Jan. 26 through the years

1924

In 1924, if you wanted to raise a hog within the corporate limits of the town of Martinsville, you first had to get a permit from the Health Officer. They could be gotten on Saturdays, Jan. 19 and 26. The Town Councilor had passed this ordnance which requires: (1) hogs had to be kept at least 50 feet away from any building, street or public alley; and (2) each hog had to be kept in a pen with at least 48 square feet of floor space or in an enclosed lot with at least 100 square feet of ground space, at least 12 inches from the ground, built of good material and clean and sanitary at all times.

1949

Groups counted up proceeds from the previous night’s fundraisers for the March of Dimes campaigns: a benefit card party at Club Martinique, $150, chair Jo DeShazo; from spectators at a DuPont-Fontaine basketball game, $77.

1974

Patrick Henry Community College, with the cooperation of Martinsville Singing Men and other interested men and women from the area, will present Hayden’s choral work “The Creation” March 31 at First Presbyterian Church. The nucleus of the proposed 80-member choir will be provide by the Martinsville Singing Men, with Mrs. Katherine C. Tuggle as director of both.

1999

Henry County Attorney Robert Haley was drafting an ordinance that would not allow mobile homes built before 1976 to be placed in the county, though ones that were here already could remain. That was on the recommendation from county Director of Building Inspection Randolph Lester, after two children died earlier in the month in a fire at a 1972-model mobile home.

2024

Martinsville Circuit Judge G. Carter Greer has denied West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, his family and related businesses a request to set aside a demand for repayment of $302 million in defaulted loans, the Martinsville Bulletin reports.

2024

A drug bust in Koehler resulted in the seizure of narcotics and firearms by a SWAT team, the Martinsville Bulletin reported.

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