The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-11-04
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.
Notes Of Happenings and People You
Know.

II is not when the world may end
Or how prolonged our strife
The problem is how may se blend
Most sweetness with our life.
And though the dark wheel turn today
And waits some fer tomorrow.
This is the living hour to heal
The hear ache and the sorrow.
And the president of the Fair de-
corated in no insignia of rank dur
ing Fair days.
The judges of the baby show
haven't showed up since the gates
closed. Better lay low.
The desire to enter the fair gates
without paying the fee is well nigh
as universal as the air we breathe.
Mrs. J. NJ. Quisenberry and Mrs.
w. NJ. STEELE. Of Lexington, Va, was
the guests of Mrs. r. w. Vaughan
during the Fair
Learn TO be cheerful not only in
fair weather. but in foul. Fair
times would be gloomy if we had
nothing but fair times.
And when those decorations came
down. Main street looked bleak and
bare. But the decorations, like the
roses, will come again.
The residence Of Mr.. w. p. Rich
ardson on High stree was handsome
ly decorated for the Fair. the only
private residence in town tha- so
honored the occasion.
Mr.. c. A. Price spent Sunday and
Monday with his family after a
strenuous business trip over many
states. The rest off was pleasant
and refreshing.
Miss Mary Jackson is expected
here in a few days. She will stop
with her sister, Mrs. E. Z. Roberts,
for a few days and then go on to
New York City for the winter
James River Clarion.
The crop season of 1910 holds its
good record to the end. Wheat
seeding was never done under more
favorable auspices, and corn gath
ering time could not have been inn
proved on.
The fair has come and gone, and
with it's going its pleasures have
gone too. but home, and church and
everyday work are still ours. and
from them we after all derive our
best comforts and sweetes joys.
Mrs. Louis jenkins. of Lynchburg.
is visiting Mrs. j. L. Hart. She is
accompanied by MIS-. Lem Roane.
of Portsmouth, Va Mrs. Roane
was formerly of Farmville, and en-
joys her brief visit to old scenes.
Tuesday next is election day.
Not to vote is TO neglect the per
Torrance of high civic duty. Never
miss the opportunity to vote You
may not be personally interested in
the candidate this time. and yet
the public duty rests on you.
Mr.. VIM. Garden left in the Her
aid office a bunch of clover that
measured 81 inches. which was to
have been exhibited at the Fair, but
some one removed it before the
gates opened. But it had been accu
rately measured, so he is entitled
to wear the belt If you can over
top it trot out your sample.
One of our townsmen who believe
in the power of prayer, when the
rain began to fall on Thursday even
ing. reverently and feverently ask
ed the giver of all good. to give us
a clear day on Friday, and to save
the people from unseemly conduct
and accident. And his prayer was
Farmville has a live president
within its gates in the presence Of
Mr.. Eugene Gill. who was recently
elected as president of the Virginia
division of the T. P. AS. Our CON
and good wishes go
with him I'm the discharge Of his ne7
duties.
The hack horses had strenuous
time e. ir during eair week. The
desire to catch anouhci load forced
them well nigh to the front Of ex-
haustion. Let's learn TO be merci-
iul TO the dump-driven beasts even
az The lost of a dollar.
Mr. II. X. Cowan was first Of our
hunters TO take down the gun. whis-