Nov. 22 through the years

100 Years ago – 1924

This notice in the Nov. 18, 1924 Henry Bulletin: “Window Sale: Sale of Pies, Cakes, Salt Risen Bread, dressed chickens old and young, butter, eggs, dressed rabbits, squirrels, celery and other vegetables, fresh from the country, can be had at this sale which will be given by the Ladies of Mt. Olivet Christian Church beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, November 22nd, Roberts Store. Come here and get good things for your Sunday dinner.”

75 years ago – 1949

R.L. Pettus and Arthur Via had been operating the Virginia-Carolina Flying Service which had been leasing the city airport off the Ridgeway Road. City Manager Kent Matthewson announced that he had just been informed that that corporation had been dissolved.

1960

People around Martinsville were reporting having trouble with their radio and television reception. City Manager Julian F. Hirst told City Council that the City is trying to fix it. A note he sent to City Council said that the City had a crew going over its high voltage system to try to find the possible causes of interference in various parts of the city. It could have been because of loose wire connections on poles and the like. About 2 weeks was expected to take to get the problem fixed.

50 years ago – 1974

American Furniture Co laid off between 200 and 250 employees, about 10% of the company’s workforce, due to the declining demand for furniture in the declining national economy.

25 years ago - 1999

The case against Richard Anthony, owner of Sanville Utilities, was sent to federal court by Henry County’s chief prosecutor. Anthony, 69, of 921 Mulberry Road, was charged with failure to properly maintain a sewage treatment plant after fecal coliform levels from the Sanville Utilities plant were measured at 180 times more than the maximum allowable levels, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality reports stated.

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