The Shadow
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
September 26, 1936
Today’s Headline: Are Citizens Of Covington Still Living Under Old Ordinances Of 1882?
Are old laws still on the town ordinance books or have they been lost through the years?
They may have been repealed by later town councils but only an exhaustive study of 54 years of town records, many of them missing, can determine what old and obsolete laws the citizens of Covington are now living under.
The old ordinances are taken from a manuscript in the possession of a resident of this town.
They are written in longhand and show crudities of construction in some places.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
September 26, 1961
Today’s Headline: Walton Farm Fire Destroys Barns, Silo, Stock & Hay.A fire of undetermined origin destroyed three barns and killed 10 calves and the prize purebred Holstein bull at the farm of Harry Walton Jr. Saturday at 4:50 p.m. The farm is located about 15 miles from Clifton Forge, just off Route 42.
The fire leveled a bull barn, a calf barn and the main barn, destroyed a 100-foot upright silo, with 75-tons of corn silage stored in it and between three and five thousand bales of hay.
It took 15 Clifton Forge firemen six hours to completely put the fire out.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
September 26, 1986
Today’s Headline: Helvey’s Courtesy Store In Covington Reopens Friday.
Helvey’s Courtesy Store, 117 W. Main St., will reopen Friday, featuring a wide selection of fresh seafood, produce, custom-cut meats and a small line of grocery items.
The store closed the first of August due to a decline in volume, according to owner and manager Vernon Helvey, but due to public demand he decided to cut his overhead and add the fresh seafood line and reopen.
The Courtesy Store has been in existence for approximately 50 years and was originally owned and managed by Elmer Smith and Frank Hundley. Helvey purchased the business in 1976.
FIVE YEARS AGO
September 26, 2006
Today’s Headline: Bath County Planning Commission Meeting Never Materializes.
The September meeting of the Bath County Planning Commission never materialized Monday night because the board lacked a quorum.
Only two members of the board were in attendance.
