Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-08-29
HICKS CHAPEL.

Stetiai 10 tie Ne7US.
People up here are busy sowing tur-
nips. We are having some good rains
and corn and peas are looking hne.
Early corn is cut short by the dry
weather but there is but very little
early corn in this this part. Somebody
prophesied sometime back in the News
that there would be an awful drought
in July and August, and burn every
thing up. We hone that the prophecy
will prove false.
Mrs. Rosa Hackworth left the other
day for Alabama to look after her es-
tate.
Joe Pickett went to Chattanooga on
business last week.
Sam Layman, from Chattanooga is
here for short stay, visiting her ia
Their, John Layman.
VIM. Grayson is fixing to move to
Birmingham, Ala.
Moving seems to be in order just
now Ye writer was in Whitwell the
other day and saw several people NOV
ing out and heard several say they
were going to move as they were afraid
to work in the mines, when they got
Henry Griffith and Miss Jessie Pick
EFT were married last Wednesday at
the home of the brides grandfather,
Jess Pickett. We wish them happy
life.
We just want to say a few words in
regard to the killing of Mr. West. We
knew both parties and never knew
either party to be drunk, but it seems
| like something must have been wrong
for we don't believe that Mr.. West
would have said or done anything to
anybody unless he considered them vi
olating the law. Then he would do or
try to do his duty, regardless of person
or persons. On the other hand we
don't believe that Mr.. Young is the
man to commit the crime he did, I'M
less something was wrong, for he
seemed to be always a law abiding
man. Be it as it is, one man is in the
ground and the other in trouble and
may have to stay in Jail a long time
and that is an awful bad place for a
man to have to stay, but the way OF
| the transgressor is hard.
The quarterly meeting at Looney'
Creek commenced Saturday, conducted
by Rev. Scott and others.
We have been informed that the
commissioner has suspended work on
all the cross roads leading from the
mill above Whitwell to the East Valley
road, except the upper road around the
ridge. We think the other road would
be the proper road to work, as it is the
nearest to the pike and would accom-.
modate a great many more people.
/ noticed in the last issue of the
News that a correspondent seemed to
think that the election commissioner:
were trying to gain a point by not
having, any registration at a republi
can precinct in the lower end. II
might be that they were but if they
were trying to gain for the democratic
party in the lower end, they must have
been trying to gain for the republican
party up here for there wasn't any
registration held nearer the county
line on the west side of the river thar
Whitwell. People had to go from thu
Sequatchie county line to Whitwell OF
to the Holloway Spring on the Eas
Side, if they registered and almost ev
erybody up there are democrats We
don't think the commissioners were
trying to gain anything politically
but trying to save the county all thu
expense that they could.
We understand that the people herr
are going to dig we'll at Hicks Chap
ell and re-shingle the house. P. W.