Sept. 29 through the years
100 Years ago – 1925
Financing of $4,000 had been gotten from property owners along Fayette Street and even though it was $2,000 short of what the Town of Martinsville had aimed to get in contributions, the town decided to go ahead and pave the street. The total cost would be $13,000, with the majority paid for by the town. The connecting link of pavement would run from the terminus of the biulitlic pavement to the Martinsville-Fieldale concrete road at the corporate limits.
More than a ton of chestnuts each day were being shipped out of Patrick County. The postmaster at Meadows of Dan was having trouble getting enough stamps to cover the great number of parcel post packages of chestnuts being shipped out. The nuts were selling on the local market for 15 cents a pound.
Ad in the Henry Bulletin: “Orders taken for beaten biscuits, chicken salad, cheese straws, cakes, pies, etc. – Will cater for parties and banquets. Phone 333.”
75 years ago – 1950
Pannill Post American Legion received its United Nations flag and flagpole which it planned to erect on the courthouse lawn. The Post had raised $441.50 to pay for them. The flag would be flown out of respect for local men fighting with other United Nations soldiers fighting in Korea in efforts to stop Communism.
50 years ago – 1975
Central Home Builders advertised a 3-bedroom house for $20 down and payments of $60 per month. The price included the lot, water and sewage, cabinets, electric stove, brick front walk and storm windows and doors. Holiday Mobile Homes offered a 12-by-60-foot mobile home with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms for $6,840, payable with a down payment of $972 and monthly payments of $99. Neither company disclosed in how many years the payments would be due.
25 years ago - 2000
A new exhibit, “Dinosaurs!”, opened at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. The exhibit featured accurate, full-size dinosaur skeletons, fossils, fleshed out models and a walk-through rib cage displayed across 4,000 square feet.
— Information from museum records and the Henry Bulletin and the Martinsville Bulletin.