Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1900-04-19
First District.
Special to the News.

only lost but be in the dark. wa thlnk /
big heaps OF the News. Aunt said 10
uncle: DO you know bow James is
with his sickness?' "Oh, yes, and !
several deaths" well old man, it Isl
veil enough for you to take tho News y
"Why?" because as you arc crippled /
or you have no horse to spare 10 go to
see them, how could you hear from /
them II you did not take the News
Besides we find out from the News
whore it is the cheapest, and we learn |
by it who has to sell and when we are
doing we'll
The ground Good Friday morning
was frozen with large FROST Look Out,
peaches, Though 1t seems as If dry
frost does not kill fruit.
The old lady has taught her Ace to
smoke You see sec sho SITS him on
birds and he runs them through the
branch and gets hot, and then he
smokes.
April 13. at this writing Mrs. Prc-
ey Jane Eakin is dangerously bad off
with Ia grippe. Her little girl and |
crippled boy are also down with la
grippe.
Out Of five families near the top of
the mountain averaging Hyo at house
all are sick.
Your correspondent suffered severely
with severe pain IN his right foot |
tell you the old lady got about much. |
guess the old man made an unusual
fuss, but it got easy before midnight.
Can anybody tell me how to catch
mole that plows up the garden in the
| night through the News.
will have to stop writing for the
! present for the old lady has left me.
/ Don't you think she wears a hard heart
/ to leave as old and helpless man as |
am and has lived with ever since 1855
/ l do. On she has just gone to bed as II
is her bed time s o'clock. Well never
mind her flee stays awake with me.
will be looking this summer for rat
tlcsnakes il they amt killed by candi-
dates Nevermind till towards fall,
then we will hear from thom.
All wonder what Rev. w. e. Kilgore
is doing. / shall have to blister him as
he has not been to see us in four or five
months. Oh maybe the new chimney
took him out like Bro Leverton's to-
bacco. Yes, we are all anxious to see
him.
We are all fenced up here with a
fenca we can't throw down. 1t is la
grippe It is no respecter of persons.
Well, it won't throw many more out
here without 1t throws Mrs. Curtis fee,
Then she will doctor, you bet. She
dropped jug Of syrup the other day,
and | listened to hear her say some
thing bad | know ii had dropped
her snuff, she would have said some
thing bad. Well it's wonder but
something good must BIO mixed with the
bad
Mrs. wilkins son, T. c. Campbell,
Rit Layne, viii Curtis and J, ii. Curtis,
aud Thomas Burroughs were all in JAS
per Saturday morning but | tell you
there WAS nary one TO be found when
the democratic horn blew for the nom
nations. Mr.. Ltyne says: "What does
that mean?" Tom Campbell says
Lots go. guess that means for US
republicans to get out Of town" Bur
rouRhs starts his wagon while Curtis
stuck his spurs to his mule wilkins
says; 81 feel bad, " and we all made a
l charge for the top OF the mountain,
though | heard the boys hearts beating
but when | came 10 myself it was my
own heart for the boys had left me,
tell vow when get bad scared Lhery
is no horse that can catch me, for | out
ran three wolves once in the Big Road
When | stopped said to myself "B-
- ashamed OF running the poor hungry
wolves to death" This happened il
1858 in a half mile OF where the New,
Office now stands, did not need an
gun then. Leg bail was good enough
a for me.
Saturday morning | peeled twelv,
s peach blooms. All good but one
The busiest live thing out hero is tn,
u honey bee. Plenty Of them as you Sc,
humming about in the peach tree.
guess the squirrels are all at rest.
could not fad one, / done my best,
went back home, gave up the chase
j, next hunt will be in some other place.
= F. NJ. Mccullough and two Of hi
}. children, Andrew Curtis and family y
n Mrs. Curtis, Mrs Mary Eakin and Wid
l. ow Eakiu and family are all sick.
tell you la grippe can climb the noun
n tain no matter about the roads.
7 We hear there are two new cases G
= smallpox in Tracy. i guess If it find
y the miners in day time, it viii have t
I wear lamp and show sign OF coal in ii
j face.
d II everything goes of without Ion
il fire this summer we aim 30 make a goo
e piece of poetry in honor OF the labC
1. union if they will accept it, for "
5, think a great deal of them.
. Mss Nancy Elisabeth Curtis stage
with grandma and grandpa Saturda
night Come again, honey.
John Eakin says the grip took him
the bones mostly. ! tell him new
st mind, that it just took me in the baC
IN like tho Irishmen. They got tir,
an OF walking and bought mule betwe5
IT. them. They had beard that a mu
II could kick a chew of tobacco out of
"a mans mouth and him on it, SO they too
an liz time about riding. One rode bis ha
10 tho forenoon and walked. ln the e
cning be got wore out and was swim
ing along by tie mules tail. In rocl
- lplace the mule kicked him down. I
rose with a rock and wh.rled away
the uiule aud bit the lrishman In Il
back. He looked around aud sal
"Well, Pat and what's the matter
"Bejasos," be said, the mule kick
~ me down." "Ntver mind that" sa
5N the other. "Bejases, why?' said /
TOT companion. ''Becase he i8st tux me
The back, did you not see him?'