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Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
ROAD DELEGATES.

Forrest City.-Judge Rolfe ap-
pointed L. II. Pippin, S. F. Sulcer,
W. NJ. Brown, W. S. Henstiss and
H. X. Smith as delegates to repre-
sent st. Francis county in the good
roads convention to be held in Lit
tie Rock January 1921.
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
Charms Used by Gamblers,

Gamblers have many charms to in
sure good luck when playing. Among
these are fine catskin hung from the
neck, human knee bone or toe bone,
an owls heart. a small red feather. a
mole's foot. rabbits foot. the tail Of
lizard, the skin of a blacksnake
worn around the waist or a lizard with
two tails. The latter is irresistible.
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
$4,000 DAMAGE SUIT.

Van Buren.-The final papers in
a legal action to be brought against
the Iron Mountain Railway Com
pany at the next term of the Frank
lin County Circuit Court for the
Ozark district has been completed
here and service had on the defend
ants.
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
STOLE $1,000 WORTH OF SILK.

Fort Smith.-The department
store of Harry Phillips was entered
and robbed of silk valued at $1,000
The affair is surrounded in mystery.
No clue that would lead to the
identity Of the robbers has been Sc
cured bv the police.
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
FIRE Al GRAYSONIA.

Graysonia.-Fre destroyed the
residence and office of DR.. G. F.
Middlebrooks. The loss, $1,000, is
partially covered by insurance. The
cause of the fire is unknown. All
the books and office furniture were
DESTROYED
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
MAY LOSE AN ARM.

Ravenden Springs.-While out
horseback riding Miss May Stanfeld
fell from her horse and sustained a
fractured hand and arm. 1t is
feared that it will be necessary to
amputate the arm.
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
PREPARE TO REOPEN.

Van Buren.-The Van Buren
Electrical Supply Company is pre-
pairing to reopen, following the fire
(which recently occurred in nearby
building. damaging or destroying
all of their furniture and fixtures.
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
SHOT RAIDINe CRAP GAME.


part of the shoulder while raiding
a crap game in a vacant building
lately occupied by the Black drug
store. He was accompanied in the
raid by Policeman Baker Three
negroes were arrested. The one who
fired the shot is supposed to have
escaped.
The negro prisoners were locked
up and sweated for the purpose of
getting them to reveal the identity
Of the man who red the shot
Roach had drawn revolver in
his hand at the time he was shot,
but the shock caused him to drop it..
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
WomanIs RemarkabIe Feat.

Though the compiling of a diction-
aiy is a task that even a corps of
trained editors undertake with no
slight hesitation, a Washington wom-
an, Mrs. George H. Gorham, finished
the remarkable feat of writing an
idiomatic French-English, English
French dictionary entirely unaided.
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22

El Dorado.-Judge John N. Till
man, president of the University Of
Arkansas, has accepted an invita-
tion to deliver an address at the
Union County Normal, to be held
here in June.
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22
TIL NEWS
IN brief
A GENERAL SUMMARY OF lMPOR-
TANT NEWS OF THE WEEK
GATHERED FROM ALL OVER.

