1935
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This article is a date listing important or significant events that happened (or will happen) on events for the year 1935
Events
- January 6 – “Tiverton,” $150,000 residence of Mrs. Mariska Owsley at Greenwood is destroyed by fire. Mariska Golgotzen, the Baroness Von Eltz of Vienna, Austria, third wife and widow Dr. Owsley, survived a devastating fire that gutted the structure.
- $150,000 in 1935 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $2,851,905 in 2021, an increase of $2,701,905 over 86 years.
- March 22 – Council studies building of municipal electric plant.
- March 23 – City almost isolated as sleet storm cuts wires and blocks highways.
- March 23 – Lions Club given charter.
- March 24 – City communications with world cut off; Scottsville under water.
- March 31 – Lane High School gets 99 new pupils.
- February 5 – VPS seeks right to operate bus line instead of street railway.
- April 2 – City moves to replace traffic lights on Main Street.
- April 12 – Wider West Main Street urged.
- April 17 – Petitions seek sanitary area for Fry’s Spring.
- May 29 – John Daugherty and accomplice hold up Fork Union Bank.
- [[May 6 – George B. Rives dies at “Edgewood.”
- May 7 – Council rejects plan to annex 1,500 acres, comprising portions of Fry’s Spring, Belmont, and the University section.
- May 9 – State Corporation Commission orders the Charlottesville and Albemarle Railway Co. to operate buses over the same route on which it operates street cars.
- May 15 – Albemarle Board of Supervisors recommends employment of a dentist for school children.
- May 18 – Admissions Council at the University rebukes thirteen students who led the heckling of Clarence Hathaway communist editor of The Daily Worker(1933–1940), from Cabell Hall.
- Hathaway (1892–1963) was an activist in the Minnesota trade union movement and a prominent leader of the Communist Party of the United States from the 1920s through the early 1940s.
- May 21 – Council rejects proposal of County Board of Supervisors to employ a dentist for the county school children.
- May 31 – Buses replace trolleys in city.
- June 27 – County School Board votes to make application for PWA Funds to erect three schools.
- June 28 – Work begins on $30,000 addition to Ix Plant.
- July 1 – City and County will not earmark their share of A. B. C. Funds.
- July 3 – Virginia Fruit Brandy Distilling Corporation formed to operate plant in North Garden.
- July 16 – An electric rate that is the highest in its population group for this city disclosed in survey.
- July 17 – First case of paralysis is reported in county.
- July 18 – Two more cases of paralysis are reported.
- July 20 – Two more cases off paralysis. County Baptists cancel annual meeting. Cole Bros. Circus calls off engagement schedule here.
- July 22 – Fire more cases off paralysis. Health officer sees no reason for “undue alarm.” Two more meetings postponed.
- August 22 – Two cases of polio reported. Total is 142.
- August 23 – Two cases polio reported.
- August 24 – City passes first day without a new case of polio being reported.
- August 26 – Blaze destroys Garden Fruitpacking Corp. plant at North Garden.
- August 26 – One polio case reported.
- August 27 – Daily Progress reports “Alice Jackson, colored girl, applies for admission at the University Graduate School.”
Deaths
- March 19 – J. R. Roberts, Confederate Veteran, dies at Woodridge Home.