The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-06-30

And takes the biggest chance.
Miss Mamie Price Amos left Mon
day 10 visit her relatives in Roanoke.
Miss NJ. X. Amos left Monday To
attend the school of methods in Char
lottesville.
Mrs. +. b Davidson, Of Bedford
city, is stopping with her son, Major
Jno Il. Martin.
Judge Mann addressed the voters of
Cumberland Tuesday and spent that
night in Farmville.
Mrs. DR.. White has been on the sick
list, and her friends and her flowers
too have been missing her
Well founded rmor reports that
contract has been let for six story
factory to be erected here this year
Messrs. Walker Scott and Clyde
Duyall will leave tomorrow night for
a trip to New York, Boston and along
the Hudson
Mr.. Ned Hundley and family are
now occupying the new home and are
enjoying its comforts and conveniences
immensely.
Mr.. Geo Richardson and the boys
labored hard on that garden, and it is
pity to have to give it up for house
foundation.
The Planters and First National
Banks, of Famville, will be closed
on July 4th. If you have business
with either remember this
Mr.. w. +. Richardson returned
home Thursday from a trip to Balti-
more where he had been 10 attend the
marriage Of his brother.
Mr.. w. w. Jackson threshed wheat
Wednesday, and yesterday Mr.. w.
III. Richardson did likewise; both
yields proving highly satisfactory.
If the present building boom which
has been upon Farmvile for year
OF more continues it will not be long
before we will be city folks.
Parties in interest have consented
that the recent sale Of the Famville
X Powhatan be confirmed and that
has been done. We await with inter
est its future.
Misses Andrews aud Woodruff
left last Wednesday morning for
Philadelphia, from which city they
went abroad for summers vacation
across the ocean.
DR.. w. f.. Anderson will leave to-
morrow night to attend the National
Medical Association which meets
July lila in PortlOnd, Ore. He will
be absent one month.
Boys don't seem to be going "a wash
ing" as they used to do Of yOre. And
we never hear of a boy breaking Of
"a COLT But may be we don't know
rs much Of boys as we once did.
Mrs. Jno. r. Martin, who is now in
the hospital in Washington, ID. c.,
writes very encouragingly. She says
she is getting on nicely, but DIR.
Vaughan says it will be some time
before she gets entirely well.
The Norfolk q Western authorities
are broadening the cut just west Of the
Famville depot and in order to ac-
cOmplish the work have had to
resort to blasting. Railroads, like
towns are never finished. AS long as
time lasts there will be something else
to do.
We hail the coming Of the day when
the "Star Route" outrage will come
to an end The Government has in
dulged in cruelty long enough. But
we are not going to be satisfied until
the "Ruraln carriers receive as much
pay as does the city carrier. The lat
ter is paid 1900 and no horse tofurnish
and feed, while the former gets 500.
Mr. Thomas McNider Simpson, Jr.,
who graduated in the school Of astro-
nOmy last SESSION at the University Of
Virginia, has been elected professor Of
mathematics and physics in st.
Stephens College, Annandale, n. Y.
Mr. Simpson is a son Of the Rev. I.
Men. Simpson, pastor Of Clay street
Methodist church, Richmond. He
formerly lived in Farmyille.
We do not wonder at the express
sion, so much in vogue, ole is a
daisy, 1" for after all that modest flow
er of our fields is one Of the most
beautiful in all the flower kingdom.
The wonder is that it hasn't found
long ere this prominent place in our
flower gardens. It's centre Of gold and
frame work Of snowy whiteness make
most attractive combination Of color
anu Oh lOIns
Mr.. John Townes Friend and Miss
Ellie Spooner Dunn will be married
next Wednesday afternoon at half
past o'clock. The ceremony will be
performed by the bride elects pas
tor, Rev. J. w. Mcfarland, Of the
Baptist church. The bride and groom
will leave on the half-past 5 o'clock
train for Portland, Ore, Seattle and
the Klondike, and will probably be
away for year or longer.
Mrs. Carrie Murkland and Miss
Mary Camden, of Baltimore, are re-
cent arrivals in town. Mr.. Paul
Murkland, on account Of his business
engagements, has found it necessary
to become a permanent resident of
Wisconsin, and has bought home
there into which he and his family