The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-05-17
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.


mirth,
You can start in brand-new with to-day,
For the nights, like thick curtains. I've hun
TO exclude
Inc past rom the weary and the weak;
SO prithee, be doing, nor linger to brood
Ger the troubles that happened last week
There are pages OF pathos and pages o
cheer,
To be read in each story Of life.
wen close the Old chapters and sim perse
we're
through love, or good fortune or strife.
Though present events may provoke oul
dismay,
solace lis easy to seek;
Let the hours drift away. you will soon find
that they
Are but troubles that happened last week"
Mrs George Baskerville, of Boydton,
is at Mrs. Berkeley's.
You may put on the old straw now.
or the new one just as you prefer.
Dr. and Mrs Anderson returned
Sunday night from their bridal tour.
Farmville's trees are in full dress, as
gorgeous and as graceful as ever.
A few members of the Farmers Club
met at Rice Depot last Saturday after
noon.
We haven't seen the homegrown
strawberry as yet. A welcome awaits
the friend OF other seasons.
Farmville's roses are abloom lust
now, and were never more radiantly
beautiful.
Farmvllle's gardens are Towering
into fairness, and even now begin to
delight the eye and please the taste.
Farmville's people, generally, are
well fed, we'll housed, well dressed,
happy, hopeful, cheerful.
In less than one month and the Nor
malites will have entered upon their
term of vacation. We will all miss
them.
Miss Bette b. Knight, of Farmville,
is visiting her brother, Mr.. McIlwaine
knight, on Madison street.-Lynch-
burg AdUdnce
Col. b. w. l.. Blanton, who is visit
ing his son and daughter in Texas, is
to be greatly improved in {
health.
We have been told that sanitarium
will be established in Farmville. The
suggestion is an admirable one and we
hope soon to see it in practical opera
ion.
In many parts of the country wider
public roads are badly needed. From
Farmville to Rice, there are some places .
where it is with great difficulty that
wo vehicles can pass. /
The Farmyllle Guard will go on \
outing, so they say. The Y
present plan is to encamp at Ocean +
View. There they can fight mosqui- i
Oes instead of men. :
Here we are in the middle of May g
gam. This reminds us that June will b
Don be with us, and that means that d
he Normalites will not be with us then. :
une roses will not compensate for v
heir loss.
Every fire which visits this town r
lore thoroughly demonstrates the wis r.
ON of the investment in water The n
uarterly payments made by the town j..
n water ought to be the easiest money ~
1pended. J..
Mrs. Sallie Stokes, of Felden, brought W
Mrs. r. r. Cralle, on last Monday, a
lnch of asparagus. some Of the stalks
which measured four inches in cir "
inference and were eleven inches af
ng. Can you beat that? OF
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is no doubt en-
ying his retirement and his return to
irginia and we will all be glad to see
m. Farmville's latch string hangs in
the outside. BY the way the Gen. u
al has never seen our monument, and an
ght to. aft
Miss Maria Page Banton, daughter I'M
Mrs. n. A. and the late DR.. p. s.
anton, died Sunday at her home in wi
after few weeks illness. I'LL
e is survived by one sister, Mrs. w. he
Johnson, of Amelia county, and a sit
other, DR.. &. A. Blanton, of Rich Bs
md, Va. ADJ
At least one mail carrier who comes by
Farmville, drives a steed which as
'uld not escape the clutches of a oil
,iety for the Prevention of Cruelty /
if we had such an organi- Pr'
ion in town. We need one, and the rel
vernment needs to remove such bra
rkers from the starving line. Z
Many of the business men of Farm 'i''
lie are men of unusually regular
bits. They reach their stores and ~
urn to their meals on time. The ~
e Mr.. Wiltse was conspicuous in this
ard. No clock or watch was ''0'
,ded to mark the time Of day when
left his store for dinner. 1t was
rays just so many minutes past such \
hour. nov