Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-03-01
JASPER.


Jpet fHE ~ tNc ANetv9s
Messrs Editurs As / have wrote
several littl communications for your
paper and tina hav escaped the waist
baskit, it emboldens me to tri hit agin.
As you see | am at Jasper mi old,
old home. Hit has bin 80 long sence |
cum here that / can't remember hit.
Mr. Jesse Thach cum tOdlin along two
er three years after | did Tha haint
another sole livin in Jasper but Just us
too thatt cum when we did. Mrs Eliz-
abeth Pack, ingun woman, give for
ty acors fer the county site. That for
ty acors held the people and nearly all
used water frum the spring, there were
only two or three wells inside the for
ty acors Hit wus fifty years before we
ever had a church house. Now old
things has passed away and Jasper is
boomin. We have miles of pike rodes
and we are using EN-. We can't lode a
TEEN but we can run EN-. Tha have
got to trot to your destinashun or to
the end of the pike. The Southern r.
! r. runs 50 near that hit has increased
the populashun so that when the trans
stops you can't git off nor on and when
you go for your male the crowd is so
CRATE that you have to wait til next da
before you get it.
suppose tha is lake under this
town for we have never failed to git
water wherever we dig. We ar living
in fast age We ar runnin nearly
everything by lectricity and the da is
fast aprOchin when, if we don t all git
divorses, kill our wives, husbands or
children or commit suaside, we won t
be noticed Mr. Edison has aboat got
a telifone by which we can talk three
thousand miles across the water to OF
pretur at each end. I suppose we'll be
navigatin the air in few--more years.
Well be handy to the lightning then.
A court room full of us had the hon
or and the pleasure of hearin Senator
Carmack speak the other da. The
room was packed already when the la
dies come poorin in, as if to try our
faith. OF corse all polite men like me
give up our seats. Thar we stood, did
MT know which corse to sue.
thought shore I'd have to stand up,
when behold, an old friend brought
me a cheer and seated me near the
speaker. l don't like to personate but
the inishals of the gentleman what
brought the cheer was A. L. Robertson
who introduced the speaker | will re-
member him when I'm old.
like to hear smart men talk, re
gardless of politicks. Tha can give mt
informashun and new ideas. OF corst
you no hit takes them sort to larn mt
anything He had sum git-Offs thai
| do loH hnt nv : Inv M, ,
He spoke Of some things that Bob for
got. thought that tina was sum
things that he forgot, or he was lik'
sum religus denominashuns that hav,
to skip sum texts or spile their doctrin
He was CRATE friend to farmers. HI
had worked on farm. He hired a
six or seven dollars per munth. H
forgot to say how big he wus and hoy
long he held the job. He mout no
have been worth any more. He for
: got to say whether he was still in fav
or of low wages. He never expressed
@ his opinion on form immigration. H
may want the Japs and Chinese t
poor in and cut labor down. But h
was talkin fur hisself and had to leav,
. out what mout not take with the dea
people. | see one good sine that tenn
+ perence is gaining ground. All tn
= leadin politishuns are takin sides wit
the Temperance movement and go wa
back to try to prove that tina alway
have been l wunder that the saloon
haint bin shut up long ago. But
u am gittin to voluminous in my re
marks and will close by askin ''Blac
eyes, Match Maker or "Tempes
& Sunshine to give the news frol
Sunnyside and also Guess Who
Il from Let
8 Success to the News, all the CORES
pondents and readers.