jackson’s First at Mathews and held the opposing team down to a victory by the score of 7 to 6, the score being 6 to 6 until the last half of the ninth.
from the Mathews Journal
Little Sallie Bet Walker celebrated her fourth birthday anniversary Saturday last from 3 to 5 p.m. Those present were: Elizabeth Foster, Emma Lee Walker, Ann White, Anna Woodland Foster, Marie Foster, Elizabeth Billups, Ann Nelson, Virginia Davis, Bettie Carter Howell, El...