Jan. 15 through the years

1924: American Dining Room Furniture began its operations on Jan. 15, 1924, with about 35 employees, with a goal of having 250 employees.

1949: At the annual meeting of stockholders and directors of Burch-Hodges-Stone Inc., all old officers were re-elected: P.R. Stone, president; L.J. Hodges and R.S. Hodnett, vice presidents; J.S. Scales; Miss Ruby Morris H. Ray Stinnett.

1974: City School Board at a meeting talked about personnel changes: Ralph E. Shank, principal of Martinsville Senior High School on Northside Drive for 5 years, asked to be reassigned; Dr. N. Grant Tubbs, director of instruction for the school system, will replace Shank at MSHS; Joseph E. Finley, associate principal at MSHS, will become director of instruction, replacing Dr. Tubbs; Clyde L. Williams, assistant principal at Martinsville Junior High School, will become assistant principal of the senior high school.

1999: 5B’s Inc. laid off most of its 107 employees due to what the embroidery company said was part of normal seasonal slowdown but said it expected to start calling workers back in February. Six to eight employees would remain in the plant.

2024: Eleven startup businesses are expanding thanks to more than $62,000 awarded by the Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commerce’s Partnership for Economic Growth (C-PEG), the Henry County Enterprise reported.

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