Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-06-27
Tracy City
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Being as wife is gone out visiting
and I've just got my cabbage plowed
out and good cool breeze is stirring
l thought l would write a few lines to
the News folks.
A protracted meeting is going ON at
Oak Grove, conducted by Bro. Cole
man, the pastor.
John Goforth and family, from Coal
mont, came in Saturday and spent two
nights with Mrs. "Gid, his mother
in-law. Jeff Coursey, another of her
sons-in-law, is talking of moving to
the Hines farm, near Winchester, and
turn farmer. jim Carrick, her son,
will move this fall to Warren county
and take possession of his father-in-
laws farm. Her other two married
boys will stay on the mountain and al
so her other son-in-law, Cal Hall.
stay around home pretty close only
when "Sing" and" Lead Invite me
to go hunting. The boys of Hobbs
Hill and Prof. Campbell got me out
one Saturday night, much against my
rule and the dogs ran all night long,
so the old man broke few minutes of
the Sabbath, but l amt going any
more on Saturday night.
Well, people are not kicking very
much about the tick law. Wife says
she thinks the law pretty good one.
It's the house flies that bother her
mostly. Wonder if anybody would OBJ
iect to fly law. Guess some would,
like fellow l once knew who was a
member of the county court. The peo-
pie Of certain district wanted to di-
vide it SO as to get rid of the Dorch law.
This man lived in said district and al
so in the proposed new one. When 1t
came up in the court he voted for the
measure and it carried. When he
found he had voted himself out of
Office such kicking you never heard.
So the kick about the tick law seemed
to be more from the stand point that
it was in the interest of cattlemen and
cattle buyers and against the poor man
and his COW, when, if there is any vir-
tue III the law, it is just as much in
his favor as anybody else's, according
to the stock he owns. But kicking has
become disease among us and if I'VE
| couldn't kick our food wouldn't taste
good. Some are kicking about the dog
law. Well, I'm not kicking for l adj
NIT there is any amount of worthless
dogs in and around our towns and do
know these dogs commit depredations
sometimes. I've known of them going
as far as Bob Foster s, some five miles
to kill hogs. | saw them early one
morning trying to catch calf on the
East Side of the big hill, three miles
from Tracy | put my hounds after
them and they ran them into Tracy.
With this knowledge of facts before me
I favor the law and only regret the
law is not strong enough. People who
own sheep, hogs and cattle have 8
RICH to be protected from the dogs
whose owners are often careless about
them. OF course / know the law il
not very good law. Putting collar
around the neck and letting them ru1
at large and at will, is not my idea o
what is needed. This law is more o
a money concern than anything else
A law compelling owners to keep thei
dogs on their own premises would b.
better, discriminating only on hound
or hunting dogs. They should hav
collars, male and female, to protec
them while hunting but when the own
er is not hunting with them the,
should be kept on the premises as al
others. Most any hunter would pa,
SOC or 81 per head to have his dogs reg
istered and collared. This is just m
opinion about the dog business. Well
bred hounds range from $25 to 800
pair, for trained and unframed.
have a neigbor that has two full blood
ed hound pups unframed. He propos
es to take $25 for them eight month
old I've never known them to qui
a race yet and they ran when not niue
, larger than cats. Ny dogs are fast fc
hounds and these pups follow them an
somehow always get to the hole o
} time.
{ Well, hunters that take the New
t can see their Uncle is still in the fo
business. / must tell the hunters abor
f some of my chases later on. I'm goin
, to have plenty of foxes this fall-kno
: of three dens of young ones close to M
: My dogs caught one the other da
/ which l didn't appreciate, and wouI
have caught more but l happened
get to them and saved the little fe
a lows lives. UNCLE GID.