October 1 through time

100 Years ago – 1925

 The high school in Martinsville had its highest ever enrollment: 196. However, there were about 400 teenagers at the right age for high school, but more than half of them either had dropped out or just not entered high school to begin with. Fifty-four of that 196 were tuition-paying students from other districts.

75 years ago – 1950

“Employment of the Physically Handicapped Week” ran Oct. 1-7. Pannill Post 42 of the American Legion. Randolph Millner, manager of the Virginia State Employment Service, was named chairman for the project. The year before, the Legion got jobs for nine handicapped people and compiled a record of 30 other handicapped people.

The new building of Central Baptist Church was dedicated. It was on the corner of Church and Booker Street and now is home to Soul Winners Ministry. The church building it moved out of was called Ellsworth Baptist Church and was on Ellsworth Street.

50 years ago – 1975

Patrick Henry Community College had a total enrollment of 1,047 students. The numbers had been rising gradually since the college opened in 1962 with 68 students.

Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Clark of Critz were looking for the owner of a goat which had run amuck on their property, and they engaged the help of the Patrick County Sheriff’s Department. The billy goat terrorized 18 head of beef cattle in two pastures, running them all over four different pastures. In their panic the cattle knocked down several fences and ran right through barbed wire. The farmer estimated that they ran so much they lost at least $200 worth of weight, and five cows were still missing. Then the goat headed into a barn that had several pieces of furniture inside. Mr. Clark shot the goat before it could damage that furniture.

25 years ago - 2000

General Surgeon Dr. Tom Berry moved his office to 15 Cleveland Ave., Suite 10. Before that, he was at Commonwealth Surgical Associates.

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