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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-05-14

]. X. Martin from Street Committee
reported that after careful inspection
of the needs of the town and its IL
nancial status, it was thought best to
expend during the coming year IS, 500
on streets and side walks, and devote
s. 500 to the retirement Of 6 percent,
bonds of the town. This matter will
receive further careful consideration.
A culvert on Liberty Street to cost
$3.50 was urged and may be built.
Mr.. Archer McIlwaine, engineer OF
Roanoke, was present and made par
tial report as to WORK being done as
to Encouragement of the boundar is n
town. These will be accurately deter
mined
The subject Of opening Bridge Street
was discussed and will be arranged
for.
Councilman Davidson offered a reso-
luton providing for the proper adver-
tisement for bids on work to be done
on streets, in the home paper and
one in each Of the cities of Richmond,
Roanoke and Lynchburg, and it was
adopted
DR.. Gills from the Sanitary Com
mittee was authorized to have the
Tan Yard and Grocers' Branch proper
" cleaned and drained
A representative of the Southern
Express Company was present to ask
that the tax on his company be made
So instead of $50, and the council or
dered the change. He stated that
Farmville had the best service of any
town in the State Of like size, and that
they were doing business here at
greater cost than elsewhere
A fire plug was ordered for the
corner of Buffalo and Grove streets.
The Farmville Manufacturing Co.,
was allowed to make certain alterations
on its buildings fronting on Main
streets.
Councilman Scott offered an ordi-
nance relating to sample merchants
who open permanent business in town,
and this will be published. A tax of
so was agreed upon.
The name of Middle street was
changed to that of Virginia.
The unauthorized tapping of water
mains or sewerage pipes viii not be
allowed in future, under penalty Of a
fine of $50.
The hog pens received attention
and larger and cleaner ones Will be
provided for
Three hundred dollars were voted
as guarantee fund to tine Fair AS
ISOLATION, the amount to be returned
out of the proceeds.
The question of a spur track of the
Norfolk and Western to run over to
the Serpel farm was discussed, and a
committee consisting of the Mayor.
and Messrs. Watkins and Thompson
was appointed to report further on
the subject The Norfolk and Wes-
tern authorities stand ready to bear
5-6ths Of the expense incident to the
construction of the same, the town to
contribute the balance.
The Telephone franchise was again
considered and the matter was con-
tnued for further consideration. The
old Company offered $40 for the privi-
lege, while a new company, composed
OF Mr.. r. B. Johns and Sons, of
Buckingham, and Messrs. Robson, J.
i. and F. NJ. Bugg, w. c. Newman
and E. X. Booker, of Farmville. Of
iered 81, POO for like privilege.
Mrs. II. c. Vaughan asked that her
license tax be returned, but this was
refused.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-05-14
Shot Dead While EATING supper.

Tasley, Va. May u. - Benjamin
Young, a colored man Of this town.
was shot and instantly killed while
eating supper. Young was shot with a
shotgun through a window. severing
his jugular vein.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-05-14
COUNCIL MEETING.
EVERY MEMBER PRESENT.
ordinances Passed, and Other Bust
ness Discussed BY The BODY.

The regular meeting OF the TOW"
council met last Tuesday evening
Mavor Blanton presiding with the Ioi-
lowing members present; DAVIDSON
BARROW Scott, Martin. Erambert Do-
vail. Doyne, FaIwell and ellis.
Minutes of last meeting ana cal
meeting were read and approved.
Reports of Sergeant and Treasurer
were read. and were as follows:
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-05-14
Ideal Shoe Store
NEAR POSTOFFICE
FARMVILLE, va.
PRICES OF ICE AFTER
MAY 18th.

No delivery Of less than 10 pound.
soc per 100 lbs. is charged
100 10. ticket hooks j0c cash
500 10. ticket books s2.50ca.h
1000 10. books with 30 lb. coun.,.
$500, which is 40 cents per lo0 b, d.,
2Oc for 30 lbs
Buy a 1000 10. book and put gH.
IN your refrigerator al time ~.
save money for yourself and time n,
US.
300 lbs. block Of ice ,lO0 cash q,
plant.
Purchase a ticket book and &c. yog, ,,s
at halt cent pound the entire sumner.
Patronize home industry and thus AID IN
the growth and prosperity Of the town.
". c. NEWMAN,
Prop. Farmville Ice Plant, Farmvills. Va
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-05-14
To the Voters of Prince Edward
County.

1 wish to make public the statement
that / am a candidate for the Legisla
ture, subject TO the
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-05-14
BUFFALO MFG. CO.
FARMVILLE, VA.
Manufactures Of all kinds Of
Lumber and Building Materials.

