Feb. 4 here through the years
By Holly Kozelsky and Pat Pion
1924
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
Kroger sale: bananas, 2 pounds for 27 cents; Srpy or Crisco shortening, 3-lb. can for 95 cents; pork roast, 35 cents per pound; chickens, 59 cents per pound; stewing beef, 4 lbs. for $1; heads of lettuce, 2 for 29 cents; case of 24 Coca-Colas, 89 cents; 2 lbs. dried pintos, 2 for 29 cents
1960
An article in the Martinsville Bulletin reported that “A survey of City teachers showed that those making $434 monthly on a 12-month basis had only $76 left over to cover everything had $93 to live on (for those months) … and had fewer dependents.”
1974
An estimated 20,000 workers were affected by the nationwide strike by independent truckers, crippling the delivery of meat and in some areas produce, the AP reported. None of the drivers in the local Roy Stone Transfer trucking company were on strike, but Personnel and Safety Director Ben Koontz told the Martinsville Bulletin that, nonetheless, the strike was having a significant impact on Stone Transfer.
1999
At a Dec. 22 reception in the White House, local gospel group Dodson 5 met President Bill Clinton. Group members and their parents pictured with President Clinton in the Feb. 4 newspaper were Beverly Millner, John Millner, Cynthia Dodson, Janice Dillard, Bishop Early Dillard, Stuart Hairston, Cynthia Lucas, Scotty Lucas, Jason Dodson, Kasey Lucas, Daniel Millner, Phyllis Hairston and Tonia Dillard.
Members of the Blue Ridge Ski and Outing Club took a trip Jan. 29-Feb. 9 in Switzerland and Paris: Denis Reeves, Monica Coper, Ralph Martin, Betty Branch, Bob Branch, Courtney Edwards, Dickie Globman, Pam Koch, Sharon Reeves, Charlie Brown, Susie Brown, Tim Hale, Becky Hale, Marty Staiger, Karen Bradshaw, Winston Edwards, James Roop and Marie Roop. Norm Biersback was the club president.
— Information from museum records and the Henry Bulletin and the Martinsville Bulletin accessed on microfiche at the Martinsville Branch Library.