The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1903-04-24
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS
March.

In this forgetful mood
But on the last day OF his reign,
This direful chance befell.
That he remembered he had left
His mantle at the well.
And then he turned about In rage,
And vowed he would retrace
Zach league OF land until he reached
That distant resting place.
And April wept most bitter tears,
Nature shook with sob and moan.
The very earth seemed wrapped In gloom,
But March would have his own.
The new depot is ready for use, and
we presume will soon be on full duty.
The paint brush is busy at work In
town and whatever 1t touches II adorns.
Are we to have Fair in October or
not? Answers will be published in
the Herald.
Don't be uneasy, we will have plenty
Of sunshine yet before the summer is
ended.
-Four girls in the family and not Il
boy. But who wouldn't have one girl
rather than two boys.
Mr.. G. r. Glenn, general agent Of the
Peabody Fund, was the guest Of Presi-
dent Jarman, on Monday.
Mrs. Robert Louis Freear, who spent
the Easter holidays with her parents
in Richmond, has returned home.
Mr.. +. f. Goodwin, a popular and
prominent young business man Of En-
poria, Va, visited friends in Farmville
last Sunday.
Miss Sallie Clarke Cullen will return
shortly from her home in Lynchburg,
to spend the summer with her cousin,
Mrs Robert Louis Freear.
Houses with new coats Of paint and
folks with new gowns on. Things are
Frightening up in town while all the
country rejoices and is glad.
There are a great many ways in
which to work of an old stock of goods,
but the most improved way is to adj
vertise like fury.
We are indebted to Mr.. Geo. A.
Lindsay, of Scottwood, for the most
beautiful buttonaire Of spring flowers
we have seen during the season.
Or. Winston went to Roanoke on
Tuesday as delegate to the Grand
Council Of the Royal Arcanum and re-
turned on Wednesday nights train.
What a good time the teachers will
have in Richmond this week. They
are earnest workers and we are glad to
know they have this little crest oil. "
The Sunday school lesson oflast Sun
day dealt with debt, and the conclusion
reached was that if everybody would
pay nobody would be in debt. Just So
Among those visiting and trading
in town this week were Misses Ellie
and Hattie Gillian and Miss Agnes
Johns, of Buckingham, and Mr..
Horace Jeffress, of Nottoway.
Twenty-Five cents isn't much money
and yet it will buy the Herald for three
months, and three months OF neigh
borhood news is valuable to a man
who loves his neighbors.
The surveyors Of the new line OF
railway, to which Prince Edward has
voted a subscription, have reached
DanvilIe. Now for embankments, cuts,
rails, depots and running cars.
Col. w. p. Vensble was appointed
by Gov. Montague one Of the delegates
to the Good Roads Convention from
the 4th Congressional District, which
Convention will meet in st. Louis.
The Herald presses have been "busy
to the brimn of late, but 1t is with
presses as with persons, the busy man
always has time to do something else.
Bring in your work and you shall have
prompt attention.
Rev. Mr.. McAlister, who during the
present session, has been teaching the
classes of Rev. DR.. Moore, at Union
Theological Seminary, preached two
most interesting and acceptable ser
mons at the Presbyterian church on
last Sunday.
Mrs. ]. S. McIlwaine entertained
Handsomely and most delightfully."- at
her home on Randolph street, Wednes-
day afternoon between the hours OF o
and :. Mrs. McIlwaine is charming
hostess and has already won enviable
reputation as such in Farmville's so
cial world.
Saturday looked like a busy day in
Farmville and the merchants tell US II
was. No drunk" in sight and no dis
order in evidence. But our Saturdays
have always been free from the disrep-
utable though heretofore the crowds on
our streets were a little more demon
strative than they were on last Satur-
day.
An appreciative reader of the Herald
who sometime since moved to sister
State, writes that while he enjoyed the
paper in Farmyille now that he Is alb
sent from the town such is his interest
in that he reads it from end, to end
advertisements included. Subscribe for
a copy Of the home paper and have 1t
sent to your absent friend.
Major Otley is In town, looking
younger, and, but that we would stir
his vanity we would add, handsomer
than when he left us. He is just from
the Kentucky oil fields, where he tells
us that operations have been interrupt