Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-09-12
TOIbert, Texas.

Dear readers of the News, as am a
little bit idle on account of my wife
being sick, which causes me to have
to stay pretty close, will try to give
you little bit of the best news | can
CLEAN.
We are having some dry weather
Not much wheat land is being prepar
ed on account of being too.dry and hot
Cotton has begun to open little.
Early corn is fine and is about ready
to crib. Melon crop is as fine as |
ever saw. Wish my old Tennessee
friends were here to to help me eat
lot of them that are going to waste,
some as fine as | ever saw.
l want to speak to the youths as [
used to be little cotton headed boy
myself, and took pleasure in rowing in
the wildwoods and taking peep at
natures beautiful hilltops and lofty
cragged rocks that so adorn old Sequa-
chee Valley, place that is long to be
remembered by me as one Of the grand
est places on earth Boys, take care
of your old home, improve it, don't let
it 90 to ruin, but make it happy
place for your friends to visit. Stay
on the old farm, boys. Town is no
place for young man, nor young lady
to keep their character pure, and
want to tell you that pure, clean
charactered girl is far above the rub
les and pearls of this earth. Then
look well to your steps where and how
you take them, and who you are with.
If you get into low company you tend
to lower yourself Then for sake of
poor mama, who has spent sleepless
hours over your infancy, keep clean
and spotless recokl. Todo this you al
ways need to be in good company for
you cannot keep clean record and
spend time in low society. Take some
advice from "Your Friend, L." She
has offered you some good, sensible ad
vice. Try to prosper by doing your
best to follow the advice offered. Your
mama cannot keep your name under
good clean record, but you can. | want
to say to you, young men who are
soon to take the place of your fathers,
that the surest road to an honest, hap
py life, is to stay ON the old farm and
plant nice orchard and vineyard
and eat the fruits of your own free la
Dor. If you will do this | tell you you
he, too, will soon have to go to the
farm for his income, but just as long
as you young men leave home and
work for him he will keep heaping up
his thousands Then why not work
for self, and get all of your earnings,
and let the company go to the bad if
it wants to, but you yourself strive
to gain a home of your own. How
it shocks me to see so many pieces in
our good paper stating that farms are
going down, orchards are all dead and
no new ones being put out. | don't
wonder at the howl that is going on
over the union and labor.
Just go back to the farm, where you
earn and make your own living and
Just see how soon the howl will stop
The sun sometimes shines hot but the
old hen still sings the same old song,
and your trees bear the same fruit.
Let me urge you to go back to the old
farm, and if it has run down too low,
just come to old Wilberger Co., Texas
the garden spot of the world where
you can get new one. have sold
half of my place and | still have 100
acres left
| The Baptlsts and MethodlstS nave
| just closed series of three weeks
meeting with 80 converted Nearly
| all joined churches but are pretty we'll
divided.
Let me suggest that the ladies have
little space in our paper for poultry,
and the farmers and stockmen space
and let anyone who desires give views
ON poultry and housekeeping, that
young ladies may prosper and be help
mates to their companions, and of use
to the rising generation. Also farm
ers lend each other a helping hand
through the little paper. Tell how to
raise fine breeds of hogs, horses and
COWS, but not rattlesnakes, for we have
plenty of them out here. We also
have the from one to-six-wire fence
law, but we still have some fine hogs,
hens and horses.
JOE HACKWORTH