GA HEhED fhOM Ali oNG9'
Several earthquake shocks have
occurred recently in various parts
of South Africa.
Fire Friday night destroyed prac-
tically every business building IN
the town Of Oil City, La, located
23 miles north of Shreveport IN
the Caddo oil fields.
With twenty state senators voting
for it, the Holiday statewide pro-
hibition bill has been passed IN the
upper branch Of the general as
sembly of Tennessee.
The administration, it Is learned.
is preparing a bill for the exclusion
of Asiatic laborers, intended to
make the exclusion laws more eco
nomieal and effective.
"Uncle" Henry Dorman eelebrat-
ed his 10th birthday anniversary at
Liberal, Mo-, January 10. lie was
born in Stuben County, N. Y, in
1899. He was married in 1921 to
Miss Lucinda Parker.
Senator pat Goulding's resolu-
ton empowering Gov. c. N. Has
kell to parole 250 Oklahoma con-
victs in the Kansas state penlten-
tiary at Lansing, has been defeated
in the Oklahoma Senate.
Cocktails and VINE at Taft pos
sum banquet-in addition to those
strictly prohibition drinks, perslm-
mon beer and "Merry Widow"
punch, have stirred some of the
Observation-Disclosures of Georgia.
and score or more injured m a
head-on collision between a passen-
ger train and freight on the Denver
and Rio Grande railroad near Glen
wood Springs, Col, last Saturday.
President Roosevelt rode ninety
miles on horseback as an experiment
and when he dismounted at the
White House door, after seventeen
hours in the saddle, he did not show
any marked signs of weariness.
'London is the wicEedest city on
EARTH" is the startling assertion of
Rev. W, Kingscote Greenland, one
of England's foremost social re-
formers and eX-chaplain of her
largest penal settlement, Dartmour
prison.
Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson. col
ored woman, aged 101 and a former
slave, said to be the Oldest person
in Indiana, is dead at Indianapolis
She always said she remembered
Jamse Madison and Thomas Jeffer-
son well.
Senator James A. Hemenway of
Indiana has qualified for a Carnegie
hero medal. 1t became known that
he performed a feat of courage in
stopping a runaway team that en-
titles him to consideration in this
respect.
The federal authorities at Gal
weston, Tex, have seized four
schooners, Alphosine, Bobolene'
Bobolene, Young America and Glenn
entine, under an investigation of
smuggling Chinese into this coun-
try from Mexico.
Vice Admiral Roiestyensky, who
was in command of the Russian
fleet in May, 1905, when it was
practically annihilated by the Japa-
nese in the battle Of the Sea of Ja-
pan, died in st. Petersburg of peu-
ralgia Of the heart
Heirs of George Washington APP
peared before the House committee
on claims to urge a claim of $685.
100 as reimbursement for 5000
acres Of land along the Little Mi
ami river in Ohio, which was grant
ed to Washington, but was lost by
conflicting grants made under the
auih.5S;;tr af thA United States,
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-22

Assemblyman John I. Farrell of
New York City will introduce a bill
in the legislature taxing all baehel-
ors of thirty years or more. A new
feature of his plan is the organiza-
ton of a state bureau for the find
ing of wives for bachelors who wish
to avoid the tax.
In its report on the naval appro-
priation bill to the House the COM
mittee on naval affairs fixed the
amount needed for the maintenance
of the naval service during the fiscal
year 1910 at 5,G62 ,8SS as COM
pared with the 1922, ,662. .4S5, the
present appropriation.
One by one, as his four children
descended the stairs from their bed
rooms Wednesday, James York, a
quarry worker, at Bradley's Cross
ing, Mimi. slaughtered them all
with a knife. Then he went into
a woodshed and hanged himself.
Thos. j. Atkins Of st. Louis was
before the House Committee on
Claims for more than an hour We'd
nesday, submitting to lengthy eX-
animation by members of that COM
mittee regarding the $16,500 short
age discovered in the st. Louis sub
treasury more than two years ago.
ssssszs
between the President and Judge
Taft were strained. Dissatisfaction
at the White House because of the
prominence given to ''reactionaries"
in the prospective Taft Cabinet was
given a, the basis for the alleged
estrangement.
The first infictfon of capital
punishment in France for number
of years past were witnessed in this
town this week, when four murder
ers were decapitated by the guillo-
tine. The executions were public
and took place in the presence Of
a large crowd.
Speedy action to prevent lobby
ing in the Kansas Legislature, was
outlined in the House, wnen it pass
ed reolution authorizing the
speaker to appoint committee to
act jointly with a similar commit
tee from the Senate to frame an
antilobbying bill to be rushed
through to passage.
Through the sympathy of Charles
W. Morse, the Wall-street fnancier
who was sentenced to 10 years inn
prisonment for breaking the Federal
banking laws, a young Texan named
James B. Wilson will return to his
home in San Antonio and take
fresh start in life.
Plans for what it is stated will
be the most extensive publicity
campaign ever conducted in the in
terest of great national problems as
they confront the church have been
announced in New York by the
Home Missions Council of the Evan
geical denominations throughout
the United States.
The National Government has
come to a realization that the Pana-
ma Canal will cost in the neighbor-
hood of $3O0,0OO,OOo. 1t proposes
to issue bonds early in the spring
which will go a long ways toward
reimbursing the treasury for the ey-
penditures which have already been
made. The time is considered op-
perfume because of the general re-
yiyal of commercial and trade condi.
tons coinoident with the incoming
! administration.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
A Baptist Elder
Restored TO Health by VinOl.

