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V. V Al DEIS
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JNO. a. BOOKER
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F. W. HUBBARD
\-st. i ashier
= Farmville, Virginia
Capital and Surplus $100,000
TOTAL RESOURCES OVER
One-Half Million Dollars.
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DIRECTORS
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J. L. PITNEY
J. K. WALTON
A. O. CLAPHAM
J. lt. MARTIN
Vi D. M. STOKES
Jos. K. MARLAND
I SCOTT MAPI in
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JUSTICE BREWER
FOUND DEAD
Member ol tl. S. Supreme
Court Dies of Apoplexy.
STRICKEN IN BATHROOM
Famous Jurist Was Found by His
Wife and Died Before Medical Aid
Could Be Summomd?He Wa* S*"v
entythrea Year* of Age.
Justit e I>avid J Hr* wr-r ol tba
Stat? a coan ad at I
Ington Jual
had aol been feeling well foi atora
?han a wee! bul hail not been oMiK?*i
to ta?u ? bed He hail ?
Easter with tba membera of hi* family
and I ernooB walka**]
tha ofhct ol bia physician Hi
plant-! tv ? ? dinnei tabla, o' I
worse bul bil i onditli D wax e
aidered aerious
K\ ti inti* after io o*i lock Monda;
Dight he told Mrs Brewer that h. waa
.,. .
loom
A little ? ard a
ag hail fallen to
athroom but abc tool no i
iar notice of it until bet attention waa
attracted a few mliuite*., later
sound of Hushing tn
ihe bathn thc found her hu*.
? Ij lui; "ii tho floor nncoi -
The Jostle, had undressed beti
lerlng th* hat broom.
Onlj mts wen in th* boose
wita Mrs Brewer, ami abe dispatched
on* of Ibem to th* home ol lodge
Ashley Gould of tho District nf Co
lumbla auprema coan who liv
door tr, the Brewan When imiK*
Gould arrived phyatctani living la ibe
neighborhood hail been summoned
JustH* Urawa! was carried from rh.
bathroom and laid on a bed, but wh'"'
th* doctor* arrived a fa-w Bioute*
later ht- was dead Apoplesj whs lb*
-a BB of .learn
Insticf Brewar'a two daughters
Mr* Jamei I Carrick and Mrs ii r
lotmor* wi n iv-in Waabtngtoa. wei*
Biirnrnoii'-'i and arrived shortly nit'i
th* phyaletaoa
?fustic* Brewer waa seveotj
old. H. had been an BM
? ? sinr.- Ii.-."inti, r HS!i ami had
a jiart in decidlB| mao] aaomentou*
queatlona unmni; them thi
trust prosecutions
I!" was appointed to tba bench b\
? 'and
Was a Keen Lawyer
Tia. '*" '<1K'f*n P'1 wi-r was burn In
r?iTi">n.:> V n"T ln 1^~ !i
th* son n ,tev Jo8iah Brewer ead
of David Didlej
Field and CyrtH W Fi?ld and *"*-*?
Stephen t held. ili* falb*r W8? an
?arly missionary to Tarka*
i ag Brewei was graduated ftrom
Yal* in IMC and from (V Albany l.aw
achool to 1161 He established bim
*elf In his piofoaaton at I.eav*nworth
Kan in I8f'9, and there he li red until
b* aaaomed his duties aa Justice *?? 'he
eupreme court
Comlnf from on* of th* most emt
nant families of America, he early
made his mark aa a lawyer of kean
*aa-um*n No tamil' In American bis
tory has a more distinguished word
for men of caliber than th* Held tam
My which la Neat England stork and
Od Puritan origan Clergymen. Jurists
scientists, rooqoerora in every part
of th* globe the scions of the Field
itOCk ed a gi "at part In th*
BB that have come to th* Am*ri
can nation
In the annals of American pluck
and aaraeveraoce and scientific coo*
quast no nam* Btaoda higher than
? hat of Cyrus \v Plaid, who stretched
the first oceanic cable which linker1
continent with continent.
In 1SS1 David 1 Brewer was ap
pointed P -
r rh* pronato and criminal eoorta of
leavenworth county, and IMS until
KW he was 1udge of the First dlatlicl
ourt of Kansas
in 11)74 Jodge Brewer wa- el
oatlce ol tbe aaprema coori . ?
. . .,,,.1
appointed
udg" of the circuit ot tli" t'nite.l
foi rb.. Eighth d; ?
Jnstlci Brewer succeeded '
Manie* oe the beach ol tha
tribunal lo th* narnu vi l><*
?ember. 18X9; and sin.-.' thal rlui" he
? as rendered man) decisions ol
in-i fllle.i many
i rial al lllty
W>mr Killed: Army Officer Hurt.
