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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
3
Local notes list residents and relatives visiting within Mathews and nearby counties. Names include Annie Thomas returning to Norfolk, R V Omer and family at Mrs Omer’s home, Virginia Sutton, ay Garnett at Poplar Grove, and many others visiting relatives or touring Norfolk and Richmond areas.
Mrs Hughes and Miss Katherine Cramer visit Geo L Cramer home. Miss Ruth Shackleford returns from aunt Mrs Davia in Middlesex. P B Miller of Portsmouth stays with Andrew and Mrs Miller. Capt G W Brownley and family return to Berkley Virginia after ten days visiting Diggs. Mr and Mrs Crawford Rogers of Berkley arrive to enjoy warm weather. Jorge M L Thomas of this county and Miss Minnie Froelik of Baltimore wed in Monumental City on Friday August 13. Mr and Mrs J Flave Marchant and children of Neuburn North Carolina visit G S Marchant last week. Richmond College School of Law ad seen. students pass state board with flying colors.
After 15 years of chronic indigestion and spending over two hundred dollars, B. F. Ayscue of Ingleside North Carolina reports Dr King’s New Life Pills as the best pills ever sold. Sold under guarantee at all druggists for 25 cents.
The Annual Regatta of the Mobjack Bay Yacht Club will be held at Mobjack on September. Members are asked to meet at 10 a.m. to discuss race matters. A dance will follow the races and a delightful time is anticipated. The event invites Mathews residents, both sportsmen and others, to attend.
The Political Paper of William Jennings Bryan turned over more than 5600 dollars to the Democratic campaign fund. Bryan promised all paper proceeds beyond expenses to the fund.
A notice from A J Digg announces the fourth session of Fairview School opening September 7 1908 with Miss Hope Summers of Sterling Virginia as teacher. The note thanks patrons for past support and asks for continued patronage.
Mathews County residents report a sequence of guests and departures from local homes. Baltimore visitors Mrs. S. R. Billups and family stay with C. E. Diggs. Rev. J. B. Hunley and family depart for Neosko Missouri to begin a new pastorate. Marcus Clark leaves for Chicago to resume studies after summer with his aunt in Northriver.
A. S. Nashum of Batesville Indiana reports lasting three months of summer cold symptoms and hay fever interrupted work. After failed remedies he used Poley Honey and Tar which quickly cured him. His wife also benefited from the product. Sold by all druggists.
Rev G H McFaden preached at St Paul church on last Sunday from Matthews 183 about conversion and becoming as little children to enter Heaven. He assists Rev W L Ware at Beulah in a protracted service this week while Kate Diggs and Keb Diggs of Baltimore visit their parents. Willie Jarvis and family from Norfolk visit the old parental home. Not weather and pulling fodder seems to be the order of the day LEUMNAS.
Frank Conlan of 436 Houston St New York commends Electric Bitters as a grand family medicine for dyspepsia and liver issues. The tonic is said to regulate digestion purify blood and restore vitality for the frail of both sexes, sold by 21 druggists at 50 cents with guarantee.
In Leowuannon Mr J B White almost burned when a lamp toppled a picture but the blaze was stopped in time. Miss Mande Minter hosted a dinner for Miss Maude Vanderfort of West Virginia with guests Vanderfort, Elizabeth White, Frank Ford of Norfolk and Hall Raymond of Baltimore. Capt Virginus Machen led a 52 person party on the gasolene launch Farrar to New Point where a crowded beach and pavilion supper followed a moonlit return. Traveling salesmen in Pohan non included Parker, Murphy, Taylor, Butler, Norris, Harris, Gilette, Seward, Respess, Puller, Downing, Harrow, Blackburne, Palmer, Ches, Covey Anderton and Mrs Byron Satherlin.
Tom Moore of Rural Route 1 Cochran Georgia reports a persistent instep sore healed after using Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He states a 25 cent box was sufficient for a perfect cure, with the product sold under guarantee at all druggists.
A Sunday service at Bethel led by Rev. W. L. Ware preached Christian Growth with emotional response. Several joined the church, including new members at the Tabernacle last Monday, while the Tabernacle meeting closed with noted spiritual outpouring on August 16th.
Advertisement copy claims Foley's Honey and Tar gives immediate relief to asthma sufferers and other throat and lung ailments. It touts many cases yielding to treatment, calls it the best remedy for coughs colds and throat trouble, and notes no harmful drugs. Sold by all druggists.
Mrs Melvina Adams returns to Mudgins from Newport News and Norfolk with her daughter Mrs Pitts of Norfolk. Miss Etta Davis is on the sick list. Mr Gilbert Adams of Norfolk visits his mother Mrs Chas Adams at Hadeirs. Mr N S Miller Jr goes to Hampton Hospital for treatment. Dr Fisher leads a revival at the Old Baptist Church. Roscoe Fox of Middlesex visits. Irving Hudgins of Norfolk also in town.
An advertisement asserts Feley's Kidney Remedy helps elderly people with kidney or bladder disorders by stimulating urinary organs correcting irregularities and toning the system. It urges immediate use and claims availability from all druggists.
Harry E Brownley ofMathews now in Norfolk and returning soon for vacation at he is accompanied by Harry M Thompson and W Foster Thompson enjoys a pleasant visit with Floyd Brownley Providence church ladies host a church benefit picnic Wednesday evening August 26 Mathews county grows popular with city visitors Protracted meeting continues at Providence M E church nightly Rev Charles Hobday delivers a stirring sermon Ella Foster hosts a croquet party for friends at the parsonage
An advertised claim asserts Poley’s Kidney Remedy cures kidney and bladder ailments beyond reach of other treatments. The text promotes the product as a universal remedy with strong assertions of efficacy.
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