July 10 through the years

100 Years ago – 1925

Ad for W.P. Hodnett Co.: “Delicious Roasts Are Our Boasts. Beautiful, savory cuts from the Hodnett Meat Market are fully appreciated by the entire family. Our Meats are fresh, cut from the choicest cattle, always sold at moderate prices.”

A front-page article in the Henry Bulletin stated that Miss Blanche Spencer was “doing splendidly” after an operation for appendicitis at Jefferson Hospital in Roanoke. “Miss Blanche is of our favorites, and her friends will be glad to know she is doing so well.”

75 years ago – 1950

Thousands of Martinsville and Henry County residents returned to work, after a week’s summer vacation which started June 30. They had received bonus or vacation checks in addition to regular paychecks, and local merchants reported a week of much better than usual sales

Penney’s had bed pillows on sale for $1.25. They were made of strong blue and white stripe ticking and filled with 100% crushed chicken feathers.

50 years ago – 1975

A branch of Piedmont Trust Bank was under construction on Virginia 57 in the Stanleytown-Bassett area. The vault had just been completed, and next, the contemporary-style building would be built around it. Architect Conrad Knight designed it, and Frith Construction Co. built it. It would have five teller windows and three drive-in lanes. The 2,800-square-foot building would cost around $300,000.

Corporal punishment of students was upheld in Patrick County by Judge J. English Ford, who dismissed child abuse charges against Stuart Elementary School Principal Joseph E. Cobbler, who had paddled a boy. The 8-year-old’s mother brought charges. The boy had been in the principal’s office before, in February, for throwing wet globs of toilet paper onto the ceiling of the bathroom. On May 1, the principal had entered the bathroom and found the boy and another boy scuffling, with spitballs on the ceiling. Three other boys were involved as well. All five boys were paddled four or five times. Judge Ford said in court, “Corporal punishment has a place in the school system.”

25 years ago - 2000

Retired firefighter Ted Largen was elected president of a group of more than 50 people in Huntington Hills, Ridgeway, who were against the planned expansion in size of a nearby apartment complex from eight to 24 apartments.

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

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