The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-02-18

NlS. Allillf WV MIMI
home on last saturday
Buckingham has gone into the
bridge building business. Let this
he followed with macadam building.
Don't neglect to stamp your let
ters and not place loose coin in
rural boxes.
If an egg floats in salt water II
is said to be strictly fresh. But wh
not load an egg as well as man?
Mrs. DR.. White has been on the
sick list for a few days and for the
first time in fifty years has re
NAMED in bed during a whole day.
With eggs at the prevailing prices
some one has remarked that the hen
that laid the golden egg must haze
been resurrccted.
When the girls walk out in the
driving snow bare headed what ioi-
lows when they enter heated room
and the snow begins to melt?
We are Indebted to Mrs w. H.
9 r1ubbard for a bucket of I've hominy.
, Il came as a glad greeting from by
zone and was just as mother made
it," Thanks.
Now and then letter is missed
from a sentence in the Herald and
~ its absence destroys the meaning TO
- Zoo conveyed and yet our readers
= find no difficulty in supplying the
omission
Do not agonize for high places III
8 life but rather sigh for hum
u bler station. hedged with the works
'e Of society. warm with the embrace
u, Of love. frightened by the smiles oil
,s friends
We are very much indebted to
those of our friends who from time
I'd 70 time send into the Herald local
ry and personal items OF interest LEI
r the good work go on and gro"
d. The Herald is first and foremost al
~ local paper.
rs The mirror and the three chair
in the Upton MacNamee barber shol
cost the good round sum o. SSO'
ry # means q legion of cuts AM
ay shaves to get the money back. ANT
SIS vet an expert barber, kept busy
ID can make $1,000 a day and mos
he of the income is profit,
cd
,rs We watched half dozen wagon
heavily loaded with tobacco moVin
slowly and YEARLY along West Bul
m falo street the other day. and drive
he and horses had on big DISCUS
sh Exchanging the smooth macadam
II the country for the bottomlcss mu
nix hole of the city was genuine shoci
nd
ON Rev DR. Cummings. OF WI
he cbeeter XIV. who has been vlsitin
nd his sons in their country home nea
town preached at the Presbyterla
church on last Sunday morning an
at 70 the delight and spiritual uplift
as the large and appreciative congreg'
ct tion that was privileged to hear hi
nd
NOT Mrs Grace Durand, who lives
,bt the great State of Illinois, tel
ON how she nets $500 a year from ea'
as Of her sixty COWS. And yet we al
I'M told to go slow" in the dairy bus
ness in Virginia. Can we not
what other people have done? Sha
ars q woman beat us to a fragile?
sti-
Ks The winter through which v
4 have been passing will be remembe
ach cd as an unusually cold one al
can vet as a community we have be-
for blessed with general good heal
and comforts. "The poor alWa
adj with us" and some sick, and y
much TO be grateful for. Even Il
Ia grippe has lost some Of its gr
'e' and many of us fight the monst
"0' successfully without taking TO be
'pe ''' '4' '''
cas- Hon. J. Winston Fowlkes,
he Amelia. was i'm town on Friday Ia
err looking after the sale of some pc
self lion of his crop of tobacco. +
tim criticism upon the market is Oh
nit good tobacco is not selling as We
nest as it should and i'm his opinion
and due to the fact the manufacture
ety. have got sharp enough TO use
TO inferior article where they once us