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

Drive wrinkles from your cOuntenance,
= And set the bushes there.
So come an that are growing old,
~ And lame and blind and halt;
e Come Oh. and into pickle GO
=. Drive out your ills with salt.
- Bat hurry up, VIII lie yet there is
Enough O 60 around,
, Before the salt Trust ask US Twen-
Iy dollars for pound
The week Of prayer beganliere in
the Baptist church last Tuesdaylnight.
Mr.. A. A. Cox says that a stop watch
IN tarmville has heavily curtailed the
speed Of many horse.
DIR. w. +. Anderson, who has been
confined to his bed for some days. is
able to be out again.
Miss Lois Binford, Of Five Forks.
this county, is in Farmville for month
under treatment Of DR.. w. A. Kearney.
Our policemen are so exacting while
on duty that they haven't time to 90
into their winter quarters to get warmed
up.
We ask attention to the change of
advertisement Of Mr.. w. p. Richard
son, in which is splendid offer to his
patrons.
We are glad to learn that DR.. r. NJ.
Bidgood aud family will return to
their old Farmville home from Peters.
burg.
Mr. Arthur Duvall has returned from
West Virginia, and is now with the
Winston Drug Co. "There is no place
like home"
Capt. 5, w. Paulett and r. d. Mil.
Ter have made note with the Plan
tiers Bank for little over $500 with |
which amount the entire Indebtedness
for the Confederate monument has
been met.
On Friday, Jan. IS, at half past one
o'clock, an address on General Robert
Il. Lee will be delivered at the Public
School by Judge Flournoy. The public
IS cordially invited.
Miss Bessie Birdsong, of Petersburg,
who was painfully injured in a runa-
way accident in Richmond last week.
Is improving rapidly. This intelli-
gence will be read with pleasure by
Miss Birdsong's friends in Farmville.
The anniversary of the birth day Of
Gen. X. f. Lee occurs on the 18TH
Other places in Virginia aud elsewhere
will observe the day by appropriate
ceremonies. Farmville would honor
herself by honoring the memory of the
great commander.
The HERALD GraphOphone has been
aiiOrdlng an immense amount Of innO-
cent amusement, and now that many
records . are made resonant with the
songs aud sayings Of home folks, inter-
est in the wonderful instrument has
been greatly quickened. Treasurer
Ewing delighted Sunday school chill
dren and older ones too all during the
Christmas days with his Zonophone,
aud insists upon it that his "All Coons q
Look Alike" is the "hit" Of the last
and OF the present century. =
The New Century and the New Year ,
differ but little from their predecessors. a
Morning and evening, sun rise and sun
set, waking and sleeping hours, buying [
aud selling births and funerals, teach. G
ing and learning, leaving home and a
then returning, loving and hating, a
giving and receiving, turning out job [
work and issuing papers. The same 1
Did routine, and yet each day marked
)y the unexpected. And so we 20 G.
luirying on from duty to duty, pleas b
IRE TO pleasure, day to day, and will so
continue until some day, some hour, Y
ome moment the silver chord will be
mapped and above our last resting 2
)lace will some tears fall and "dust to n
lust" be spoken. [,
The next entertainment Of the Y. NJ. j
:. A. Star Course will take place Fri d
lay, January 25th and will be one Of Ell
he best Of the Course. The company K
onsists Of Mr.. Stanley Olmsted, n
'ianist who has won success in Ger &
many; Miss Gertrude Miriam Potuin, A
he viOlinist, is one Of the leading la
stists Of the day, and her playing has So
reused enthusiasm in the best mu- g
zeal circles; Miss Blanche Breneman,
he reader, is commended by President
1cKinley and a host of admirers.
he first part Of the program will be
'urely musical, the second part will be fl
presentation OF Enoch Arden, which nj
iii consist Of reading aud music, the G.
sading explaining the music as the d,
lusic interprets the reading. Y,
Savings Bank.
Dr. Winston is considering the pro- :,
rlety Of opening a savings bank in "