The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-04-01
Mrs. S. d. Walton left on Tues
day for a visit to the old home.

Dr.. Kite has been taken to the
hospital at Charlottesville for treat
ment.
1t is said that women are growing
taller. In our home she has long
been the tallest tree in the forest.
We are advised that next season
Rice will open up a bright tobacco
market. Farmville should have had
n long ago.
Mr.. Watkins Kearney. Of Farm
Vile, was d guest Of Mr.. Hutchinson
last Sunday-Appomattox Times
Tirginian.
Veteran Davis says no living man
can beat him building %hogsheads If
Walthap brothers did beat him rails
ing heavy hogs.
Mr.. XII. Cowan spent his Eas-
tor with friends in Amelia, and
was sladto be out in the open coun-
try for a season with no types to
handle.
We regret TO learn that Mr.. K.
w. Booker is now confined to his
home, though he does enjoy his
chair on the porch, and these perfect
deys.
We are watching that flat land
on Third street which Harvey
Miller is preparing for some crop,
and we are going to report a record
breaking crop of some kind.
Mr.. ]. c. Hamlet will take the
census in Farmville Of the whites,
and Pompey Bland that of the col
ored. NTH. H. Gillian will have
charge of the work in Buffalo dis
trict.
While driving Monday last with
her son, who came home from Bed
ford to spend Easter at home, Mrs.
Serpell was thrown from the Nehl-
Gle and suffered the fracture OF an
arm. The injury while not serious is
very painful.
Mrs. White was wheeled into the
front porch on Tuesday and for a
short time enjoyed the sight OF her
flowers, the songs Of the birds and
the faces of her friends as they
passed by.
Parties who use the town water
viii do we'll TO read carefully the an
nouncoment of Mr.. II. c. Crute, Sc
cretary ana Treasurer which appear
ed in last weeks Herald, and which
will he found in this. Pay VI
promptly OF go dry.
There was an exciting runaway
down Main street on Tuesday morn.
ing. The horse. belonging to Mr.
Walthall. was badly scared, ran like
fury. dragging the vehicle on its
side. and was not satisfied until h'
escaped from the traces, and thei
flew without let or h%indrance. How
the crowd did flock to the side
walk TO watch the running.
Sheriff Dickinson carried a bundle
of dynamite home with him the 9th
or day TO be used in blasting rock
from the pathway of his plowS III
is preparing a fine patch for water
melons this season, and his friend
of Farmville are going to visit hin
when they are at their best, that j
if the joke of last season isn't re
heated. Get Commissioner Dupu.
to tell it 10 you.
The Prince Edward Cigar Com
psny now represent the Barke
Tobacco Company of L%ynchburg
and hanele their cigarettes, smokini
and chewing tobacco. No additional
hands have been received from Nor
folk and the home plant is spread
iE,g'' Itself. Farmville has room 10
many other manufacturing indus
tries big and little. To b. won
ever. they must be wooed-
Fruit punch and cigars ut tn
Aopomatbox Club smoke No harm
il those things, and no n OF tn
members found difficulty in flttnl
the night latch key when he reached
home. Let the Club in concert rea'
of the Ciub of Uhich Johnson Gar
rick. Burke, Reynolds. GiDbon AM
others were members. and then CIV
TO the Appomattox something OF tn
literary flavor Boswell. the small
lest of mer end the s:~ais ST OF DO