The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-07-23

cleaned up.
The miniature park Of the Norfolk
and Western is taking on new beauty
as the days come and 90.
The machinery for doing the work
on the new macadam is in position
and the work will soon begin in dead
earnest.
when the cats are away the rats
will play, and when the wife IS
away the husband-will wish she
wasn't
One Of our housekeepers planted a
peck Of Irish potatoes and rept
two pecks and has been congratulate
ing herself that she made hundred
percent. investment.
We were lamentng the scarcity OF
fruit for the season the other day.
when a lady friend invited US to her
country home to eat apples. She
may expect us most any time.
We would warn pedestrians who
use the track of the Tidewater and
Western between the depot and the
turntable to keep a sharp lookout
for the train has the habit Of creep
ing in quietly.
Mr.. H. f. Richardson on Saturday
gave us cheerful report from the
farm. Wheat not up to the average,
but of good quality, hay crop fine
and corn and tobacco growing off
grandly.
1t is about time we were getting
ready for the fishing week in Cum
berland. The old pond is waiting to
extend a welcome and the fishes are
Just waiting to bite at tempting bait
or to be caught in a net.
Postmaster Garnet is on a two
weeks leave Of absence, the first
since he has been in office, and will
visit in Buckingham, attend the con-
vention at Newport News, and take in
other points of interest
1t was the great preacher, Paul,
who said if a man won't work neither
should he eat, and yet we know OF
folks who look fat and who never
strike a lick. They should be made
to strike even while it is hot.
Owing to a breakage the saw mill
of the Farmville Manufacturing Co.,
was out Of commission for a week.
but they always have lumber to SELL
and our contractors must be using an
immense quantity of it just now.
Mr.. J. j. Gillian reports that a GER
tain corn worm is doing great damage
in some places. What would we dc
with the products of mother earth II
they were not preyed upon by in
sects, eaten by rats and destroyed by
drought and flood?
Hampden-Sidney, to quote from Mr.
Roosevelt, has got Farmville beat t.
FRAGILE" Mrs. H. Tucker Graham
has bagged 1000 punches of grapes
as against Farmville's six hundred
Farmville must lift its hat as Hamp
den-Sidney goes head "
There must be an unusual number
of good singers attending the Summer
Normal to whom we are indebted FOL
some sweet music as we pass by tn
buildings. They have been, though
unconscious of the fact, cheering u
on our way, and we beg to return
thanks.
Rev. Dr. Hatcher will begin a re
vival service at the new town o
Phenix on next Sunday to last 10
some ten days. He has the chairs 10
the choir, the song books for tn
congregations, and will be assisted II
the services by Revs. Bedinger AM
Harry.
The little engine of the Tidewate
and Western that pulls the train iron
Farmville to Moseley's Junction an
back each day travels l04 miles an
consumes en- an average two and one
half tons of coal on each trip. If tn
train is unusually heavy it will bur
three tons, but the daily average is a
stated.
The Norfolk and Western has in
troduced the telephone system in tn
running of its trains between blocks
and this means that the operator nee'
not be an expert Geographic operator
and it is said to reduce the cost con
siderably. On the railroad at leas
there is ALWAYS something new unde