We are prepared to furnish at short
notice and at lowest prices, all mate
rial that 90 into a house from the sills
to the ridge pole, and. will be glad TO
furnish estimates on any job, large or
small, upon application.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-05-14

DISBURSEMENTS.
S6.242 50 s6.3l2 50
IL - u

To balance.............---... s3oo' 81
Below will be found the amounts
disbursed since the last meeting I'M
-, 4l,o hood If finqncp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Planning a Split Session

The Montgomery correspondent of the Mobile Register says the legisla- ture Is considering the taking of a re- cess next week, thus dividing the spe- cial session into two parts. It is Him. ited to 30 legislative days, and a recess of week or two would enable the leg islators to come back fresh to their az gressive work.
 But the people do not want legisla- tive session hanging over them. They prefer to see the work of the session, for better or for worse, wound up, leav- ing them to give all their time to the period of prosperity which is now be- fore the people of this state.
 The excuse for a recess Is the ap- pointment of recess committee to go over the journals of the two houses for the purpose of ascertaining whether all or any of the acts of the special ses- sion have been constitutionally passed and recorded. The defective journal work in the senate last year has rem dered the administration sensitive to criticism, and no more blunders are wanted. They are very expensive. But there Is no need of a recess and the prolongation of the legislature for the purpose of ascertaining how the jour. nals of the two houses have been made up. Any competent official can check up the two journals in a day or two. The house journal was correctly kept last year, and 1t undoubtedly has been thus far the present session. The checking of the senate journal does not call for recess. It can be exam ined without incurring additional mile- age and other expenses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Section Nlnety-Siy

The legislature decided to submit constitutional prohibition three months after the adjournment of the special session instead of at the next general election. The expense will be heavy, and 1t should be utilized by the presen. tation at the same time of the amend ment modifying Section 96 of the con- stitution of 1901 50 that the legislature can act by counties in the matter of fees and salaries for county officers.
 Unless this is done Section 96 can- not be changed until the November election of 1910. and a county cannot fully adopt 1t until 1914. A delay of that extent in Jefferson county would be cruel to many poor people. The abuses of tho fee system have existed a long time and they cannot be ended a day too soon.
 The proposed fee amendment has passed the house, and its friends in the legislature should see that 1t goes to the people at the earliest possible moment. On account of the prohibit ton amendment this can be done with out incurring additional expense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13

will secure i've plums and the other party but four. h the districts allot- ted to the republicans the machine will no doubt name the supervisors, and in the districts allotted to the democrats the senators and representatives will nominate the men to do the work. No doubt the division of spells has already been made, for 1t is announced that the entire list of supervisors will soon be published, following a meeting to be held at Beverly at which Director Du- rand will be present
 In order to avoid friction in the emu meration, and full count, it is best in the no-party states to put white men in the field. The appointment of enumerators will rest on the hands of supervisors, although they will be guid- ed to some extent by the desires of the politicians with whom they affiliate.
 As a rule census information is fur nished by the women of a household. The men in home are apt to be out at work when the census enumerator calls. and white men can readily pro- cure information that might be denied to colored men.
 The truth is, the men that are want ed, both as supervisors and enumer- ators, and those who would be the most thorough and painstahng. The task is one of details and the best possible count is wanted. Let good men be ap- pointed and, in order to avoid friction and to procure the needful informa- tion, let white men be sent to the homes of the people. These will, in part, at least, be republicans, but the taking of census should not become a matter of politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Whats the Matter With Georgla?

The Georgia legislature has ad- journed without petitioning Congress to call a convention to submit an amendment looking to the popular election of United States senators, and without ratifying the income tax amendment Why they neglected these two important matters, both hay ing been made party doctrine by the Denver platform, no one seems to know. The state is in a chaotic con- dition, politically speaking. It was a Smith state last year, and now it Is a Brown state, and doubtless the Smith Brown issue remains to be fought out next year.
 Referring to the income tax amend ment, Congressman Leonidas F. Liv- ingston of the Atlanta district says ''the action of the legislature in disre- garding the amendment does not re- fleet the sentiment of the people, and he expresses the belief that the amendment will yet be ratified by a large vote. The present legislature will sit again next summer, but in the meanwhile they may hear from the people in way that they will not fail to understand.
 The lower house of the Georgia leg islature ratified the income tax amend ment, but the upper house, by a vote of IS to 16, tabled 1t. The harm that this delay will do is to encourage the effete east to greater effort to defeat the amendment altogether The New York Herald rejoices, and all the news- papers and plutocrats in the east gath CT from Georgia's non-action comfort and hope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Hummer Grain crons.

