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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1911
Page
5
A flood of candidate notices from 1911 1914 outlines campaigns in Mathews and neighboring districts. Dr J W D Haynes and several residents pledge to defend public schools tax funds and oppose Baylor survey breaches while urging voters to compare candidates before the November elections.
The Journal shows publication at Mathews B Va and lists church preaching times. Westville Baptist Church holds services first and third Sundays both morning and night, Macedonia conducts services second Sunday morning and night, and fourth Sunday night.
Mr. R. Richardson visited Norfolk this week and Elijah Baker Jr returned to Richmond. A. L. Winder stayed at his Retz area home and Andrew Hudgins of Norfolk visited Port Haywood. A county school excursion drew large crowds while Sands Smith Jr. improves and heads home soon. G. S. Marchant and Mrs. Jackson, Miss Carrie Miller toured Norfolk for goods. Eva Armistead leaves for Carrsville to teach. The New Chapel St Mathew will be dedicated Sunday with Rev. Thus Reeves preaching. Captain and Mrs. Jackson and Miss Carrie Miller visited the Thomases. Miss Mary Lamison will head Wyatt Wolffe’s millinery opening. Rafferty offers ten dollars for the Ella Miller assailant. Miss Somerville returns to command Jarvis and Pugh’s millinery and is welcomed. Rev. Gowen preaches at Westville on the righteous dead. Kate Healy arrives to head the Marston Co. millinery. Rev. and Mrs. Winn depart for the Ecumenical Methodist Conference in Toronto via Niagara Falls. E. M. Blake travels to Norfolk for the races with Saybrook and Sabledale. Rev. W. G. Boggs preaches at Salem Church. Mathews Circuit progress noted with new additions. Rev. W. B. Beauchamp addresses the Missionary movement and speaks at Central.
The Colored Fair is being held this week at the grounds of the Southside Agricultural Association and is progressing well according to reports. The Tidewater Telephone Company is rebuilding lines between Port Haywood and Mathews Court House.
R B Howlett Iberis Virginia advertises stakes for sale averaging from 45 to 5 feet on shore and promotes Chamberlains Liniment as a cheaper superior plaster alternative. For sale by all dealers.
Miller Notary Public and Justice of the Peace J P offer to attend to any business in their line anywhere in the county or beyond. They emphasize willingness to travel to handle official matters.
A meeting of the County Committee is called at Mathews C H on Saturday October 7 at 2 p m Percival Hicks Chairman.
For sale pound poles 40 to 55 feet with best landing on the Piankatank River at Green Point. Price one cent per lineal foot delivered to water. Contact A. Marchant via Green's Retz, Virginia.
Mr. Wan and Rich toured a corn crop near drought-stricken sections showing eleven to fourteen foot stalks four to eight inches apart. Despite severe conditions, ears formed on each stalk. A conservative yield estimate is 25 barrels per acre of a prolific variety from South Carolina.
Retz Mrs J M Shinault returns home after an enjoyable visit with her mother Mrs W H Crew in Richmond. Mr Walter Hurst's little daughter is quite sick. Mr George P Diggs is spending the week here.
Classified notice seeking a male worker for farm duties on share basis. Offers a nice furnished dwelling free of charge. Instructions to apply to Stephen Adams at 10-5-4t re oe Mathews in Virginia.
An advertisement proclaims a clairvoyant reader at 2615 County St Portsmouth VA offering past present and future guidance. It directs travel via County and Scottsville to Toll Gate and provides a phone number 1058. It also recommends Chamberlains Cough Remedy for children's coughs and colds.
Mr J Christain, candidate for the House of Delegates from Middlesex and Mathews, ran expenses totaling 95 dollars and 50 cents in the primary. Mrs Verlanda Sibley, wife of A A Sibley, died at their home Pian katank near Stormont after a prolonged illness. Funeral services at New Hope church Monday led by Rev C E Hobday. Andrew T Stubbs died Sunday afternoon at his son E G Stubbs 297 Duke St Gloucester and will be sent to Gloucester for funeral and interment. He was 63 and had lived in Norfolk over a year. funeral from Bellamy M E Church in Gloucester.
Notice to all oyster share tenants that rent not paid by December 1 will incur a penalty of per cent as provided by the last general assembly. Inspectors W. H. Gayle, J. T. Christian, J. W. Minter.
A vintage ad touts Dr King's New Life Pills as a cure all for weakness languor and energy drain. It promises relief from constipation headache chills dyspepsia and malaria with a sugar coated globule formulation available for 25 cents at druggists.
Seventy acre? No. A thirty acre farm on an arm of East River near two steamboat wharves churches and stores. Part wooded with a creek oyster shore. Includes a good six room dwelling. Desirable property. Apply E W Brownley Hicks Wharf Va.
A humorous verse discusses hat fashions shifting from simple, crude styles to absurd substitutes. It lists items once used as hats, from feather beds to feather bales, dishpans, pots, baskets, and even garden items, mocking the rapid change and excess in headwear trends.
A testimonial notes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cures colds and has a wide reputation and sale. It is claimed safe for adults and children, containing no harmful drugs and suitable for young children. Sold by all dealers.
Thousands seek a free trial package from The Woodworth Company offering Senpine, claimed to cure asthma hay fever bronchitis and catarrh. The scientific compound, allegedly discovered by a Vienna University professor, is urged as effective regardless of duration or climate.
In the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Mathews County the plaintiff seeks $348 92 with interest from April 22 1911 and attachment of defendants Tawes and Gibson. They must appear within fifteen days of publication to protect their interests. Publication for four weeks in the Mathews Journal and posting at the courthouse are ordered. Clerk L. C. Garnett.
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