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

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ing his parents, returned TO Danville
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. f.. Il. Gill left town
Tuesday for Maple Shade Inn, Pu-
laski City
Miss Fennell Crawley, Of Adriance,
Cumberland county, is visiting Miss
Nelly Smith.
There have been some good peaches
ON the market, and we hope to see
many more.
Mr.. G.. f. Chappell is erecting a
two-story double brick building oppo-
site the Courthouse.
President Jarman attended the Ma
tiOnal Educational Association at AS
bury Park, New Jersey.
The time has come with us when it
would be convenient 10 be able 10
read and write in German.
Mr.. Louis Richardson new resi-
dence, next to Mr.. Chas. Bugg's resi-
dence, is nearing completion.
Mr.. j. l.. Hart attended meeting
of the editors Of Virginia and the two
Carolinas at Asheville, y. c., July i-6.
The Minnie Overton Sunday school,
Major A. Il. Nenable, superintendent,
had a pleasant picnic on the Fourth.
Ifyou want TO know how Farmyille
has grown, compare the mails Of the
present with those Of even few years
past.
Miss Janet Duvall, who has been
visiting friends and relatives at Fred
ericksburg and Washington, return
ed Monday.
Hon. n. ID. Flood was here Tuesday
on his way to New Store, Bucking-
ham County, to deliver an address at
a Fourth-of-July barbecue.
Miss Digger, Of Petersburg, has
been chosen librarian of the Normal
School. Miss Hills will hereafter give
ali her time to the gymnasium.
Eat ripe fruit and matured vege-
tables and let the meat 60. The Japs
are not meat eaters but they are great
fig eaters and are capable Of great en-
durance.
Miss Reynolds, of the Normal
School faculty, has been granted a
leave Of absence for year and Miss
Helen Blackiston has been asked To
fill her chair for that time.
Mr. Winston Fowlkes, Of Amelia,
was in town on Monday, and left for
Crewe on Tuesday. He will no doubt
represent the counties Of Amelia and
Nottoway in the next Legislature.
We have yet to talk with free rural
route carrier who wasn't pleased with
his job. That's simply Zine, for OF
all the displeased mortals we ever met
with the old star route was conspic-
uOus.
At the Methodist church, Sunday,
Mr. Manning Hank, student Of Van
derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn,
and son Of Presiding Elder J. ID.
Hank, preached very acceptable ser
mon.
Tidewater and Western is the new
name Of the Farmvlle and POwhatan
Railroad. The road may be extended
to Lynchburg and Danville. In this
case, it will probably pass Hampden-
Sidney
Misses Carrie Sutherlin and Mary
Clay Hiner, graduates Of the Normal
School, have been elected assistants in
the department Of English at the
Normal, in the place Of Miss Kinzer
resigned.
Dr. A. J. Morrison has accepted the
chair Of German and Latin at Hamp-
den-Sidney college. The many friends
Of this scholarly young man and his
mother will welcome them Oh their
return to Prince Edward.
Prof. Dahl, Of the Maysyille High
School, Buckingham Co., was offered
the principalship Of our High School,
but the Buckingham people extended
the term to nine months, raised his
salary and retained their principal.
Ground is being broken for that part
Of the new normal school building
which will serve as connecting link
between the new auditorium and the
old building. When the new building
is fully completed it will be one that
any state might be proud of.
DO you realize that the days are
shorter? Minute by minute and be-
fore you are aware Of it the sun will
be going down at six and bye and bye
it will be dark at five. All this means
that we are hurrying on towards an
other Christmas and to our open grave
and a never ending eternity.
A letter from Mrs. Portis Morrison,
now at Davidson, n. c., brings the
information that her brother-in-law,
Capt. Joseph Morrison, Gen. Jackson's
gallant aide-de-camp, who was with
him constantly from the time he was
wounded until his death, is very
seriously i'll in ahospital there. Thous-
ands of loyal Southerners will he
grieved by this information.
We could never understand that
one of the summer schools was not
held in Famville Wehave the build
ings, the health-record, the comfor-
table homes, while the very air about