The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-07-14
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.


Ofan Angel OF Light
The tomato crop is promising
The Rice Manufacturing Co. has
put in "A new boiler.
Miss Grace Gibbs, of Manchester
is visiting Miss Ella Burger.
Mr.. w. w. Jackson is attending
the Farmers Institute, at Roanoke.
Miss Lizzie Davis visited Miss Pearl
Davis, AT Crewe, few days ago.
The bicycle is coming into popular
ity again throughout the world.
Misses Mamie and Carrie Noel are
visiting relatives aud friends in Lynch
burg.
Mrs. Campbell of Birmingham,
Ala, is visiting her sister, Mrs G. NJ.
Garrett.
Mrs. Lizzie Barnett, Of Bedford city,
is visiting her brother, Major Jno.
r. Martin.
Prof. Dahl has recOnsidered the mat
ter, and accepted the principalship Of
High School.
Mr. John Burger and bride return
cd Monday. We welcome the young
wife TO our town.
Senator Martin will not speak here
Saturday night, as was expected, but
will come TO Farmville later.
Miss Dunn, Of the Normal School
faculty, is attending the School Of
Methods at Christiansburg
Some very fine timber is coming in
To town, To be turned into handles Of
various kinds at our factories.
Mr.. w. r. Berkeley, who travels for
the American Tobacco Co., has been
visiting his mother at this place.
The Confederate monument at
Amelia courthouse will be unveiled
July 18th. Gov. Montague will speak.
Major a. h. Venable addressed the
State Farmers Institute, at Roanoke,
last Wednesday, on Managing Farm
Dairy.
Mr.. Geo. NJ. Robson is preparing
10 build "A dwelling house for rent
east Of the house occupied by Mrs.
Dunn.
Misses Hamlin and Derrick who
have been visiting at Hampden-Sid-
ney, have returned 10 their homes at
Danville.
Mr.. J. G. MattoOn, of the Normal
School Faculty, is teaching Manual
Training in the Summer Normal at
Norfolk
The negroes excursion from Rich
mond to this place last Monday, was
largely patrOnized. Several hundred
were on our streets.
The writer hereof has travelled in
many states, but he must declare that
he has never tasted anything half so
delicious as Virginia ham.
There seems to be a steady demand
for Prince Edward tobacco in Norway,
and great quantities are shipped di-
rectly to that far Northern land
Miss Laura Venable, of Charleston,
w. Va, who has been visiting here,
returned home Wednesday, accompa-
MED by Miss March Edmunds
1t is not generally known that Gen.
Nash, Of the Revolutionary war, in
whose honor Nashville, Tenn, was
named, was born near High Bridge, in
this county.
There will be Farmers Meeting at
Cumberland G. H., Thursday, July 20.
Hon. II. b. Sherman, National Organ
izer Of American Society Of Equity
will speak at IL a. NJ.
Harper's Weekly recently called at
tentiOn TO the fact that Farmville is
attracting large German immigration
Most Of the Germans who are buying
land near here are sturdy and thrifty.
Mr.. j. II. Perkins, a minister at
Huntsville, Mo, il writing a life Of
Gen. Sterling Price. He is in COM
municatiOn with several Of the citizens
Of this, Gen. Prices native county, in |
regard to facts in his life.
Miss Hattie Paulett will 90 to Char
lOtte courthouse tomorrow, to visit
Miss Lucy Eggleston, after which she
will visit Miss Minor, at Oxford n.
c.; and on her return home, she will
visit friends at Danville, Va.
Farmville has the unique distinction
OF having given to the Confederacy |
two Of its most distinguished generals.
Gen. Sterling Price was born about
miles southwest Of here, and Gen.
Joseph +. Johnston, one mile east Of
town.
AT the annual conference of division
at the University Of
Virginia, July I, Mr.. J. H. Davis, Su-
perintendent Of Prince Edward, was
honored with membership in the
standing committee on school build
ings and grounds.
Mrs. Broadhead, wife of the distin-
guished Prof Broadhead, Of the de
psrtment Of Geology, in the University
Of Missouri, was in town not long
since looking up genealogical data Of
the Price family, to which she belongs.
She will return soon for further infor-
nation.
Miss Grace Walton, who is visiting
at the home Of Capt. Newell b. Rich,
was honored last week with
a delightful lawn fete. The home was
8ualv illuminated and fha iawu