Monday, February 02, 2009
Looking back: February 2
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1999 (10 years ago)
n "The Kandinsky Trio is headed for its Kennedy Center debut Wednesday night. Roanoke College's trio-in-residence will reprise the program it performed Saturday night at the college, which included the world premiere of a new piece by former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker-turned-composer Mike Reid."
n "If you've eaten peanut soup at the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center, you've had a taste of local black history. In 1940, chef Fred Brown, who was black, created the thick, rich, caramel-colored potage that is still one of the hotel's signature dishes."
1984 (25 years ago)
n "Porn publisher Larry Flynt will have to answer to Lynchburg evangelist Jerry Falwell -- at least for the time being, a federal court judge in Roanoke said Wednesday."
n "John McEnroe, the world's top-ranked tennis player, will compete in an exhibition April 14 at the Roanoke Civic Center, possibly against Vitas Gerulaitis."
n "Several Roanoke Valley business and civic leaders, unhappy that the Shenandoah Club has no blacks, Jews or women as members, have joined the Jefferson Club, a downtown social retreat that has just undergone a $400,000 facelift."
1959 (50 years ago)
n "An estimated 5 to 10 per cent of the population suffers from one or more speech defects. To do something about this, the Cosmopolitan Club has founded the Roanoke Valley Speech Clinic, temporarily located at Gill Memorial Hospital on Jefferson street."
n "The first size 14 uniform in Virginia Tech's military history will get the bars of a second lieutenant pinned on it June 6. Miss Patricia Ann Miller of Richmond will be wearing the uniform and the blue-eyed blonde will be the first girl ever to get a commission at a Tech graduation."
n "The Roanoke Health Department's war on unsanitary conditions in the city moved into the courtroom today. Seven persons were tried in Municipal Court on charges of violating the garbage collection ordinance..."
n "Roanoke's day-old country club, Colonial Country Club, should have the first phase of its building program completed by May 1. The club, formerly Mountain View Golf Club and owned by Valley Lands, Inc., will use the existing Mountain View facilities, but plans to add more than $80,000 in improvements."
n "Mrs. J. H. Fallwell today was presented an Americanism medal by the General James Breckenridge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The coveted medal -- which goes only to outstanding naturalized citizens -- is the first one ever given in Roanoke."
n "Former Cuban secret police chief Enrique Edward Fernandez Parajon, who fled Cuba when Fulgencio Batista's regime fell, has been granted U.S. government permission to stay an additional six months in Roanoke."
n "The frame building occupied by the First Christian Church of Salem since 1891 will be used for the last time Sunday. It will be torn down to make room for a new church . . ."
n "Twelve-year-old Larry Garst delivers The World-News on horseback when he feels lazy."
1934 (75 years ago)
n "The World-News Golden Jubilee edition today had been mailed to thirteen foreign countries and to every possession and State of the United States . . ."
n "Jefferson High's championship bound Magicians, so far the class of anything in the State, play host to their ancient and time honored foe, Glass High, from Lynchburg, on the Jefferson [basketball] court."
n "The old, old philosophy that a man may be down but never out was proved conclusively by the lowly National Business College team in the City League last night when the typewriter pounders staged a stirring rally in the fourth quarter and defeated the Y.M.C.A. 23 to 21, for their first league victory of the season."
n "Rats in the business district are slated to meet their 'waterloo' this week as the squad of expert exterminators . . . center their activities in the downtown section."
n "Mill Mountain . . . has been sold under a foreclosure sale for $50,000. It was bought in by Paul M. Penick, secretary-treasurer of Washington and Lee University . . ."
n "It takes eight (count 'em) minutes to move through heavy traffic in Roanoke's down-town , starting at the World-News office and ending up at the Patrick Henry Hotel, via Campbell avenue and Jefferson street."
n "The Shenandoah Brewing Company, one of two breweries which will operate in Virginia, it is understood, will begin the manufacture of beer here about the middle of March or the first of April . . ."
n "The Roanoke community band, Civil Works Service recreation project, won't make an appearance until next summer . . . It's going to take that long for some of the 35 to learn how to play."
n "The creation of a permanent Virginia Heights-Raleigh Court Civic league was effected at a meeting of about 100 residents . . ."
1909 (100 years ago)
n "The Academy of Music was filled last evening to greet the Manhattan Opera Company, an aggregation of pretty singers, as well as pretty girls."
n From an advertisement - "The Ground Hog Saw his shadow. Better prepare for six weeks of continuous blizzards by laying a supply of COAL, WOOD and KINDLING. CATOGNI COAL COMPANY."
n "The Norfolk and Western has issued orders to all trainmen, officer and employes to vigorously enforce the rule against allowing persons to ride on freight trains."
n "The remains of the old courthouse is now being rapidly torn down by a large force of workmen . . . Another of Salem's old landmarks will soon have been entirely cleared away and a handsome new and modern structure will take its place."
n "One of the biggest 'finds' in the way of a coal and iron mine came to light yesterday, when information was received in this city that a coal and iron mine had been discovered about seven miles from Fincastle."
n "The new sidewalks which have just been completed on Melrose avenue adds very much to the beauty of this section as well as to the comfort of those that walk ..."
n "A fire broke out this morning about 1 o'clock in the three-story brick building, No. 29 Salem avenue, s.w., occupied by the Casper-Treynor Co. as a liquor bottling house...There was about $8,000 worth of stock and fixtures on hand, all of which was destroyed or damaged."
n "Lucy Mitchell, the Franklin county murderess, was tried Saturday in the circuit court of Franklin county, at Rocky Mount, and given eighteen years in the penitentiary for the murder of Minnie McBryde . . ."
n "The fans all over the circuit are itching for base-ball dope. Just a few more weeks and the papers will be chock full of dope. All the men signed by the various teams will be touted as wonders, but few will come up to expectations."
