Oct. 1

100 Years ago – 1924

State Prohibition Agent Z.C. Ramsey and Constable I.E. Nowlin destroyed a 60-gallon still near the D&W Railroad about a mile and a half east of Martinsville. They destroyed 12 gallons of whiskey and 100 gallons of beer, and they brought the still, cap and worm to town. The man who had been working at the still got away.

75 years ago – 1949

Jimmy Neal, 2 ½, of Stuart, had polio and was a patient in the polio ward of Medical College, Richmond.

1960

Ernest P. Shuford of Arlington Heights was the campaign manager for the Democratic party presidential campaign in Henry County, named by County party chairman Lafe P. Prillaman. Tom Burch of the City was appointed to the similar position in the City shortly before. Shuford worked in Martinsville furniture.

50 years ago – 1974

Sixteen severely handicapped Henry County students aged 5 to 17 attended a new special education program at Fieldale Primary School, funded by a $30,000 federal grant. The program combined instructions in fundamental skills with physical therapy when necessary in hope of making the children capable of benefitting from occupational training. The program was called “REHAB.”

25 years ago - 1999

Race Weekend had begun, with 1,800 workers at the Martinsville Speedway.

— Information from museum records and the Henry Bulletin and the Martinsville Bulletin.