A lady’s mare, farm horse for sale, and lots of firewood (12/4/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 2, 1909 from the Mathews Journal For sale: A lady’s riding and driving mare, also fine road and farm horse, neither afraid of automobiles. —Dr.… …
School parade (11/26/2019) - Gloucester County schools staged a parade down Main Street in November 1934. Shown above are some of the 1,500 marching pupils and teachers of Achilles, Botetourt, Hayes, Martin’s, Naxera, Shelly,… …
Deer me! (11/26/2019) - Vashti Wilcher, owner of Vashti’s Jewelry and Gifts in Edgehill Shopping Center, Gloucester, holds up the only item in her front window left undamaged after a doe crashed into the… …
High school fundraising slackens (11/26/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 25, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Apparently, the committee appointed to solicit funds for the new High School has relaxed efforts to a great extent.… …
Remainder of poll tax may be awarded to schools (11/20/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 18, 1909 from the Mathews Journal At the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors that portion of the poll tax which is returned from… …
Cardinal boasts a new log library (11/13/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 11, 1909 from the Mathews Journal A very interesting musical and literary entertainment will be given at the Cardinal Athenaeum by Mr. C.H. Rowe, of… …
Cobbs Creek high school building plans are underway (11/6/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 4, 1909 from the Mathews Journal The building committee of the Cobbs Creek high school met at Cobbs Creek and agreed on a plan for… …
Triad Health Fair (10/30/2019) - Walmart pharmacist Oleg Bandurco prepares Janice Higdon for her flu shot. Higdon was one of 25 of the 70 senior men and women attending the Oct. 22 Mathews Triad Fall… …
Classified ads from Gloucester (10/30/2019) - 100 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 30, 1919 from the Gloucester Gazette Lost: Female hound, black with white breast. Finder please notify Floyd Walker, Sassafras. Lost: An old English history, between… …
Please leave your automobiles at home when you come to the fair (10/23/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 21, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Owing to the introduction of automobiles in our county which has taken place so lately as to prevent the… …
New fall goods are in stock in Mathews (10/16/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 14, 1909 from the Mathews Journal News from Marchant’s Dept. Store is that we have received all of our millinery stock and it is really… …
A new owner at Brighton (10/9/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 7, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Mr. Rosser Diggs has just completed a very nice wharf and boat house at “Brighton” for Mr. H. Hollerith,… …
Report on a prosperous grocer and insurance gent (10/2/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 30, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Mr. S. P. James is writing insurance to beat the band but at the same time is whooping up… …
Parsonage fund to benefit from ladies’ play (9/25/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 23, 1909 from the Mathews Journal North: The play, “Six Cups of Chocolate,” a piece of feminine gossip in one act, will be given for… …
Walker to carry on Mobjack business alone (9/18/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 16, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Notice of Dissolution of Partnership: The business heretofore conducted at Mobjack, under the firm name and style of Walker… …
Women bolster a meeting on local education (9/11/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 9, 1909 from the Mathews Journal We were sorry to see so few men attend the educational meeting at the Court House on Aug. 31.… …
A few classified ads from 1909 (9/4/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 2, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Cook and nurse wanted: Mother and daughter preferred or two sisters, nurse not under 15 years old. Apply Journal… …
A tasteful wedding at Westville Baptist Church (8/28/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Aug. 26, 1909 from the Mathews Journal On Wednesday last, August 18, 1909, at 9 a.m., at Westville Baptist Church, Mathews, Va., Miss Josephine Thomas Fox,… …
Journal editor sends well wishes to Sentinel chief (8/21/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Aug. 19, 1909 from the Mathews Journal We congratulate the editor of the Southside Sentinel upon the excellent health which he emphasizes in the following squib… …
Who did that good deed on the steamboat? (8/14/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Aug. 12, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Wanted: To know the name of the gentleman who took in charge and brought to Mathews on Tuesday, Aug.… …
Buy here, assemble a set of china (8/7/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Aug. 5, 1909 from the Mathews Journal We have 500 pieces of decorated china which we will give to our customers for the month of August,… …
Advice from an ad: take these pills, save your marriage (7/31/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 29, 1909 from the Mathews Journal A Western judge granted a divorce on account of ill-temper and bad breath. Dr. King’s New Life Pills would… …
Marine railway planned on Milford Haven (7/24/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 22, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Wanted: Young man of some mechanical ability to join me in establishing a small marine railway and machine shop… …
Moon landing (7/17/2019) - Fifty years ago this week, America held its breath as Apollo 11 vaulted toward the moon and the historic landing and first step that would be taken on the moon’s… …
Church dinner planned at Haven Beach (7/17/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 15, 1909 from the Mathews Journal The ladies of Salem Church are planning to have a large time on the Haven beach, July 28. A… …