Jan. 31 through time

1924

Sale at Sam Kolodny store, Brown’s Corner: 35 Canton Crepe and Flat Crepe dresses, sizes 16 to 42, all colors, “Wonderful values at $32.50, Special for Mill End Sale at $13.75.” Sheets, 81x90 inches, $1.39; pillow tubing, 32 cents per yard; ladies’ waterproof coats and capes, “made of silk rubberized material, in all colors,” $7.95 and $12.95.

1949

Jere Watkins of 224 Pine Street, a freshman at the University of Richmond, was among 11 passengers injured the night before when a Greyhound bus slide from the snowy highway and overturned down an embankment.

1960

Mrs. Roy K Hodnett was the president of Patrick Henry Garden Club, which in January met in the home of Mrs. Morton Lester.  They enjoyed a presentation by County Agent George Pelland.  Mrs. Carl Gunter was the president of Busy Bee Garden Club.  Artificial Hogarth flower arrangements were the competition du jour. Mrs. Sam O. Fowler was president of the Martinsville Garden Club Auxiliary, which was hosted by Mrs. R. Turner Weaver at her home in Martinsville. They enjoyed a presentation of slides from Mrs. Robert Haskell, Jr.’s recent trip to Spain.

1974

Martin Stables is the host site of a “Stanley Party” to raise money for the Dyer Store Fire Department. Stanley was a company of products sold door to door.

1999

NAFTA – the North American Free Trade Agreement – just had its fifth anniversary. NAFTA at the time was reducing and ultimately would lift tariffs on items bought and sold among the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Local industry leaders, Chamber officials, workers and residents were debating on whether NAFTA was helping or hurting the area.

— By Holly Kozelsky and Pat Pion

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