Feb. 13 through the years

By Holly Kozelsky and Pat Pion

1924

In Elamsville (between Fairy Stone and Woolwine), the J.T. Pendleton Company recently moved its sawmill to Mr. G.W. Hall’s property and were working there, and the J.J. and W.E. Lackey Brothers had their sawmill going on the J.J. Lackey farm. Miss Lessie Turner was over the Brammer school.

1949

The cost for a license tax for a car in Martinsville was $6; for a truck, $12; and for trucks and cars for hire, $25.

1960

City Council endorsed the $2,300,000 sewer bond issue to be voted on in March. They were trying to inform the public of all the facts about the referendum and to explain that they were trying to do their best for the City and its citizens.

1974

The News Den had two locations, Patrick Henry Mall and Virginia Avenue in Collinsville.

This was the final of the 3-day of the Ohev Zion Sisterhood’s 18th annual Outlet Store sale, held in the former Mitchell-Howell Ford building on Main Street. Hundreds of people shopped the sale where merchandise had been donated by more than 1,500 stores and suppliers. Proceeds went toward the maintenance of the synagogue and to pay the rabbi’s salary.

1999

Riddle Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge on Rt. 220 South had these prices: 1999 Town & Country LX1, $28,999; 1999 Concorde, $21,998; 1999 Dakota 4 X 2, $13,589; 1999 Grand Caravan van, $22,598; 1999 300 M (a car), $29,598.

PHOTO: The “Wedding Cake House” is a three-tiered house built by George “Cap’n Till” Lester in the early 1900s at 308 Starling Ave., Martinsville.

— Information from museum records and the Henry Bulletin and the Martinsville Bulletin accessed on microfilm at the Martinsville Branch Library.