115 YEARS AGOThursday, Feb. 6, 1908from the Mathews Journal
Hearn & Miller, carriage painting and repairing. Wagons and carts of all kinds made in a neat manner. We pride ourselves on our work and we solicit your patronage; also horseshoeing, and while we wear no medals, we claim we do as good work as ever has been done in Mathews or elsewhere. We are located at Clements’ shop at North, Va.
Go to Atherton’s shop at Blakes, Va., and have your horse shod by the professional shoer. Wes Buchannon. Price 80 cents.
L. Gwynn, dealer in fancy groceries at the old Rockets of Mr. W.H. Miller. He will sell his groceries cheap, and also oysters as fat as butter. Give him a call.
110 YEARS AGOThursday, Feb. 6, 1913from the Mathews Journal
Messrs. Hartley White and Joseph Auld, both well-known young men of this place, have rented a portion of the lower floor of the bank, formerly occupied by Dr. Hoskins and Mr. J.J. Burke, and will start a tailoring business therein at an early date.

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