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

Spring over valley and plain;
! Kissed by the passionate sunbeams,
D fOnded and coaXed by the rain,
Rise the bright blossoms again.
Birds singing high in the naples.
Birds singing clear on the wing,
Music that wakcns the echoes,
Light as The zephyrs that bring
Sweets from the heart of the spring.
Days full ofholic and laughter,
Labor and hope and good cheer;
Fun of the ith that is ever
True when the seed-umo is here;
Spring, bonny bride Of the year.
Miss Bette Morton has returned
home.
We hear that Mr. T. J. Davis is quite
sick at his home here.
Attorney G 5. Wing, Of Green Bay,
was in town Monday.
1--WE toll you So" When it did get
hot it got hot in dead earnest
The whitewash brush makes things
clearly, healthful and look well. Use
it freely.
~ girl who wouldn't harm a mouse
will murder song in a most heartless
manner.
Work of improving and identifying
the Batist church is being rapidly
pushed.
Mrs. John Stokes returned Sunday
from visit to her old home in Buck
ingham.
Prince Edward will send no delegates
to the May convention, to be held in
Richmond.
The Episcopal entertainment at the
Opera House Friday night was a sue
cess in every way.
1t hardly seems possible, but there
are some persons who are just begin
ming TO learn to ride a wheel.
The Daughters Of the Confederacy
will meet in the council chamber next
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
The Prince Edward Board Of Super
visoIs will meet next Friday. We
hear that some recommendation for
lettering our roads will be made.
Please grant us one special favor-if
you wish the HERALD stopped drop a
postal and say so. Or cheaper still,
just tell the postmaster and he will
furnish the card.
1t ought not to morlify our vanity to
be made a convenience Of. There are
so many people who are never helpful
to others under any circumstances.
Dr. Ball, resident physician to Hol-
Inns Institute, passed through here
Monday afternoon en- route to his old
home at Ballsville, to attend the fu-
neral Of his aged mother.
Captain Burton, Of the Board Of Sup
'rvisors, has returned from his official
'isit TO Charlotte, y. G., where he went +
o inspect the public roads Of that
ection
There are back places in the town
hat are in bad sanitary condition. O
The authorities should force occupants {
o keep their premises in a clearly Il
tate, for filth breeds fevers. s.
Messrs. Niche and Adams, the we'll o
nown excursion managers, offer n
mother opportunity for the people Of o
'armvile to take "A trip to Richmond "
{ a moderate cost. See advertisement a
Captain 5. W. Paulett is good So e.
citor when it comes to anything con- II
srning the old soldiers living or dead. VI
re are informed that yesterday in less u
nan an hour he raised a subscription 81
over $500 for the monument fund =
Both police officers have been bitten
y vicious dogs in the past week. The n;
w is a good one and ought not to be
pealed, but an amendment is needed "
y which no dogs will have to be n.
lught and killed. The owner is the
lly responsible one.
That zero weather didn't kill the sl
ees after all. But has been followed a.
7 blossom and blossom by fruit as Of m
,re. "Seed time and harvest are
DDS promise to man. Let us never
rget, however, that the "sweat Of the lo
ce" has much to do with the crop. lo