115 YEARS AGOThursday, June 17, 1909from the Mathews Journal
Mr. Harold Blassingham, who has been absent from the county for some time, is at home again.
Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Rowland moved this week to the house recently vacated by Mr. L.M. Callis.
Mr. Tom Leffler, who has been attending the Gloucester Academy, is at home to spend his vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Callis have recently moved into their fine new home back of the Journal office.
Wanted: A good live young man of good habits to clerk in a dry goods store at Mathews C.H. Apply by letter to Journal Office.
110 YEARS AGOThursday, June 18, 1914from the Mathews Journal
Mr. Maxie Hunley of Bohannon is improving, after an attack of typhoid fever.
We are having some long-wished-for and welcome showers of rain.
While playing with a revolver, which he found near the old Bohannon school, Master Walter Daniel was shot through the hand.

100 YEARS AGOThursday, June 19, 1924from the Mathews Journal
The Cobbs Creek farmers are very busy gettin...