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

Appointed ways.
Be temperate in all things and let
the doctor live on other folks.
The daisies have come and gone
and for one we sadly miss them.
What's the matter with lemonade as
drink? Has coca driven it out Of
the market;
Have our soldier boys summer uni
forms? If so let them give us the
privilege Of seeing them out doors.
What think you of the cooks who
prepare hot suppers at this hot season
of the year? Pity they can't do their
work in ice houses.
We remark again that the grass
grows under the oak trees in the yard
of Mr.. D. T. Elan as we never saw it
grow under any other oak trees.
Walk out to the new race track
some afternoon, take a good sun-bath
out in the bottom and learn what
work is being done on the track.
Mayor Blanton's black pony dressed
in white harness makes a pretty pic
ture. Fine feathers are good to look
at whether they make fine birds or
not.
Now we have a town council, a
Board of Trade and Retail Mer-
chants Association, and with this
trinity of power things must 90 They
will 90.
The coal consumed at the electric
plant costs, as we are advised, some
50, 600 a year. What a pity we can't
harness the AppomattoX or Buffalo
and make them do the work.
Persons who sleep down on Main
street don't appreciate how cool IT is
of nights" on the hills. Why isn't
it possible for the workers on Main
street to sleep on the hills?
A suit that has been costing twenty
dollars will now sell for twenty-five
under the operations OF the new tariff
law. but it may be that you can face
the winter winds in last season suit.
We need another mule and cart, or
I horse and cart, on our streets, and it
is said that the fire horse can be made
to supply this deficiency and yet
always be ready to respond to the fire
call.
We are sorry that our country
friends haven't their ice houses filled
with ice this season, but we do re-
ioice that they can buy it in the
Farmville market and at reasonable
prices.
"Fust thing you know" we will be
hearing the ringing of the warehouse
bells as a welcome to Miss PrimingS.
Then the eyes of the inspectors will
take on new glow and sparkle with
new delight.
The failure in the fruit crop of this
section this season is deplorable, and
we are not so certain that even the
gully plum hasn't gone back on us.
So far as we recall this is the first
failure that ever marked its career.
The summer hastens to close, the
= farmers are all busy, and what are we
doing TO make Farmville ready for the
better and drawer fight she must make
70 in order to meet the demands of the
=. strenuous age in which we live?
Wheat has been soaring again or
y the Chicago exchange, and farmers
It may yet get into the swim. However
: as a rule it isn't safe for the farmer t
speculate. But he knows his owl
." business much better than we know
it for him.
Sometime when you have time t
listen to the story get Cal" Bliss t
- give some of his experiences whit
sheriff and since as extra police. HI
\ tells it so much more graphically thar
we could hope to write it down tina
we turn the job over to him.
Before we called attention to tn
defect in the sidewalk on Bird stree
the council had ordered the repair. !
shows that the city fathers have al
eve to business. A representative o
the Herald walks the town over da,
after day and will also have an eye or
things.
We have been for sometime con
WINGED that some man, or men, o
capital could be induced to come her
81 build q rnodpr1 hotel on the hll