115 YEARS AGOThursday, Dec. 17, 1908from the Mathews Journal

My connections with the Tidewater Telephone Company as manager of the Mathews system having been severed, its office is no longer in my place of business.

I wish to thank the public and the phone holders in particular for their almost universal courtesy and will say during the entire four years I served them, with but few exceptions, I met with uttermost deference. Most respectfully, F. Theo. Miller.

110 YEARS AGOThursday, Dec. 11, 1913from the Mathews Journal

Mr. William P. Hudgins, while out hunting on Thanksgiving Day, shot and killed a wild turkey which dressed eight pounds. We must congratulate Mr. Hudgins upon being such a good marksman.

We learn that there will be several Old Virginia house warmings given this Christmas. The writer is in hopes of it being true.

100 YEARS AGOThursday, Dec. 13, 1923from the Gloucester Gazette

The Seaboard Medical Society, at its annual convention at Newport News...