Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-09-26
Oak Grove.

Strfial 10 the Nc1oS.
The fever has been raging so fear
fnlly in our settlement but il is leav-
ing without the death of anyone, and
We writer feels thankful to the great
God of high Heaven that il was no
worse with us than it was.
/. f. Tate has sold out his interest
in the store at Tracy City to his part
ner. George Barth, and has a large
building up at his home on Bryant
Cove road for the merchandise bust
ness.
Ye writer feels little under the
weather today from the effects of three
or fonr days work ON right of way, as
was not used to doing such work.
How we are treated up here by our
county officials The tax assessors
come and assess our taxes, and in a
few months the collector comes and
collects them, land if we want few
dollars to build a small wooden bridge
or to make a road across Little Sequa
chez to Whitwell we can't get a dollar,
and one of our road overseers few
DAYS ago warned twenty men to work
| the road, and not man went on the
road. Why, because the law says they
can pay their time at seventy-tive cents
per day and this is to be paid to the
trustee and not dollar will ever get
back to the road.
Well, l am not wanting a newspaper
fight, but like everybody else, | feel
free to defend myself in Just cause
and also to claim what is right to all
people. 1t seems that if some people
don't get all of the advantages of their
neighbors they are not in it.
Now for Wonder " | must meet
you as you said | was meddling when
| had no business. l think you
scratched down something without con
sidering what you said. You surely
did not bring what you were writing
to the scales to weigh evenly. Now,
would you attempt to deprive anyone
of their rights, more especially little
child. Shall it be said by one of these
children that if it had not been for
Wonder and others | might have
been able to have done business that
would have made me an easy living,
but they took our school out of our
reach and all to their own advantage.
Now, "Wonder, you almost called
me liar. If the school board would
come up or send u committee then the
facts would be clear to the public.
suppose the whole of the upper enc
and more too, helped out in that little
piece, and then there was nothing il
it. My father raised me in this county
in hollow between two hills and ONT
lesson he taught me was to never veal
a five-dollar hat on two cents anc
half worth of brains, but see some
that wear a Stetson over a little STUMP
water now. If you are still calling on
for self and feel like you wanted t.
hear from Inc come right on with you
rat killing.
| must hurry up as want to go t.
see that same little girl that "Wond
err called colored girl. | didn' t sa.
she was colored. l said she was a~littl
dark and could not do up her hair.
Ye writer was very sorry to hear o
the death of our beloved friend, Dal
! Ferguson, who was killed by falling
tree at Whitwell. He was kin,
hearted good neighbor, and We write
thinks he was one of his best friend
! and spent many hours in fox huntln
with him.
Elijah Shrum, the deputy sheriff an
> iailor OF Grundy County, paid hon
folks visit yesterday Lige is huS
; tier and good officer.
Foster Harris is good hand to set
crosscut saw. If you don't believe
try him.
If you want to earn 81. 80 a.day com
to the right of way and work unde
: Geo. Dishroon Our crew is J. A
Green, Tommie Crisp, Foster Harris
Fred Wilkerson, Sam Green and y
: writer. All nice looking men and fin
workers. Whiting Bill.