Oct. 30 through the years

100 Years ago – 1925

The ladies of Broad Street Christian Church held a Hallowe’en supper in the empty storeroom of the Brown-Lee Building for the benefit of the building fund.

75 years ago – 1950

Geneva Craig was a patient at St. Mary’s hospital, being treated for serious injury to her knee she got the day before while sitting at a table in a café in Bassett. She had been struck by a bullet. Bubber Akridge was arrested. He told Bassett police that he had been shooting at soda bottles which had been set on top of lumber adjoining Tom’s Café.

50 years ago – 1975

Community Hospital on Armistead Street was being offered for sale by the hospital’s bord of directors, which was led by acting chair the Rev. H.C. Eggleston. The hospital had been built about 25 years before as a hospital for black patients, to replace the smaller St. Mary’s Hospital run by Dr. Dana Baldwin on Fayette Street.

25 years ago - 2000

The late Thomas Bahnson Stanley Sr., founder of Stanley Furniture Co., and John Bassett Vaughan, chairman of Vaughan Furniture Company of Galax, were among four people nominated to the American Furniture Hall of Fame. Also at the furniture market, Stanley Furniture Co. won three Pinnacle Design Achievement Awards from the American Society of Furniture Designers. They were for the YA Colors line of kids’ furniture, and the Reflections of the 20th Century line won in the home office and formal dining categories.

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