Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1901-02-14
OUR BEAN HILL CORRESPONDENT
Is interviewed by an Number of Infatuated
ksighbOrs.

Bean Hill, Greasy Co, Tenn,
Jan. 81, 1901.

Dear Editor:
Considerable com ment has been pass
ed on my last article to your paper by
my neighbors When was writing the
minutes of our first meeting for she pa
per Mr.. Black came in my office and
found out what l was doing As he
went home be met Mr.. Poh and told
him was writing for che paper. In
little while Mr.. Pob saw Mr. Jones and
told him was writing an extensive
piece for the paper In a short while
Mr.. Jones saw Mr.. Grunt and said ! was
writing a great lot Of stuff for the paper
Mr.. Grunt soon met Mr.. Treetop and
told him / was writing a great lot of lies
and was going to have them pub
lished in the paper.
The talk continued all day growing
worse all the time and before night the
neigh borhood was all confused and a
great uproar followed. So about 500 p,
m. heard loud rapping at the door
and when I opened it to my surprise
there stood at least thirty men, all
masked, who said in a harsh tone that
they intended to fix me for what had
done, that my pieces to the paper were
bringing disgrace on the community. |
tried to reason with them, telling them
it was a false statement they had heard
and that what had written had not yet
appeared in print. They refused to
hear me and one of them said Grab
him." when | suddenly slammed the
door shut, knocking him backward off
the steps. They held close communion
outside for while and l heard one say
they would climb down the chimney
which was an unusually large one.
Soon heard several climbing up the
ladder which reached to the top of
the chimney and two or three
started to descend by some ropes they
had brought to tie me with We were
all frightened. A thought came to me.
There was large sack of feathers in
the corner which seized at once and
emptied on the few Goals in the fire.
place. A large smoke at once went
tuning up the chimney, and | heard
them all coughing and trying to make
, their way back up the chimney. Final
ly they succeeded in reaching the top
and then all went away.
stayed in my house all the next day
for was afraid they were waiting fo
me. was planning all the while abou
going to the meeting on Saturday night
! came to the conclusion that l woulc
try to get young lady to accompan!
me, thinking that even if they wanted
! to hurt me they would respect her.
So l wrote note something like this
, "Mr. Shannon Bocassio's compliment
to Miss Violet Bric-a-brac, and beg tn
very great favor of her company to tn
5 meeting Saturday night"
The first day passed and she neve
answered. The next day l heard be
e tell friend of hers about it, and SAT-
she wanted to have talk with me owe
the phone. l refused a conversation
that way. wanted it to be tete-a
l. tete. kept watching the mail but n
o answer came. l heard her and fri9n
talking over the phone and making
sport of the note, and having heap q
y fun about the word compliments, " say
h ing they would look it up and see wha
it meant. OF course this made me mad
as am one of those independent fe
i lows, and just concluded / could whi
d every rascal in the place, and that
would go by myself to the meeting an
let her go to-bed, And to make
( worse a boy told me he had had cha
IS with her over the telephone and tha
she took great pleasure in telling hil
all about the note, and that she wa
u not(e) going to answer it, l then, fC
IS the first time found out there were NOR
girls in the world than one and that
would drop her then and there, and
- any thing else ever happened betwee
l. her and she would start it. So l wei
to the meeting by myself, but spaC
will not permit me to give you in d
tain all that happened, so | will to
II you next week all about it.
SHANNON BOCASSIO.