The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-08-09

Miss Ruth Eskew, of Charleston, w
Va, is visiting Mrs. J. II. Whitehead.
Mrs. Fred. Glenn, of Lynchburg, i.
visiting her father, Capt r. NJ. Burton
Misses Katie Morris and Willie Davis
are visiting relatives and friends near
Evergreen.
Miss Katie Russell, who has been
visiting in the mountains, returned
home Tuesday.
We don't begin to believe that the
peach crop Of this section was good
one this season.
Misses Kate, Grace, and Mary Van
derslice, of Suffolk, are the guests of
Mr. and Mrs Vanderslice.
Farmvlle has the honor just now Of
entertaining strangers from overy Sec
ton of the country.
Mrs j. X. Spencer, of Lynchburg,
who has been visiting the family OF
DR.. Peter Winston, returned home to-
day.
Mr.. Theodore Low, superintendent
Norfolk & Western railway, was in
town looking around again last We'd
nesday.
Get your bunting in time for the Fair
There was great struggle for it on the
first day of our last Fair.
What a pity that the roses don't
bloom all summer To get them soon
the pocket book will have to open
wide.
The bicycle seems to be falling into
"innocuous desuetude." 1t is about
time we were having the "auto" on
our streets.
Mrs. b. f. Allen, with her children,
Miss Carrie, Masters Edward, Benja-
min and Clarence, of Norfolk, is at
Mrs. Wade's.
Miss Fannie Booker and mother, Of
Portsmouth, who have been visiting
the family of Col. r. A. Booker, re-
turned home Monday.
Butter is scarce and high for the
season. We saw happy house wife
recently who had just sold at % cents
pound.
Why not have public square in
Farmville? But now that we have
made the suggestion an all sufficient
answer has suggested itself.
Remember that only ONE couple
can win the prize for marrying under
the auspices of the Fair Association.
1t would be well to apply in time.
With a seasonabe August we are
going to have the best clover yield next
Spring ever seen in this portion OF
Virginia, and this is the home of the
clover.
Some ladies report remnant bargains
i'm our dry goods stores. All ladies
should know of them. The surest way
of reaching them is through the col
umns of the HERALD.
There are three BARRIERS i'm town, and
vet some men only shave once a week.
A two-day.oId beard isn't becoming,
and as the days 90 by, and the beard
continues to grow, conditions get to be
bristling.
The air is filled again with rumors
of the building of a new hotel on the
site of the old one. We have heard 1t
stated that $26, 600 would be put in the
venture. That's none too much, and
it would pay.
We have reason to believe that in
short time we will be permitted to pub
lish the facts connected with the grow
ing. in the county of Cumberland, of
the most remarkable hay crop ever
raised in Virginia.
The Herald Job Office is more thor
oughly equipped for doing satisfactory
work than ever. A large line of new
type. rules, borders and ornaments have
been put in stock at considerable cost,
and we invite inspection of our samples.
As we didn't have our usual Bruins
wick stew on the Fourth why not name
day and still have it? The ingredients
are more plentiful and eaters just as
willing. Let some one collect the cost,
appoint the time and place, and we
will all be there.
The Commissioner Sale Of the valu-
able Cumberland tract Of land, known
as Inglewood." which was advertised
TO be sold on the DIST day Of August,
has been postponed until sometime in
the near future, to be made known
through the columns of the HERALD.
External vigilance is the price OF
liberty.~ and everlasting reminders
may get our City Fathers to look after
the approaches to the bridge across the
Appomattox. Farmyille's future, in
some measure, depends on exit and
ingress over this particular road. 1t
is one of the main arteries along which
flows the very life-blood of the town.