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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1906
Page
3
Easter activities fill Mathews with events. Rev W L Ware and Rev Moffat lead services at Beulah Church for two weeks. Thirty plus members join after a sermon on the Resurrection, as Beulah prepares for a quarterly meeting and careful tax collection in Chesapeake district.
Mrs. Luther Machen of Norfolk spent Easter with relatives in Mathews. Mrs. Loyd Machen stayed with sister Virginia Machen at Mobjack. Miss Helen Barney returned to Newport News after visiting Mrs. R. B. Gayle. Mrs. Fowler and her son left for New York from Norfolk. The steamer Mobjack carried a large Easter crowd with two unhappy passengers, a Jew and his daughter, who realized too late they were not bound for Norfolk. Grace Machen, at business college in Norfolk, spent Easter with her parents.
Capt Shinall spent Sunday at his old home on Put-in-creek. Treakle family appears in several lines with Norfolk Queenstown visits. Capt Hunley and Capt White are noted in Mathews and Woodest Creek respectively. Easter Sunday gatherings include Lee Miles Wray Miles William Treakle John Calis and Keeler Treakle visiting Norfolk. Mrs Powell of Hampton and Miss Lucy Hughes with Miss Saler on Queen creek are mentioned.
Mr Sylvester S Schattschneider of the U S Coast and Geodetic Survey sails April 14 to join the Patterson in Seattle, bound for Kodiak Island Alaska. He is acclaimed by Cricket Hill people for his character and faith as he heads toward new prominence. The Povertie Partie at Cricket Hill on April 3 raised funds for the Old Baptist Church debt with modest costumes and cheese and crackers, praised by the community.
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