August 3 through the years

100 Years ago – 1925

 Boys and girls from 11 4-H clubs in Henry County left for the Seventh Annual 4-H Club Camp at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. They went to learn farm mechanics, livestock care, crop productions, poultry, household arts, first aid and home economics.  They left from in front of the post office, where their parents waved them off. The chaperones were Mrs. W.W. Kellogg, leader of the Horsepasture 4-H Club; Miss Sallie Barrow, leader of the Mt. Olivet Club; and Mr. J. Nick Jones, County Agent. The children who went were Bernice Doyle, Florence Grogan, Katherine Manning, Katherine West, Julia Metz, Sallie Cruise, Tishie Isley, Nannie Proce, Hilda Moor, Elizabeth Barrow, Daisy Martin, Ocie Adams, Ethel Witt, Morris Cox, Leonard Starling, Edward Doyle, Millard Minter and Theo. Barrow.

75 years ago – 1950

The first Naval Reserve officer in this area to be ordered to active duty in the Korean War was Lt. Oscar Cannaday Jr. He lived in Collinsville and worked for Du Pont. He started working at Du Pont in 1941 and entered the navy as an ensign in July 1942. He was ordered to report to duty at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

50 years ago – 1975

Charles Lynwood Walters, a Georgia native, took over as director of ANCHOR II, a probation home for teenage girl lawbreakers. The home was on Brown Street near ANCHOR I, a home for boys. He was a minister with experience counseling teenagers.

25 years ago - 2000

The Martinsville-Henry County Historical Society held a public meeting in the courtroom of the former Henry County courthouse. The courthouse had been abandoned by the County in 1996, and the Historical Society formed that year. This meeting was to get the public’s opinions on how the 1824 courthouse could be preserved.

It was the first day of school at Rich Acres Elementary, which had just begun the year-round schedule. It was instituted after a committee of four teachers and Principal Bill Bullins studied on it for 18 months.

Jim Beckner was named interim superintendent of the Henry County School Board, since Superintendent J. David Martin announced that his resignation would be effective Aug. 4, moved up from a previous announced date of Aug. 25. Martin said that he wanted to move the date up since his wife was already working in Williamsburg.

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