Oct. 11

100 Years ago – 1924

This ad for Richardson Electric Company, Bridge Street: “The Electric Way is Best. For all manner of housework there is some electric utensil that will help you to do it more easily and more quickly. Lest us show you the splendid array of appliances we have to help you with your work. Visit Our Electric Shop.”

75 years ago – 1949

A 7-foot-long, 5-foot-wide model of Philpot dam was put on display in the lobby of First National Bank in Martinsville. The model had been made by the U.S. Army engineers of plaster, wood and glass. It included, above the dam, a small portion of the future lake, with a sailboat on it. Construction that dam was just beginning then.

1960

In Bassett, Fieldale and Collinsville, 132 girls belong to five Girl Scout troops, and three more troops were forming. In Martinsville, 254 girls were enrolled in 20 Girl Scout troops. Boy Scouts had 39 troops in the county with 500 members, and in the city, 800 boys were in 37 troops.

50 years ago – 1974

Construction had begun on a new $850,000 plant for Jessup Furniture Corp., on 39 acres of land on U.S 220, 6 miles north of the location it already occupied in Collinsville. Grady T. Jessup was the president.

25 years ago - 1999

Teachers from Japan spent an afternoon at Bassett High School giving the BHS teachers classes on Japanese culture and education techniques. The Japanese teachers were on a 3-month visit to the US and spent five weeks in Henry County living with host families.

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