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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1909
Page
3
Local notices report Mrs. D. G. C. Butts visiting her daughter Mrs. G. S. Marchant in Mathews while Eva Armistead and Mildred Hancock take teaching posts in Carrsville and Bohannon. Others travel to Norfolk Baltimore Wake and Chesterfield for work purchases or studies as Mathews High opens with new enrollment and repairs.
Grace Miller and her mother depart Mathews County Redart for Baltimore Tuesday. James Marchant of Middlesex visits relatives here. Robert L. Callis welcomes a baby girl. Sick lists improve. Jennifer Gwynn leaves for Baltimore to visit Mrs. Walter Morris and attend a Friends Conference. Robert H. Lilly visits Baltimore to buy new dry goods and notions. Madge.
A joint Sunday School Rally of St Paul and Beulah Sunday Schools is planned at St Paul's Church on Tuesday October. Rev C Q O Tuttle will address Sunday School work in the afternoon and local pastors and workers will speak in the morning. Dinner is served for 25 cents adults and 10 cents children under 12 with ice cream.
Promote Dr Bell’s Antiseptic Salve for post shave care. Claims to prevent face soreness by destroying germs and preventing disease. Available widely.
Miss Celia Dola Lawson and Ernest Clifton Hudgins wed at Central M E Church with Rev. L J Phaur officiating. Decorations featured golden red and ferns, ushers included M S Foster Hartley White Neil Foster and Lee Miles. They plan to reside in Richmond.
Mr Uarry Smith of Brookville Pa returns from four teen months in the West after visiting his uncle J A Shafer. Wyatt Wolffe returns from Baltimore and New York with a large stock of merchandise and announces a millinery opening. Local notices mention ware poles for sale and delivery terms, Dr and Mrs Vaden visiting ill Rev W C Vaden, Mrs Gilmer Weston and family departing, equestrian events in Richmond, and a community benefit supper featuring the play Chocolate.
Advert says Dr Bell's Anti Pain relieves bowel trouble instantly by destroying disease germs and stopping inflammation. Recommends keeping a bottle at home and claims availability everywhere.
At a County School Board meeting in Mathews C. H. on Oct 29 the board set Friday Oct 20 as a holiday so teachers and children may attend the county fair.
An advertisement urges readers to obtain Dr Bell’s Pine for Honey from a named bottle labeled with a bell. It promises to remove cough and cobwebs of chest discomfort simultaneously, presenting the product as genuine.
A Sallie Thorapkins Chapter U D C will meet at Mrs. F Theo Miller at Mathews C H on Saturday October 6 at 2 30 PM. Sore eyes will be treated with Sutherland Eagle Eye Salve priced 25 cents a tube and guaranteed painless.
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