Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1901-04-25
coPP1NaER COVE.
Special TO the News.

Special TO the News.
Well poke salad is promising up hero
but hoge jowl is scarce.
Mrs. Brazely Coppinger was up at
Victoria Saturday trading at Mr. Turn
er's store.
David and Andrew Curtis we're on OF
the mountain Saturday.
Frost on the mountain is getting close
to the peaches and cherries.
II Uncle Joe had enough powder in
last weeks News no would have spoiled
my shirt and run Dofetchit crazy, II 1t
were not for the fact that Dotetchit II
be had been drunk would have rather
twisted the neck of bottle than the neck
Of the owl Az for my having no cloth
es | am like the little boy was on wash
day running about. A preacher came
riding and said "Son, where is your
shirt?" The boy said: Mama is wash
ing It," Have you but one shirtY"
mo, do you want boy TO have thous-
and shirts?" IT Uncle Joe wants me TO
have lots OF clothing he must remember
it isn't fashionable up in our town TO
buy two suits Of clothes at once for fear
one suit will be left on our hands out
of fashion. Come down, Uncle Joe,
and / will give you waist with a big
brass button on it, and Dofetchit will
let you smell the cork out OF the bottle.
The Little Seuuachee River has NOV.
ed things up here this year. 1t Is
! bright clear river, and we remember
| the time when we could see hundred
| fish In it at once. We also remember
the stage coming loaded with soldiers
! returning from the Mexican War.
| Those were the days when sverybody
was at work, the men aud boys on the
farms, the women and girls spinning
and weaving. They made all the cloth
| es we wore. There were not SO many
doctors. lawyers, and preachers, and nc
money, either. II the men needed the
women in the harvest fold, they wen
there. II the old lady got behind with
the spinning the old man would helI
| her spin. Now the girls one fifth Of
them can't cut and make an apron, .h'
boys are ashamed TO sew on a button
We used to drink out Of a gourd anC
now we use a glass Times have chan
ged and We don't live so long now as VIZ
used TO and it almost seems that thu
general health is not SO good as 1T useC
to be. In those days we have seen tel
to thirty deer on old Cumberland noun
tain in drove. Wolves and panther'
were plentiful. We saw the first hang
ing in this county. The criminal was
man named Holt, and his execution
took place a mile below Jasper. If I'm
Gle Joe had been living in those day
and had seen a locomotive be would
have run off to some cave in tho noun
talns and been found petrttied bearing
this inscription: The devil is SURF
enough a roaring lion" Come down
Uncle Joe, we will soon have fryinl
chickens, and we will eat fish an
chicken and talk is all over.
What has become of the Squaw
Scratch the paper instead of your head
7. E. c. has gone to sleep and lots q
other CORE ,pondents.
The keas suffered in this country las
week, that is the turkeys. A. CoppiI
ger, Geo. Coppinger, David Curtis an
Harve Carnes all killed one apiece
The rest of us would have killed on
but we were afraid they would spoil.
Our little granddaughter, Georgi
Welsh, the nightengale songster,
staying with us this week helping be
grandma feed the little chickens.
We were out to see Mrs. Dugan SUI
day who is very sick.
Sunday school was to have common
ed Sunday at Burroughs Chapel, bl
: owing to sickness and cold it was fai
ure.
Bring that corn and get some goo
: meal. COLD WAVE.