The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-09-02
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.
The LIE Note.
The laurel for the brave
The shining spear and shield,
For honest failure. Just IA grave
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The "small boy" and the chlnquepl
are about To meet again. May Tia
meeting be a glad one.
Why don't our farmers plant lat
Irish potatoes for seed? We pay higl
for them In the spring.
Miss l'aulyne Walton, Of Powhatal
county, paid Il brief visit last Saturda,
To Mrs. w. Armistead Rice.
Doyne's new three story store housI
will compare with most city business.
houses when completed.
Mrs. Edgar w. Smith, Of Rock,
Mount, n. G., is visiting Mrs. William
V. Boyle, at Mrs. J. r. Cunningham's
Messrs. Manly b. Ramos, Jr., anC
Roy J. Allen, Of Richmond, have beer
guests this week OF Mr.. Beverly Win.
stOn.
The macadam road is In horrible con.
dition, and in some places the newly
made dirt highway is almost worthless
for travel.
Mr.. L. b. Parkinson, Mr.. Charlie
Wall and son, Master Ewing Wall, OF
Richmond, have been the guests OF
Mrs. J. b. Wall.
It's worth a trip down town to see
the wonderful improvement made in
the store Of the Messrs. Baldwin. Moth
ing prettier anywhere.
Fatten your hogs while the weather
is warm, when the cold comes 1t will
require rich food to keep them warm .
Now II all goes to fat.
Why is 1t that farmers sow peas and
clover in their corr fields when they
cut out the last blade Of other grasses?
Some farmer will kindly answer.
II must be acknowledged that some
Of our advertisers know just how to do
it. A catchy adv. always catches the
eye and becomes neighbOrhood talk.
Suppose you "cstch on"
Mr.. J. II. Cunningham, Of New
York, has been shaking hands with
Farmville friends this week. dob"
says that there Is no place on earth so
good and pleasant to live in as
Farmville.
Miss Ella Burger. who has been
visiting relatives in Philadelphia and
Atlantic City, returned home last Mon
day afternoon. Miss Ella will attend
the Woman's College at Lynchburg
next session.
Put up sll the preserves you can, and
can as little " possible. Preserves are
glorious, and canned things will only
do when yon can't do better. And
don't forget that there il nothing bet
ter than preserved apples.
Just a walk to the springs each day
Of the pretty autumn season, and note
the beneficial result upon your general
health. Happy the man who lives
within walking distance to such a spot
the Farmville Lithis Springs.
How do men organize. ex cursiOns?
by advertising. How do men gain
notoriety? BY advertising. Who sells
most goods? The most liberal and
most judiciOus advertiser. What is
mightier than the sword? The pen.
Prince Edward is better of than
Uncle Sam. Her debts are paid and a
comfortable surplus left over, while
Mr.. Roosevelt is running the machine
at a frightful daily loss. If the voters
are wise they will remove him from
The old council met Wednesday
night and heard the annual reports Of
the sergeant and treasurer. The re-
ports showed over $4,000 collected by
the town during the past fourteen
months. We will publish them in our
next issue.
The second day Of another season
The summer gone, and with it all that
made it glad or romanceful. Now for
Inc ingathering Of the harvests and
hen a comfortable winter before an
open fire place. May our readers enjoy
ust such a one. ,
A presbytery with a dinner in the
yard reminds us Of old times, good old
lines, a. some would say, and they
we're good times for many and sad
lines for a fewIas all times have always
aud as likely TO he until time is
no more. !
After extensive travel we are per-
that Farmville homes, places Of
business, depOts, factories, churches
md school houses are the most attrac-
i've Of any town Of like size in the
The mar or woman who Is not a.,
glad to live in Fsrmvllle would be +,
miserable elsewhere. q
We confess to have seen before I
70 many pretty and entertaining girls {
It one place as were at Mr.. Jim" 9
Jlark's hospitable home on Monday
light last. And such watermelOns 2
They were super-abundant and as T
delicious as ever grew in a Bartlett q
patch. |
Can our spOrtsmen kill bull bats?
Who will say? Birds not protected n
the new game law, are English
parrows, great-horned owl, sharp G
kinned hawk, cooper's hawk, crow, 4
lackbird and rice bird" Nothing
aid OF MI. Bull-bat, so we have moth t
ny to say. {
We read somewhere that BARRIERS
would in future refuse to cut the hair q
I persons who shaved themselves.
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