Feb. 14

100 Years ago – 1925

The Round Dozen Club held a Valentine Bazaar at Central Drug Store, selling all kinds of blooming plants, homemade candies and 100 parcel post packages. Proceeds would help crippled children.

75 years ago – 1950

Herman Fusfeld, the vice president of the Retail Merchants Association, had just moved to Cumberland, Maryland, for a job. Leon Globman was elected  to take his place.

1961

At the Martin Theatre for the Last Two Days – “When 20,000 Girls Meet 20,000 Boys Something’s Bound to Happen! Metro Goldwyn-Mayer presents ‘Where The Boys Are.’ – and Starts Sunday, ‘Tess of the Storm Country.’”

50 years ago – 1975

Richmond police made Valentine’s Day sweeter for Michael Adkins, a third-grade student of Collinsville Primary School in Mrs. Mary Pritchett’s class. Michael and his mother, Helen Cope of 65 Stultz Road, were in Richmond, unable to celebrate the holiday with their family (including Michael’s two brothers and a married sister. The 10-year-old was at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital for treatments against leukemia. The Richmond police department and their friends and families sent Michael more than 400 gifts and cards as well as money to help the family with expenses. The boy was able to return home to Martinsville a few days later for a week.

25 years ago - 2000

Four hundred people, most of them teenagers, attended a True Love Waits program at The Warehouse, a building on Main Street owned by First United Methodist Church. A magician and speaker used tricks to punctuate his points. The Feedback Band of New Life Community Church performed music. More than 200 teenagers signed a banner saying they’d remain virgins until marriage.

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