Feb. 27

By Holly Kozelsky and Pat Pion

1924

Ad: Dr. L.E. Johnson, chiropractor: Offices in Lee-Brown Building; Phones – Office, 112; Residence, 379. Hours: Morning, 9 to 12; afternoon, 2 to 5; evening, 7 to 8.

1949

General Newspapers Inc. of Gadsden, Alabama, bought the Martinsville Bulletin from William C. Barnes, sale effective March 1. General Newspapers owned daily newspapers at Gadsden and Tscaloosa, Ala.; Macon Georgia; Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Cleveland, Tennessee. Robert B. Smith came on from Newport News to be general manager. The Martinsville Bulletin Inc. merged with The Bulletin Newspaper Corp.

1960

The Blue Ridge Garden Club met in the home of Ms. Louise Grogan, president. The Rebekah Club would begin collecting needlework to be sold at the state meeting in the spring. The Kearfott Memorial WMU met; Mrs. D. D. Palmer presided over the meeting.

1974

The City of Martinsville rejected a plan that would have made the city the distribution agent for emergency gasoline allocations used by essential services. The City would have received extra gas to distribute through local dealers to those employed in emergency or essential services, such as the medical field. Martinsville officials said the program might not be legal without permission from the governor. In Danville, a similar program was in use; essential workers were issued special cards which entitled them to get a full tank of gas as needed.

1999

Tim Few, the owner of Rangeley 102 Mini Mart, and the Coca Cola company donated a new scoreboard to the Fieldale Community Center; Buster Ferguson was the manager of the center.

PHOTO: Tim Slate on tractor at his family’s tobacco farm in Patrick County, 1978. Photo by Carl Fleischhauer, Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection, 1977-1981 (AFC 1982/009)

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