Sept. 19 through the years

100 Years ago – 1925

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, was observed. Local merchants were closed for the holiday.

C.P. Kearfott & Son on the Square advertised school supplies: tablets, composition notebooks, theme tablets, erasers, rulers, pencils, school bags, pens, compasses, drinking cups, fountain pens from $1 to $10 [$42 to $182 in today’s dollars] (Shaeffer, Parker, Conklin and Waterman) and economy pencil sharpeners. A $5 fountain pen [worth $45 today) was free to any child holding the lucky number; numbers were given with the purchase of each tablet or notebook.

Mt. Zion Church held an ice cream supper with the public invited.

75 years ago – 1950

Russell M. Prillaman, Curtis Lee Ingram, Robert Everett Grady and Ozzie Ramey left by bus for an unnamed Army camp, for training to serve in the Korean War. They were the first men since January 1949 that men were sent to a draft center with one-way tickets. All the others sent to Roanoke in 1950 first underwent physical examinations for the draft. In Patrick County, its Selective Service Board was told to call up 33 registrants to be sent to Roanoke on Oct. 17 for pre-induction physicals. The men chosen would be notified after the next meeting of Patrick’s Selective Service Board.

50 years ago – 1975

Beverly Lester’s cocker spaniel, Tar Baby, won the best in show award in the Kids’ Dog Show by the Henry County Parks and Recreation Department. Tar Baby also won first place in the best looking category. Kelley Clingenpeel’s Irish Setter won some ribbons for obedience, best trick and best groomed. Cameron Aydlett’s miniature poodle Tiffany won obedience honors as well.

25 years ago - 2000

The Rev. Susanne Schulz Martin, 30, was the chaplain at Kings Grant Retirement Community.

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