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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
2
The Journal urges timely mail of newsletters to avoid delay and stale items. Obituaries and resolutions of respect require payment per line. Communications advocating candidates incur regular line rates. Reading notices are charged per line, with transient ads 50 cents first insertion and 25 cents for subsequent insertions.
Policy to place Americans on guard means foreigners banned from all military works and naval stations. Earlier rule targeted navy ships affecting Japanese and Chinese stewards. Japanese workers at fortifications and Cavite and Olonapo stations discharged. officers valued their skill but feared information access.
A 1907 letter to the Journal editor from Middlesex requests a passenger ferry linking Crickett Hill and North End to aid travel from Northern Neck and Middlesex. It notes routes to Baltimore and Norfolk via the Rappahannock River and announces daily departures at 3:30 PM from Crickett Hill and 8:00 AM from Ruark starting August 1, 1907.
Resolution adopted at Mathews on July 24 1907 records the passing of Osborne Fr Morgan a respected member. It lauds his faithful service and long association with the organization and notes gratitude for his counsel and contributions to the order.
Our midst leaves a vacancy and a shadow that will be deeply realized by all the members of this organization and will prove a serious loss to the community and public. Resolved that with deep sympathy with the bereaved relatives of the deceased we express our hope that even so great a loss to us all may be overruled for good by Him who doeth all things well. Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the record of this organization, a copy be printed in the local paper and a copy forwarded to the bereaved family.
R A Gray of Oakville Indiana writes of a decade bedridden with kidney disease. He sought top medical care but found no relief until Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended. He calls it a Godsend and notes it is sold by all druggists.
In Crisfield Maryland a Black man named James Reed fatally attacked Policeman John H. Daugherty then fled by boat. A mob captured Reed on the Tangier Sound, beat him, dragged his body to a telegraph pole, and he died on the scene. An inquest returned a verdict consistent with the facts. Reed, about 22, was a mixed race native of Native territory who had served as a waiter aboard the vessel Endeavor.
I will rent to the first applicant thirty days from July 5 1907 all oyster planting ground on Plan kstank River and Milford Haven Mathews Co Va that have not been paid on Jr T Christian Oyster Inspector District 17 C Virginia
Miss Laura Beatrice Treakle celebrated her twenty first birthday at home with Mr and Mrs C H Treakle hosting. Guests arrived about 6 PM, croquet on the lawn, rain at 8 PM, then vocal and instrumental music with Miss Clara Bell Treakle at the organ. A late dinner followed with souvenirs, ice cream, cake, fruits and nuts, and more songs including San Antonio and Yankee Doodle Girl.
M T Lynch editor of Phillipsburg Daily Post lauds Foley's Money and Tar as the best medicine for churches and kids in his family. He emphasizes its flavor and effectiveness and notes it is sold by all druggists.
Ed Hudgins and Miss Florence Gayle were married by Rev. W L Ware at St Pauls Church on July 25. The ceremony featured a solo by Mrs Clarence White and was followed by a procession to Diggs Wharf for a steamer to Norfolk. The bride is daughter of J Wesley Gayle and the groom is son of Theopholis Hudgins.
An old time advertorial notes that men over sixty face kidney and bladder disorders often linked to enlarged prostate. It promotes Foley's Kidney Cure as a remedy, cites a 91 year old patient from Rockport Missouri who improved after two bottles, and claims wide pharmacy availability.
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