Mrs Hei bed .ls i '? of
.lalor Slni-ii.ii. of ' 'h cavalry,
?ral Prank
in Bell el - itt of 'h*
ni ure' in a collis! rn between
h. Ir?auti'!i."'".!>? and s trolley car ai
? ?
fractured rib .i scalp wound and was
np.
Ceoeral Bell had corni ovei from
D his automobile and had
picked Mi- Jli Min un ar the Wvnm
Int* apartment, where -
with her sis Thc
-t at Wisconsin ave
nd Garfield street The gutomo
bile ?as comlog down Garfield stree!
nn 1 t i ? In front of a awiiit'i
bound electric car
Ih* automobile was complete!
um ?ris tl
Blvf-ut twenty feet. I
curbing, and General Heil was throwi
about r ? lataoci Ml
was still breathing wh*n passers*
eame to her assistance She was car?
ried lr. a trolle) cai to a litrlo park at
Wlscoasla avenue and Volta place.
No Faith In Bank; Robbed.
Because he had lost faith in ths
banks the prediction, often mad* to
Samuel Chatham, wso lived alone In
a lonely spot about two miles west
of Nassawantfo Meetin? house, in Wor
t*ster county. Md. that he would be
cobbed of his lifetime savings, rsm*
tru* when robbera entered the house
whil* the old man was asleep and se
?ur*d a sum of money eetfflUated at
from $3500 to $1000 in gold < oin and
currency
lt has beon known for maur yt-ais
that th* old man kept thousands ?>f
dollars' In th* house and only laat
week hts brother, f \V. Chatham,
drove ont to the hut and tried to per
suade lum bo place tba nioner in onme
bank for snfe k*eplng. bat he refused
to part with his wealth
Mr Chatham mada his mona? in the j
llnib'-i huHineas and for several years
wss a mon*y lender, but for th* pasi
four or flv-*- y*>arn h* lj.oamt iflsbuead
with th* ld?a that those whom he had
loaned mon*y to were ir-lng io h'-nt
him om of it and he called all his
loans In, hoarding lt away In an old
trunk Th" trunk was found In a
thick* t nea: Chatham's hi
Ic the money stolen waa $2l0<> in
gold coin, mostly $20 pieces
Put Target on Breaat to Kill Self.
Pinning a paper target upon her
? breast, Just over the heart. Miss 1.11
i lian P. Collins, aged twenty six years,
i of Baltimore Md . turned a pistol on
| the "bull's eye" and fired a boiler
I through her heart, dying Instantly H?r
hody was rUaeeverad by her slst*r.
; with the ragged targ*t still fluttering
from ber breast
, Th* targ*t was a small circle about
three Inches in diameter, clipped un
1 evenly from a newspaper and appar
enfly bsd been punched at the middle
} to form a "center" or bull's eye Nona
' of the girl's family could account for
her act.
Third Similar Accident Fatal
After havine lived for sixty y*an
with a deformity which had twit*
caused him serious Injury. Henri
Brien met death at Middletown, N I
by a third accident similar to th* otb
er two One leg was a little short*
than tho other, and he wore a higl
heel. Twice he had fallen downstair
through his heal 'arching, an'!
tims be Boetalned a broken leg. Th
time Vs b"'1 cancht on a step and h
uren skuii and a broken jaw ti<
vlthln an hour
Children Dance as Mother Burns.
Two of het Mule children da
jleefullv ahour h*r. apparently think
na it h fine- sdsrlit. while Vlrs II
aa;*d twenty-ell. years, burned
? rh in the yard of her h'
?tmoletown. iit'ar Hagaratown, Md
Mrs Myan was barning rubbish
while her three children played Ol ar
by Th* mother's dress oanghl
Tlie oldest child. with s-im* realisation
Jf the horror, r.in foi help, but Mrs
Myara w-as d*ad before tbe flr^t
I her
Finds Diamond In His Quid
A moment aft*t Elliott Robli
l, Pa who ls engineer of the
motive need by dei
Buperinten .'non.
of tin
chew of tOPBCi 0 b" bil 00 a hard s lb
and sim' lt ont on tue floor ol
th" round house H turned out
a perfectly nd balf h
In weight
Chopped Man to Pieces.
Ila ll
bided him for being slow
errand Frank Byrd, a colored mill
hand at Richmond, Va i-r"pt np li
bind Hast,rms with an n\e and li'
ally chopped the whit.- man to p
With a mob eath'-rina: and I
a lynching, sheriff Toggle in
th* colored man to thc Farmvill
for safe keeping
Father and Children Murdered In Boat.