'The bumper grain crops will overtax the railroads this fall" said L. w. Glea- son of Kansas City, land we will hear more of traffic congestion than we did even in 1906.
 ''The railroads had been running at such a high pressure rate that when the panic came their equipment was worn out and as their credit was impaired by drastic legislation in certain states and anti-railroad agitation throughout the country generally they were unable for a time to raise money for betterments. months ago did the western and south ern lines begin to order needed equipment. They are now repairing old rolling stock and buying new motive power and new cars, but the trouble is that the car builders will not be able to fill these orders fast enough. It is estimated that the railroads under favorable conditions can handle promptly only 60 per cent of the business offering in busy season, and next month and the month after con- gestion will be in evidence from one end of the country to the other. Yet in spite of the handicap the railroads will move an enormous tonnage and will make a big showing in net earnings.
 Business throughout the west is al- ready equal to normal and 1t is predicted that prosperity within the next F months will be unparalleled"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
LICk's FIRST LOVE AFFAIR.

fTO1n tHo ctIdHd-
 There are many stories of the lighter side of finance In which love affairs find a place. Perhaps none of these Is more peculiar than the story of James Lick, name famous all over the world through monument to his memory, the great Lick observatory, in California. In the financial world the great city of San Francisco Is a monument to Licks luck he foresaw the possibility of the great city of the Pacific slope, bought the land on which it now stands and became a. millionaire. Before that time the name of Lick was great in the musical world. Lick's pianos-out of which he made the money which he invested in land-were manufactured by him. But on the poetic side of life-a world apart from such things as piano making and mud flats the great Lick mill stands as a monu- ment to Licks love.
 In early days James Lick sought the hand of a miller's daughter but was repelled by the father on the ground that tho young suitor did not possess a mill. Many years afterward, when he had be- come one of the richest men in the states, he erected large mill and adorned 1t like palace. It was built of mahogany and costly woods, and erected solely as a memorial of his youthful attachment. His only pleasure was to contemplate this palatial mill and to gloat over the man who had spurned him for his poverty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Bit of verduse Imported at Cost of
 $1000 Vanished In Sandspout. z

From Housekeeping in Alkali Land"
 by Barton Wood Currie In Good House.
 keeping for August.
 Housewives who cannot be happy with out their little gardens and their window boxes, their potted palms, rubber plants and trailing vines had better make wide detour of the Nevada desert Nothing grows in the treasure hills and wales of the Great Basin save the Joshua tree, shabby variety of Yucca palm, sage brush and the greasewood bush, and there is not enough nourishment in these to supply the most hardy little family of jack rab- bits It Is the rankest of vegetation, fib- rous, scrawny, death-like, and it sprouts from a finty alkaline soil that has been barren of blossom since 1t originally emer- ged from chaos in masses of molten lava
 In Goldheld there <eas the wife of bonanza mine operator who pined for a little lawn. Her husband freighted down from the Washoe range a thousand-dollar carload of sod. It was carefully laid out before the tiny cottage by expert gar dener borrowed from a garden estate in southern California for the purpose and Bcuctousiy opAihhlou With WoeSi pOu6he by the gallon. It was summer time and usually 100 degrees In the shade at noon. For a day of two the liberally watered sod looked quite fresh and a few blades of grass raised their heads proudly. Hun dreds came from miles around to feast their eyes on this little patch of verdant green.
 The gold miners wife was overjoyed and sent to Sacramento for a box of rose bushes. She would have little oasis of her own. But, alas, one shimmering after noon it began to blow. Spirals of sand rose up on the hill slopes and danced down the trails into the camp. gaining velocity and volume with every revolu- tion. First came one little sandspout and ripped a sprighty saraband on the little lawn; then came another, trifle larger, and danced like a mad Dervisher from corner to corner of tho square of sod. Presently . very ballet of sandspouts were performing their bewildering evolutions about the cottage, merging at last one into the other and becoming a prodigious whirlblast of alkaline dust. And when this cruel visitation had passed the little lawn had vanished. Deluged with reeking waste of water not solitary blade of grass could be brought to raise its head. The poisonous dust had killed swiftly and thoroughly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
When the sea was calm all boats alike showd mastershlp In floating.
 -Coriolanus.
Reorganlzing the New York Democrats

The unpopularity of the tariff law speaker and a senatorial junta repre- senting special interests has put new vigor and new enthusiasm in the dem ocratic ranks in all states. Especially is this the case in the state of New York. A meeting is to be held in Sar- atoga next month. This meeting has been called by men of high standing by such men as Morgan J. O'Brien and Alton B. Parker, and no boss or official is to be invited to attend 1t. The ab- sence of Charles F. Murray of Tamma- ny Hall and "Fingy" Corners will be no more noticeable than the absence of Mayor Mcclellan and State Senator McCarren.
 The object of the Saratoga gathering is to be the betterment of the party in the state of New York. An address no doubt will be issued stating what the rejuvenated party will stand for, and a new leader will perhaps be sug- gested, and that leader may be none other than Alton B. Parker himself At any rate an effort will be made to lift 1t out of the Murphy -Conners-Mc- Carren rut into which 1t has fallen, and to attract to it all men who are tired of Cannonism and Alrichism. It will appeal more particularly to the independent voters of New York. The rank and file of the present organiza- ton will not be assailed, but an appeal will be made to all who are tired of trust rule to come together to secure better results to the many instead of the few. The betterment of the party in leadership and numbers will be con sidered at Saratoga, and much Is ex- pected to come of the approaching meeting.
 democratic, and yet the party has fallen into such poor hands that it cannot accomplish anything outside of New York city. The Saratoga move- ment is expected to put 1t on its legs again, making 1t great force both within and without the state,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
TO EUGENE FIELD.

