Feb. 17

100 Years ago – 1925

About 2 miles out of Bassett, near Vaughn’s old mill, officers found and destroyed a 60-gallon round copper still and worm with 1,000 gallons of beer and 20 gallons of corn whisky.

75 years ago – 1950

Pannill Post American Legion held its annual Valentine dance at Club Martinique. Music was by Paul Zimmerman and his orchestra. A half-hour floor show featured dancers, vocal and instrumental selections and novelty acts. Tickets cost $1.50.

1961

Stanley W. Bowles was the low bidder for an addition to Drewry Mason High School near Ridgeway. It would be eight rooms at a cost of $123,995. Frith Construction had bid $128,738, and six other firms had bid as well. The additions were one room at the Industrial Arts Shop, one at the Science laboratory and six at the back of the building.

50 years ago – 1975

The Busy Bee Restaurant was being demolished as part of Phase I of the Central Business District Redevelopment project. All of the buildings on the block that now has the parking lot in front of the Main Street post office and Walsh’s Chicken were demolished at that time, except for Eagle’s Store, which was given another 2 years before it, too, had to go.

25 years ago – 2000

Adele Dillard Pannill Carter of Martinsville died, at the age of 88. She supported organizations such as  the Blue Ridge Regional Library, Piedmont Arts and Citizens Against Family Violence. Her father, William Pannill, brought the textile industry to Martinsville, and her niece, Toy Cobbe, was the executive director of Piedmont Arts.

Marvin Eugene Edwards Jr., 33, of 394 Koehler Road, died of injuries he received when the motorcycle he was riding was in a crash.

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