Feb. 3 through time

By Holly Kozelsky and Pat Pion

1924

Pete Ford, Allen Bondurant and John Dodson, with one blood hound, left in a new Dodge car, with trailer, for a tour of a month or more of Florida and Cuba. They brought a complete camping outfit and planned to do a lot of fishing.

Huntsman R.M. Wilson shot a plump white partridge in Henry County, the second to be discovered in the U.S. R.S. Brown sent it to New York to be mounted.

1949

The first semi-annual Dollar Days of the year opened on Feb. 3. Herman Fusfeld was the chair of the committee in charge. C.V. Rogers was president of the Retail Merchants association which sponsored it.

Charity League held a contest Feb. 3-12 to come up with a new name for its Thrift Shop. Entries had to be mailed to Mrs. George W. Burton at 821 Starling Ave.; the prize would be $5. The shop was scheduled to open on Feb. 25 at 16 Bridge St.

1960

The Patrick Henry Tuberculosis Association announced that Dr. Henkel Price, radiologist at Martinsville General Hospital, would head the committee to formulate a mass X-ray for Patrick and Henry Counties, and Martinsville. It would encompass 23 days in May and cover 92 locations.

1974

The Collinsville Jaycees held their radiothon from 1-6 p.m. Feb. 3 at the National Guard Armory. With a goal of raising $50,000, the event featured bands – Southern Smith River Band, the Ambassadors Quartet, The Lost and Found Band, The Stella Girls, The Hearts of Gold and the Spencer Quartet; and race car drivers Lennie Pond of Ettrick, VA., and Paul Radford of Ferrum.

1999

It was announced that a start-up lumber company, Ed Brammer’s Old Dominion, would lease land and several buildings at DuPont’s former nylon plant.

Also 1999, Save-A-Lot opened in Collinsville Shopping Center on Virginia Avenue. (It closed in March 2020.)

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