Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-02-25
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Measles is the order of the day.

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Measles is the order of the day.
Henry Lathrum and daughter, Miss
Eta, and son, Edward went to Whit.
we'll Tuesday Of last week shopping.
Joe Layne and son, Dewitt, went to
Whitwell Friday. l..
Dewitt Layne and Miss Eta Latb.
rum visited Misses May and Sallie Col
ston Monday eve.
T. G, Golston visited d. NJ. Hudson
Sunday. F".I##n .FaA1
Uncle Billy Griffith Of Shirleyton,
visited his danghteF, Mrs. Alison Layne
last Tuesday. ia
Mrs. Henry Lathrum and daugh ter,
Miss frankie, visited Mrs. r.. e. Col
ston and Mrs. Alison Layne Saturday.
Misses May and Sallie Golston have
been confined to their room with the
measles.
Frank Layne went to Whitwell Fri
day.
Albert Layne has been down with the
measles the past few days, but it has
never stopped MIN from eating. lie
has two stonachs instead OF one.
Dewitt Layne visited his uncle Al
lison Layne Wednesday. @ a
Alison Layne's folks have the meas
les but are better at this writing.
Edward Lathrum went to Whitwell
Saturday. ....
Well, Old Summer, had rather stay
on the mountain and beat sand for my
living than TO stay in the valley and
root hog or die, for there are lots of wild
hogs on the mountain, and when we
want hog We Just step out and kill
one and it is fat, but in the valley be-
fore you kill a hog you have got to put
it up and feed it all the corn you have
got to fatten it, and then when you kill
it you haven't got any bread to eat it
with, and what accounts meat without
bread. | had good deal rather work
along and have both as to sit down and
do nothing and have nothing but a lit
tie meat and not much of that. If you
were out here to-day you wouldn't talk
about going back to the galley for we
have sixteen bushels Of meal, and killed
a hog this morning that weighed $50
lbs. You know we had rather live on
mountain than in the valley. ..
Will Ross, of Whitwell, was on the
mountain Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Palmer, of Tatesville, passed
here last week en- route to Whitwell.
Old. Summer must have been lying up
in the shade last week as he failed to
write.
Well, we had an awful racket in our
settlement Saturday morning. A
man went to Whitwell Friday and nov
er got his old woman any snuff and she
began to rare and told him she wasn't
going to live with any such man if he
couldn't buy her box of snuff once n
month anyhow. He tried to quiet her
down by telling her he would buy her
box the next time he went back, but
she began on him then about hen
house for her hens to lay in so she
could buy her own snuff, and he went
out, started to build one, and before he
could get it covered two hens came in
and laid eggs, while he was hammering
on the top off the house. And he hol
Tered: "Oh, Lizzie, run here right
| quick, for the old hens have layed two
eggs already Goody, gOody! | won
have to spend my nickles for your snuff
Now, Lizzie, you keep the children
away from the hen house and by nigh
you will get half dozen of eggs, anC
that will be nickle's worth and yol
shall have box of snuff by tomorrow
night, and will take my nickle ant
get tobacco and we will be in the fight
and o how we will chew our tobacc
and dip our snuff.
Mrs. Henry Lathrum and son, Ed
ward, went to Whitwell Monday to Wis
it Jehu Layne.
I. q. Golston and son, John, Brow
Condra, jeff Pickett, Riley and Georg
Kilgore are working on the mountai
road at the Stair Gap, Patsy.