The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1902-05-30
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.



Do son want fo win aracs,
Try ir
ff,oa long Tor houored place,
Try TO-
vsn ha,e lost and men have won
Tween tae settings OF "a sun;
IHlt~atlance for every one
Irs ir
YoaI notW in unless you start
Irs r
kt.rtle f.int out of your heart
Try iC
lat yoar pathway straight away,
choose io strive, or choose to stay;
Men move mountains every day
Try lG
Rev s. IL. Thompson WAS in Rich
moud last Tuesday.
Both bank, will be closed today in
Observance Of Decoration Day.
Miss Maggie Elan, Of Buckingham,
6, at the saua,orium for treatment
Mis-, Boothe, Of Petersburg, will be
the guest next week Of Miss Mary b.
Walker
Miss Margurite Mckinney, Of
Lyuehburg, will visit Miss Susie
Scott next week
Mr. G.. F. Bugg was in attendance
this week at Norfolk upon the South
ern Diocese Of the Episcopal Church.
The ladies Of the Baptist church
viii g.vea strawberry festival and lawn
party tonight for the benefit of the
Salem Orphauage.
Mr. ". 4 Taylor, a former Powha-
tam man. was in town this week ST.
curing signatures TO a paper endorsing |
him for the office Of Railroad Com
missioner
The ll.months-old-child Of Mrs. En-
ma Motley, Of Amelia, is convalescing
az the Lithia Springs Sanatorum from
an attack Of pneumonia produced by
the Judgment Of peanut in its wind
pipe
When ae read Of bursting volcanoes,
sweeping hurricanes, mine horrors,
pe,ulences and amines, let Us take
courage and thank God that we live in
,0uthside Virginia.
A subscription will be asked of
famviile for the building Of the
Charlotte, Farmvlle and James River
Valley Railroad. OF course, vote
will have 20 be taken on the question.
We have bad DO suggestions as yet
ou the subject Of those two days in
October TO be devoted to entertainments
fr country aud town cousins. "All
work and no play make jack and all
the rest Of us "dull boys"
A telephone system such as we have
been c0utendng for would have saved
one Of our readers so and another five
recently. What it will be worth to
Farmvlle is hard TO estimate, and yet
DC does seem so hard to get the venture
"a going"
Next sunday Rev ;. II. Thompson
will preach the baccalaureate sermon
before the graduating class Of the Nor
mai school. The services will be held
at the Baptist church and the public
Will haze a cordial welcome. {
The two new trains put on Sun
day were neither on schedule time. !
Bad beginning makes good ending"
any way, those trains are the most
convenient means Of transportation
Farmvil.e has ever enjoyed. {
And now old Cumberland is to have q
flowing oil wells, and may be "gushers."
All things come TO those who wait
and work Leasing lands will be in
order and our hope is that it will be as :
lively aud as profitable as was ever
witnessed iu the early days Of Pen ,
-ylvauia.
The preachers are right when they
say that the sabbath is not observed I
as 1t once was. An open postofiice, T
daily paper, afternoon driving were ,
unknown TO our fathers, and we recall d
two Of the old citizens Of Prince Ed t
ward, both long since dead, one Of 5
whom wouldu'. shave himself on Sun '
day, and the other wouldn't allow the q
ilt tap to be set.
Farm,ille TRADED and High school. G