The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-22

The thoughts OF days gone long ago.
Have filed my heart again.
Cupid laughs at lock smiths and
sometimes at wedlOck
1t is very discouraging to find peo-
pie making good bv not following our
advice.
Miss Marie Selden is improving
rapidly. having been very sick with
fever.
For the super sanctimoniouS man or
woman earth has contempt and heav-
en- a closed door.
Preaching every day is good but
practicing every day is better Few
can preach. but all can practice.
If you prefer moving with the great
majority take up your feet and walk
rather than handle the reins and
drive.
Miss Emily b. Sclden, who has
been visiting friends and relatives in
King George county and Washington,
returned Friday
If the Fair wasn't conducted just to
suit your fancy suppose you under
take the management Of the next one
and give us the perfect thing.
If YOU entered the game with the
sole purpose of winning and then
lost, remember that the fool and
his money soon part -
List OF premiums awarded and the
doings Of the third day of the Fair
with the tournament will appear in
next weeks Herald.
Sell your tobacco before the roads
get TO be bottomless and the snow
comes, and address your energies to
the making of another crop
The last of the tomatoes have been
the most shapely and the best We
never saw more perfect specimens
than those which have come from our
gardens in these fall days
If the balloon can carry folks from
st. Louis to Petersburg. and then on
iy come down for having mistaken
the James river for the sea. why not
cross the ocean and be done wi,h it?
Mr. JAS. A. Armistead. the Main
street grocer, has given contract for
dwelling on Virginia street and Mr.
R. S. Rice the contractor says it viii
be a gem of architectural beauty.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. Newman. of
Ashland, were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. W. c. Newra an last week Mr. .
Newman came from Ashland in his
autmobile in a little over five hours.
Mrs. W. G. Huntington and her
daughter, Miss Lucy, are at home
again after an extended and delightful
visit abroad, And yet we can almost
hear them saying There is no
place Ike home.
One OF the normalites packed iars
of serves into her trunk on leaving
home, and the baggage smashcrs"
simply broke them into pieces, and
now the young lady's clothes are Of as
many colors as was the coat Of Joseph
We repeat the electric lights are
doing first rate in the evening, but
abominably bad in the mornings, and
the darker the morning the sooner
the exit. The consumers of Farm
vile are not myths and they are
going to insist upon their rights.
Mr.. B. NJ. Cox failed to get his
Irish potatoes from the Buckingham
farm in time to exhibit them at the
Fair but he did leave specimens at the
Herald office, and we fixed the blue
ribbon on them aud then turned them
over to the cook. Sir Walter Raleigh
the variety and the yield was large
though the stand was poor
We are glad to know that our mer-
chants who bought largely Of suits for
aides are selling them right and {
eft, and it is not surprising that t
hose merchants who have used the [
columns of the Herald to let the pub t
ic know just what they have in this t
inc are leading sellers. OF course t
hey are. Wanamaker is leading adj {
'ertiser in Philadelphia, and as re- v
ult is leading seller S
In Honor Of Miss PduIeil. e