The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-12-07
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.

1t has less of sorrow and less Of strife,
2 Whatever they say or sing you;
Ana more OF love and more ollie
The beautiful seasons bring youi
Mr.. G. w. ellis is quite i'll at hi
home in this place.
The football season has closed an,
some of the actors survive.
Mrs. Graham and daughter, Of Rich
mond, are here for the holidays in tn,
home Of Mr. and Mrs. w. 0. Shelburne
Mr.. George w. Fowlkes is again a
resident Of our town, and his stock Of
good jokes is inexhaustible.
Mr.. Alfred Morrison, who is attend.
ing lectures at the Johns Hopkins, has
been on visit to his mother.
Clean out your ice houses and make
ready for the new crop. We have been
having good ones for some seasons past.
We wish some one would send us
receipt for making persimmon beer.
1t is all too good and too harmless to
be allowed TO die out of use.
If you have thought Of a Christmas
gift for the HERALD, and are doubtful
a. to what it should be, solve the diff
Guilty by sending in the money. We
will spare you the trouble of selecting.
The rain has come at last and that
means mud, mud, mud But Mr..
swan, our efficient road commissioner.
will work on the bottoms, and that
means better roads than ever before in
the history of the county.
Mr.. w. II. Ewing has a new Zon o.
phone, and delights his neighbors and
friends with it. The funeral announce
ment is worth the price. He is arrang-
ing for a Christmas entertainment
which will "astonish the natives"
a petition in bankruptcy was filed in
the clerks Office of the United States
District Court Wednesday by +. Henry |
Glenn, Of Prospect Depot. Judge J.
NJ. Crute is counsel for the petitioner.
The liabilities are $685. 10. There are
no assets.
1t is with music as with other things,
if we want it, we must pay the price.
The Farmville Band makes good mu-
sic, but to live it must lie supported.
It makes much of wind but can't live
Oh it. Help the boys, and they will
make our town life brighter and hap
pier.
The Rev. Mr. Lancaster, who recent
y bought the Price farm in Cumber-
and, is already improving the old
and says he Is going to
make it one Of the most attractive
places in the community. He has
een much Of our country and is in
testing in Southside Virginia real es-
ate. Nor is he governed in this by
eminent but by business.
Prof. Smith gave all earnest aud inn
'ressive talk at the meeting Of the Y.
Il. &. A. last Sunday afternoon. Rev
Ir. Thompson will conduct the services
f next Sunday. There is room for a
reat many more young men than are
sualy present, and there is no reason
1hy some of our older citizens do not :
ndorse such meetings by their pres
nee.
Rev. w. f.. Evans, formerly pastor
( the Methodist church i'm this place,
ut now in charge of Monumental :
Episcopal church, Richmond, believes n
nat wine means wine and not the =,
lice Of the grape, and so believing he /
gently declined to introduce the lat l.
n at the communion services Of his o
hurch, at the request Of committee :
presenting the w. G. Il. u. (,
The Normal will suspend lectures a d
eek for Christmas, and many of the y
Dung ladies will 20 to their homes.
hey have our congratulations, and G
re hope that the reunions will be as n
adsOme as anticipation now makes n
rem. Some will remain with us dur +
x the holiday season, and to such all |
pledges happy Christmas G.
me. We cannot pull for them the b
tch string of the old homes, but they a
i'll find ours on the outside and re-
,Onslve to the gentlest touch. |,
Miss Couling, Of the faculty, and "
Uses Knzer and Watkins of the stu 81
of the Normal school, at o.
nded the recent meeting Of the Young is
'Oman's Christian Association, which k
as held in Lynchburg, and took ac- 81
We part in the proceedings. From il
e Lynchburg Ne,0s we also learn that e
isses Parrish, Hunt and Mapp, all h
aduates of the Normal, we're there n
so, and contributed to the interest of h
e occasion. No such meeting i'm Nir- fe
MIA would be complete without the 5,
essence of some of our girls.
Mr.. Elliott, who will be at the Opera N
ouse Friday night, is probably the It
aiding exponent Of the new SCHOOL, III
impersonation, which aims to inn C
rsonate mentally rather than bodily. o.
rter one OF Mr.. ElliOtt's entertain ci