The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-07-30
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.
Notes Of Happenings and People You
know.

seldom. in this low life. round.
Are unsealed that he may hear.
Mr.. and Mrs. 4. f. Cralle are at the
Rawley Springs.
Miss Rubie G. Amos left last Fri
day TO visit friends in Staunton.
Miss Fannie Price is visiting in the
old home in Pittsylvauia county.
Miss Edith Taliaferro has been Wis
lung friends in Orange county.
Misses Helen and Mamie Maxey
are staying in the home of Mr.. +. p.
Dahl
Miss Belle Johnson, Of Richmond,
i guest in the family Of her brother,
Mr.. T. c. Johnson.
MI p. IL. G. Rice is at home again,
and says his stay in Norfolk was Of
real service to him.
As those six houses now under con-
struction near completion, contractor
Moring wears a serene countenauce.
Nh c. Hamlet is So absorbed
with work on the farm nowadays
that no churn project, nor other bust
ness venture diverts him.
Our girls in New York are still
studying and sight seeing. \ letter
from one of them describing ride up
the Hudson reads like romance.
When those granite blocks have
been laid on 2nd street it will be the
best paved street in our town. some
day Main street must be made tit
companion for it.
4 They are still busy in our tobacco
factories though the season for pack
ing hastens to a close. Now for the
returns, and then for the selling
season in our market again.
The law against splitting on the
sidewalks is well kept and this is well.
If prohibition could be as we'll enforc-
ell the country over would be rs dry
a. a desert.
One of our boy friends who was
laboring hard over his catechism les
son was heard to lament that his
wasn't "kitechism.n That boy has
our sympathy.
We saw little boy the other day
with catchy suit on, really artistic
in appearance, and on inquiry learned
that it cost the princely price of 16
cents. Evidently the tariff hadn t
struck II.
The low quarter shoe is comfortable
to sit in. but an unqualified nuisance
for walking purposes. To walk COM
fortabiy wear the lace shoe and tie
tight around the ankle. This insures
support and spring.
Rev. Mr.. Boogher, the beloved rec
tor of the Episcopal Church, has re-
Gently received a flattering call to the
church atBristol, but we are glad to
know he prefers the work here and a
home in Fsrmville.
Mr.. Ben GOOde, who remained at
the bedside of his uncle, the late Mr..
G.. G. Bass, until death came, has re-
turned to his home in North Carolina,
where he conducts large and flour
ishinglprivate school.
a drummer who travels over five
States remarked in our presence that
he found in Farmville one Of the very
best hotels met with in his rounds. 1t
was pleasant to hear him say so and
az we listened we remembered it
"wasn't ever thus"
When MessrS. Allen d Sons got TO
work on that bridge over Buffalo they
made things hum. They began at 3
a. IN. Monday, and finished the job at
ga. IN. Wednesday, OF course the
timbers had all been prepared and
only needed to be put in position.
The Retail Merchants Association Of
Virginia met recently in the city Of
Petersburg with some 100 delegates in
attendance. Among the new asso-
Citations reported was that Of Farm
Vile with membership Of "a. The
next meeting will be at Salem, and
FarmVille must follow.
We beg again that some enterprising
citizen of Farmville would take in
hand that triangular plat of land on
west Main Street and beautlfy and
adorn it. 1t has been left in its pres
ent unsightly condition for 10 these
many years, and we are tired looking
at it in undressed makeup.
Mr. Johnson Wootton, who spends
81 h.