The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-12-16
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.
Notes Of Happenings and PeOple You
Know.

The court clerk says in accents slow
You're charged with speeding Richard Rowel'
The copper says. in aee snts sour:
. The rate was eighteen miles an hour
: The chauffeur murmurs. with whine:
r I wasn't going nine "
The Judge aside his law book lays.
J And says: Ten dollars or ten days"
Washington Herald
Mrs w. r. Berkeley and the ba
BY have gone to Baltimore fol
Christmas.
Dr. Paulus A. Irving made a
business trip to New York last
week.
Mr.. F. D. Green. who has been in
Ohio for some time, attending to
business there is at home again.
Mr.. P. II. c. Rice is still CON
fined to his home and his friends
greatly miss him from his usual
walks and work.
Five banquets in Farmville dur
ing one week broke all past records.
and the crown of victory rested on
each of them.
Mrs. Hannibal A. Williams re-
cital of Romeo and Juliet will be
given in the Normal school Auditor
ium tonight.
Mr.. f. T. Hundley gathered ice
last week more than inches thick
and that's unusual for this section
at this season of the year.
The Presbyterian Sunday School
will have a Christmas tree for Il
children, and may be the grown
children will be remembered too.
Miss Charley Jones. who has been
teaching at the Warm Springs. Bath
county, is at home for the Christ
mas holiday. the first of the home
corners for the season.
Il some one connected with the
tobacco market of Farmville will
send weekly report to the Herald,
It will be given to the public. This
IS matter of great public interest.
The ice has been of unusual thick
hess this season, and yet thin ice
las been claiming some victims. Be-
ware of the ice that gives out
ound
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Amos returned
o their home in Hampton Saturday.
fter spending several days with
heir parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Len
mos. of Cumberland
Mrs. J. Y. Phillips has bush
Poincetta. or Christmas flower
lied with rich blossoms. 1t is a j
ire bloomer with us. and is worth d
icing. Il
Mrs. II. w Flournoy left on Tues ei
~ for the home of her brother, II
ldge Henry Wood. at GAINESVILLE. m
here she will spend her Christ
as.
Mr. c. T. Pickett kindly and gen q
ously supplied the ladies of the III
Church with water for he
e at their bazaar. Mr.. l.. c. M
artin printed the menu cards in IN
tistic style without cost. %
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Hamlet and
nily are living temporarily in wi
'idence near Hampden-Sidney. An I'M
ce living there the family circle phi
larger by one Let the name be an
mpden-Sidney Hamlet. tn,
Chief FOCUS says he knows il -
s been unusually cold for the
son. as he has never worn his
'rcoat so constantly in the clos
days of November and the open
days of December Sta
irs. Louis Paulett has returned ~,
n a pleasant visit to her old
ne in Fauquier She left twelve
les of snow in the mountains,
found it warm in Farmville in g.
parison. Must be rather chilly -
there in the hills.
selecting your Christmas pres gre.
don't forget the Herald for
year 1911. to be mailed regular
% some absent friend. Two
S a copy. just the postage on a F
r, and each copy will contain and
more Of home news than you in
crowd into a letter. have