The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-01-13
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.
A Text for You.

Leap year has come and gone, ant
what use have you made OF itg
Mr.. IL. Norwood Ewing spent sew.
eral days in town during the holidays
How about that New Year resolution
in this, the second week OF the new
year?
Mrs. III. h. Wall and son, Warren
Wall, spent last week in Richmond
and returned home on Friday.
The Herald always salutes the tur.
nip-salad season with uplifted hat and
smiling face.
Miss Eva Minor returned Saturday
after two weeks visit to her home in
oxford, n. G.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Venable return
ed Friday from their extensive bridal
trip.
Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Walker Scott
left Wednesday for Florida where
they will spend the winter.
Those few normal notes we had the
honor Of publishing i'm recent issue
were all right so far as they went. The
trouble is they didn't go far enough.
Rev. J. b. VIM returned Monday
from BOydton, where he conducted
the funeral services Of Col. Thomas
GOOde.
Mr.. $. w. Hank, formerly OF Char
lottesyille, is spending the month
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. ID.
Hank.
Hon. II. d. Flood, who 80 atty
and successfully defended +.
&C.. Woodbridge, left yesterday for his
official duties in Washington.
Think over the advertisement you
would make prominent in our Trades
Edition. 1t is only now and then that
our business men enjoy advantage like
this.
Another seige of courthouse work
will begin next Wednesday at which
time Charlie Forbes will be tried for
the same offense Of which Wool
bridge was acquitted.
There was a time when ladies were
rarely if ever seen in a court room, but
the modern day custom is very diff
ferent. They take up as much space In
the court room as men do.
The years come and go but the Her
aid goes on from year to year, and at
the same old stand and the same old
price, $l.OO year, two cents copy.
Consult us as to advertising rates.
If you failed to send the Herald as
Christmas gift to an absent friend it
is not too late. Each issue will tell Of
home and home folks, and that's best
news after all.
Fsrmville brides, certainly those Of
recent date, may change their names
but do not give up Farmville for other
places Of residence. This fact makes
the wedding bells give out the sweeter
music and richer harmony.
The farmer who failed to fill his ice
house before Xmas may not have an
other chance this season. At least we
would be glad TO know that we are
not to have more ice during the entire
winter.
Some Of our readers have babies Of
which they are justly proud, and we
want them to appear at their very best |
in the Herald's Trade issue. Others
have horses of which they too are
proud. Let us have them faithfully |
for the same columns.
IT, you didn't manure and pillow your
garden in the fall do so at the earliest
possible moment, but be sure not to
plOw it when wet. This is not the
advice of a theOrist, but one who
speaks from experience. Injudicious
is an incurable evil.
No matter how rough the macadam
we all appreciate it at this season OF
the year. We will never cease regret
ting that a passable dirt companion
was not made originally. The maca-
lam should only be used in mid-win-
ter or when the mud season is on.
The old year left US with smile on
It's face; smile spreading from (y)esr
10 W ear. Goodbye old friend, mem
Dry will bring you back over and over
again and our hope is that we will al
ways be glad to see you Some things,
however, we would forget but many
things we would remember through
out eternity.
One Of our correspondents from
whom we heard last week, and from
whom we are always glad to hear,
said he was going to make his letters
Tor 1905 the best of all the past. Thanks.
Now let his co-wOrkers touch elbows
with him and we are going to have
he best home paper in the state.
Despite the snow storm Tuesday
evening Jan. 5, 1905, the annual social
given by the Young Ladies' Home
Mission Society at the hospitsbfe home
IF Mr.. and Mrs. ]. ID. Watkins was a
success. The entertainment commit
zee, Mrs. w. p. Richardson, Mrs. p.
w. Beckkam, Misses Rubie Venable
md Lavalette Redd, with occult mys-
cries fitting the initiation into a Sc
ret society, caused the profile Of each
guest to be focused on a square OF
paper, and under the skillful pencil Of
DR.. Beckham and no less skillful
,rush of Miss Hattie Psulett, was then
liked a black paint Of deepest dye and