August 28 through the years
100 Years ago – 1925
Ad for Roberts Drug Co., corner of Church & Walnut streets: “High Quality Drugs – Low Level Prices. No need to pay top prices for your Drug needs – buy them here at Roberts. High quality Drugs at low level prices. Complete line of Confectionery, Tobaccos, Stationery, in fact, most things you need. Prescriptions carefully prepared. ELIZABETH ARDEN TOILET ARTICLES – HOLLINGSWORTH CANDIES”
75 years ago – 1950
Pannill Post of the American Legion set $400 ($5,310 today) as the quote for its U.N. flag fund honoring Martinsville and Henry County men fighting in Korea. The money would go toward buying a flagpole for the courthouse lawn to fly the blue-and-white United Nation flag. Contributions also were coming into the United Nations Committee of the post, which was planning the project in cooperation with the Martinsville Bulletin.
50 years ago – 1975
The rock band Helicopter provided the entertainment in the Henry County Fair, sponsored by the Exchange Club.
25 years ago – 2000
The family of the late David Yeaman donated his collection of Southwestern American art to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Indian Art in Washington D.C. It had about 70 rugs, figurines, pottery and statues made in the 1980s and 1990s.
— Information from museum records and the Henry Bulletin and the Martinsville Bulletin.