Jan. 27 through the years

1924

The Danville Register reported that the Whitmell Farm Life School near Danville has been named one of the four best schools in the U.S. by the Pierre DuPont foundation and “is now being held up as an ideal rural institution and one which the people of Delaware might well emulate.”

1949

Attorney Joseph H. Whitehead of Chatham, representing Joe Henry Hampton of the Martinsville Seven, notified Commonwealth’s Attorney Irvin W. Cubine that he would waive a preliminary hearing for his client.

1974

In the Bulletin’s Stroller column: Pfc. Allen Custer of 1006 Adell St. was stationed overseas, watching the movie “The Last American Hero” when he was happy to see scenes filmed in Martinsville, such as the Speedway and the lakes and ducks at the speedway.

1999

Stanley Furniture reported net sales of $247.4 million, a 16.7 increase over the previous year.

The City was making improvements to Hooker Field and facilities in expectation that the Houston Astros’ Appalachian League would play out of it. The City had lost the Martinsville Phillies, operated by the Philadelphia Phillies, earlier in the year.

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