110 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 5, 1911
from the Mathews Journal
Mr. C.R. Richardson visited Norfolk this week.
Mr. A.L. Winder spent several days at his home near Retz last week.
Mr. Andrew Hudgins, of Norfolk, visited his parents at Port Haywood last week.
A large crowd from all parts of the county patronized the school excursion Wednesday.
Mr. Sands Smith Jr., is reported greatly improved and is expected home at an early date.
Mr. and Mrs. G.S. Marchant are in Baltimore this week buying goods for the fall season.
Captain G.W. Billups has returned from a trip along the Atlantic Coast.
Miss Eva M. Armistead left last week for Carrsville, where she will teach during the coming season.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 6, 1921
from the Gloucester Gazette
A very delightful little party was given last Wednesday, Sept. 28, to Janice Anderton, celebrating her first birthday. The party was held on the lawn at their home near Gloucester Point. Forty-four little guests were present. Games were played and refreshments and candies served. Little colored baskets filled with candy were given as favors.
Instead of bringing a gift for the baby, each little guest brought pennies. The collection amounted to $8. This will be sent as a birthday gift to the homeless children of Virginia.
90 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 8, 1931
from the Mathews Journal
There will be a humorous lecture at the New Point High School on Friday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m. The lecturer will be Dr. Lovick P. Law. This promises to be good. Tickets will be on sale by Mrs. Charles R. Diggs and also by school children in various communities.
Captain Jim Godsey and daughter, Miss Florence, Mr. and Mrs. Garnett Godsey and Mrs. Marshall Forrest were the guests of Mrs. E.V. Muse Sunday evening.
Miss Sunie Carney was the dinner guest of Miss Ruby Godsey Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jenkins were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jenkins Sunday.
We are sorry to report that Mr. Tom Forrest is very sick at this time.
Most of the fishermen have taken up their nets and are getting ready for oystering.
80 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 9, 1941
from the Gazette-Journal
The Gloucester Red Cross Surgical Dressing Station will be closed all next week due to The King’s Daughters State Convention.
The local unit has just received a new quota of 25,000 dressings. Leaders are discouraged by the lack of interest shown by ladies of the community in this work. More help is badly needed and at once.
It is suggested that all women who can sew and whose spare time is not otherwise taken up by some other branch of the Red Cross production, might give expression to their ideals of good citizenship and their desire to help in the “fight against” the grown menace of Hitlerism, by volunteering to make some surgical dressings.
25,000 is a lot of dressings. Gloucester will deliver them but it is almost a hopeless job for the little handful of women who are bravely undertaking it. They Need Help!
70 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 4, 1951
from the Gazette-Journal
Gloucester Legionnaires, upon receipt of 1952 membership cards, will be given the thrill of an airplane ride over Gloucester County and the Gloucester Point-Yorktown area, for a bird’s-eye view of the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge construction.
John McDermott, a new member of the local post, holds a pilot’s license and will fly members in his own plane which he keeps at the Evans Airport, according to Willard Wallace, Gloucester Legion Adjutant.
60 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 5, 1961
from the Gazette-Journal
The Gloucester Volunteer Fire Department was presented a check on Monday night at their regular meeting to cover the cost of a radio for one of the trucks. The check was presented by Mrs. Joe O’Conner, treasurer of the Ladies Auxiliary, to the fire department on behalf of the auxiliary.
Both pumper trucks have two-way radios and one in the fire house. Firemen said the radios will be of great assistance in case the trucks are at one fire and are needed elsewhere they can be reached easily to answer the second call.
50 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 7, 1971
from the Gazette-Journal
Although Gloucester and Mathews counties and other sections of Tidewater escaped the full blows of Hurricane Ginger which struck the North Carolina coast last week, its side effects were felt here. Considerable rain was received and, tides were higher than normal. Winds of about 35 to 40 miles per hour were noted on Thursday and Friday.
The sunshine yesterday was more than welcome by local residents after almost a full week of rainy and stormy weather. A resident reported that from four to six inches of rain was noted in the different localities of the two counties.
40 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 8, 1981
from the Gazette-Journal
Gloucester and Mathews High Schools are both celebrating homecoming this weekend with parades, football games, dances, and the crowning of each school’s Homecoming Queen and her court.
Candidates for GHS Homecoming Queen are seniors Lisa Dixon, Selena Phelps and Terri Lewis. Included in her court are junior Annette Teppin, sophomore Lisa Brown, and freshman Kristi Lake.
The Homecoming dance this year will be held Saturday night from 8-11:30 in the high school commons area.
MHS candidates for Homecoming queen will be chosen from seniors Becky Gatten, Janice Vogel, Cynthia Johnson and Marie Hudgins. Attendants to the Queen are juniors Heidi Holmberg and Anne Marie Farmer; sophomores Diane Vogel and Tonya Wheeler; and freshmen Susan Foster and Nancy Ashberry.
Mathews High School will have its Homecoming dance Friday night from after the game until midnight in the school cafeteria.
30 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 10, 1991
from the Gazette-Journal
Some Botetourt Elementary School fifth graders got a personal look at the dangers found among nature’s beauty Monday when one student accidentally disturbed some stinging insects in a log on a Beaverdam Park nature trail.
Ten students suffered stings around 1:45 p.m. after a student tripped on a dead log where the bees or wasps were apparently nesting, according to Botetourt principal Bernard Robins. All 10 were stung more than once, but none received more than four stings, he said.
20 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2001
from the Gazette-Journal
Despite pleas of several residents against the proposal, the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors voted 5-1 Tuesday night to increase the license tax fee for cars and trucks from $20 to $25, effective Jan. 1. 2002.
The supervisors had discussed the change during the budget deliberations earlier this year. The increase is projected to bring in an extra $150,000 to help balance the current budget.
10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011
from the Gazette-Journal
Anita Minuth of Mathews, was honored by Adult Literacy on the Middle Peninsula, Inc., before the adult-team spelling bee started during Mathews Market Days on Sept. 10.
Minuth was recognized for her volunteer service as a tutor and committee member for Spelling for Literacy, as well as for her volunteerism over the years, with the Presidential Volunteer Service Lifetime Award which means that she has provided her community with more than 4,000 volunteer hours.
Minuth’s volunteer activities, in addition to her work with ALMP, include 14 years of service with the Mathews Market Days Committee, membership with her church’s choir, as well as singing with Tri-County Express. She is a founding member of the Court House Players, former member of the Gloucester County Resource Council, and former volunteer storyteller at Ware Academy.