The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-02-19
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.


If this weather continues there
wont be fish left to swim in the APP
pomattoX.
Fourteen months away from home
and don't you know the iackies will
enjoy the homecoming?
Did you ever see the Herald Office
when all the lights are on. 1t is as
brilliant as MONDAY. Call and see us.
Spring bonnets are in evidence, but
who will wear them as all the girls
wear rats and no bonnets?
If you can't find your way clearly
through life Mayor Blanton will help
you to.
Have YOU given your order for a
spring suit? Maybe you have an old
winters suit for sale.
Capt. f. Scott Martin spent last
week at the "Mecklenburg,' Chase
City.
Mr.. John NJ. Morton, of Richmond,
was the guest of his sister Mrs. H.
Warren Walker, this week
That was a good spring cleaning
which was given to Main street 10y
Commissioner Tucker, and the force
under his command
Mrs. Bette \. Peters and Miss Rosa
Z. Blanton are boarding at Mr.. d. W.
Giliam's, 400 High street.
Come early or come late, we are
always prepared to do your job print
ing promptly, efficiently andat prices
as low as the lowest.
As voters we have some important
work before us ere this year ends
Are you registered? How about the
poll tax?
The macadam on High street drags
its slow length along. But another
winter will not catch us with mud
holes in the center of town.
p. NJ. Jones is one Of the popular
citizens of Buckingham, and Paul
Jones" is a popular denizen Of Farm
Vile.
Singing isn't a lost art but it needs
to be cultivated There are a few
born songsters. The birds may be eX-
ceptions
Last Monday was a good day in dis
pensary circles. Receipts S4O9. No
thing blue" about that No report
from the morning after.
The drivers of the wagons that come
into town over our macadams, come
in singing, those who wade through
the mud come in grunting. Would
that all could sing as they drive.
We saw a red blossom last Monday
on one Of our trees. Rather daring,
but we lifted our hat to its courage
Not afraid of ground hog forebodings,
or of reported cold waves coming this
way. The red flag of defiance in the
face of winter.
The oath inst is the beginning of
the Lenten Season of the Episcopal
Church, known as Ash Wednesday;
there will be service at Johns Memo
rial Church at II O. clock A. NJ and all
friends will find a cordial welcome
awaiting them. Notice of the regular
Lenten services will be given next
week.
We have an invitation to dine with
a friend in the near future, and all he
asks is that two days notice be given
him so the ducks may be killed in
time to cool. Ducks! a pair of them
And don't you want to be with the d.
ners? Sorry for you, but the seats
have all been taken.
Farmville is a winSOme miss, and
the courtly, pleasing knights of the
Road" are wooing her day by day and
in increasing numbers. Be careful,
young lady, and be careful not TO
make bad choice between the suitors
for your 'shekels. "
We are advised by one of the bust
ness men of Farmvlle that Fridays
and Mondays have gotten to be ex-
ceptionally good business days. And
ne attributes it to the fact that Satur-
day is no longer a tobacco sales day.
In no town of the state is the
water wagon" more popular than
in Farmville. The fact is we have
two of them, while other places are
satisfied with one. And yet the dis
pensary is doing business at the old
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