Feb. 16

100 Years ago – 1925

Floyd’s Store, at Burgess’s Old Stand, advertised that it was “Headquarters for Everything Good to Eat: Fresh meats of all kinds; Gold Bar Corn; Delmonte Fruit Salad and Pine Apple, Full Line Salt Fish, Banquet, White House and Liptons Tea, Maple Syrup …”

75 years ago – 1950

The Lions Club hosted two nights of performances of the musical revue and minstrel, “Now and Then,” presented in the auditorium of Bassett High School.

1961

The Collinsville Lions Club appointed committees to look into the possibility of building a community recreation center there. Brown W. Roberson was the president of the club, which met at The Chesapeake Restaurant. Ministers of all the Collinsville churches participated in the meeting.

50 years ago – 1975

Two hundred ninety Boy Scouts went on a weekend Winter Camporee at Lake Sugartree. Patrol Troop No. 32 of Troop 326, which was sponsored by Broad Street Christian Church, won the 5 ¼-mile dogsled race, which required the scouts to stop at various points to test their skills in cooking, knot-tying, fire-building, compass-reading and knife and ax use. Patrol No. 26 of Troop No. 175 of Bassett won the 1 ¼-mile dogsled race.

25 years ago - 2000

The House of Delegates voted 49-48 to bring back portions of the Textile Workers Relief Act that would increase benefits for out-of-work textile workers and other people who lived in area of Virginia with high unemployment. It was revived as an amendment to legislation sponsored by De. Robert Hull, D-Falls Church, to raise unemployment benefits by $36 statewide.

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