Monday, August 31, 2009
Looking back: Aug. 31
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Photo courtesy of Kitty Coxe Koomen
These men and their dogs were resting after a successful hunt. The man on the left is unidentified, Leonard Muse is in the center and on the right is Whitwell Coxe. Muse and Coxe were lawyers. The photo is from the late 1930s.
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1999 (10 years ago)
n "The ongoing drought hasn't dried up everything in Roanoke. Some ingenuity has sprung up at the city's Carvins Cove filtration plant. The city is paying a private company to dig a well next to its main filtration plant, off Interstate 81 just outside the city limits."
n "Bridie Woods Spencer, who worked as a foster parent for the Roanoke Department of Social Services longer than anyone in the Roanoke Valley, died. ... She was 85."
1984 (25 years ago)
n "A book praising Roanoke's Total Action Against Poverty as a model community action agency will be released by a small Washington, D.C. publisher. The book is 'No Ceasefires: The War on Poverty in Roanoke Valley.' "
n "WLSL-TV (Channel 10), which suspended weekend newscasts last fall, plans to resume them next month."
n "One of the best things about a Ray Charles concert is its consistency. When Ray is right, as he was at Roanoke's Grandin Theater Saturday night, there's not a flat spot in his performance."
n "Metropolitan Roanoke draws the second-highest net commuting figure -- about 5,800 workers, based on a 1980 study -- of any urban center in the state."
1959 (50 years ago)
n "Roanokers will enjoy a taste of lavish, bigtime frivolity, reminiscent of New Orleans' Mardi Gras, when the Uptown String Band of Philadelphia appears here for the Harvest Bowl football game Oct. 3."
n "Three thousand new antennas beamed toward Lynchburg's WLVA-TV have gone up this summer -- or soon will be erected on housetops."
n "Webber's Pharmacy, operated by C.E. 'Ted' Webber for 35 years in Salem, has been bought by Ervin P. Brooks and I. Ray Byrd."
n "City school children like milk. They drank 2,040,000 half-pint bottles of it last year in school cafeterias."
n "The Jefferson Hills Golf Club has been sold. The new owners, Mrs. W. Bruce Overstreet Jr., and Mrs. E. Price Ripley, plan early improvements to put it in the peak of condition."
n "A New York recording firm has purchased a rock and roll song written by George Donald McGraw of Salem for national distribution. ... It is entitled 'Woo Hoo.' "
n "Roanoke residents will be urged soon to build family nuclear bomb shelters."
1934 (75 years ago)
n "It's the go-getter who rakes in the business these days, as the proprietor of a pop corn stand can testify. He has an electric fan on his stand which blows the luscious aroma of hot buttered pop corn out on the side walk."
n "Of interest in the young dancing sets is the Saturday night dance of the Mill Mountain Dance club. The dances at the Mill Mountain tea room have been popular throughout the warm months."
n "With the opening of the squirrel and dove season here tomorrow, sportsmen are haunting hardware and sporting goods stores, stocking up with cartridges and shells, and taking time out to handle, with longing fingers, the late model shotguns and rifles."
n "In the first Labor Day parade here in years, approximately 3,000 union employees marched through the city this morning ..."
n "Major Robert C. Kent, Jr., World War veteran ... this afternoon entered a plea of 'not guilty' of kidnapping Mrs. Mary J. Hastings, late operator of the Blue Ridge Springs."
n "A new record in 'drunks' was set in Police Court here today as fifty-six persons, charged with imbibing too much in the way of potent liquor during the holidays ..."
1909 (100 years ago)
n "J. E. Fisher was arrested this morning by the police on the charge of insulting ladies at the city market house."
n "Cidrola! Have you seen the name before? It is made in Roanoke -- city and county. It is a pure, refreshing drink made of apple cider, that is destined to make Roanoke famous, and its manufacturers wealthy."
n "With the continued progress of blasting on Dale avenue incline, the residents could easily imagine they had been transported to the scenes of war, where cannonade and bombs rent the air, and shocked those of nervous temperament."
n "One of the chief topics of conversation in baseball circles today is the announcement contained in the morning papers of the names of a number of the players drafted by the big league clubs from the minor leagues, and this list contained the names of some of Roanoke's star performers."
n "The work of preparing the ground for the erection of the proposed new depot for the Virginian Railroad will begin next week."
