Sept. 15

100 Years ago – 1924

The Senior and Junior departments of the Methodist Sunday School held a silver tea, with a delightful program of music, story-telling and humorous readings, to raise money to purchase a piano for the Sunday School.

75 years ago – 1949

Martinsville and Henry County furniture manufacturers had been displaying their furniture lines in the Southern Furniture Market building in High Point, N.C. They just received word, from the board of directors of the Southern Furniture Market, that a new, 10-story, $1 million addition to that building had been approved and would be constructed in time for the July 1950 furniture market, if approved by the 120 stockholders. The building would be 103 by 148 feet.

1960

More than 200 MHC residents traveled to Roanoke to hear vice president Richard Nixon speak in a political campaign address at Victory Stadium. John Redd Smith was the City-County Republican Committee chair. Many went in their own vehicles, but others went in special buses – three buses with 100 people each left Martinsville and Bassett. One left from the Martinsville Greyhound bus station. The two that left from the Bassett post office had streamers that read “See Pat and Dick.”

50 years ago – 1974

The Stroller column listed even more Fieldale nicknames: Barbara “Skeeter” Harris, Vanessa “Leech” Lunsford, Anita “Porky” Stovall, Morgan “Hair” Harris, Keith “Snout” Carroll, Jonny “Smoke” Smith, Susie “Little Moose” Moore, Susan “Nose” Thomas, Linda “Bull” Thomas, Teresa “T.C.” Via, Bobby “Nobby” Smith, Mike “Flash” McCraw, Jimmy “Jim-Bob” Hale, Larry “Hickie” Stoe, Ginger “Pete” Harris, Dorothy “Twiggy” Ayers, Notra “Nots” McGrady and Terry “Chonny” Smith.

25 years ago - 1999

The JCPenney Co. Outlet Store opened, after a quarter of a million dollar conversion from being a retail store. Mike Self was the store manager.

The Mental Health Association held a Y2K Seminar in the Walker Fine Arts Center of Patrick Henry Community College.

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