The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-12-10
You bad better turn your water off

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comes.
BUY and then vote, and then own
the piano or the watch What
New Years present either viii make.
Make your wants known in the
Herald's want column, and whether
TO buy or sell answer win be made
you
Capt S. W. Watkins, Dr. Spencer,
and Mr. r. S. Warren were advanced
and installed as deacons Of the Pre-
byterian Church on last Sunday, fol-
lowing the morning sermon.
Rev Mr. Fugate occupied his pull
pit on last Sunday morning and even
ing. The attendance at the Sunday
School Of the church was large, and
teachers and scholars manifested their
usual interest in the exercises Of the
hour
That was a striking cartoon we saw
recently in the Philadelphia Record,
in which an old hen was perched on
a 2O-foot pole with a basket Of eggs
marked SOC. a dozen, and the be-
wildered housewife looking up as she
exclaimed out of reach again.
Remember that Sunday school
opens at $3.50 m, preaching at II,
and then again at 1880 p M Go on
time, for it is not only decent but de-
votonal as well You cannot afford
to miss the first note Of praise If
you must 90 TO sleep in church be
sure and not sn0re
When Judge Watkins gets TO Con-
gress, and the voters of the 4th dis
trict will see that he does Farmviic
must ha Government building.
We have selected the site. but if our
choice ism { ratified we win be COR
tent with that # others. The build.
ing first and the other question is
easy of answer
Ia days before the war there wa5a't
a horse blanket m use in aIi ths sec-
ton of Virginia as far us we recall
while nova days the horse goes 70
ocd wrapped go blanket just as is
true of the members OF the human
family And are the horses Of the
day stronger Of body ana fleeter of
loot:
The fountain of health" is 70
flow in Farmvile-that is Mr. chas
b. Pickett is having built on North
street east side, between 2nd and
Bed streets, q concrete home, 30 by
10 feet, whicn viii DE dedicated TO
the Pickett water. The structure is
ln attractive one and an ornamcn.
to this coming business street OF
town.
The concrete material which is used
i'm the construction of our houses and
fences is all made in Farmyille and by
Mr.. w. A. Slocombe Let us hope
that we may yet see the day when
most Of the comforts and Injuries
viii be found in the home market and
of home make. We may have to buy
elsewhere needles and pins, sugar and
salt, ami hair pins and rats. %
That's a marked tribute paid to
goods brought from Farmville store,
when a Correspondent of the Herald
writes that his underwear purchased
here is of such good quality that he
has dispensed with the wearing Of an
overcoat And on inquiry we learn
that the purchase was made of one OF
the most liberal advertisers in the
columns of the Herald.
Nature abhors a vacuum, ~ and
now that lumber is gettingto be scarce
the concrete is coming TO the front de-
handing and commanding attention
as building material The elements
That enter into it's make up are album
dant and incxhausiibe. SD that the
generations to follow us win have roof
trees just as we of this age have had.
The Herald keeps a watchful eye ON
Farmvle's happenings and yet the
Board of Trustees of the Moral Slip
ped in so quietly one day Est week
and then slipped ont SO quietly again
that we were not aware of JOS pres
ence uniil the curtain fell on It's pro-
cecdincs. We ask again for live
correspondent at the school
IF Farmvillc took the same care Of
IFS Board of Trade and Merchants AS
sociadon as it does IF its already es-
tablished business, the vacant lots
about the town would soon be occupi-