Flashback: Tracking NRV history

This May, 1937, photograph shows the new Mountain Lake hotel. The wooden structure on the left is the old hotel. The Roanoke Times file 1937

1987
(25 years ago)
- “Jayne Powell will be the featured performer Saturday during the annual Hethwood/Foxbridge and Terrace View spring flings.”
- “Police in Montgomery County are arresting more drunken drivers, but too few repeat offenders are going to jail, a citizens’ group says.”
- “A rainstorm Tuesday night washed away a fence and the dirt and clay baselines of the field where the Appalachian League farm club of the Atlanta Braves plays its home baseball games, officials said Wednesday.”
- “Pulaski Community and Montgomery Regional hospitals are among the 104 medical facilities that Hospital Corporation of America will sell to a spinoff company owned by employees.”

1962
(50 years ago)
- “Narrows continued its winning ways in the Mountain View League Saturday as Narrows edged McCoy 5-4 for its eighth win of the season against only one loss.”
- “Dedication ceremonies of the New River Valley Airport near Dublin will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.”
- “The Nashville-to-Washington peace walkers Monday afternoon picketed the Radford Ordinance Plant in an effort to sway the U. S. Army from manufacturing weapons of war.”
- “A building expansion … is being planned for the Kenrose Manufacturing Co. Inc. plant at Radford.”
- “Giles County’s tax levy has been upped 10 cents for the 1962-63 fiscal year to cover proposed expenditures by the school board and county general fund spending.”
- “A 16-year-old boy wanted in connection with a triple slaying in Chesterfield County was arrested by state police near here [Floyd] about 10:50 Friday.”

1937
(75 years ago)
- “Erection of a mess shack and small houses for laborers has been started near the site of the Appalachian Electric Power company’s New river development…”
- “Candidates for the bachelor of science degree at Virginia Tech’s sixty-fifth graduation exercises Monday morning, June 7, total 268.”
- “Pulaski’s four dairies have received grade-A rating on their milk and equipment…”
- “A new Mountain Lake hotel under management of Reyburn Miller, a Giles county native, will open its first season in new quarters June 1…”
- “Leonard Branscome, of Hillsville, has announced that he will open his new motion-sound moving picture theatre here [Floyd] early in August.”
- “A new line has just been accepted by the Appalachian Electric Power company running from Riner to the Sidney church neighborhood called Smith Mill Creek extension.”
- “Pulaski county paid tribute to its war dead yesterday with Memorial day services at Oakwood cemetery.”

1912
(100 years ago)
- “Mr. C. S. Shelor has been selected by the Republicans of the Sixth district as delegate to the convention in Chicago. Mr. Shelor will attend.”
- “The Paint mines, located near Christiansburg, were sold at public auction yesterday to Mr. Early Lester, of Riner, for $10,000.”
- “One of the most delightful public entertainments that has ever been given here [Pulaski] was the dramatic reading of ‘The Littlest Rebel’ by Miss Elizabeth Jordan at the Elk’s theatre last night.”
- “Dr. G.G. Howery, of Floyd county, a recent graduate in medicine of the medical department of Lincoln Memorial University, Knoxville, Tenn., is in the city today, and will leave this afternoon for Riner, where he will open an office for the practice of his profession.”
- “For the first time in its history Blacksburg is to have something like a real estate boom.”
- “Interesting ceremonies marked Memorial Day last Thursday [in Radford].”

-Compiled by Roanoke Times librarian Belinda Harris

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