Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-09-19

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Well, | guess / had better say a few
words TO Memo, as she or he keeps
biting. AS the old saying is, suckers
will bite, but it seems like possoms
are worse to bite than suckers. My
dear, friend, Memo" |, "Small
Grain, of Dunlap, turned new leaf
on you and left space for you to sign
and you signed not You Just kept
kicking and if you had some more
help y0u would do as well as the post
master in Missouri did when he was
making his quarterly report to the
president. Now, Etna is absolutely
gone TO the bad and the steps you have
taken you have started there also.
Now, memo" You know that If
S. T.. Brumley's store was to close you
would leave Etna at once, and as for
speaking of country people, my folks
are country people. When | say conn
try peope / mean country people. |
don't mean mountain boosters that
hunt wild hogs and catch muskrats
and sell them. mean an upright
man that lives out of the hills of Wild
Hog Ridge.
Memo wanted to know who
''Small Grain" was trying to please.
/ am sure it wasn't Memo" that |
was trying to please. Memo" also
said must have some object in view.
Memo" said must have one to my
own advantage. To be sure. am
out for my own advantage rs well as
for yours tried to write to your adj
vantage last week, but you were so ig-
norant you couldn't see it. 1t wasn't
the people of Etna was speaking of
not being o. K. in every way. 1t was
the place where the ignorant lived and
if You could have had Just one-fourth
of that stump water in your pumpkin
head turned to brains you could have
understood it. You people have fine
man for treasurer and secretary and
engineer and a finer man never stuck
| his head in the mines than Thomas
Degnan for Bank Boss and see where
some of you ignorant people have been
| throwing mud, not at your bank boss,
but right in his face. Put his name
out in public. Oh, you haven't learn
ed and never will Now, l will say a
word to that writer, whoever it is
| My friend, do you not know that If a
man employed by the company don't
manage to the company's interest as
we'll as to the mems, that they don
need him but right is right and won
wrong anyone and Mr.. Degnan knew
he was right for this reason. He
knew he could gain two m en- by doing
so. Well, why could he gain two men
by doing sor Those four men that
wanted the stumps were not working
there at that time and he saw where
he could keep them by giving them
the stumps and he knew they were ev-
eryday men and the men that had the
stnmps were already at work there and
there were only two of them and yoU
see he gained tive men by doing So
and that is what that company is look
ing for-more men. There is no doubt
but what Mr. Degnan will give Park
do as well. That is if they will tall
to him right and in the right way
Now, | don't know Rosebud" bu
| indeed do not by any means mean Il
make you mad, but | can't take side
with anyone against Mr. Degnan. l
looks strange that you folks would ad
vertise to the public any such question
against our neighbor and bette
neighbor couldn't be found on Poison
Ridge than Thomas Degnan.
Now my friend, lay such bushes
aside. Don't be like Meme" Pu
all you know and all you hear together
and ask everybody you see to help you
and put it in the News. never knew
that there was any gas in Etna mines
and it is true there isn't any in TIN
| mines but | have found ont there i
plenty on top of the ground. l an
about got to where am afraid to g
to Possom Ridge. Knight blow up o
the possoms would eat me up. / have
heard that the way to cook a poison
is to bake him and guess that is RICH
for they have got a baker at Etna TO
that business.
So you can turn this over to the lit
tie insane writer Memo" of Poison
Ridge. Small Grain.