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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1911
Page
5
The Journal lists Westside Baptist Church services on the first and third Sundays with morning and night worship. Macedonia church holds morning and night services on the second Sunday and a fourth Sunday night.
Miss Alice Moore visits Mrs. Mary Davis in Cheriton Virginia. Rev. G B Cooke dislocated his hip in a horse accident on Tuesday. Visitors include Masters Grayson Wray and Gaker PiiHups from Hampton with Dr and Mrs A G Vaden, Miss Katie Porter of Fortsmouth, Mr Walter Gressit of Baltimore, and many Norfolk Portsmouth attendees. Journal invites readers to share visiting news and inter ests about local people.
Obituary recalls the life of Mrs. Annam M Wrcht Hudgins of Mathews County Virginia aged eighty three who died at her home three miles north of the Court House after a brief illness. Survived by her aged husband and six children she is praised as a Christian woman whose strong character and devotion to the Disciples Church influenced many.
Local notes mention Miss Mathews from Washington and Mr. Bradley excelling at Brighton. Mrs. Clarance Woodvard and her son Carroll from Portsmouth stay at Beechland this week, while Mr. Mattrom Miller of Preder ishure recently visited his parents here.
Mathews County items report visitors from Norfolk Fredericksburg and Richmond. Residents travel for business and medical reasons while social events, elopement, and church notices fill the week. The upcoming September Democratic primary for the House of Delegates features multiple candidates, with strong support for Mr. Christian.
An old advertisement promises six doses of a cure identified as 066 will cure chills and fever. The price is listed as 25 cents.
Louise Helen Frost wife of Gen James Lowell Carter died during a visit to her son Morland Carter in Mathews County Virginia Interment was in Eastwood cemetery Lancaster Service led by Rev David Sprague with Mrs Chas Knight as vocalist Frost born Clinton January 27 1849 daughter of William E Frost and Elizabeth Bride Frost married in Worcester September 21 1870 to Gen James Lowell Carter Survived by husband two children Anna and Morland Carter siblings include the late John R Frost Her family lived in Burlington Iowa Boston and Brookline before moving to New York City where she resided until death occurred at the Mathews County residence Hospital care provided by St Vincent de Paul Norfolk.
A speaker speaks of a beloved carpenter who builds homes as sanctuaries for souls. He vows not to wander, promising the last and dearest house he builds will shelter the speaker, blending work and devotion in a lifelong home.
A reflective tribute recalls a saintly taper who burned out in life and inspires with memory and example. The speaker contemplates future reunion, service in deathless realms, and the fleeting sanctity of prayers as winds and waves murmur.
A brief excerpt lampoons gossipy piety as the speaker scorns neighbors who eagerly judge others. The verse mocks those who claim virtue while privately faulting others, urging restraint in moralizing about fellow townsfolk.
Advertisement notes Bowser self measuring gasoline and oil storage system offered by J. W. Hudgins general agent, Box 234, Norfolk.
The Ithaca Conservatory of Music offers two $100 scholarships for twenty weeks starting September 14 1911 in voice piano or elocution. Competition is open to applicants from Virginia and requires written inquiry to George Williams General Manager Ithaca Conservatory of Music Ithaca before September 1 1911.
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