Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1900-12-27
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Special to the News.
George II. Lewis has bought Rev. 1.
N. Knox out and is doing a good bust
ness In groceries and dry goods.
Born to II. Coppinger and wife big
boy Sunday.
Mrs. Austin Coppinger, of Coppinger
Cove was visiting her son and daughter
and grandson last Sunday.
We'unS had pay day Saturday and
you'ns know we are always glad to see
pay day and Christmas come.
] know DR., Gott think ought.
Mr.. Sparks has good name because
he will 60 to see the young ladies.
Mr.. A. 0, Kelly I want to ask you
through the News II this is so. D. b.
Barrett said an owl comes to No mines
and some one tries to kill him every
time he comes there. Here are the
names of the people who have given
him severe wounds. A. o. Kelly shot
at him seven times with IS rife, D.
b. Barrett threw a lump of coal and
knocked him off the boiler shed twice,
II. Cross threw an iron weight and
knocked him of the wire rope, Fl. Bar
rett shot him twice and knocked a
hatfnll of feathers out of him each time
John TrimneAr has knocked him down
three or four times with stones and a
dozen other people have beat him up
and killed him half dozen times and
still the owl comes to the mines He
must have a strong constitution.
Dick Layne of Jasper, was in Inman
Sunday.
Texas Ranger vented to know If the
mines had fallen in on me and Uncle
Sam. No, old boy, but sometimes !
think tree has fallen on you. We like
to know what s going on in Texas. L.
r. Dixon had the Texas fever when be
was here how Is he now?
l treated everybody Christmas.
bought pint of peanuts in the morn
ing and they didn't last until night
used to be a swamp angel in Missis-
sippi and was camped there during the
Spanish war and l brought
Mississippi swamps. will gladly give
both away to any one who can take
them. One is the chill and the other
the fever. Inclose Is cent stamp to
help pay postage. l mean business
l now live in the Powder Mill Hollow
where the boot owls hollow before the
sun goes down. Where you can have a
fox hunt any time day or night, where
coons delight to hear dog bark where
possoms will come to the house and
climb tree and make the chickens
squall so we can go out and shoot
them, where rabbits come to hunt tho
dogs so they can get to run, where wild
cats boiler and panthers squall, where
bears have been seen lately, and deer
sometimes pass through, where wild
turkeys roam and all kinds Of Varmints
and fowls you can think OF stay A big
mountain on each'sids ofus. The other
night boot owl was on one mountain
and he commenced hoo, hoo hoo" and
it wasn't long until another on the other
answered him and they we're talk
ing in owl language and the echoes
were going and coming and Twas listen
ing and trying to understand what they
were talking about but didn't get the
meaning Of a word. Well the CONVEX
sation went hot and fast and finally they
both spoke at once and the echoes me
right over my house and such an ex
plosion as you never hear. The echoes
came together so hard that they bounc
cd back and killed itself. Between
these great mountain and all these var
minis we are not all hsathens for ",
read the Sequaohee News and get th,
best and latest news, all the topics o
the day, and good logic and true non
sense.
Big guns woke me up Christina
morning.
H, Coppinger's child is very sick a
this writing and not expected to live.
duned DR.. Gott for that 10 cent
over the telephone last week.
Today is Christmas and am going t
take hunt as soon as finish writing
Anderson Layne is spending Chris
mas at home.
Well I must gs now and help the w
men folks shoot Ere crackers.
Success to the News and all its read
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