Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-03-22
LOVERS LEAP.
Ste.i4lk9 ne A'e7ys.

Here / come again, all wool and
yard wide. Everything is lovely out !
here.
The health of this community is only
tolerabe at this time
Jessie Harris has sick child The
doctor says it has pleurisy 1t is some
better.
Ye writer isn't well but is better than
last week
The order of the day seems to be bad
colds with us. Everything is quiet
out here.
Was at Tracy yesterday All is
quiet out there and coal digging is
still going on. Think the people out
there have become somewhat reconcil-
ed but there is always calm before a
storm.
G. w. Davis and Key Rust went to
VIM. Davis near Coalmont Friday and
will return home today.
Foster and Miss Mabel Price spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Tom
and Miss Keety Almany.
:, Miss Ethel and Will Davis were Wis
iting at Mr.. Almany's Sunday. Hard
ly know what the attraction is. Better
lookout boys. / have got an old shot
gun. Haven't got but one girl left
out of six. And you young ladies bet
ter be careful and not look cross eyed
at my Tom for he is honey though
the bees don't know it, but think
some of the girls do from the way they
gather in Sundays. Go it boys and
girls, while you are young, for know
how we'll l enjoyed the society of girls
when a boy.
Robt. Dixon's daughter and little
son were visiting Mr. Almeny Sunday.
Orbry Coldwell. Robt. Foster and
son, Robert, were at Tracy Sunday.
Also Robt. Dixon.
viii Davis took load of lumber to
Tracy Saturday.
Charley, Will and Robert Foster
were horseback riding Sunday and
made trip to Mr.. Foster farm in
Gizzard Cove.
Old man Robert was lazing about
| home Sunday. Joe Shrum the same.
? Ye writer paid them call Sunday
} morning, found all his little grand
children in very good health, and had
to take pencil and paper to tally on in
, making the count up.
: Don't know what has become of w.
, A. Price unless he has followed some
7 mans dog off. If so goodbye William.
Well, as / have promised to answer
, all of good old ''Union Woman's'' let
l ters,I will try to scratch her few
S lines as she is about to get in two let.
tiers to my one. 1t seems that you have
l MT much to say except what the union
g has done for me. There is no one that
: appreciates favor more than Go an6
! | am truly thankful to, you all for past
/ favors and would do the same for any
= of you. have never said a word il
4 any of my letters against the union mol
the good men of it, but merely made
e my first statement concerning the
t shooting of Coldwell, giving facts as
heard them from eye witnesses to the
shooting and to explain why my boys
were there, and as you have jumped OF
me with both feet feel that have 6
s right to defend myself You said il
: took such as me and my boys to make
f scabs. Well, if my boys were scab
r bling in cutting props what did YOU
v kind do when they came out here an(
s took log cutting job from Davis &
Martin Cut all the best timber an(
V Just as soon as settlement was made
like ground hog, they took to thei
;. holes and myself and son had to Gu
their refuse timber Also two year
ago when they came out here and tool
my sons job at Foster & Davis saw
MILF Also cut ties almost at our door
Did we say they had no right to do so
No, we did not, but do say that j
. you good union people, as you cal
20 yourselves, don't allow us the right t
work where we can DO best, you hav
n no right to come out here and take on
20 work that we follow to make living
but some of your kind say by you
= actions, "Oh no, we belong to the goo
10 old union, we have a right to wor
, where we please and dictate to other
= what they shall do and where the
o. shall work. " What are some of tn
20 members of the union doing today j
y this and other communities near Trac
i but scabDing or black Logging in til
l or saw mill work. Why, there al
l., some of them working right here will
Ia ! in a short distance of us and we new,
10 have said they should not work, bI
- somebody said that the boys shou
- not cut props and they slipped in tt
. brush and shot Coldwell We ha'
= given them the job, not because v
y were afraid with equal showing, br
e with the consideration that if tn,
would slip and shoot one man, The
might another
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