Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1902-11-27
HICKORY GROVE.
Special to the News.

correspondent in last week lSsu" '""'
we carried of A. b. Hollands sorrow
corn and that be had cropped OUT on
that account is untrue and proves to US
that he is about as far behind the times
as old Rip Van Wrinkle, who fell asleep
on the Catskill Mountain on hunung
expedition and slept 40 years, and when
he awoke the stock had rotted from ms
gun and the bones OF his dog lay he'
side him and his beard had grown 10
the length Of him. Such were the
changes that he knew Thorn not 1ue
distinguished writer of Hicks ChapoP
has last neither dog nor gunstock while
sleeping, but be has lost the entire
crop of sorrow corn that he planted on
the Lick Skillet river last spring ana
is so forgettful since awakening from
his slumber that he don't seem to kno"
anything of his swapping his one-row
corn last spring to A. b. Holland ior
his entire lot of sorrow, and that he
swept the crib so as to be sure to get II
all and that Abb. Holland, to say moth
ing of myself, had none Of il left Tor
himself. Now he would like to make 1T
appear that A. b. II. has cropped out
Had he not been sleeping so long ana
were not so forgetful, he might haye
known that A. B. II. bad not been crop
ped in this past season with Sorrow corn
but the weeds destroyed it while he was
sleeping. His statement in last week s
issue reminds me of au old lrishman
who was addicted to sucking eggs One
day the old gentleman got hold OF one
that had chicken in it, and he clipped
off one end of the egg and turned up
! the part that contained the chicken to
his mouth to suck, and just as the chlcK
went down the red lane it chrped' The
old Irishman said in surprise, "Bo j4b-
bers, my young friend, you spoke too
late" So with the Chapel correspond
dent, he just speaks to late wh"n be
says carried off A. b. II SCREW corn
for he snapped for it last spring, and
planted it, and then went to sleep aid
slept so long that he forgot all about i
and is now telling that Old Jim carried
off A. B. Hollands corn.
The Hickory Grove school house wal
painted last week. Mike Miller and
VIM. White did the work. Hickory
| Grove has one of the best school hous
es in the country
G. w. White says that the Hick'
Chapel scribe was badly mistaken abou
R. L. Lasater making pumpkin butte
for him. Moreover he says that Lasa
ter got sorry for Leander Smith and
u Henry Vandergriff since they had soil
their shoes for fiddle, and that Lasa
ter made the butter for the boys 70
Christmas
The Owl of Hicks Chapel, recent.
few by V. Johnson's, and saw an opos
som hide hanging on the fence an
thought that he was dead and that th
hide was his chin whiskers.
If Billie Guess baby had some of tba
pumpkin butter that Lasater made fc
Aenry Vandergriff and Leander Smith
it would stop crying to hear the New
read.
Saw graphaphone ad in paper an
thought if Cold Wave had the instru
he could do wonders with his instr
ment and the fee.
DR., anyway went to Whitwell Wee
nesday. Likewise Julius Pickett an
Wilson Williams.
John McIntire, of Browns Chape
/, was here Thursday.
!, The wheat crop never looked bette
at this season of the year.
= Henry Pickett is slowly improving
and Mrs Burnett is much improved
health, .s.
jesse Pickett of the Swiss colon,
, spent Wednesday, and Thursday nigh
of last week with his brother, JUL,
Pickett
Robert Baronett moved to his far
= Thursday that he bought from the Nj
Farland heirs.
John Leverton of Tracy City, passe
: through this vicinity Wednesday last
Doc Griffith moved to Red Hill, Wee
nesday OF last week.
=. Floyd Norris, of Browns Chapel pas
ed through this vicinity en- route
Whitwell Friday.
R. L. Lasater made a flying trip
Browns Chapel Friday for apples.
q Rev. S. P. Angel preached here Sa
! urday at II am.
\ Rev. Jerome Coifelt baptized fou
n candidates at Browns Chapel Sunday.
, Julius Pickett has snapped Lig
Grayson parcel OF land here for h
farm at Browns Chapel.
The new church house at Brown
Chapel is nearing completion.
R. L. Lasater had barn raising Sa
q urday and succeeded in getting up th
wall
An English school master once sal
as he displayed a bright five shlllin
piece, crown, between the tips of b
fingers and thumb, 1.-THE FIRST boy
girl that puts a riddle TO me that
, can't answer will receive this as gift.
A little fellow sang out from the fu
/. ther end Of the room, "Why am | liB
q the Prince OF Wales?" "The Prince ,