The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-03-12

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Washington Post
This is Arbor Day, and what are
you doing about it?
The soldier boys who got left in
Lynchburg won't do so no more.
Mrs. Alice Jennings is the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. X. II. Paulett
Mrs. C. NJ. Walker and Mrs. f.
Scott Martin went to Richmond on
Tuesday.
Mr.. j. Winston Fowlkes, Of Amelia
county, was in town a couple Of days
this.week.
Don't be uneasy, the ice plant will
be at work in time and the coal trestle
has been finished.
Mrs. r. H. Paulett and Miss Hattie
went to Richmond to hear Paderew-
ski.
Mrs. w. j. Gills Miss Alice Paulett
and Miss Minor went to Lynchburg to
hear Paderewski.
You couldn't induce a member OF
the Farmville Guard to 90 to another
Inauguration. Until next time.
Mr.. Floyd B. Meyer, of the Herald
staff, spent last Saturday and Sunday
with his home people in Richmond.
OF all work known among men that
of the printers is most exacting, pains
taking and nerve-trying.
Her host of friends'lament the con-
tinued and painful illness Of Mrs. D.
T. Elan.
To our other table Injuries spinach
has now been added and there is
nothing more healthy or palatable.
Hackett, Jr., is getting up in the
world. That seat on his one-horse
dray towers in mid-air some six inch
es above the rest Of them.
Happy the mortals whose wood pile
and coal bin are still well supplied.
Fires on the hearth stone in these
4 cold days of spring are simply glorious
7 Our lady friends may shop by mail
4 but one thing is certain, our people
: will not do their banking by mail. Th'
a money is here. Trot out your securi
r, ty.
l. Mrs. W. Sturman left Monday Il
Z visit her daughter, Mrs :. y. Lanto
n at South Boston, Va, and an extend
e. ed trip south.
Mrs. r. Baxter Tuggle entertained
Mrs. j. Taylor Thompson at an infor
\ nal luncheon on last Wednesday il
e. the home of Mrs. Nilledge.
Snow and slush and sleet in Wash
inpton while Farmville was all aglo'
: with sunshine. What a pity the Cap
itol wasn't built here.
When Mr. Pickett comes to town t
I deliver water ne is often greeted wit
= a rain storm. But then, he is a wa
k ter man.
Window dressing is quite an art bu
the merchant who advertses iudici
m ously and literally can sell goods with
out the window decoration to aid him
Our fathers planted corn in March
We don't. No disrespect to the ia
a. theirs. We are living in 1909 and nc
in 1859
The mills Of the gods grind slow,
but this isn't true of the Farmvill
!. mills. You are not required to wa
Of long for your turn
: The soda water season used to b
as well marked as the fishing season
re but now the whole year pays tribut
re to its fixing.
e. Mrs. Taylor of the Miller School
Albemarle, visited her daughter VIII
~ ~ is student at the Normal. \ son az
~ companied her.
nj Miss Sallie Bruce Dickinson,
e, Worsham, was the guest Of Mrs. Fit
re gerald during the teachers meeting
10 of last Thursday and Friday.
5, The Buffalo Manufacturing Comp;
10 ny received four carloads of lumbC
by the Tidewater and Western one da
in last week 1t was shipped from Sur
70 ny Side, Cumberland
'e;
r. Rev Frank Stringfellow preache
tn at the Episcopal Church on Frida
, evening of last week a practica
re strong, scriptural sermon to a larg
II, o,,d oDDraoio+iva conOrpCatiOn