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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1912
Page
4
The Journal sets a weekly Thursday issue with a $1.00 annual advance rate. Editor and owner W. M. Minter oversees free obituaries up to 100 words with longer text at five cents per line. Ads, job notices, and news copy are prepared on request. forms close Wednesdays at 10 a.m.
Mrs Nellie Shackleford Smith appeals to Civic League members and donors to back the Mathews High School building fund. She urges attentive reading and receipt of the message with profit, emphasizing community involvement and stewardship.
Nellie Shackelford Smith of Gloucester C. H. resigns as Mathews High School league president after failed attempts to secure a quorum and raise funds for the unfinished school building and stable. She urges active members to continue work, settle the $50 stable pledge, and push more donations to clear the $1000 pledge deficit and complete the project.
The Journal will receive and remit funds to the Democratic Campaign Fund. Amounts shown include Mathews Journal two dollars and fifty cents and Percival Hicks one dollar and zero cents.
A reader, G. Miller, laments worsening county roads, citing mud and powdered sand on the Mathews C to Port Haywood route. He criticizes the Chesapeake District for neglect, laments underfunded maintenance, and calls for modern road machines and a younger superintendent to improve the road fund’s impact.
A dealer H. W. Hendrickson of Ohio Falls Indiana endorses Chamberlin's Cough Remedy as the best cure for coughs colds and croup and notes it is his best seller available from all dealers.
The New Point Development Corp announces that the Old Dominion S. Co steamers departs Bay-Side wharf at 3 p.m on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday each week. The travel time to Old Point is about 45 minutes after leaving Bay-Side with the traveling public urged to use this service.
Early home life cures from Bucklen’s Arnica Salve are recalled as effective for burns boils scalds sores cuts sprains and bruises. Forty years of cures reportedly prove its merit. Unrivaled for piles corns and cold sores. Only 25 cents at all druggists.
Courtesy visit by the Old Dominion S S Co and the State Commissioner of Agriculture George W Keiner with agricultural experts attracted a large crowd of farmers. Keiner outlined commission efforts on fertilizer analysis seed and pamphlets while Johnson from the Experiment Station spoke on soil improvement and potato growing Mayo spoke on hog raking and Howard of the Dairy Department discussed profitable dairying for small farmers. Chamberlins Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy praised for its wide use and uniform success with sale by all dealers.
Mr. T. G. Jones Sr. dies at Hevick at 9 30 A M Thursday last. Civil War veteran, elected Commonwealth's Attorney of Middlesex County and long serving superintendent of Urbanna Methodist Sunday school. Prominent in local church affairs and civic life.
An old advertisement warns that neglecting constipation and liver derangements can lead to trouble. It promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a quick safe and cheap remedy available at all druggists for 25 cents.
Notice records the July 1 1912 board action to rename the Gloucester Mathews Bank Inc to The Bank of Mathews Inc and to reduce issued stock from 50000 to 25000 with retirement of 250 shares. Stockholders met July 11 1912 with a two thirds voting majority to approve the resolutions and charter amendment. Notarized by Sands Smith Jr and J M Lewis in Mathews Virginia August 3 1912.
Notice from Henry Thompson Retz of Va offering milling services to grind meat hominy grahem shower, and related foods. Ready to print and sell in the line, soliciting patronage from customers.
A large crowd attended the unveiling ceremony at the Confederate Monument organized by Lane-Diges Camp and Indies of Sallie Tompkins Chapter U D C. The event featured decor, speeches by Colonel Robert E. Lee Jr. and others, a banquet by local ladies, and music from the Union Fire Company Band of Portsmouth.
Oyster season for the years 1912-13 opens on Monday September 16, with Sunday designated as the day off. Dealers and observers note the oysters are fat and predict a strong season ahead.
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