Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-02-15
GLEN MARY, TENN.
Special 10 he Me1Us.

| thought ! would try and scratch up
few lines from this place, and as
news is very scarce will try to reply
to Uncle John King, of Petros who
wants me TO make some corrections of
which / have no corrections to make.
Neither do | intend to put myself to
any trouble to make any investigations
since the question at issue does not
pertain to myself. | only gave it as it
was given to me, but since the parties
In question have called on me to give
the true state of affairs through the
columns of the News, for their benefit
and for the benefit of those whom it
may concern, | will again give it as
they gave it to me. The two gentle
men in question personally called on
me this morning and stated that they
worked some three or four days at Pc
tros, and were told that if they wished
to move their families there, that they
could get money from the company to
move on, and as they did not have the
money to move on they told the COM
pany officials that they would move
under those conditions. When they
were preparing to leave young man,
unknown to them, called at the board
ing house where they were and asked if
there was a man there, calling the
name of one of the parties in question,
and one of them spoke up and said
Yes. The young man handed him
W and told him that was for them both
to move there on. Seven dollars for
two families of fifteen persons to move
that far on. Now, let us see They
are both fairly good workers and If
they both only worked two days, and
made anything like as much as Uncle
John said, surely they made 81. Now,
let us see how far 81 would have gone.
l am told that train fare from Petros
to Glen Mary is $1.65. SO their fare
would have been So. 30 and for them
and their wives back would have been
$6 60; that added to SO. 30 would make
&c. 80 to say nothing of other expenses
don't see how any company could
expect men to move on such a small
amount as that Besides that | was
told this morning that the parties in
question, upon arriving home, found
that one of the children was sick, and
even if he had had the money to have
moved on he could not have moved
then. Not thinking that his transact
ions with the company there applied to
everybody else, he simply sat down
and wrote the general manager there
telling him the circumstances and told
him that if the coal they loaded and
the yardage, was not sufficient to bal
ance the seven dollars to let him know
the same by return mail and that he
would immediately return the balance
due as he could not return. Up to the
present time he has not heard from the
general manager So he says if he
owes the company anything there it is
their fault and not his, and if they
will notify him he will settle with
them. Now, hope, Uncle Johnnie,
that this will set you at ease, and
while the question at issue, don t
think, pertains to either of u.s. we
would be doing well to let it alone,
and while don't feel disposed to inter
NEEDLE in somebody else's business, if
you, Uncle Johnnie, would like to so
continue the controversy, with all due
respect to yourself, | would ask that
you correspond with the parties in
question, as | am not anxious to dis
cuss question pertaining to someone
else 1t might be that they could tel
you as much as you could them, and l
am afraid could not AS to the com
pany you are working for, I am sure
that they are all you claim them to be-
am glad to note you are making
good money. Truly hope you will SO
continue to do we'll and keep we'll
Talk about the weather We have
all sorts of weather up here, but be-
lieve we had the coolest snap for the
winter so far last Friday Friday
night and Saturday and Saturday
night it was so cold it took two frogs
to live a minute.
Russ Davis, the father of Thomas
Davis, died January the %, and was
buried at Coal Hill cemetery, the fol,
lowing day. He leaves one daughe1
and three sons, the youngest of whom
is in the u s. Army Mr.. Davis was
very old and his death was not unex,
pected after he became so very i'll. He
was a good old man and we sympath
tie with the relatives and children,
who have lost kind and loving father
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