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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1907
Page
2
Tuk Journarn invites correspondents to email news letters before Wednesday to avoid delays. Obituaries and resolutions of respect are charged five cents per line. Communications advocating candidates incur regular advertising rates. Reading notices cost ten cents per line. Transient ads are 50 cents per inch for first insertion and 25 cents per inch for subsequent insertions without changes.
The community promotes the Jamestown Exposition as a unique, educational, and financially successful event. Citizens anticipate its opening day excursion by the Old Common Steamship Company to showcase development stages and encourage local attendance.
A quoted adage suggests a judge tell the Grand Jury to instruct citizens to sow black peas and raise tomatoes for market. The speaker argues farmers will see profit at 25 cents per bushel, and land improvement will be substantial.
Within two weeks two female inmates escaped from the Eastern State Hospital at Williamsburg. The piece notes accidents in asylums and asks who is responsible for the escape given Dr. Foster’s role with two patients in the same water. It also mentions attention for the Toads and boards seeking a traction engine to aid road work as highway improvements are promised.
Richmond March 24 A female patient escaped from the Williamsburg asylum Saturday but was detained at Lee Hall and returned to the hospital Sunday morning. She was none the worse for her accident days there is necking reliable in the occasional escape whom have the privilege rounds.
A young man preparing to sail to South Africa reenters a church service after three years away. The minister’s illustration about two sparrows for threepence lingers with him, prompting a witty remark on prices as he notices changes in the village.
Advertisement asserts there is no case of coughs or colds caused by Foley’s Honey and Tar remedy. Claims it stops coughs and breaks up colds quickly with no opiates. Warns against bets on Poley’s Honey and Tar in yellow package sold by Mathews Drug Store.
A vast forest fire in Patrick county, beginning Friday near Stuart, Danville’s county seat, has destroyed dozens of farms and several cottages at Patrick Springs. The blaze moved southeast toward Cruz and Danville, burning houses, con vents, and fruit orchards across roughly fifteen by six miles, with communication cut off along the path.
A Martinsville telegram reports a large forest fire in Patrick county near Stella about fifteen miles from its origin has been checked yesterday afternoon. The blaze started from leaves burning on the Stuart Orchard Company plantation and burned six miles in width. total damage not yet known.
Cordelia Murray born November 9 1845 in Mathews died in Baltimore after years of illness. She married Heron Campbell Murray in 1868 and had six children four surviving. A longtime Christian and supporter of Christ Church Baltimore and Mathews, she left a 1000 endowment to Christ Church. Surviving children Archie Murray William Murray Milton Murray and Mrs Wim Vawter.
Levi P. Morton, who rose from a failed New York dry goods firm to banking success, settled creditors for half value and later repaid in full with interest. At a banquet, he credited the guiding influence of his mother, whose lesson about owing money and paying debt shaped his emancipation and career.
An American visitor in Dublin recounts a humorous exchange about New York city skyscrapers and a new hotel. An Irish man jokes that the two top stories are used to let them down as the moon moves past. The anecdote appears in the Virginian Pilot.
B Spiegel of 1204 N Wrreiniz St Exvanville Ind says five years of kidney and bladder pain left him weak and dying. After doctors failed he used Tolev s Kidney Cure, which reportedly brought relief after one bottle and full cure after a second. For sale by Mathews Drug Store.
Westville Baptist Church announces Sunday services at 11 A M and 7 45 P M and a Sunday school with pastor's Bible class at 6 A M.
A reporter visits a major paint plant in New York and reports output of 10 000 gallons of paint using machinery faster than hand mixing. The article touts L M white lead and zinc products and claims L M paint lasts 10 to 15 years. It cites cost figures and a repaint guarantee with donations to churches.
The Pension Board will meet at Mathews C. H. on Friday March 29 at 11 oclock to revise the Pension List and receive pension applications. Applicants should first call on Mr Sands Smith to obtain and fill a blank form before the meeting. W L Fitchelt, Chairman.
Progres in New York outlines an office building project with 26 stores high and 1,400 rooms. The L. & M. Machinery yields L. & M. Paint at far lower labor cost, with 4 gal paint plus 3 gal linseed oil mixed at about 60 cents per gallon, covering seven palons for under $1.20 per gallon. If any defect occurs, repainting is offered free. Donations of L. & M. are made to churches, sold by Wm. H. C. Murray.
In Stuart Virginia on March 25 a mob attacked a cottage near Charity Patrick County killing a white woman and wounding her sister Jane Hall. The sisters had been reporting illicit stills to revenue officers. a dozen assailants fired through the home, the nephew escaped. Coroner Holling held an inquest at the scene amid reports of blockade stills.
W D Evans announces candidacy for the Virginia House of Delegates from Mathews Middlesex district subject to Democratic primary or convention. Jxo R Saunxpers seeks Democratic nomination for the Virginia Senate in the Thirty ninth District to represent Middlesex Gloucester King and Queen Essex counties and promises to serve to the best of his ability.
Prince Hogarth Jr a young stallion of fine running and trotting stock by Prince Hogarth out of Phebe by Kine Bolt with Skylark as second dam and Fancy as fifth dam. Trial record 2 30 owned by Silas Morris. White stone Lancaster County Virginia.
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