By William Marion Reedy. The sweetest western singer sleeps.
 Stilled by deaths lullaby. Ger babyland a sorrow sweeps-
 A gloom across the sky, He did not seek the starry steeps
 And windy heights of song, But strolled and sang where baby creeps, His toys and dreams among. He coined in rhyme the age of gold,
 Translated toddler's tears To music, making hearts grown cold,
 Warm back to happy years. His heart was full as heart could hold Of loves own gentleness. He taught sour age to soothe, not scoldi He carolled Christ's caress. The laureate of the little ones,
 The lark of childhood's dawn. The king of quips. the prince of puns,
 Youths owlglass, thou'rt not gone. Fer yet thy frolic fancy runs.
 With fairies frisks its fill. In days to be, meath senile sum-
 Thy soul goes singing still
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
Labor in Demand.

Industrial operations in the Birming- ham district have been improving stead fly for several weeks past" said an off, cial of one of the corporations with head quarters in the Woodward building, and there is now a very active demand for labor. Between now and October busi- ness conditions will improve faster than ever and labor scarcity is already be- ginning to be felt. in certain branches of industrial operations. Not only will all able bodied men who are now in the dis trict find employment but not few new corners will be welcomed.
 Many wageworkers left the district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
COMER OF ALABAMA.
Trom the Chattanooga Times


 Governor Conner of Alabama wants the law to be so amended that when sheriffs or other peace officers fall to enforce the prohibition law the governor may sus- pend them Also 1t might be suggested that the governor be supplied with a metropolitan constabulary or state ranger organization such as was provided the governor of Maine. Tn that state the at- tempt thus to control local communities with outside officers made matters worse and violations of law showed increases every year. Governor Conner doesn't learn anything by experience. The extremer the laws he procures to be made the more harmful the sentiment such action will create and the less likely are men to pay any attention to the regulation. The politician cannot affect moral reforms In the pursuit of ambition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
PROHIBITION IN MISSISSIPPI.

PROHIBITION IN MISSISSIPPI. From Leslies Weekly
 During the 15-year period that the pro- hibition cause has been advancing in Mis- sssippi through local option) 1t has been frequently handicapped by the excessive zeal of some of it's advocates. For many years Bishop Galloway steadfastly op- posed statewide prohibition law as 0 substitute for local option, believing that the time was not ripe for such reform. He contended that as the people awakened to a realization of what they wanted-if it were prohibition-county after county would swing into the dry column. His judgment proved correct for when, last year, the statewide law was enacted. there were only six wet" counties out of the entire 78.
 The county in which Is Jackson does not extend much beyond the city limits. Some up-to-t -the-minute violators moved across that county line, built some rough shacks, uiNlueQ III ln0 lflluulc Wllu u which came down from the ceiling to a troughlike arrangement. On one side, if you knew the countersgn, was a room for the customer who couldn't see the tiger on the other. Money was dropped in the trough with slip of paper giving the order, and quickly the wet" goods were handed into the trough. A young chap named Puckett went to one of these places some years ago to make a pur- chase. A knot in the partition dividing the room having fallen out, Puckett Is supposed to have looked through this hole and to have been immediately shot in the eye and killed. Right afterward the good people of Jackson burned down the shacks, and there have not been any trough blind-tigers' since the Puckett murder.
 There is much to keep the officers of the law busy in prohibition city. Early in June last there were 35 arrests in one day in Jackson. A report made June "A shows that the Jackson police made S62 arrests during less than half of tho year. This was said to be record-breaker, with the busy" season yet to come. At this rate 1t is calculated in Jackson that there will be total of 1900 arrests for the year. The high record in the past has been 14OO
 Six Vicksburg men went to Jackson, and finding it necessary to spend the night in the latter city. decided to get up poker game. They were of the belief that with out drinkables there could be no real poker party They interviewed the powers that i be in the hotel as to the securing of wet supplies. "Suhe, we kin get 1t fer you 1 boss. and in 30 minutes, too." But we wish IA bottles of beer. Where can you | get that amount of beer in Jackson in B minutes?" 'Leave 1t to me- boss" said the factotum. Within the time limit through the lobby of the hotel, came the two negroes bearing on their shoulders l two gunny sacks filled with rattling bot | tles The travelling men and other hote | guests were much amused.