The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-09-28
Snap Shots al Town Life.


it make readable chapter if one coul
only dot down the chattings of on
walk even around the circle?
Farmvile without a Normal wou
be worse than Hamlet with no Hamle
in the play.
One Of his fellOw-tOwnsmen me
Ben Cox on the street the day of tn
Normal opening and not many day
after the arrival of another distinguish
ed stranger in town, and asked him
"How many now ~ To which h
made quick reply: Haven't had TIM
to count 'em" But the friend. said
81 am not talking of school children
but children at home" "Same is tru,
there. Haven't had time to coun
'em.n
One Of the wide-awake merchants o
! Farmvile has such solemn way Of
repeating the words: "Sleep. You are
almost asleep. You are sleep now" a
to produce profound slumber DER the
most alert Persons who suffer from
insomnia would do well to consult him.
Our side walks, on Main street carry
entirely too much water. The cups
ought to be cut out Of them.
a sign or two would be Of service in
directing patrons to the proper win
dow at the pOstolice. All of us don't
know just where the scales are located,
and don't want to be reckoned a
"greeny" when we make mistake.
The depot platform Of the n. Il w.
ought to be enlarged, as the town folks
seem to be a anxious TO "welcOme the
coming and speed the parting" trains
a. though each one was first to enter
the town.
One boot black began to make mon
ey and now there name is legion
More business men of Farmville ride to
their meals in private vehicles than
any town Of like size in the world.
There is at least one coored man in
town who isn't friend Of the local
telephone system by large odds. He
says the first time he heard it ring he
answered the call, and the man at the
other end said: 81 wish you would
come down and pay that 10 cents you
have been owing so long" He hasn't
answered ring since.
Scratching matches on church walls
before the amens to benedictions are
pronounced and flying cigarette smoke
in the faces of retiring congregation
cannot be said to be the work of heroes,
nor can the splitting Of tobacco juice on
the walkways of the town.
The substitution of clear glass for
smoked glass doesn't seem to have di-
minished the beer selling of Farmville.
The fact is, so many folks love beer,
saints and sinner alike, that glass OF
no glass, they will continue to drink it.
Some people so far dispense with the
glass a. to drink it from the bottle
Trunk delivery in Farmville is gen.
orally made at reasonable cost, but
know of two Normal teachers who
were required to pay Sl.25 for the haul
ing of two trunks.
sincerely wish that protracted re-
ligious services could go on all the time
We are so much better while they art
in progress
Going from church services to the
depot to get the Sunday newspaper is a
Farmvile fad. Wouldn't it be well to
quit the dailes for a day and rest upon
little bible reading? Suppose you
try it anyhow.
/ saw a citizen of our town standing
on street corner intensely gazing sky
ward. | asked him: "What's up|
He said: Not so much as there was
| have Just seen 1000 swallows fly down
the mouth of that factory chimney
don't know that the count was &C.
curate, but he gave the exact figures.
Saturday may be called Farmville's
Mosaic day. Take stand at one Of
the corners Of Main street and watch
the restless, moving, buying, selling
laughing crowd and you will be i'm
pressed with the varying colors as you
will he with varying forms and fea
lures. Good natured, law respecting
congenial, cheerful crowd, however
and Farmvlle awaits the return Of
Saturday with never failing, but eveI
increasing interest. 1t is the good day
when town and country meet and
mingle, know more the one Of the 9th
er. and when they know each othel
better they will love each other the
more.
Monday is bill day in Farmville anc
that makes il "blue" day. Frost OF
uncut tobacco is not more unwelcom'
than the bill collector. Why was Mon
day ever fixed on as bill day anyhow
All surplus change ought to be put il
the church basket, and Monday ough