1924, where the sawmills were working; 1949, $6 license tax; 1960, sewer bond; 1974, the News Den – Ohev Zion Sisterhood’s Outlet Store sale; 1999, car prices (Photo from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources: The Wedding Cake House and the house that used to be next to it)

1924, Cold Storage Co. annual meeting; 1949, March of Dimes, and the start of PHES; 1960, Children of the Confederacy chapter and introducing closed circuit TV; 1974, Women’s Club scrap drive; 1999, Lowe’s is coming. (Photo is of The Hut restaurant in Collinsville, owned by Ted Balabanis)

Award for “Total Abstinence” essay; 1949, Navy man killed in plane crash; 1960, polio cases on the rise; 1974, truckers called back – fire in Bassett; 1999, efforts to get religious literature in schools – 550 get bone marrow tested for 9-year-old. (Photo is of the popular restaurant Rumley’s)

1924, Globman’s “Clean-Up Sale;” 1949, First Citizens award; 1960, missing 7-year-old and grandmother - Martinsville trucking company boycotted; 1974, Race Relations Sunday - Reynolds-Patrick Memorial Hospital Board; 1999, Vicki Helmstutler; 2024, “Masters of the Night” at VMNH.

1924, Home Improvement Committee; 1949, whiskey bust; 1960, lunch counter demonstrations in Charlotte; 1974, “Girls only want one thing” at Globman’s; 1999, V. Rod Berry, bone marrow tests for Kandis Joyce, United Way officers; 2024, Black History Month exhibits (Photo: Aurora, the Pink House in Patrick County)

1924, Current Events Club and Virginia Gay Orchestra; 1949, preliminary hearing for the Martinsville Seven delayed; 1960, Bid ‘N’ Pass Club in Bassett; 1974, looking for land for BHS; 1999, Coretha Gravely, Anita Akers, Kevin Holt and Steven Johnston are Officers of the Year; 2024, city gets funding for old BB&T building.

(Photo: Pannill House, now the Parrish House, on Church Street) — 1924, Virginia Gay Orchestra of MHS; Current Events Club; 1949, 28 City building permits for $65,000 in construction in one month; 1960, the Stuart Kittens and the Critz Lassies; 1974, diamond heart ring for $40 at Royal Jewelers; 1999, Valentine’s Special at Martinsville Ford Body Shop.

(Photo: Martinsville Speedway) 1924, Pannill Post hosts big event to honor Woodrow Wilson who just died; largest transaction ever in Martinsville; 1949, Red Cross; 1960, cattleman Millard Pigg elected; 1974, Stanley to take over special police; 1999, Sandi Roberts and Elizabeth Martin talk about school on Saturday.

Sheriff secretly moves black inmate to avoid lynching; 1949, new Boy Scout camp; 1960, against liquor-by-the-drink bill; 1974, Roy Stone Transfer lays off 200 in wake of truckers strike; 1999, Dutch Inn windmill

(Photo: Castle Court on 220) Second discovered white partridge in U.S. hot by R.M. Wilson and mounted by Rives S. Brown; 1949, Kroger prices; 1960, teachers’ salaries; 1974, 20,000 truckers on strike, but not at Roy Stone Transfer; 1999, Dodson 5 meet President Clinton at the White House.

(Photo: First Baptist Church on corner of Church and Broad Streets, where parking lot is now) —- 1924, Pete Ford, Allen Bondurant and John Dodson head for a fishing/hunting tour in Florida; 1949, Charity League naming contest for store; 1960, mass community X-ray clinic; 1974, popular bands at C’vile Jaycees Radiothon; 1999, Save-A-Lot opens and Ed Brammer plans Old Dominion lumber company.

(Photo: DuPont retirement party) 1924, little Tarleton Andes burned when lighting a stove fire; 1949, Bassett Kiwanis Club; 1960, W.P. Hodnett’s taxi-riding groundhog story; 1974, Sureway Food Fairs; 1999, Jobbers factory torn down.

1924, Choppings going on; 1949, preliminary hearings for the Martinsville Seven; 1960, Martinsville Community Recreation Center and a drunk school bus driver hits a sausage truck; 1974, judges reelected; 1999, Democrat Congressman Goode votes to impeach Clinton.

Prices of electronics in 1923; bodies of WWII servicemen James Joyce, John Dillon and Lester Terrell arrive home; early controversy over answering machines; Rangeley Ruritan Club officers of 1998.

Police in 1923 capture Dodge Roadster loaded down with booze; 1948 gas prices; Remember Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Geter with Pine Hall Grocery?; Donnie and Timmy Myers are Eagle Scouts in 1973; when cell phones were new.

Martinsville Building & Loan Association advertises houses on a monthly payment plan in 1923; Clarence Kearfott and W.M. Shaw represent a soldier denied meal service in 1948; Roscoe Reynolds takes on Mason’s Department Store for Blue Law violations in 1973; LaRhonda Johnson, Pamela Gunter and Chris Hinson have winning essays in 1998.

1923 movies showing in Martinsville; Model A driver sues school bus driver in 1948; Robert Armstrong joins Commonwealth Attorney’s office in 1973; icicle lights are all the rage i8n 1998.

November 2023 school nursing report - nine Christmas Day arrests in 1948, most for drunkenness; sewage treatment negotiations between City and County in 1973; Construction of jail on Kings Mountain Road; 1,000 houses without electricity in 1998

On this day in MHC: Khorassan wives honored; 150-gallon distilleries destroyed; a potential precedent by Judge Kennan Whittle; Ronald E. Smith; $3 million in local Christmas bonuses; county’s first Family Christmas in the Park.