110 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 20, 1912
from the Mathews Journal
Teachers’ Notice: We desire that all teachers desiring positions in the Chesapeake District Schools will please make application according to school law, to the district clerk on or before July 1, 1912. Salary ranging from $30 to $90 according to ability. Term, seven months sure, perhaps eight. By order School Board, John F. Hudgins, D.C.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 24, 1922
from the Gloucester Gazette
Naxera Graded School: Although our school closed in April, our League has not been idle. We have accomplished a good deal. We decided that one of the greatest needs of our school was an eight months term and have secured pledges amounting to $140 toward paying the teachers.
The League was much pleased by the gift of the old Presbyterian Church on condition that we move it to our school grounds to be used as a hall or a place for all proper entertainments and meetings. Anyone visiting our school after an entertainment would see that such a building is badly needed. So, we are going to work very hard to get the church moved and fixed, and when we do, we hope to have moving picture entertainments.
from the Mathews Journal
One lady in Cardinal section has received pledges for $25.00 to help repair and add to the old Clerk’s office on the Court House Grounds, to be used as a restroom and comfort station for women exclusively. It will be free to all women whether they help to build it or not.
90 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 23, 1932
from the Gloucester Gazette
$1.60 a barrel was offered at the Gloucester Point wharf Tuesday for potatoes by buyers from Baltimore. Shipments from Gloucester Point totaled 1,164 barrels, with several hundred more from the other wharves in the county.
from the Mathews Journal
Citizens of Mathews County are just beginning to realize what Congress has done to them in the imposition of a tax on nearly everything they have to buy every day, to “Balance the Budget.” The new taxes run for two years.
To begin with, gasoline takes on a one-cent federal tax this week following two cents advance in price recently. Electric bills will jump next month because of a tax added by the government. Tooth paste and toilet articles of all kinds will also advance with an added tax. Next month it will cost three cents instead of two to mail a letter. Never before, except in war times, have federal taxes been as high.
80 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 25, 1942
from the Gazette-Journal
The Office of Price Administration in Washington, D.C., announced that the value of sugar ration stamps 5 and 6 had been increased to two pounds each; but that each stamp would cover a period of a month instead of two weeks, continuing the weekly ration to each consumer at half a pound.
70 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 19, 1952
from the Gazette-Journal
During the first month of operation of the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge toll facility across the York River, there were 87,289 motor vehicles to use the world’s largest double-swing span structure.
This is an average daily traffic of 2,910 vehicles per day, it was reported today by D.B. Fugate, of Norfolk, director of toll revenue facilities of the Virginia Department of Highways.
The total revenue for the first 30-day operation period of the bridge was $64,569, Fugate said.
60 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 21, 1962
from the Gazette-Journal
Tickets for the Mathews Day game at the District of Columbia stadium, scheduled for July 3, went on sale this week throughout the county.
Merchants will have a supply of both adult and children’s tickets. The bargain rates that attracted the largest crowd to attend a Major League ball game in the history of Mathews will prevail again this year for the Senators vs. Los Angeles contest.
The total cost of transportation to and from the game via Ruritan Caravan including an excellent reserved seat in Section A is only $4 for adults and $3 for children. Those preferring the comfort of an air-conditioned bus to and from the stadium door may purchase special bus tickets which are $5.50 for adults making a grand total of $9.50. Free tickets are available for those wishing to make up a party and drive their own car.
50 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 22, 1972
from the Gazette-Journal
The second annual house tour sponsored by the Mathews County Historical Society will take place on Sunday, rain or shine, Miss Mary Hopkins, coordinator, has announced.
The houses on the tour are: “Hickory Knoll,” residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. Gerald Sadler; “Grassfield,” home of the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel H. Sayre; “Samarkand,” the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Hudgins Jr., “Brunson’s Landing,” home of Lt. Col. and Mrs. William P. Brunson; and “Poplar Grove,” owned by Mr. and Mrs. J. Morrison Smith.
40 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 24, 1982
from the Gazette-Journal
It came from the southwest. Powerfully, swiftly, it broke large limbs and bent over tall trees; but mercifully, mysteriously, it came and went without hurting any people or pets, without seriously damaging any houses.
That’s the way several Ware Neck residents described the wind or weather or storm that rocked their area early last Wednesday night.
30 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 25, 1992
from the Gazette-Journal
Two vacant two-story frame houses, a plowed field apart from one another, were burned down last weekend in what Abingdon Volunteer Fire Chief Herb Austin said “goes beyond suspicious” conditions.
Both fires occurred in the early morning in the Bena area near Low Ground Road (Route 641). Because of the proximity of the houses and the short time between fires (less than two days), Austin said that the two fires might be connected.
20 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 20, 2002
from the Gazette-Journal
Don’t even think about applying for a marriage license or receiving passport forms in Gloucester County between Friday, June 28 and Sunday, July 7. Also, don’t plan to check deed books or many other public records during that period. That’s because a number of Gloucester County offices will be closed to the public during that period while they move from the Courts and Office Building to the new courthouse. Those offices will reopen to the public at 8 a.m. Monday, July 8, at the new courthouse off Justice Drive in the village.
10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, June 21, 2012
from the Gazette-Journal
Faced with declining enrollments, the Mathews County School Board unanimously approved a reduction in its yearly tuition rate for out-of-county students from $2,500 to $1,000. The board approved the change during a meeting Tuesday evening in the Mathews High School media center.
“Our ADM (Average Daily Membership) is down … I think we need to reduce it,” school board member Lanell Jarvis said, referring to the tuition fee. “We definitely have room for them,” said Superintendent David J. Holleran, who recommended the drop in tuition.