110 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 21, 1910
from the Mathews Journal
A meeting of the residents of Mathews C.H. will be held in the Courthouse on Tuesday, April 26 at 8 p.m., for the purpose of organizing an association, the object to be, the health of the village, the cleaning and keeping in order the streets of the town and the improvement of our homes. The association is to be known as the “Mathews Court House Improvement and Sanitary League.”
At the meeting proposed, permanent organization will be effected by electing officers and adopting laws for the government of the Association. Ladies and gentlemen are both urged to be present.
100 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 22, 1920
from the Gloucester Gazette
Miss Maria Tabb is visiting at Norfolk.
Robinson & Lawson have moved into their new garage.
Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Williams and Miss Cora Williams motored to Newport News Tuesday and spent the day.
The Rev. H.L Corr will begin a series of meetings at Wicomico Chapel Sunday. An evangelist from the State Mission Board will preach.
Mr. C.S. Smith Jr. will open a law office at Hampton on May 10. Mr. Smith will continue to practice law here, however, and will maintain his residence here.
from the Mathews Journal
Remember, Saturday, May 1 is the last day on which you can pay your 1919 capitation taxes and thus qualify to vote in the Presidential election of Nov. 2 next —G.E.T. Lane, Treasurer, Mathews.
90 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 24, 1930
from the Gloucester Gazette
The seventh crippled children’s free clinic will be held at Botetourt High School on Saturday, April 26, at 10 a.m., in charge of Dr. Mauck, of Richmond. Parents of all crippled children, including those who have not heretofore taken advantage of these free clinics, are cordially invited to bring their children to this clinic for examination and treatment, which is without cost.
from the Mathews Journal
Fishing being the principal occupation of the men of Gwynn’s Island little attention is paid to farming when the fishing season opens in the spring. The fishermen are doing better this year than they have done for some time.
Miss Lillie Williams visited the Island Sunday. Her many friends were glad to see her.
The Rev. Filmore Forrest and Mrs. Mack Edwards, of Norfolk, were married last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Owens, of Norfolk, motored to the Island last Sunday. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Dallis Marshall.
80 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 25, 1940
from the Gazette-Journal
A contract for planting 527 shrubs and plants on the campus of the new Mathews High School, was let this week to Chapman Grinels, of Gloucester County, lowest bidder.
The large campus was recently landscaped by Mr. Roller of the State Department of Education and the Parent-Teacher Association of the school is sponsoring the project. Work of planting will begin at once in the effort to have at least some of these shrubs in place before the $100,000 centralized school unit recently completed will be dedicated on Friday, May 10.
70 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 20, 1950
from the Gazette-Journal
Approximately 150 attended the band and glee club concert at Botetourt High School last Friday night, which was presented by the students, under the direction of the Rev. W.E. Cholerton, glee club director, and C.C. Briggs, director of the band.
A number of selections were presented by the glee club, including “Praise to the Lord,” “O, Holy Night,” “The Kerry Dance,” “The Volga Boatman,” “The Gypsy Trail,” “Land of Hope and Glory,” “Here A Torch,” and “German Folk Song.”
60 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 21, 1960
from the Gazette-Journal
The women of Gloucester again are asking to be heard in their plea to the board of supervisors on April 28 for the employment of a home agent. Petitions are being circulated and everything that can be done to help the people of the county learn of the many advantages they will obtain with the employment of an agent is being done.
The home demonstration clubs are a part of the Virginia Agricultural Extension Service and of the nation-wide educational program in agriculture and home economics.
The main objectives are strengthening the home and community life, raising the standards of living, and stimulating action.
50 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 23, 1970
from the Gazette-Journal
The senior class of Gloucester High School will sponsor a stunt night next Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The program will include serious talent, such as songs by Mike Ward and Claudia Brown; piano selections by Kenneth Fary; a dance by Norma Jordan, and Persian songs by Mohammed Isahn, GHS’s American Field Service student, as well as humorous skits, songs and dance routines. An added attraction will be a song by W.D. Bowling, principal. Admission is 75¢.
40 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 24, 1980
from the Gazette-Journal
On May 1, “Save the Children Day,” several students from Gloucester Middle School will proudly take the opportunity that most people never have.
They will personally voice their opinions on several important world issues to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Child and Human Development in Washington, D.C.
Elementary school students from Washington, D.C., Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Georgia and New York have been selected to appear before the Senate subcommittee on the basis of letters they wrote which focused on the theme, “If I were elected President, this is how I would help children.”
The following students from GMS will travel to D.C. on April 30 and returning the next day: Julie Siebert, Kristin Haas, Jamie Olivis, Diana Celeste Clark, John Windley, Todd Oney, Carrie Burreson, Rachel Ketchum, Scott Todd, Cindy Ambrose, Roberta Carneal, Scott James, Melinda Deal, Linda Coons and Boyette Trias.
The chaperones are Mrs. Alice Wakefield, Mrs. Evelyn Evans, Mike Horrell and Eric Rosenberg.
30 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 26, 1990
from the Gazette-Journal
Stricter dog control regulations in the county have been approved by the Gloucester Board of Supervisors, with the most stringent to be imposed in York District.
At the request of York supervisor William E. Belvin the board on April 17 adopted an ordinance requiring all dogs in York District to be kept secured by a leash or lead or penned in at all times when outside their owner’s residence.
The board voted to give York District pet owners some lead time in getting used to the new regulations, stipulating the regulation will take effect on July 2. Belvin asked that it not go into effect on the customary July 1 date because that day falls on Sunday this year.
20 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 27, 2000
from the Gazette-Journal
The Red Cross bloodmobile held Tuesday at the Piankatank Ruritan Club, Hudgins, was very successful with a collection of 116 pints against a quota of 90.
Chairman Sandy Warren said an additional 10 donors were deferred.
Warren expressed great pleasure with the collection, and praised the bloodmobile’s sponsor, the Beta Club of Mathews High School. The students were “very competent and did an excellent job,” she said.
10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 22, 2010
from the Gazette-Journal
With strong support from the community, the Gloucester-Mathews Free Clinic’s fifth annual “Night at the Casino” raised more than $70,000, according to chairman Adam Taylor.
Over 400 people attended Saturday night’s party at the Abingdon Ruritan Club in Bena for a evening of Las Vegas style gaming, all with play money of course. Ferguson Enterprises and Chesapeake Bank were the evening’s title sponsors.
Although the money was fake, the prizes given out at the end of the night, donated by area business and individuals, were very real. A silent auction, filled similarly with donations, raised roughly $10,000.
“The $70,000 raised will go a long way in serving the medically uninsured in Gloucester and Mathews counties,” Taylor said. “The clinic’s budget this year is just more than $715,000. While the clinic receives a lot of money from grants across the state and from foundations right here in Gloucester and Mathews, a great deal of funding comes from the community.”