Jan. 24 through the years

1924

The Bank of Fieldale’s Statement of Financial Condition for Dec. 31, 1923, was announced:

Total Resources, $85,123.79 (including $63,978.31 in loans); Liabilities, $85,123.31 (including $67,818.85 in deposits). The report was presented by cashier H.A. Sigmond and attested by J.F. Wilson, R.M. Joyce and S.B. May.

1949

Mayor Nick Prillaman and the eight members of city council – J.R. Walker, Rieves S. Hodnett, C.P. Craig, W.T. Turner, E.A. Sale, O.V. Hukey and Rives S. Brown Jr., issued a statement urging voters to choose the city manager form of government, which would be decided this day at the polls.

1974

Robin Largen, a freshman at Drewry Mason High School, offered baton twirling lessons at the school at 50 cents per lesson, with proceeds to be donated to the band. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvis E. Largen who then lived in Shannon Hills, Ridgeway.

1999

Officials were worried and planning ahead for any potential problems caused by Y2K – the worry that computer systems would not be compliant with the arrival of the year 2000. Many computer systems used only a 2-digit method of noting the year, meaning that 1999 would be noted as “99,” so when the year changed to 2000, people thought the system would input that date as “00” and recognize it as 1900. Bob Tuggle was the information services manager for Henry County, working on getting the computers compliant.

2024

The closed Patrick County hospital will not reopen after all, the Martinsville Bulletin reported. In August 2020, it had been announced that it would open as Foresight Hospital. It had closed in 2017 after owners Pioneer Health Services out of Mississippi filed for bankruptcy in 2016 due to financial hardships.

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