110 YEARS AGOThursday, April 3, 1913from the Mathews Journal
The Pension Board will meet at Mathews C.H. on Friday afternoon, April 4, to receive new applications. No soldier is entitled to pension who has $750 worth of property. No widow of a soldier, who has been married since May 15, 1868, is entitled to receive a pension. There are 80 old soldiers and 32 widows of soldiers that are now receiving pensions. Twelve pensioners have died since our report a year ago. There was given in pensions to the old soldiers and widows of this county this past year the sum of $2,788.

100 YEARS AGOThursday, April 5, 1923from the Gloucester Gazette
In news from Hayes Store, a cement walk has just been completed from Mr. L.B. Williams’s new home to the main road.
Mr. John Hogg and Miss Mary Williams motored to Newport News Sunday and went aboard the Leviathan.
from the Mathews Journal
The Mathews Garage has sold and delivered the following machines: Messrs. Sands Smith, Jr., J.M. Shinault and Benjami...