Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-04-21
DELPHl, TENN.

Specialize HE Ne1OS.
My dear readers, good morning.
don't expect to say enything Nv intrust
but will say few words about matters
& things in general. will give sort
Nv diagram NV our vicinity fur about
100 miles around, climate, sile & poppy
lation. an sum NV the Mains NV the sit
izens
The climate is salu -bri-ous. The sile
is thin, but the stones air thick. Ef we
could command thet these stones be
made bred, there would be enough to
sustain jinerations yit unbornd.
We have only two merchants e. and
one Nv them is farmer ca. c. Farmer)
We had big population before the
Deakins family got scattered off. Tha
are all gone from this vicinity but Un-
Gle Frank Uncle Alb, good old Moses,
Than, Clay, Jonn, Mitch, Roll, two Eds
| 1.-TWO Eds is better ner one, you know
! Ben, Eiec and Frank, Jr. / used to
think the Lanes and Kilgores was all
| in Dadesville, but they are scattered
from Dan to Beershe ba. u There are
some Fatheels, er Hatfelds / should say,
and we have "Pickets" out all around
When this SECTION was cleared up tina
must have thought that tha could turn
the rocks under and tha would rot, but
tina have abandoned that idea and turn
ed out about 100 acres. and don't you
think sasaface have cum all in between
the stones.
Uncle Bill Dooley is an old friend Nv
mine s. when get big enutf will hunt
up Blue Jacket an have settlement
with him fur his chat
see no one has answered A. l.. Crit
flth's bible questions | would anser
myself t it wasn't for one thing-that
is | amt able. The mere mention Nv
A, l.. Griffith causes "reminiscences Nv
old times to cum scroogin into my mem
ory | don't rememb Der when first met
the said A. L. g., but it is bordering on
to three quarters Of century ago |
wunder-yes, wunder, if he remem-
beTs the time we went to franklin col
lege few miles frum Nashville, Tenn.
After we had been scboolmates and
classmates a number Nv yers, we took a
notion TO enter college aud CON plete our
education. He was so anxious that we
left Jasper one evening after supper an
there being no r. r, We just road our
mammals little calves the most Nv tne
wa. / guess he remem bers the bathing
whole in the creek near Jasper called
"Old Fed" from the incident OF an In
jun being drowned there by the name
of Fed. Irene ID ber a time when about
dozen of US was in the creek TIA
school gals happened along, on purposa.
guess they were uneasy about us. Tba
wuz afeared SUN of us uout git drowud.
ed. 1t sorJer plagued me for we had
laid our garments by on top of tue
bank. Amos and / have had our ups
and downs. In my case it has been
=. ness OF God and few other Gentlemen
= we have outlived nearly all VINO have
4 growed up AS we did.
3 fergot TO speak of the status Of oul
t community religiously. There is "a few
. VINO beong to the army NV the Lord
/ but the most Nv en- belong to the navy
: When tina once git into the water th;
= iist float on down the streme NV time
r Tha don't believe in doin like the mar
I who was lame from his mothers room
y who was laid at the "Butiful Gait" AK
!, along he told him he didn't have any
n but he heeled him and told him to ge
$ up and walk, Well, he was so prone
: that he not only walked but went int
n the temple leaping and praisiDg God
!. AK. 8: 8. Then in AK. 1; 5, there is
t proposition that is rong, John baptize'
, with water. Tia say that ought to b.
Sin" | suppose tina think it tipo
: gaficle error that has been set up b.
b many tipos and tina all make the sam
a mistake? OF course they would no
uaFo duu W hOI OAho ilOn, buS Gud
n looks like it.
i In my few peregrlnations up an dow
r hither and yon find that it takes
r heep Nv pepul to make a wurld. WI
n jugged up last winter, until l got kind
= or bleeched, but draped corn two o
d three days and these march wiRds be
g got me back to my normal color. az
Q so stiffened up that don't see how
D can make any two ends meet in tw
sences of the word.
Next time Cleveland is elected wan
him to give me an Office. The republi
i cans have had all the offices till thei
: eyes stick out with fatness.
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