August 12 through the years

100 Years ago – 1925

 LOST DOG announcement: “Between Martinsville and Callands Sunday, Aug. 9, one spayed female bob-tail Fox Terrier with license Nos. 12654, 1924 and 12936, 1925 on collar, Reward for the return of this dog to Charlie Womack, Martinsville, Va.”

75 years ago – 1950

Attention was on Thomas B. Stanley of Stanleytown as a strong potential candidate for governor of Virginia. He and Attorney General Lindsey Almond were the most active but undeclared candidates. Others being seen as potential candidates were State Senator Charles R. Fenwick of Arlington and Lt. Gov. Pat Collins of Marion. Stanley would go on to be governor from 1954 to 1958.

50 years ago – 1975

Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County was making plans to overhaul its two auxiliary power generators. That was because the week before, during a city power outage, the hospital’s main generator failed and it had to rely on the secondary generator for more than 2 hours. If that one had failed, the hospital would have lost power. It did have battery power to take over in the operating rooms, and respiration devices could have been operated manually in that case.

The Rev. John C. Hill, 64, died from injuries sustained in a car wreck on U.S. 58 west. He was co-owner of Miracle Clothiers at Holiday Shopping Center and was the pastor of Victor Hill Pentecostal Holiness Church in Stoneville, N.C.

25 years ago - 2000

The local board of the American Heart Association collected $250 in honor of the late Carolyn Craft and donated in and a plaque to Jerusalem Christian Church. Craft had been an active member of that church and taught in Henry County schools. She received a heart transplant in 1989 and was active in heart association work until her death in 1999. Her husband was Charles Price, and her children were Darris, Briana and Charles Price Jr.

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