A profitable program at Bethel Church (5/31/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 30, 1907 from the Mathews Journal Quite a crowd gathered at Bethel Church on Sunday night last to witness one of the most illustrious melodramatics… …
Ice cream social planned in Mathews (5/24/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 23, 1907 from the Mathews Journal There will be a strawberry and ice cream festival on June 4 at the old home of Mr. Cornelius… …
A ‘wheel,’ which probably meant a bicycle, stolen at Susan (5/17/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 16, 1907 from the Mathews Journal Some scamp or tramp entered the yard of Mr. W.L. Williams at Susan during the past week and carried… …
‘I would rather be defeated honestly than to be elected dishonestly’ (5/10/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 9, 1907 from the Mathews Journal To the voters of Mathews County: As I got quite a complimentary vote four years ago for Treasurer I… …
A new millinery department in village store (5/3/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 2, 1907 from the Mathews Journal The firm of Sears and Williams opened their millinery department this week. Mr. R. Lee Sears arrived home from… …
A new phone installed in Mathews store; Confederate veteran dies; lockjaw kills a horse (4/26/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 25, 1907 from the Mathews Journal Mr. F. Theo. Miller of the Tidewater Telephone Company has just fitted up the department store of our enterprising… …
Big storm damages boats and fishing equipment (4/19/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 18, 1907 from the Mathews Journal Schooner Jerome, Capt. George Shelton, was blown ashore on Dutchman’s Bar in the recent storm, and it is said… …
Big storm hurts island fishermen (4/12/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 11, 1907 from the Mathews Journal The two windstorms, one of the week before last and the one of this week, have played havoc… …
A delightful party is held at ‘Oakland’ (4/5/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 4, 1907 from the Mathews Journal The Misses Miller of “Oakland” at North gave a delightful party to their friends on Monday evening, April 1,… …
Phonographic entertainment to benefit a church (3/29/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 28, 1907 from the Mathews Journal There will be a phonographic entertainment at the Court House to benefit Central Church on Tuesday night next. Mr.… …
Clamming in Bar Neck (3/22/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 21, 1907 from the Mathews Journal The Barneck girls went out on a clamming expedition and succeeded in getting about 1,500 clams from the Barneck… …
A lost pocket-book (3/15/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 14, 1907 from the Mathews Journal Lost: A brown leather silver mounted pocket-book containing a pencil and ten cents and a memorandum; lost on Monday… …
A Gwynn’s Island wedding report from 1907 (3/8/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 7, 1907 from the Mathews Journal Gwynn’s Island: Miss Lizzie Foster and Mr. Edwards were quietly married at the home of Mr. C.H. Owens on… …
Village blacksmith is working long hours (3/1/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 28, 1907 from the Mathews Journal Mr. Harry Hammond, our village blacksmith, seems to be quite busy in his shop working for the fishing firms;… …
Glimpses into the Past: Five acres available for parsonage (2/22/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 21, 1907 from the Mathews Journal We have been authorized to offer for sale to the one parsonage location for East Mathews Circuit, a piece… …
Bucket brigade saves the school at Mobjack… (2/15/2017) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 14, 1907 from the Mathews Journal Friday morning about 11 o’clock there came very near being a serious conflagration at the village school in Mobjack.… …
Yorktown Mine Depot explosion topic of talk (2/7/2017) - The 1943 explosion at the Yorktown Mine Depot was the topic of discussion at the Jan. 23 meeting of the Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia. Frank Green of the York… …