The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-03-22
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.


My thoughts SIN cling to the moulderin
past.
hut the hopes of youth fall thick in the bla,
And the days are dark and dreary.
BE stil', sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the cloud is the sun still shining;
my rate Is The common fate Ofall
Into each life some rain must fall,
some days must be dark and dreary.
-Longfellow
MIS-. Fannie b. Humphreys Is a
Mrs. Berkeley's.
Miss Fannie Hauptlin has been TN,
guest of Mrs W. +. England.
Mr. Psttie, Of Richmond, was shak.
ing hands with friends in town last
Sunday.
Niolets at l5cts hundred are cheaper
than roses at Scots apiece, and Nature
furnishes nothing fairer or more fra
grant
For the schedule, &c, of the Easter
excursion which will run from here to
Richmond, see advertisement in an
other column.
We would be glad to have the custo-
dian OF the courthouse square call a. the
HERALD Office. We have suggestion
to make to him.
Rev. DR.. Halves is announced to
preach at the Presbyterian church next
Sunday. He was for fourteen years
pastor Of that church.
Mr. Frank W. Mckinney, Of Lynch
burg, was in town on Monday, looking
"a natural a. the lamp posts on Main
street. Some people ought never to
leave Farmville
"Cal" Bliss stentorian voice was
heard on Main street on Saturday as
he recommended the many good points
of gay colt. The colt went low, but
the voice went high.
The delegates To the county conven-
ton from Buffalo are Messrs. w. II.
Walden and X. w. Fuqua, and those
from Hampden are DR.. Holiday and
Mr.. T. Ii. Dickinson.
Tops are "on top" just now in town,
and the boy who can't throw one with
unerring certainty isn't in it, When
will the marble campaign open? and
what has become of the QUOT club?
The HEDALD ought to be in every
home of this section of Virginia. If it |
is not worthy Of this high honor help |
Us to make it so. Proper news and |
prompt paying subscribers will make
it so.
Farmvile's crock pile" is an expen-
sive luxury. An able bodied man on
L with good hammer hardly earns
bis salt. Snairs motion is fast when
compared with those measured, digni-
led and deliberate ticks.
Mrs. Ella Martin has display of
priug millinery worth coming far to
ee Her place Of business is in the
esidence on Main street next door to
'aulett d Pauletts and w. II. Blan-
0n's. See her advertisement next
week.
How often did you ever hear sauta-
ion like this: "How is alp" and reply
ike this? I'VE is all not so well? How
: all with you?" 1t answers all prac-
zeal purposes, however, and we have
10 complaint to make Of it.
Shad will get cheaper bye and bye,
ut then nobody will want them. 1t
) pity that the best things come
Ugh. And yet, now that we think
bout it, this isn't so, for sunlight
Oesn't cost cent, and is the best Of
God things.
At meeting Of the executive COM
littee of the Republican party of the
tate, which was held in Richmond on
lt lJAu iuct, WI. N'tD. ANiCiidlNoOu was ,
opposed as the chairman Of the party
n this County, and Mr.. J. f. Harris I
as appointed to the position.
Dr. Kearney entertained the doctors !
dinner last Saturday evening. 1t ]
as his birthday. He didn't tell us {
is age, but we are safe in saying he /
a. only seen the light Of two centuries. .
he occasion was most memorable by !
,rrect diagnosis, scientific prescribing |
nd complete recovery. !
The usual crowd was in town on Sat i
day, and lower Broadway in New I
ork, was no more jammed than was .
lr Main street Good natured. laugh h
X, joking, buying, coming, going un- e
the sun went down after which l
WIN shoppers continued the fight un- y
closing hour. Saturday is red |,
tier day in the history Of Farmvlle. d
The FarmyiIle Guard Captain. G.
It is now Captain Cralle instead of q