April 24

100 Years ago – 1925

The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union presented awards at a program at the Grammar School. Alice Poole in Miss Pedigo’s seventh-grade class won first place for “Alcohol in Experience and Experiment.” In sixth grade, student Elizabeth Morris of Church street and a student in Miss Anderson’s room won for her essay “Why The Automobile Driver Should Not Use Alcoholic Drink.”

75 years ago – 1950

The Annual Clean-Up Week campaign in Fieldale began, sponsored by the Fieldale Service Club.

50 years ago – 1975

The nation’s bicentennial was less than a year away, and local furniture companies’ newest designs had a definite patriotic and Americana flair. Early American country looks were seen all over the Spring Southern Furniture Market in High Point, N.C. Hooker’s “Flintlock” bedroom group was made of pine with wooden knobs on drawers and glazed and highlighted wood veneers and solids. Some pieces had carvings of game birds. Other lines also had more of a country look.

25 years ago - 2000

Villa Heights is a neighborhood in the Collinsville area, with Stultz Road as its core. It had started going downhill, with crime, trash and disrepair, so neighbors got together to make improvements, including through regular Villa Heights Community Clean Up events. Alice Russell was one of the coordinators, working with Clean Community Executive Director Lesley Cornett. Sheriff Frank Cassell increased surveillance of the area.

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