The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-11-01
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.
Promises.

Promises.
HE
> do not know II shall wake some day
To live forever after I'm the sky,
But this know, dear, II you come TO lay
A flower on my tomb and sweetly sigh.
/ shall escape Deaths cruel. cold embrace,
And from my narrow, clammy prison fiy,
And you may think the breezes kiss YOU
face
Al, twill not be the wind il will be /.
SHE.
Dear, If chance to 90 before the day
That angels bear your soul mp to the sky,
l shall not look for you to come and lay
A flower on the tomb in which lie
i shall not linger there in wait for you,
/ For II / may escape Deaths bondage
/ Will hurry back to haunt the woman who
Expects TO wear your flowers when die.
The crowd is alright and we love the
quiet too.
The town will soon be replenshed
with rice.
Judges are fallibe. Remember that
and you will forgive mistakes.
We enjoyed the storm, and now we
are enjoying the calm, too.
Mrs. Foster, of Norfolk, is visiting
Miss Fannie Wells.
Mr.. {. ID. Fleming, Of Richmond, was
in town Fair week.
Miss Pearl Cobb, of Darlington
Heights, is at Mrs. Mottley's.
Mrs Fred. Glenn, of Lynchburg, is
visiting her home in Farmville.
Miss Maud Sutherland is visiting her
sister, Mrs. II. II. Hunt.
Miss Matte Leath, of Nottoway, WAS
in our town last week.
Mrs. Eddie Jennings, Of Norfolk, was
a visitor at the Fair last week.
Mrs. DR.. Banks, of Cumberland, was
the guest last week of Mrs. DIR. Smith.
Fakirs are funny folks, but some
people prefer them to any other feature
Of the Fair.
Mrs. Walter Joyner, Of Suffolk, with
her little boy, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. George Richardson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown, of Blackstone,
were in town during the Fair, the
guests of Mrs. Henry Lindsey.
The Planters bank building is one of
the handsomest ever erected in Farm
vile, and credit to the town.
We regret that faklrs will attend
Fairs, and that Satan will go to church.
The millennium has not yet come. We
wish it had
One charming girl did knock our hat
Off during Fair days, but it was the
gentlest of knocks and charged with
exquisite grace.
1t was the New Home that sent those
stitches singing through wood, metal
and cloth, and not the Singer as was
announced in the HERALD last week.
Not one political speech in Prince
Edward during the entire canvass, and
yet Prince Edward Democrats know
their duty, and knowing will dare do
it.
We read the other day of a man who
had "grace, grit and gumption." We
venture the assertion that if such
man lived in Farmvile he would favor
an annual Fair
The Star Warehouse in full and Fair
dress is unlike the Star Warehouse in
business attire. 1t is just so with man,
Sunday clothes actually change per-
sonal identity.
The footprints Of confetti are yet to
be seen on our streets, and the echoes
of the shrill horn still ring in our ears
We have no fault to find, however,
with footprints or echoes.
The Pan.American came out Of the
show business four million loser. 1t
would be well for persons who in future
propose embarking in such ventures to
come TO Farmville and first learn the
secret of success.
Mr.. Theodore Low, division Superin-
tendent of the Norfolk and Western
railway, was visitor to Farmville's rep
resentative business men Monday. Mr.. |
Low is a pleasant, afiable gentleman,
and is rapidly making friends along the
line Of his road.
Farmvile's gratitude goes out to all |
those who have honOred her with their |
presence during her Fair days She
has tried to please, and If she has failed,
her invitation is given even now, to
come next time, and she promises to do
better
Thanks to Lunenburg, Charlotte,
Buckingham, Cumber-
land, Powhatan, Amelia and all other
who so generously contributed
to the success of Farmville's Fair.
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