81 was run down aud weak from in
digestion and general debility, ais,
suffered from vertigo. ] saw a coo
liver preparation called NinOl adver
tised and decided to give it trial
and the results were most gratifying
After taking two bottles regained
my strength and am now feeling un-
usually we'll" Henry Cunningham.
Elder Baptist Church, Kingston, y.
G..
NinOl IS not patent medicine but
a preparation composed OF the medi-
cinal elements of Gods livers, com
bned with a tonic iron and wine. Vi
mol creates a hearty appetite, tones up
the organs OF digestion and makes
rich. red blood. ln this natural man
ner Nin0l creates streugthfor The rum
down, overworked and debiltated.
and for delicate children and old pe0-
pie. For chronic coughs. colds and
bronchitis Ninol is uueXcelled
All. sueh person, in this Vicinity are
asked tO Try Niuol Ou our offer to re-
fund their money if 30 fails To give SAFE
.sfac..0n.
Niuol is sold in Farmsille by d. L.
Freear, Druggist.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22

1r.icll0l.. a- hes cfl-
nlll .cl IHe seat OI the disease. la-
turrl is a blood or constitutional dis
ease, and In order TO cure it you must
tarrh Cure is taken internally, aud
acts directly ON the OlOOu ana mucous
surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not
a quack medicine. 1t was prescribed
by one Of the best physicians in this
country for years, and is a regular
prescription. 1t is composed of the
best tonics known, combined with the
best blood purifiers, acting directly on
the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results
in curing catarrh. Send for testi-
monials free.
FL. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, price, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
Why Not In faPmViIIe?

Wednesday evening of last week
was a wintry evening and the attend
ance at the prayer meetings of our
churches was lamentably small. We
counted four ladies at one of them,
and six gentlemen, the latter in the
majority at such service for once. On
the same evening in Richmond thous-
ands turned out to hear Evangelist
Chapman and his associate workers.
Surely they did not 20 to hear the
man but TO receive orders from the
Master The truth told by this Evan
gelist is the theme of our ministers,
and why not crowd our pews at each
and every service?
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
SOLDIERS.

In days gone by, in the GOOD old
days as some of our veteran friends
are disposed to designate them. there
were six volunteer military companies
in the county Of Prince Edward. five
infantry and one cavalry. In the month
of May the different companies drilled
for five consecutive days and on Sat-
urday all Of them met at Worsham.
then Prince Edward Courthouse. and
general muster day" was observed.
and such day it was, red-letter
day in the history of the county. At
least one thousand people gathered
there, soldiers, men, women and chill
dren, and inauguration days at Wash
ington are dull in comparison.
Fall in Captain Hughes Com
pany, " fall in Captain Vaughan's,
Company" rang out clear and strong.
mingled with the bugle call to saddle.
The companies soon formed into bat
tallions, the colonel with his aides
rode to the front, dressed as no other
commandants the sun ever shone on
were ever adorned before, and for
hours the soldiers marched and coun-
ter-marched at tap of drum and shrilI
notes Of the miniature flute The
troopers in the meantime went gallon
ing by and all was tense excitement
and quickening interest.
And now the climax was reached
when the contest between footmen
and horsemen was ordered The in
fantry formed in hollow square and
the cavalrymen dashed against them
with battle-fierceness. No shots were
fired, no bayonets fixed, and none
were bruised and none lef. dead on
the bloodless field Mimic war but
the crowd acted as though it was the
real thing. Who that lived in those
days can ever forget general muster
iay?"
Out Of those soldier companies went
he boys that helped TO make immor-
al Southern chiyalry as exhibited at
Manassas. Seven Pines. Gaines Mil.
'pottsylvania Gettysburg and hun
lreds OF other fields of bloody battle.
And just here we would suggest the
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
Finds Her RIna.

Mrs Blanch Morton. who lost
handsome diamond ring recently re-
i0'eos that tho lost has been found A
colored boy found it and though ne
was slow 10 make known bis find. he
q. last restored IT, received 80 IN re-
torn AMI no doubt reio.ced at his GOOD
'u.k The ring was ior.ni.al|y pal-
u4o.c but had senumeu.si interest
with II which IS above price.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
Oar Normal Girls VIII All Be for TAFT
Now
Listen to him

Listen TO him.
In his address to the students of
the State Normal School at Athens,
Ga, last Saturday, he praised the
young ladies for deciding to devote
themselves to a profession exceeded
by none in opportunities for self-sac-
rifice and for doing permanent good,
and he expressed the opinion that pub
lie sentiment would not very much
longer permit the women teachers to
be paid so poorly for their work in
proportion to its difficulty and impor-
tance.
Better pay says the hero of the
hour, and so say we all.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
Items Of Interest from the Normal.

