The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-05-12
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.

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SO light of step. so fair of iace,
+ She passes ON her way;
with every beauty every grace,
The rare and radiant May.
How much pain the evils that never
happened have cost us.
The year slips away How about
new-year resolutions?
Mr.. II. V. Baldwin, Of Manchester
spent several days Of this week in
town.
Mr.. d. T. Elan is so much improved
in health as to have been able to take
a drive on Wednesday.
Farmers have had very seasonable
weather the past week for sticking
tobacco plants.
Judge Hundley was in town Mon
day EN- route to Cumberland for its
term Of circuit court.
Ifyou have a good appetite at this
season Of the year you will not worry
about the condition Of your health.
John Adams once taught school but
he first called it "a school of aflictionu
and quit What say the Normaltes?
There were registered up to Wednes-
day, the last day allowed for the
spring election, p white and 10 colored
voters.
Mr.. Frank Woodson, formerly edi-
tor OF the Danvile Register, has been
spending a portion Of this week here
with bis wife and infant daughter.
The closing exercises Of the public
school will be held tonight in the Opera
House. An interesting program will
be given and the public will receive a
cordial welcome.
But a month more and the normal
ties will have returned to their homes,
and with no summer school Of methods
how they will be missed from the
town.
In the school Of art in New York at
tended 10y Miss Lula Morton, Of this
place, out Of class Of nine hundred
pupils contesting for honors, the work
executed by her was accepted.
The State Woman's Home Mission
Society of the Methodist church will
meet in Farmville on the Ord inst.
Its sessions usually continue for three
days. Mrs. II. E. Wall is the society's
efficient secretary.
The ladies of the Episcopal church,
interested in the entertainment given
for the benefit of the Tower Fund, wish
to thank all who so kindly assisted
them for their help; and the public {
for their generous patronage.
The cemetery needs good ded of
work to put 1t in the condition it q
should be. The appropriation made by
the town Of $50 Is money well expend-
ed. The only regret Of the people is
that it could not have been at least 1
$500 /
The accounts Of the doctors who
vaccinaied the citizens Of Farmville
show that out Of population Of not y
more than $500 persons 1900 were
yaccinated. The council paid the doc
tors bills Tuesday afternoon aggrega-
ting 500
The ladies of the Baptist church will ,
give strawberry festival on the lawn ,
IN the rear Of their church tonight. =
The public Is cordially asked to attend
after the commencement exercises
which are to be held tonight in the
opera House. :,
We wish every citizen owning prop -
,rty fronting on a public thoroughfare
would follow the good example Of ,
dessrs Duvall, Robertson d Co., G. ,
w. Walker and II. +. Wall in defray- l
ny one half of the cost Of iirstclass
,aving, the town paying the other. =
Ne would soon have streets of which =.
We might he justly proud. T.
Mrs w. q. Venable has for the past n
been with her daughter, Mrs. l.
leo. T. Vaughan, of Washington, as -
listing the latter i'm her preparations 81
or departure to Europe DR.. and f.,
'lrs. Vaughan sailed on Wednesday, h
he 10th. The Doctor has gone to at II
end the International Congress Of s.,
surgeons, before which assembly he is II
o deliver an address. i.
AT the meeting Of the Alumni Of the b
'ledical College Of Virginia held last Il
week IN Richmond, Dr. w. f.. Ander- "
on, of this place. was elected presi- y
lent. The Dispatch referring to the a
lection speaks of DR.. Anderson as Zone "
f the brightest physicians Of South q
ide Virginia, and one of the most f
popular alumni Of the college, II
Work is progressing rather slowly on b
be new building for the Star Ware Il
louse and Storage Company, but Il
when it is completed it will be the most e.
house in the town. We ST
re told that the floor space in this -
uiding will be greater in area than L
hat Of any three other houses in the n
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