The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-08-02

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Mr.. and MIS-. w. A. Stone after a
week spent pleasantly in the mountains
returned home last Friday.
The HERALD Office is the coolest
place in town and likewise the place to
have your printing done.
Attorney.Gener Montague has been
invited to deliver the opening address
at our Fair and it is hoped he will be
present.
Some people are saying OF the
weather, "the hottest on record.u We
simply don't remember what we said
and suffered last summer.
Why not utilize the dull season by
advertising bargains? They are always
in demand and are no respectors of
seasons.
We would be glad to have you COM
pare the Fair premium list of this year
with that of last and say whether or
not the HERALD Office can turn out
city work. .
Representatives Of the Fair Associa-
ton will attend the courts Of all adj
joining counties between now and Oc-
tober, and endeavor to awaken wide
spread interest in the exhibition.
Privileges for selling things on the
Fair grounds are being asked for by
parties from a distance. May be our
home folks may want them, and if so
no doubt will be given the preference
Mr.. A. G. Porter, Of Charlotte, n. c.,
was in town a short while last week
shaking hands with old home friends.
Mrs. Porter and the children are visit
ing at Crewe, but will stop in Farm
vile before returning TO North Carolina.
Roasting ears haven't been as plenG-
ful as we expected. If you have them
to spare bring them in. Maybe if we
had "A market house no such complaint
would ever be made again. What has
become of the market house project
any way?
Saturday was busy day in Farm.
vile. Money changed bands freely,
everybody looked happy and though
busy all day and ar1ntp the night we
didn't see a tired merchant. IA. long
as the dollars pass the ordinary man
knows no such word as tired. The
absence of watermelons from the streets
on the last Saturday in July was un-
usual, but we will have them next
time.
The weather is warm but not too
warm to give attention to Fair matters.
The last week Of October will be one of
the most important in the history of
Farmville for 1901. Talk to your
neighbors on the subject, send premium
lists, make suggestions and do your best
to make the venture good success.
Its success means your gain, and
failure will reflect on you as a citizen
of Farmville There is no such word
as failure however, in the vocabulary.
Hon. J. J. Owen, in communica-
ton TO the SOuthside Examiner, con-
tends for good roads leading into Farm
willie. There has been no more sensi-
BILE suggestion made for a decade.
Bad roads are blOts on any commun-
itv, and ought to he blotted out. We
know of the failure to sell farm re-
Gently. involving a large sum of money
because of one very bad few hundred
wards of road. The same is true the
county and country over. Who can
estimate the tax paid on bad roads?
A remark was made by a negro on
the streets of Farmville last Sunday
which will tend more to estrange white
people than the author or his auditors
dream of. 1t is to be regretted that a
family should be made to suffer 10y
reason of the wrong doing of one of its
members, but it is sadly true, and so
negroes are made to suffer because of
the sin of some of their number. Let
the better of them try and control the
bad. "Those whom the gods wish to
destroy they first make mad
None wounded and none dead on
the field Of honor, is the report we have
from the sodier-boys who went to
Ocean View "a outing" We did hear
of big disgust on the part Of one private
in the rear rank, who fired and filled
with enthusiasm as he pulled out OF
Farmville at prospect Of sea breeze and
surf bathing, had it all Knocked out Of
him when he reached the end Of his
Journey and was Immediately armed
with spade and put into ditch. lie
isn't booked for the next encampmenL