On last Friday evening Miss El0ise
Harrison entertained in honor of Misse.
Isabelle Harrison and Martha and
Minnie Blanton. The occasion was a
most enjoyable one. Those who par
ticipated in its pleasures were. Misses
Lila London, Ethel Jarrat, Alice Dug
gar Carrie Sutherlin, Mildred Davis,
Messrs. Y. d. Venable, Archie Wade,
Horace Adams, Frank Hubbard.
Miss Lula 0. Andrews was at home
to the members of the Graduating
Class on Thursday afternoon. With
such a hostess as Miss Andrews, il is
needless to say that each one pro-
nounced the afternoon a most delight
ful one.
Miss Lila London entertained very
delightfully."- at card party on We'd
nesday evening, in honor of Miss Isa-
belle Harrison.
On last Tuesday several of the grad
yates and Senior AS spent a most
happy evening with Miss Eva Minor.
The Graduating Class will be enter
tanned on Friday evening by Misses
Martha and Minnie Blanton.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
At OUR WAREHOUSES;.
Business In Them All Very Brisk
Not Single Man Idle, and
Prices Very Good.

There are nOmore interesting scenes
to be witnessed in our business cir
cles than those which are to be looked
upon during sales hours in our ware
houses. AS much as certainty may be
desirable in all transactions the ele-
ment Of chance has a charm about it,
No one knows just what pile of to-
bacco will bring and everybody look
ing on wants to know. And then
when one pile has been sold the anxi-
ETY. to know about the next is just as
great and so interest continues until
the last pile has been sold. And then
another bell sounds and the crowd
hurries to the next warehouse where
the same programme is unfolded.
In this age of hurry our auctioneers
have caught the step and would put
to the blush the veterans of bygone,
who did things, even the selling of
tobacco more deliberately. And yet
this is not intended as any reflection
upon the worthless of the past for we
never expect to listen to more persua-
sive or more pleasing auctioneers than
were Col. T. B. Rice and Col. K. A.
Booker.
How we do miss the buyers of other
days whenever we attend a sale. They
are real personages to us as we write,
and we would love to describe them
just as they were to us in life, but we
must content ourselves with the men
ton of some of their names-Gray,
Wright Blanton Paulett Booker
Hunt and others
Drumeller alone, the last of the
old guard, and long may his bow
abide i'm strength.
Whenever we stand by pile of toe
bacco we are tempted to do just as
the buyers do, take up q bundle open
the leaves. put it TO our nose as tho
we knew everything about IT, or could
learn by fcoiing smelling opening
This however. was impressed upon
us recently as we examined hund'caf-
er bundle and that is that he to-
1aeco is often not Wol sorted We
frequently found in the same bundle
d.tcreHt lengths and different c0.0rs.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22

EDITOR nerad.-l arise TO second lne
nomination of Mr.. Brock, as made by
Voter" in the last issue Of The Her
ald for our representative in the next
Legislature.
In this day of cheek" man of
modest worth" is of great value.
jefferson laid down this as such by
which to be governed in the selection
of public servants. Require that they
be honest and capable. Mr.. Brock
measures full up to this standard.
Why not make his nomination unani-
nous? ANOTHER VOIEk.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
LEROY JAMES VERsER.