? in ier Ltadhahl a wealtbj far
m*r residing at Concordia, Kan. his
daughter, ten years old. and his son
eiaiht years old. have been myateriona
ly murdered while riding in a ratotor
boat on rh" Republican riser Their
bodies were found They had ti'" n
shot and clubbed. There is no trace
of ihHr a-sailanr
Sheriff Cut Hanging Colored Men.
Toe Rotc rs and Jim Powell, pol
ored were hanged tor the murder of
a colored merchant at Fnslpy. a sub?
urb of Birmingham. Ala h year n*d
a half ago The sheriff was badly hurt
while springing the ti ap His son. In
Beveling the string holding tbe lever
accid-ntallv cat his fath*r
Twenty-ene Autos Burned.
Twenty-one automobiles were brim
*d and *lght**n damaged tn a fir* at
Brokaw Brothers' automobile garage
at PlalnfleM. N J. Tim total loss I*
*st1mat*d ai between STr.ooo and flOeV
00ft. almost aatlrely on the machines
Dragged Over Cliff by Kite.
BnrarK'.*'<J in th.- c-ort of a monmar
kite which he was Hying. William
Fletcher, seventeen years old. was
dragnet! ovr a cllfT on Teiegrap!
near San F*anetaeo and fe s
fo his death
Prince Ito's Assassin Pays Penalty.
Int han Angnn tlie Korean who as?
sassinated Prince ito former Japan" ?
resid'-nt general "f Korea, in Harbin
Manchuria. Oct. 2t> last, was "xe. rited
u Port .arthur.
<?ne ('laiuliafavor Who Waa <med
Mr Wi'fred Adams is his name.
and b" writes about it?"Some time
atm OM confined to my ped with
cn ron ii rheumatism. I used two
bottles ol Foley's Kidney Remedy
with good effect, and the third bot?
tle put rae on my feet and 1 resum?
ed work as conductor on tba Let*
lngton. Ky., Stn*ct Railway. It gave
me mor?' relief than any medicine 1
had ever OSed, and it will do all you
claim irv eases of rh'-umatism " fa
ley's Kidney Remedy cures rbaaaaaa
tism by eliminating tba uric acid
from the blood For Ball
drnggiate.
There i- no cough medicine sr
popu-ar-as Foleys Honey and Tar
It never fails to cure coughs am
colds and ll "Specially recommend"!
for chronic and bronchial coughs
Sold by all drug
Herald and V Y. World fl.60.
J. G. Wellman
Merchant Tailor
121 Third Street
PHONE 249
J. G. Wellman
is Ol TOKING
The Best Inducement
NEXT WEEK ONLY.
TO IXC'KK ASK MY TKaVDK
I will give ;i yet better opportunity for everybody to try rn
Superior is My Work
Not to mention a cleaner or rnore decent place, it seem
rymen when a good tailor is doing all he knows how to please you.
Next week I will press with every lady's suit om extra -kiri FREE CM CHAI
Satisfaction and Price Guaranteed.
121 Third Street 121 Third Street
?jrooust a o?os
FADS FOR LADS
ami fashion for their elders?"ll Hi ll
ART" Clothes ghra both.
This store is as broad in its range of
good clothes as are the tastes of those
wno wear them, and both the style
wise and the dollar-prudent naturally
flock here.
You can't befog a young man on
style?he's fashu-n-wise. That's why
young men turn as naturally to this
store as water flows down hill.
Richardson & Oralle.
Farmvill
Herald
AND
New York
World $1.60
LANDRETH'S
GARDEN SEED
Fresh Lot Just Received
White Drug Company
W. T. DOYNE
FURNITURE DEALER
LICENSED EMBALMER
AND UNDERTAKER.
\ well selected stoek of
Furniture, Mantels, &c\
Burials in town or country
given careful attention. Store '?*
: : : MAYER : :
All-Wool Clothes
TTHKRK are four different kinds of clothes for men; all sold Bl '"'
* range of prices. Which kind do you want!
No. 1 -Ready-made, of cotton-mixed fabrics.
No. 2?Ready-made, of all-wool fabrics.
No. 3?Made-to-measure, of cotton-mixed fabrics.
Or
No. 4-Made-to-measure. of all wool fabrics.
The prices being the same, yon naturally pick v
know that clothes made to your measure fit you better than
Because you know that all-wool gives better s?r\icc than cotton-:-.
If you want the No. 4 kind of clothes at the same pru es j
paying for Nos 1, 2 or 3. see our spring samples now
L. J. Ver?0*" & Son.