August 14 through time

100 Years ago – 1925

 The Dodge Brothers Special Type-A Sedan came with five balloon tires. It could be purchased at O.D. Ford Motor Company in Martinsville, Bassett Motor Service in Bassett, Central Garage in Rocky Mount and Stuart Motor Company in Stuart.

75 years ago – 1950

Mrs. H.S. Winn had planted and was caring for a flower plot at the corner of Forest and Chalmers streets.

50 years ago – 1975

The Southeast Region champion Martinsville-Henry County Oilers left English Field for a trip to Farmington, N.M. and the Connie Mack Baseball World Series, on a Greyhound bus.

Representatives of R.J. Reynolds-Patrick County Memorial Hospital signed a contract with Clark Brothers to build a new wing on the hospital. That wing would included a new emergency room, operating suite and sterile supply section. Williams and Williams Enterprises Inc. of Stuart earlier had filed an injunction against the contract going to Clark Brothers. Circuit Court Judge Frank I. Richardson refused to grant a temporary injunction.

Henry County Sheriff C.P. Witt at a meeting of the Board of Supervisors defended the practice of allowing his deputies to take their police cruisers home at night and to use the cars on other part-time jobs they may have had outside their work with the sheriff’s office. The department had 27 patrol cars.

25 years ago - 2000

Author Martin Clark of Patrick County gave a book talk on “The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living” at Piedmont Arts Association. That was his first book, and now he is a national bestselling author.

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