Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1902-06-12
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Written Tor the News
True Boy says we get excited. Well,
we confess we do, especially when we
get sight Of that awful trunk that is
hung to Red Hefer It is the sight Of
a life time and we don't often get sight
of such things, No man can look upon
it without becoming excited to some ex-
tent, but Old Red did not only become
excited after after getting glimpse OF
it, but he actually got SO unneryed
when he wrote the News that he forgot
the crop Of one row corn he grew on
Lick Skillet River, and also his famous
eight-row variety which he got from A.
A. Holland. Worse than all he never
once limited about that large nose, Per-
haps he thought it was so we'll adver-
tised that it would not help to mention
it.
Last fall Old Red had the audacity |
to ask the to dry pumpkin seed on the
halves from few little frost-bitten |
things that were not fit for hogs. did
not do it for wanted no dealings with
) a man that was too stingy to give his
neighbor few seeds to plant from good
( pumpkins. told a few people the way
: he treated me and week before last sone
one told him what had said. We hear
/ that he is trying to smooth it up just
little by saying that am drying seed
j. from his good pumpkins on the halves
A When we first heard the tale that he is
now telling we told some of the boys
50 that it was only noise in the air, for eV-
rybody in Marion County excepting a
/ man by the name of Red Heffer knew
I that seed we're not dried. pumpkins at
this season of the year. We don't deny
in having few seed the world renowned
ID Red Heffer's Favorite Pumpkin, but we
did not dry his little frost bitten ones
= to get them. As we could not get any
al frst-class seed from him we went down
- Lickskillet River last fall to the city OF
Caro-, and the men who work there gave
n us some, but said we must keep it dark
nj from Red Heffer for he had strictly
to charged the proprietor to watch his men
IN and let no seed out as they were his tav'
orite and he wanted to grow that now
he famous variety exclusively and extern
ia sively. The seed we got at the factory
l.. was 1ust loose seed. The ones sent gu
49, by Red Heffer are put up in nice pack
ages and are hermetically sealed anC
bear the Red Ink signature of Red Hef
fer. Red Heffer is a peculiar man. Il
fact he reminds me of a young lawye
who once asked an old experienced law
the yer what to do in case where the lay
and the evidence was against hin
ted WELL" said the old lawyer 'just tai
around it," That is precisely what OF
son Red is trying to do He is trying
nm talk around having in his POI
session Sorrow pumpkin seed and bi
in nose,
,ks. A certain sage in the plains OF Ne
,av. Hope calling himself Bachelor, OF
D. Maid and sometimes Traveller, says
feel big as have drove of elephant
he No one has ever said had drove
was elephants except him. said my SC
use and shoats looked like elephants OF
rim morning this spring and they did
lief they all looked out of their eyes just
Jim elephants do. Sorry to say they {
7 died of cholera one month before
res wrote up an account of them The re
toll SON / did not give them an obituar
n to was my space was limited.
Now for Old Pete, who says we h
- ;,,1y
4 at better get a new WICK DohE MINK
necessary as the old one will give
SIM nough light for him, If he will keep
lighted up. Some time last spring thu
ioelv appeared in the News description
and. the range on walden huge O'u E
hat was in the State of Georgia when he
well ticed the glowing account You
TO IT. aware there is a good deal of SCI
stock down there. Pete decided t
has the good range would give him a 81
of about so feet up hill, SO he left
ouqb native state and located on the rid
and he was so delighted with the ra
ders that he strayed off somewhere and
ov people were not able to exactly loo
him, and believed he was lost on
range. Gould hear nothing from
except he was on the Ridge.
,rman Recently we heard that he had b
a con- stung on the heel by fly, and had
,it,,iq. to Paramount and was making stra
.dyer- noises at night. We are also inforl
and that one of the noises he makes res
Balm bles that of an OK, and another !
k. he prominent resembles the words in
e of it ring thrice repeated. The latter
5 had hope we will never hear for trusts
ms in rings are detrimental to any coun
He From the Eheading of Petes ar
for a last week we believe be is in the
eel as sure enough.
using
he IN Saves Two From Death.
1-o "Our little daughter had an al