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75 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro Daily News, Oct. 24-30, 1935
Officers Meeks, Stultz, Clark and Carter of the Spray and Draper police departments discovered and destroyed a 150-gallon still, pouring out about 200 gallons of beer. They didn’t catch anyone, but it was obvious someone had been there just before they arrived, the fire still being hot under the still.

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The Reidsville tobacco market posted another million-pounds-in-sales week, marketing about 1.2 million pounds. This brought the season’s figures so far to 4 million pounds.

Better leaf continued to sell high, and low and medium grades also showed a slight increase in price.

The Reidsville market has been unusually consistent from a price standpoint this week, with official figures for the first four days showing 961,956 pounds bringing $309,635 for an average of $31.30 per hundredweight. It is the opinion of local tobacconists that prices will remain high throughout the coming week.

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Twenty-six representatives of Leaksville Baptist Church, led by the Rev. and Mrs. J.C. Ammons, attended the annual meeting of the Women’s Missionary Union of North Carolina held at First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. The theme of the meeting was “witnessing in our Juda.”

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Two appointments to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Rockingham County were announced at the 77th session of the North Carolina Conference in Greensboro.

They are H.C. Gannaway at Leaksville Methodist and H.L. Ashe at Reidsville Methodist.

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Coach Cap Perry played his first stringers for only 24 minutes but that was enough time for them to score four touchdowns and three extra points as Reidsville beat Hillsboro 27-6.

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Women’s white high-heel shoes, 99 cents.

50 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro Daily News, Oct. 24-30, 1960
Final payments have been received from the state and federal governments for the new Morehead Memorial Hospital, according to Treasurer Richmond B. Roberts.

All bills have been paid except for amounts withheld from contractors due to the delay of completion and for claims from the architects and sewer contractor. These claims should be settled and final payments made in the next few weeks, Roberts said.

State and federal payments totaled $1,015,000. Original campaign pledges amounted to $550,000, and a gift of $100,000 was received from John Motley Morehead. All but $34,000 of the pledges have been paid. Among the pledges were $50,000 from the Duke Endowment and $22,000 from the Ford Foundation.

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The State Highway Commission has called for bids on construction of a bypass around Leaksville and Spray to an intersection with N.C. 87, and widening to four lanes or relocating U.S. 29 from the county line to Ruffin.

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A summary of activity on Rockingham County Old Belt tobacco markets on Monday of this week: Madison, 268,408 pounds averaging $58.46 per hundredweight; Reidsville, 271,154 pounds, averaging $58.02; Stoneville, 211,692 pounds averaging $57.13.

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The Rev. Charles Oliver, recently evacuated from the Congo, spoke to Reidsville Kiwanis Club on that country, past and present.

A member of a Reidsville newspaper family, the Rev. Oliver graduated from Davidson College and Union Theological Seminary. He spent 10 tense months in the Congo where he was accompanied by his wife, the former Mary Lou Montgomery of Reidsville.

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It was not a happy week for Morehead High of Leaksville and Madison-Mayodan High on the football field. Morehead was thumped by Danville 21-0 and Madison-Mayodan was a 35-0 loser to Northwest High of Forsyth County.

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Women’s Red Cross shoes, $14.99.

25 YEARS AGO
From the News & Record, Oct. 24-30, 1985
Fieldcrest Mills, bath and bed products manufacturer, will meet challenges to the textile industry by diversifying and expanding, Fieldcrest President Francis X. Larkin said during a visit to Eden.

“There’s going to be survivors and there’s going to be victims,” the chief operating officer told a press luncheon at Eden Country Club. “Fieldcrest is going to be one of the leading survivors.”

Larkin, a resident of New York but in Eden to promote national textile week, added, “We’re not going to be what you know us as. We’re going to be a lot more.”

Within five years, Fieldcrest will enter additional markets, including commercial carpeting, shower curtains, terry cloth bathrobes and a variety of heating pads, he said.

Fieldcrest also announced net income of $6.99 million for the third quarter, nearly double that of a year earlier.

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Officials of the county’s four school systems offered county commissioners several plans for financing future long-term capital needs.

One would use federal revenue sharing funds, a half-cent sales tax increase and money collected from ending a water-sewer agreement with Reidsville-Leaksville.

A second plan calls for a $16 million bond issue and includes a property tax increase while a third includes federal revenue sharing funds, money from the water-sewer agreement and bond funds.

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Leonard M. Tilley, facility manager of American Tobacco Co.’s Reidsville operations, was elected president of the Reidsville Chamber of Commerce to succeed Dr. Edward V. Wilkins.

Succeeding Tilley as first vice president will be Cliff Barbee, NCNB city executive.

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A device to measure air quality has been installed near Stoneville School where officials have complained about lacquer fumes from local industries.

Studies conducted during the summer showed the fumes did not constitute a health hazard, but some students and employees of the school have experienced headaches, sore throats, dizziness and watery eyes when the fumes are present.

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Reidsville High’s offense scored twice in the first half, then the defense held on for a 14-11 victory over Morehead High.

Elsewhere in the county, Madison-Mayodan was beaten 28-0 by Western Guilford High, and Rockingham County High was nipped by Eastern Guilford 7-6.

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Eli Thomas women’s shoes, $7-$15.

10 YEARS AGO
From the News & Record, Oct. 24-30, 2000
Ground was broken for Eden’s municipal park. City officials and members of the Eden park committee predicted the first phase costing $300,000 would be completed by next fall.

The groundbreaking followed four years of work on the controversial park. The first phase will consist of a parking lot, multipurpose field, walking track, picnic shelter, children’s playground and restrooms.

Originally, the city owned 123 acres in central Eden between Meadow Road, Stadium Drive and Edgewood Road but it decided to split this land, giving 58 acres to the park and reserving the remainder for an industrial park.

Two other phases are being planned and will be started as funds are available. These phases will include volleyball courts, a softball/baseball complex, community building, water park, skate boarding area, natural trails and an outdoor amphitheater.

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A driver left a crane extended on his flatbed truck and that created quite a problem when the crane hooked several power and telephone lines on N.C. 14 just south of Eden.

The resulting traffic snarl caused two accidents that sent three people to Annie Penn Memorial Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Traffic finally was unsnarled after two hours.

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The Madison Public Library had a most unusual visitor — a four-point buck that crashed through a front window of the library on Murphy Street downtown. Library staff was both startled and frightened, but after wandering up and down the aisles for about 15 minutes, the deer left through the same window he entered.

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Madison will get a new post office with the new year.

Construction will be completed on the new office at the Madison Center on Highway Street in a few weeks, but the post office does not like to move into a new building in November and December because those are the two busiest months in the mail system. It will be January before the move is made.