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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1910
Page
5
Local notes list residents traveling to Norfolk Baltimore Richmond and Warsaw visiting relatives and friends. Mentions include Mr Neil Foster Mrs C C White and Rev Henry Lane, Miss Nellie Shackelford and Mr Jack Benson. Also ads for goods farms and services plus church events and parsonage work in Mathews C H Va.
The page advertises a Great Sacrifice Sale with shoe deals and low prices for ladies and children, plus local notices for threshing machinery, millinery, dry goods, a five acre farm for sale on Milford Haven with a water front, and a discussion of Mathews High School finishing a successful session. Also mentions agency for Coggins Marble and Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey cough remedy.
Mr Marshall White left Wed. Mr Pennie Callis is spending a few days at home. John Forrest and Cor nealius Forrest remain on the sick list. The Rosebuds meeting was held at Salem on Sunday evening. A talk was given by R H Fox and Charlie Callis who has been visiting his father J W Callis. Mrs C T Banks and daughter Elsie with Rose Morgan left for Norfolk and Cape Charles. Mrs Banks will visit Richmond. The revival at Salem closed last Tuesday with several converts. Rev George Wiley left for his home in Richmond.
An obituary notes the death of a devoted father on December 16 1909 likely from heart trouble. It recalls his 16 year commitment to Christ under Rev D G C Butts at Bethel M E Church and his steady life guiding family and friends toward readiness for the Savior. He leaves a wife two children one grandchild four sisters one brother and many relatives. Funeral by Rev L J Phaup at Bethel, remains buried in the family cemetery.
After months of illness Virginia Diggs died on May 18 1910 at the home of J Moses Diggs. Funeral services were conducted by Rev Geo E Thomas. She was aged and had two marriages producing five children Geo J Diggs John R Diggs and Mrs Arthur L Hudgins from the first marriage and two children from the second including J Moses Diggs.
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