The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-08-18
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.

BE ready when tNe days are bright
To labor With viii,
p,trhen 90 storms from morn till night
De wise and patient sim,
rsew winds must blow. the rains descend,
TIL brooks their banks eriiow;
conteniment is a priceless friend,
We harvest ass we SOW.
Miss Alma Owens, of Manchester, is
the guest of the Misses Baldwin.
MAP. Baldwin is spending the
week at his home i'm Farmville.
The crops have improved very much
since the splendid rain of Tuesday.
Mr.. C.. d. Taliaferro, of Blacksbure,
is on a visit to his old home for few
days.
Brick are being laid ON the founda-
ton for the new store of the Farmyille
Commercial Company.
A letter from Mir. j. V. Richardson
announces his safe arrival at Denver
COL. after pleasant trip
rProf EHhu Morrisette, wife and
daughter. Miss E>telie, are i'm the coun-
~ ON theircustomary summers outing
Thos W. Price is still kept in sus-
pense as to what the decision of Gov
emor Tyler viii be touching his case.
Mrs. c. II. Hart and Mrs. J. L.
Hart, and Miss Alberta Poole eft
Wednesday ON a fortnights visit 70
relatives in Powhatau county.
Miss Mamie Skinner of Norfolk, Is
spending two weeks vacation i'm
Farmville, the guest Of Mrs. G. +.
Bugg
The largest, mealiest and best Irish
potatoes we have seen for many years
were grown by Mr. VIM NJ. Atkinson
We are indebted 10 him for fine mess
Of them.
Monday was the quietest August
court day at Buckingham we have
ever known. There wasn't even as
much cider ON the grounds as one
usually sees at the August court.
Our friend, everybody's friend, Frank
Mckinney, as everybody calls him.
drives one of the best teams Of farm
horses i'm the county. No poor farmer
ever drove a good team.
Those shade trees i'm front of Cap
tain Drumeller's are positive luXuries
to pedestrians who pass that way about
noon Of warm day. There is room iu
Farmville for more shade trees.
The heavy rain which came on Tues
day checked in time to keep the Apo
.nattox and other streams within
banks. A freshet at this season would
be disastrous TO many of our flat land
crops of corn and tobacco.
New two dollar bills are being circu-
lated Have you seen any Of them
One Of them will buy the HERALD for
whole year, and Will give you whole
dollar in change. The year will begin
just when you say so.
When Virginia apple growers are
selling their crops for 3 90 a barrel ON
the tree we think it is about time that
more attention was being paid to APP
pie growing Don't forget what Mr..
Paul NJ. Jones said on the subject of
fruit culture i'm our last issue.
We invite attention to the advertise
ment Of am excursion from Farmville
to Bedford City and Roanoke. 1t viii
be run on Sunday the 27th and the fare
is cheap enough for everybody TO go,
An who desire TO stop of at Lynchburg
may do SO by paying only sl.OO for the
round tup
The small boys heart already begins
TO palpiiate with joy at the announce
ment of the coming of John Robiuson's
Circus. The advance agent was here
ON Tuesday arranging for the great
circus 90 visit Farmville ON September
5th.
One of the crazy women, Matte
Brown. who has been i'm our Jail for a
month. is SAID to be ia a precarous
condition, with no probable chance of
getting her 90 the asylum Since our
last issue another insane negro has
been lodged i'm the jail here making
three i'm all.
No man has the right 10 expect i'm
self or his town to prosper who prefers
% and does send of for all his needs
rather than help those at home. There
are "a few persons i'm Farmville who
send away for all the printing they
have done when the HERALD can and
does do every class of job printing its
facilities will allow as cheaply as it
costs them delivered from any other
place
Losr-A Phi Kappa sigma Fraterni-
o. PIN. Maltese Cross with skull and
bones set i'm bed of pearls. Finder viii
be suitably rewarded If returned to me