Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-03-05
SUNNYSlOE, TENN.

Cblpt Tor SUBSCRIPTIONS loi buo @L"o VI
renewals thereof
Rev. w. Il. Dale failed to fill his APP
pointment here Sunday on account of
high water
Miss Ella Layne visited IN the Wei
nifty Of Cedar Springs for several days,
The heirs Of the estate Of g. w.
Pickett are having the estate divided.
Misses Laura Easterly and Lizzie
Hudson went to COndra shopping Tues
day.
A singing at Mrs, Yochem's was en-,
joyed Sunday.
Miss Nina, the daughter Of A. c,
Grayson, a prominent merchant Of
Whitwell spent last week visiting re-
latives here.
Cuttings were the order of the day
last week.
Misses Mary Lee Gates, Ida Barber
and Edith Hudson took dinner at Vast
Pickett's Sunday.
Did any one see Jno Rogers Sunday
as he went up the road with a girl, we
suppose. He was on one side Of the
road and she on the other. You must
train your horse better than that, Joe.
Mary Lee Gates visited Edith Hud
son Sunday.
Luther Grant of Sulphur Springs, was
here Sunday.
b. w. Condra had some fifty or sixty
thousand shingles in the block moVeC
from his factory on the creek by bach
water and scattered over the bottoms
Probably some Of them reached the
current of the river and were carried a
way.
Wading mud is the current issue.
The cross road which leads from here
to West Valley road via Condra'
Switch is now in an impossible condi'
ton. This piece of road has hereto
fore had the honor of being the thu
worst piece of road in the state but
now it has lost this honor as it no long
or remains road but is now a gully
mudhole and burial place of the unfor
tunate few who undertake to travel ov
er it, About six years age the count.
court of Marion County had
bridge built across the river at thi
point If they didn't expect to build
road to and from this bridge why dit
they put it there? Is it reasonable t.
think there need be a bridge across thi
river where there is no road even for
foot-man to cross. Over this road tn
government has established star mai
route to Sunnyside which must be car
ried afoot through the fields instead 0
gong horse back. During the last hlgl
water the fence was swept off this mis-
cradle road and now gate has been e
reCted at the west end near Condra'
store, which should be locked so tina
no travel could be done over the roa
for fear someone loses his life or tn
life of his horse while trying to pass oV
er i'll say over" it is rather an un
derground route. Are the people c
this section going to do anything wit
this road? The road is about two mile
in length and has five or six hands OF
it, If nothing is going to be done wit
it let the county move these hands 9th
er roads so that their labor will amour
to something. That amount of labo
will not begin to put this road in passa
BILE condition. The question is what
going to be done and who will do il
These remarks have been made i
the interest of people living in thes
sections.
Early Powell, Tom Graham, Bil
Banks and Edwin Hudson had a COO
race Monday. The coon was freed an
the tree cut which fell into the rive
giving Mr.. Coon ride for half a mil
down the river. When the tree lodge
the dogs brought the coon out and tn
boys shot at it but suppose it sank inl
the river as they failed to get him.
W. Ii. Layne and Edwin Hudson Re
turned from Nashville last week and r.
port nice time a visit to several of th
places of interest in the capital city.
Mrs. S. B. Gates returned from Wis
to Bledsoe county Saturday.
Miss Ella Layne returned hon
Tuesday.