June 5, 2011
75 YEARS AGO From the Greensboro Daily News, June 1936 While more than 1,000 workers at Washington Mills’ two Mayodan plants were organizing a union, management at the plants indicated they would be willing to meet with workers to search for a solut...
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May 1, 2011
75 years ago From the Greensboro Daily News, May 1936 Several Democrats have filed for offices to be voted on in the June 6 primary. The candidates and the offices they are seeking: State Senate, 17th District: J. Benton Stacey of Ruffin; A.D. Hopkins o...
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April 3, 2011
75 years ago From Greensboro Daily News, April 1936 Jimmy Maus, former catcher for the Greensboro Patriots, is working hard to prepare the Reidsville Luckies for the upcoming season in the Bi-State Class D baseball league.
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February 27, 2011
75 years ago From the Greensboro Daily News, Feb. 27-March 5, 1936 Ed Johnson of Roanoke, Va., president of Rotary International, spoke to a gathering of Rotarians and Rotary Anns at the community building in Leaksville, telling them about his election to...
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February 20, 2011
75 years ago From the Greensboro Daily News, Feb. 20-26, 1936 Three Madison women — Mrs. Minnie Smith, Miss Irene Money and Miss Lillian Ray— were resting fairly comfortably in the hospital following an accident on a bridge while approaching G...
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February 13, 2011
75 years agoFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Feb. 13-19, 1936Quick action by two Reidsville police officers spared both human lives and heavy property damage when the officers, John Durham and Jimmy Lindsay, found a 10-foot rail missing on a Southern Railr...
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February 6, 2011
75 years ago From the Greensboro Daily News, Feb. 6-12, 1936 Luther Hodges, a former state highway commissioner, has been appointed production manager of all mills and factories of Marshall Field and Co. His headquarters will be in Leaksville-Spray.
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January 30, 2011
75 YEARS AGOFrom Greensboro Daily News, Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 1936Two men walking to work in Leaksville on Monday night saw smoke coming out of the house of Joe Ragsdale and quickly woke up the Ragsdales, and their neighbors and called the fire department.
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January 23, 2011
75 years agoFrom Greensboro Daily News, Jan. 23-29, 1936William Steadman Lamm and Robert Bryan Earles, trading as Lamm’s Department Store in Stoneville and Spray, have petitioned for bankruptcy protection in U.S. District Court in Greensboro.
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January 16, 2011
75 years agoFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Jan. 16-22, 1936Aerial photographs have been left with the Soil Conservation Office in Reidsville of the Madison soil conservation project.
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January 9, 2011
75 years agoFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Jan. 9-15, 1936Ray Goodson, 30, a farmer from Williamsburg township, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Blaylock Robinson and charged with fatally shooting Fred Hall at the Goodson home.
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January 2, 2011
75 YEARS AGOFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Jan . 2-8, 1936Allen H. Gwyn of Reidsville announced he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 5th Congressional District seat now held by Frank W. Hancock.
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December 26, 2010
75 YEARS AGOFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Dec. 26, 1935-Jan. 1, 1936After receiving a tip, Sheriff L.M. Sheffield sent six of his officers to a site about four miles from Leaksville, where they found one of the largest stills ever discovered in that par...
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December 19, 2010
75 YEARS AGOFrom Greensboro Daily News, Dec. 19-25, 1935A fire erupted in the home of Robert Mayberry on Fontaine Street in Reidsville about 6:45 a.m. and spread to two other houses before firefighters could get a fire hydrant thawed enough to use.
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December 12, 2010
75 YEARS AGOFrom Greensboro Daily News, Dec. 12-18, 1935Aunt Carolina King, who was born a slave but lived over half of her life as a free woman, died at age 117 at her home about 15 miles from Reidsville.
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December 5, 2010
75 YEARS AGOFrom Greensboro Daily News, Dec. 5-11, 1935Five of seven young men charged with robbing the Draper post office July 21 were found guilty by a jury in U.S. Middle District Court in Greensboro. Two of the accused — Wallace Bryant and Moir...
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November 28, 2010
75 YEARS AGO From the Greensboro Daily News, Nov. 28-Dec.4, 1935 The 25th anniversary of the Rev. William J. Gordon’s pastorate at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Spray was marked by two communal services at St. Luke’s.
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November 21, 2010
75 YEARS AGO From the Greensboro Daily News, Nov. 21-27, 1935 Mrs. Theodore Baldwin, a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson of Madison, was injured critically and four other persons hurt in a head-on crash of two cars several miles north of...
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November 14, 2010
75 YEARS AGOFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Nov. 14-20, 1935 Instead of bringing tobacco to the market, many farmers remained at home because of inclement weather. But there was a good side to this, also: Reidsville warehousemen were able to clear their f...
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November 7, 2010
75 YEARS AGO From Greensboro Daily News, Nov. 7-13, 1935 Authorities are looking for thieves who broke into Jones Motor Company and opened a large safe, taking $2,000 in cash and checks.
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October 31, 2010
75 YEARS AGOFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 1935Robert M. Cardwell, a prominent Madison resident and great-grandson of former Gov. Alexander Martin, died in a Leaksville hospital after a critical illness of four weeks.
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October 24, 2010
75 YEARS AGOFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Oct. 24-30, 1935
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October 10, 2010
75 YEARS AGOFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Oct. 10-16, 1935The Leaksville Junior Woman’s Club held a busy first meeting of the new season, with the club welcoming as guests members of the History Club and three out-of-town Woman’s Club member...
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October 3, 2010
75 YEARS AGOFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Oct. 3-9, 1935Prices varied from day to day on the Reidsville tobacco market, but overall growers seemed satisfied with their receipts.
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September 26, 2010
75 years agoFrom the Greensboro Daily News, Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 1935The Reidsville tobacco market experienced one of the most successful opening days in its 68 years of operation.
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