July 28 through the years
100 Years ago – 1925
Useful items for sale at Millner’s Variety Store on Walnut Street included Mason fruit jars, $1 for a dozen ½ gallon jars; broadcloth, 30 cents a yard; large copper bottom wash boilers, hand made extra heavy, $2.25; galvanized foot pans, 49 cents; quart tin dippers, 10 cents; 10-quart gray enamel buckets, 39 cents; 2 in 1 shoe polish, 10 cents; big line of sprinkling pots, milk buckets, wash boards, aluminum ware, dishes, etc.
75 years ago – 1950
Jesse Ben DeShazo, Everett T. Beal, Elbridge Howell Remsey, James B. Doss, Tommie Joe Hairston, James Harvey Chapman, Russell M. Prillaman, Curtis Lee Ingram, Clyde Dean Perdue and Virgil D. Hodge, all of Martinsville, had been called up in the draft (Korean War) and were sent to Roanoke for physical exams. Only Prillaman and Ingram passed the exam and thus would be sent to war.
50 years ago – 1975
Tobacco was growing more slowly than expected, which would likely postpone the opening of the tobacco market. It originally had been set to open on Aug. 5, but tobacco warehouse owners were considering delaying the opening by at least 6 days.
25 years ago - 2000
Four Huntington Hills subdivision residents filed a lawsuit with Henry County Circuit Court to overturn a Henry County Board of Zoning Appeals decision to let an apartment complex near their neighborhood expand to quadruple in size. They were Mayor Ed and Mrs. Shirley Page and Teddy R. and Mary M. Largen.
— Information from museum records and the Henry Bulletin and the Martinsville Bulletin.