115 YEARS AGOThursday, Feb. 17, 1910from the Mathews Journal
In the Susan neighborhood, we are now having clear, cold weather with westwardly winds and low tides; a very good prospect of a general freeze-up; how it will be, time can only tell.
The fishermen are all busy, improving every reasonably good day, getting down stakes in order to set their pounds for the spring fishing. The work is hard, the exposure great, and they earn all they get, and it is a pity that the legislature will not repeal the specific tax on pound nets; the ad valorem tax is sufficient, those engaged in the industry are not foreigners, but our own countrymen, and the profits go to the improvement of their homes, which are taxed in accordance with the improvements made, and it seems to me as that ought to be enough. —Leumas
100 YEARS AGOThursday, Feb. 19, 1925from the Gloucester Gazette
Since the last writing many of our folks at Glass have been ill with colds, la grippe and pneumonia and one from our midst has ...