Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-08-01
Grapevine, Tex.
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As it has been some time since last
wrote to the News, | will give few
items from this neck of the woods.
Crops are late, owing to the cold,
wet May. AS good luck would have it
l got my cotton up TO stand and held
it. 1t sure is fine. 1t is full of bolls,
blooms and squares. There were not
many in this section but what had to
plant their cotton over from one to
three times. The calamity hOwlerS say
the boil weevel will get it yet Corn
is fine and bids fair for good yield
There is not much fruit Vegetables
and melons are fine This is the home
of the watermelon. 1t grows to the
weight of one hundred and fifty lbs Of
ten Hay is fine. Oats and wheat are
failure
was very sorry to hear of the death
of Uncle Dave Chaudoin. He was one
of my dearest friends. Weep not, dear
ones, father has just crossed over on
the other shore, where he will be wait
ing and watching for us where we can
meet and sing God S praises through
the eternal ages, where death and sor-
row is not known in that beautiful land
of God Let us live that we may be
like he was, only waiting for the sum
mons.
Well, Uncle Joe, You sure struck
the key note in regard to so much fool
| ishness in the paper. Uncle, | would
love to see you. We used to play to-
gether at your grandma's as boys, and
worked together as men at Whitwell
Keep on writing. | enjoy your pieces
so much.
What is the matter with "Copperas
| Breeches?" | think he is making q
mistake in not writing at least once a
month. In justice to yourself, your
many friends and the editor of our
good paper, unfurl your banner. and
give us some of your best compositions,
! live within six miles of your brother,
Bill, and am going to visit him soon.
Whites Chapel gave a Sunday school
picnic last Saturday in the grove
near my house Some estimated the
crowd to number 3, 600. We had nice
program and rendered in good style.
Bro. FOwlkes, the superintendent,
made the welcoming address and was
followed by Rev. Foster, of Oklaho-
ma. Then they adjourned for dinner.
Oh, my, l will not try to describe it.
If you never was at Texas dinner
you have missed half of your life,
They brought the chicken out in every
kind of a dress that could be thought
of. The dinner came by buckets full,
boxes, baskets, trunks full. Buggy
loads, wagon loads of every consuma-
BILE thing that could be thought of.
Then the crowd was called together
to hear the speech of the day, which
was delivered from the eloquent lips
of the Rev. Robert Grimes who took
up the Sunday school question and
handled it without gloves. We sold
20 gallons of ice cream, 60 big cases of
soda pop, 200 gallons of lemonade, can
dy, peanuts, chewing and other stuff
too numerous to mention. If there was
a drop of whiskey or drunken man
ON the ground never heard of it.
Glad to hear that r. F. Rogers has
the Texas fever Let me know through
the News if he gets his mail at Dun
lap. If so | will write to him. | am
well satisfied here.
"Watchman, let those poor old hogs
alone. You don't now how soon you
will be hog yourself and you might
not get off as easy as you did the first
time you ever bad white Sunday
shirt and went to take dinner with
your girl and tucked her mama new
white tablecloth under the waist band
of your pants, thinking it was your
shirt. | will not tell the rest if you
will let those hogs alone. Uncle Tom.