120 YEARS AGOThursday, Nov. 8, 1906from the Mathews Journal Diggs correspondent reports: We are glad to say Miss Belle Brooks is able to be out again. Miss Alma Brooks is quite sick with typhoid fever. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Hudgins is improving. Little Blanch Hudgins is better of diphtheria. In other news, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Williams have returned home from Baltimore with their goods and furniture. They will move in their new home near Hudgins in a few days. Capt. C.S. Hudgins is home on a trip from James River Lighthouse. We are sorry to see Miss Mamie Sadler sick again, hoping it won’t be long before she can return to her school. The festival at Crickett Hill proved to be a success for the old Baptist Church. I hope the debt will soon be paid. 110 YEARS AGOThursday, Nov. 2, 1916from the Mathews Journal Several new cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in lower Middlesex. The Board of Health has taken steps to quarantine persons under 16 years of age r...