stand by the open grave Of one of hel
good citizens and respected bushes:
men.
Leroy James Verser died at 4 A. NJ.
on the 18th, and was buried from his
home on Sunday at 3 p NJ, the fu-
neral services being conducted by his
pastor Rev. H. NJ IFugate, of the Bap-
fist Church, assisted by Rev. S. c.
Hatcher, of the Methodist. There was
large concourse of his neighbors and
friends gathered to pay respect to
his memory and the floral offerings,
elaborate and exquisite, bore silent
but tender and touching tribute to his
modest but manly worth.
The following were the pall-bearers
who gently laid their friend Farm
ville's friend, in the city of our dead,
where he rests under a wilderness of
blossoms:
j. II. Walton, b. NJ. Cox, II. c.
Crute, j. f. Garland, S. w. Watkins,
g. NJ Robeson, j. L. Richardson, X.
B. Cralle, DR.. p Winston, II. E. Bar
row, Dr. r. F. Hamlet, J. d. Wat
kins, F. NJ. Bugg.
Mr.. Nerser was born on the Both of
September, 1S45, served faithfully and
well in the Confederate Army, and at
the close of the war began business
life in Farmville as clerk in the ser
: vice of the late S. r. Murkland, af-
forwards with Hillard G. Co., at a time
when the firm did perhaps the largest
mercantile business in Farmvilie and
when the good people of old Lunen-
burg were among its most valuable
patrons He then served with Me-
Kinney Brothers, and leaving them
inaugurated the dry goods business
under his own name which ne con-
Quoted until the day Of his death,
though i'm later years under the firm
name of /. j. Ncrscr G. Son.
The store was ever a model of neat
ness the stock selected with care and
good taste and over it presided a
quiet unhuricd spirit " making
friends of patrons and winning suc-
cess without resort 90 the tricks of
trade or tho practice of doubtful moth-
aa--aIHats on duty hui never i0rget-
iul ~ t,e propretes which mark and
adom the just man of business.
Nr Neror was for many years an
hoaor.i and useful member of the
towns Council ofhe basrdoi Super
N-lr School trustee aaI director
the Planters Bank Asmomheroi tae
directory and o. the Board of Super
v'sois Doe followed the late RFM BUR-
tom. and n no case did he seek theof-
flee, the office seeking the man.
For some time his health had been
failing but he came to his place of
business with great regularity until
two days before his death and but for
the condition of the weather, would
have been there the day before the
end came. About 4o'clock on the af-
ternoon of the 14th he became uncon-
scious, and without a sigh or a strug-
gle passed to the great beyond at 4
O'Clock Of the following morning.
A friend who watched at his bed
side said TO us, ] want to die just as
he did. He simply went to sleep"
Peace to his ashes.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.
DlSfEXSARY'S ANNUAL SALES
REPORTED
Imp ri Mt Ordinances Presented

The ianuary meeting of the town
council was held on Tuesday night
Mayor Blanton presiding, and the fol-
lowing members present: Messrs.
Fallwel, Erambert, Martin Scott,
Davidson, Barrow, Doyne and DR..
Gills.
Sergeant Miller reported collections
for the month to be as follows:
sERGEANT's REPORT.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22

When You have bad cough or cold
do not let 10 drag along until il be-
comes chronic bronchitis or lovnlonos
lntO an atlach Oi pneumonia, Dut give
.l ..1 attention a. l0s-4.Ns ...44 49,. 49,.
Of it. Take Chamberlain Cough
Remedy and you are sure Of prompt
relief. From a small beginning the
sale and use of this preparation has
extended to all parts Of the United
States and to many foreign countries.
Its many remarkable cures of coughs
and colds have won for it this wide
reputation and extensive use. Sold
by The Winston Drug Co.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
POStOffiCe Sunday Hours.

The Postoffice Sunday hours have
been changed, and hereafter the win
dows will be opened for the delivery
of mails at the hours: 1890 p. m, to
80 p. m. $50 p. m, to 6 p. m.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
Lame Shoulder.

This is a common form of muscular
rheumatism. No internsl treatment
is needed Apply Chamberlain S
Liniment freely twice a day and a
quick cure is certain. This liniment
has proven especially valuable for
muscular and chronic rheumatism.
and is sure to give quick relief. Cham
berlain.s Liniment is also most ex-
cellent for spralns and bruises. Price,
% cents; large size so cents. For sale
by The Winston Drug Co.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22

Itching, torturing skin eruptions,
disfigure, annoy, drive one wild.
Doan's Ointment brings quick relief
and lasting cures. Fifty cents at any
drug store.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
a Gard Of Ihaass.

Mrs. trne, i0 Ter aul daughters
r.-l 'r ar'r1i t1 iHeir- many rienls
their heartfelt thants and apurec.q-
tion for the exceeding kindness shown
them during the recent illness Of their
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-22
Janua % 1908

Janua %, 1905
ST. Leslie Trent, o'JetersviIle,
visited home people othis pa g,
a,- Saturday and Sunday
SIR and Mrs. Eugene ear, of this
-.huho0d. were cipients OF
baby boy one day lastvsk. Moth
m baby doing well.
N, Della Bradshaw, + Rice, is
visiting aer sister, Mrs. lima Trear
rs W..s
N DIETRICH recently ped in this
a0.raood with hisriend, Mr.
cs r Michigan.
SIR Caedc French v quite sick
w lays last week, llt we are
du that he is ouigain.
NeN.re sorry to heat the death
N, Nr Foster. W.eeply sym
'h the bereaveamily.