The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-03-24

of week for the fourth time since Januar
NJ LIST last.
en- Nenables bridge was washed ava
boy the recent freshet M the Appomat
"a tox river
Is Miss Louise Ouey, who has beel
~ from home for some weeks, returned
al last Tuesday evening.
lie Col. Booker has been quite sick thi
week, but we are glad to report that n,
Re is now better.
1t is said that the tower Of Babe
- would have sunk out Of sight i'm some
Of our Farmville streets.
The Iowa Convention Of Road Super
visors claim that no civilized country
, allows the Use Of narrow wagon tires.
The Appomattox river was higher ON
Sunday last than it Mas been this year
Many persons walked down the rail-
road track I'm the afternoon nee IT,
We are glad to note that there will
be considerable effort made to cure the
worst pieces of road at Hampden-Sid-
ney, and hope that Famville will
emulate the chill" in this good work.
All our farmers should notice the
places where the drains in the road
ways are not sufficient, and where the
culverts are deficient in number and
size, and when the road men are at
work carefully show them the spots.
Whenever a Farmville man says
anything TO a person from the country
about the bad roads the response is
physician, go heal myself" They do
say that the streets of this town are a.
bad as the worst Of our country roads.
Tobacco is selling well in this market.
Good tobacco always brings good price,
and when you hear a seller grumbling |
about the price his tobacco brought,
you can depend on it that the
quality was not o. X.
Have the merchants Of Farmville
ever considered that the bad condition
Of our public roads has been the cause
Of much trade from the upper plrt Of
Prince Edward going to Keysville and
brakes Branch? TINS is fact, and
deserves the attention Of our business
people.
Miss Marguerite Lyle, an attractive
and accomplished young lady Of Lex
ington, Va, who for the past three
weeks has been visiting her friend, Miss
Renolds, Of Hampden-Sidney, is now
stopping with Mrs Thomas p. Robertson
Of this place. Miss Lyle is cousin Of
Mr.. Robertson. s
To every person who will pay over to
us $500 we will have mailed for one
year to his address the Richmond
Daily Timosani the Farmville HERALD.
Was there ever better offer made
If you do not care to invest so much !,
and wish it we will send you the f,
Iwice-a-Week Richmond Times and (,
Inc HERALD one year for SLIGO.
We publish elsewhere i'm these Ii
columns the announcement Of Mr. r.
B. HiX who Is out for the nomination a,
or Commissioner Of the Revenue. Mr.. "
W l.. Clark, the present efficient i'm ii
has his announcement also d.
n this paper, as well as Messrs. w. II. r
'hackston, w. II. Ewing, A. d. Wat q
Tins and 4. II. Dickinson, for clerk, cl
reasurer, commonwealth attorney j,
nd sheriff respectively. All Of these er
are made subject to the
elton Of the county convention.
We hear that there were last week pl
hree dead horses in the public road re
etween here and Cumberland court !
ouse. They had been killed by the ia
aud i'm the roads-ded in harness. tr
hese horses belonged TO three different III
lrmers, and thus have they lost more m
ban all the profits Of years labor on tlC
heir tobacco crops. How long will 20
lch a state of things be stood by the ~
eople? II takes money to build roads, &
nd if the farmer and merchant think 10y
nat it is better 10 haye mud roads than
, raise their taxes then they must for
yer endure the former li,
Farmville recently sold 100000
ounds Of tobacco i'm one week. The
lst Of hauling that to market was not
IS than 81 900 more than il should
ave cost on account Of the condition
the roads. Had the 81 600 been paid ira
r hauling, it would not have been so Ia Ia
al, but as it was expended on the Ina
nd il was equivalent to throwing that Fo
uch money away. Farmville mer-
lants have by that means had their
les decreased 81 600 in one week, the me
rmers have destroyed that much
pital, and the unusual wear and tear 90
men, horses and vehicles has yet to Ten
calculated. the
wa
The ladies Of Farmville gave an m.
-ster, meat and sweet supper last Fri Coz
" night in the vacant store room of