Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-05-24
Cedar Springs.


Mr. Editur: AS luck wood have it
| have sum muse to cronicle this time.
The long dreded dimocratic battle
has bin fit and the victory won. The
boys on each side fit bravely but no
blud was split The boys on the vic
torious side are satisfied and the de-
feated wons are barin it bravely. They
are reconsiled to their fate. They are
jist guine to grin and endure it. They
are persuin ther peaceful avercashuns
"The tommyhawk, buried shall rest in
the ground,
And peace and goodwill to the nashuns
abound.
l suppose we have a bad man fur
our Senator because won of our CRATE
men said so. That wus Ned Karmack.
And if the other feller had been elected
we would have also had bad man be-
case won of our CRATE men said so.
That wus Bob Tailor.
Rev. NJ. A. Hunt preached a good
talk Sunday eve at Cedar Spring to a
attentive audience If we wood all
heed what he said and practice what
he preached believe we wood make
this already beautiful earth brighter
one
Well, you humble, unworthy servent
is domiciled in healthy locality am
ong the pines and the rocks on the
suthern bounderiery of Sequatchie Co. :,
Tenn, and he resides in a Christ
like community. There are the Hicks,
the Hackworths and the Herrons, all
beginning with H. Then there is the
| T
the widow Blair and her father, Mr..
Mitchell, our veterinary doctor, all
good Samaritans. There are no priests
nor Levites to pass by on the other
side. am no believer in spungin nul
beatin my way through the wurld, nun
taking advantage of my nabor's gener-
osity, but it no harm to plan to live az
cheep as possible. | think | can bord
with wun nabor and then another 8
little while at time and again have
visited duzen the first wouldn't OBJ
ject to my comm a second time.
have already borded with the Hicks.
They entertained me as if | were 6
Methodist circuit rider, except thai
the fried chicken season hadn't devel
oped, nur wusn' ridin nuther.
have also borded with Uncle Billy
Hackworth. l found Uncle Joh1
Condra there, an old acquaintance an(
an old friend. Of course the hour,
passed swiftly and sweetly away
When dinner wus pronounced / woo(
have gessed it wus ten clock. AS t,
the viands / can't do them justice will
my pen. Besides many other tooth
some dishes Uncle Billey's folks cal
fix up 'they can bake a cherry pie
charming Billey" The only way
could do the dinner justice wus b.
stickin my No under the mahogan
half hour. They don't make any bet
ter folks that Uncle Billey Occasion
ally call on Mr. Sam Chaudoin TIL
family is very kind to me frum tn
least to the greatest.
Mr.. Editur, lady gave me letter
requestin me to copy it and send hi
to you and request you to publish i
word atum, l believe she called il
Hit reads thusly: Deer Nav, l al
well all but nifty bad tooth AXE
| hope this, mi fust letter, will fin
! you and paw injoyin the same graf
! blessin. Uncle Abe and Aunt Suzy
| nifty good to me. They say tina al
| glad that you have give me an educs
. shun and larnt me to wurk. An NAV
I l have found me feller, as the ga
! say, but don't tell paw, Gaze | no h
don't like him. l hearn him sa thu
he didn't have nuthin nor he didn't L
\ nuthin. A nabor woman told us thu
a he fell in luve with me on fust sit
! case he sed / wus so easy cOrted.
n has been to see me lots of times fur /
q only lives about a mile frum her
e Sum time ago he said next time
n cum he wanted to take me to his hou'
i so his nav and paw coold see me, so
/ told Aunt | wus guine to put on Il
4 white dress | fotched with me. l to
q Aunt that you didn' have much clot
: but you lowed by maxim hit low nee
: and hi at the tale you coold make h
Il do. told Aunt that gal that WI
. big enuff to marry ought to have
k longer dress. So she said she wood &
7 sum cloth and piece hit. She fixed
O and when the da cume | put it on q
II my white stockins but told her tn
% hit wus so low in the neck | want
! her to put something over mi shoul
Y ers but she said she would lend me b
:, white ribbin She said he wood thil
n l looked lovely. SO got fixed and S
Ie down by a table with pen, ink and p
RI per to make out like | wus riti
4 Presently Aunt said, "Sakes aliv
. Yonder he Gums now" l jumped al
"a turned the ink over and catched at /
II and sloshed hit all over mi face, ne
Ie ribbin, all over my dress and over 1
II white stockins. l run to the kitch
+ as hard as | kood run. After he sol
a while he made like he wanted watt
w He wus ashamed to ask about me.
If cum in but did not see me, but he 81
Ie the next thing to me-my dress a
Of stockins that l had Just shed lying
an pan of black water He walked
ID wards the garden looking for me.
IN put on the only dress he had ever sc
~ me ware and went home with him,
i the da and wus married by 'Squi
in who lived hard by. So now we ;
no married, but don't tell paw fer
he can't help it. How can he, mawF'
PETER HAUNCH