Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-02-16
TATESvILLE.

Still cold here Snow hasn't been
off the ground in 80 days. Ground now
is solid sheet of ice from one to two
inches thick. Timber on the hills is
still covered with ice, and great many
limbs have been broken off with the
weight OF ice and more are threatening
to follow, with more snow expected
Men at the stave mill say they haven't
sawn enough to pay their board on ac-
count of the snow There hasn't been
in 40 days but few days that men
couldn't work.
! l put on preachers coat the other
day and thought I would call on Chris
tianity and get some of a preachers
experience and pie. | called on No. !.
'Are you we'll? am around this morn
| ing to see how everybody is getting
along. Have you said your prayers this
morning?' "Yes," was the reply.
put the same questions to Nos. 2 and g.
All answered "Yes." Then called on
Aunt Sally and asked her the same
question, Are you all well?" mo,
we have an influenza cough" Have
you said your prayers this morning"
"No." believe Aunt Sallie was the
only one that told me the truth. /
stayed and took dinner with Aunt Sallie
and enjoyed the many gooA things set
before me like hungry wolf.
this was the way preachers did. After
dinner | started on the preachers calls
anew and called on q widow next and
made her a good fire and got up wood
enough for the night. After asking for
the welfare of the family and finding
them not we'll told my business with
as good pose as / could and told my
experience Of the morning. Well she
said she would not say whether she had
prayed OF not. So thought Of man
! in the late Civil War who met crowd
\ of yankees dressed in gray and asked
him what he was and he said II am a
rebel and they gave him whipping and
let him slip. And he went on and met
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they asked what he was and he said II
am yankee" and they gave him beat
ing and let him 60. He went on and
met crowd dressed in gray and blue
and they asked what he was, and he
answered, you say first" So cut
straight for home and decided that a
preacher more than earned the salt that
that's got in his bread. decided Iwant-
ed no more preachers experience as it
cost me skinned head and back
nearly broke and an eye nearly put
out for asking questions that was none
of my business about personal matters
soon decided that a preacher had to
atone for everybody's sins. l found out
1t wasn't the mission thought it was
| None of the boys made mistake
last week in killing wild hogs on the
half. They killed the other mans hogs
and when the bill was presented they
made every thing all right, kept the
hogs and payed him Sc a pound for the
meat.
A certain fellow set up new ford at
the back of my field during the snow.
He pulled off his shoes and carried John
Cheek across the water on his back.
Ask John Cookston what the fare is at
the Ferry.
DR.. Ross had call to Sequatchie Co.
last week to see a patient.
Some one says Dr. Csrtright was feel
ing little unpleasant about the speci-
alist from Tatesville being called to see
one of his old patients.
A certain fellow went sparkling on
Nubbin Hill with his fathers overcoat
on and got licking on his return.
Sam Ross was in Tateville last week.
Jacks shoat got after the cowboy one
day last week and you could see three
hundred yards of his coat tail sticking
out in the breeze.
R. J. White says he is going to stay
in the ring as long as there Is potato
in his potato hole.
Mine and Uncle Toms SOW has nine
nice pigs. We will mark them before
long ,-
In my next letter l will give you
mine and Uncle Toms first experience
with a wild hog.
DR.. Pegg gave us call today, and got
some of the staff of life-Arbuckle.
o. L. White has got new pair OF
shoes, and they are un4uestionably
large. Look to be about No. 13.
went to Daus and back during the
snow and. found the roads to slick tc
be out on them. Watchman.