Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-08-08
Third District.
Special 10 lie Mas.

SbecfdI TO Ire Meas.
J. H. Pryor, and family, of Cali
fornia, have been here on an extended
visit to his father, ?. &. Pryor, and
brother, J. r. Pryor, of Jasper, and
also his brotherin-law W. h. White,
of Whitwell They have left for Chat
tanooga, Dayton, lockwood and other
points, and vii stay there about thirty
day and then return to California.
John was raised here and is one a
mong the best blacksmiths the coun-
try affords. He has been gone for
eight years He lives within eighteen
miles of the sea, and they haven't had
any rain there since April. They wa
ter during the summer by canals, and
flood gates 1t is over 3, 900 miles to
where he lives. His expenses will reach
over $500 to see kinsmen and friends
here. We are sorry, indeed, to have
to part with John. He is useful
man to our country.
We were glad to see "Uncle Tom
loorl up and give us few dots and
| dashes from Texas, and that everything
out there looks prosperous. Sorry to
near about those big dinners out there.
| Oh, how it grieves me to hear of a
good thing going on like that. If you
write Just one more letter about any
thing of that kind your uncle will
have the Texas fever You wanted tC
know R. F. Rogers address. He il
still at Dunlap, but | think that his
Texas fever has cooled off. Write
him and fire him just little and il
viii rise again.
1 g lot IT1C
among the people of Hick' S Chapel anc
Hickory Grove school as to where i
shall be taught. Each faction wants
it at his own schoolhouse, and wants
to ignore what the Board did wheI
they put the school at Hickory Grove
If the Board of Education and RoaC
Commissioners have to be guided an(
controlled by factions and politician
and pay very much attention to al
they ask and want you will be as busy
as the Secretary of the State. Bacl
your judgement and stand where yol
have acted, regardless of who it pleas
es or displeases, or its goodbye, Susan
nah Jane.
Joe Reel and children passed her
Sunday from Sunday school and tool
dinner with We writer. He is going t.
dig me cellar next week.
This is the hardest month. in tn
year for the farmers to live.
/ don't believe that the prOtracteC
meetings will do well this season Of
account of the necessities of life beini
cut short. People are very much lik
cattle that are put III good pasture
When it gets ate out they begin t
Jump out and trespass on the neig
! bors, and SO with the human family
when they eat up all they have go
and the 'neighbors have nothing t
spare, then they begin to trespass
1t is a hard thing for man to invit
fifteen or twenty home from church t
dinner with him when he hasn't &C
three days provisions ahead, and
he did what would his children do tn
next week. This in hard times make
, a man slow about going to church
his circumstances will keep him away
} and don't you see that success will /
hard to gain in Christianity. undo
) such conditions. l may be wrong
but, however, will be subject to crit
r cism.
l would like to inquire about Oh
t Blue, " Uncle Joe, " Uncle Gid,
"Dofetchit," and "Gofetchit. /" HAY
t you all struck. If you haven rise u
and fire the woods and deaden Il
: timber for miles around.
- Ranresprtat,ve