Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-06-20
Third District.


were calling at the Office of w. H.
White last week, and took him to
Whitwell to do some official business
We are glad, indeed, to have the
name of our friend, j, A. Walker, an
nolnced as member of the Marion
County election commission. We can
truthfully state that Gov Patterson
will never see cause to regret this APP
pointment. DR.. N. B. Moore and DR..
j. A. Walker are the only leading
Democrats that led the banner in Ma
riOn county for Patterson, while their
assailants tried to carry the county
with boys and Republicans for Cox.
Every bitter has its sweet and like an
old saying, Every dog has his day
what is to be will be and what is not
intended never will happen.
Ye writer read the notice that the
good editor put in last weeks paper,
concerning the correspondence from
the Third District, who have gagged
the good citizens up here SO long
want to congratulate the editor for it
ought to have been shut off long ago,
was real facts until notified by differ
ent parties We are indeed glad that
judgement is rendered and sentence
passed by the Editor on such cores
pondence. The writer of such gags
who is alwys stirring up strife among
his neighbors and is quick to jump at
wrong conclusions, will bear watching
himself. Good advice is never spent
in vain when it leads to the accom-
plishment of good results.
A great many boys up here have the
U. S. Army fever. Boys, here is my
advice. 1t is given to you free. The
boy who leaves good home on the
farm to seek a soft place in the U. s.
Army, will very quickly have his eyes
opened. He will be carried away to
some distant land.in Car packed with
human beings, to scenes he never saw
before, and on a salary that barely
pays the cost Of living. Other things
will also likely produce a serious case
of remOrse in the most of the lads, and
they will want to get back to father S
and mothers humble home on the
farm. That boys is the most sacred
and precious spot on earth to you Re
member what your counsellor says. Do
this and you will never see cause to re-
greet the advice l give you, but if you
should make this mistake, remember
what | have said and also remember
that YOU have left a poor, broken
hearted mother who has you at heart
every night when she lies down to
sleep. Do you really think that there
is one good nights rest to her in all
your days of absence from the homer
No, she has lost a link, and there is a
vacant place where you were raised
in the little home on the farm, and
especially in the heart of your dear old
mother, whom you haven't paid one
third back the net cost.of raising..you.
Please mark the above paragraph that
you may long remember it.
Now, want to tender my sympathy
to Mrs. Dofetchit on the loss and dis
truction of her old Dominecker hen by
Mr.. Do. That yarn that he told you
to get to eat a hen is an old one with
him, telling you he was rattle-snake
bit when he was only hen pecked
That was a heap of doctoring to waste
on a man as tricky as Mr.. Do. The
| medicine was worth more than five
| hens at wholesale. Now, L. want to
say to you Mr.. Do has been hen-peck-
| ed before. | remember very well away
| back yOnder when he and | ran around
a heap together and at that day
| thought he and l were two of the
| greatest politicians in the county.
He was lover of chicken, and on one
| of our tours over the county, he said,
"Suppose we locate at D. NJ. Tate's as
they has a heap of chickens, and Mrs.
| Tate has heart to slaughter them up
! for us. =" / agreed as |, like Mr.. Do.
could at times kind of force them
down my throat, and during a week s
stay, Mrs. Tate killed about 30 fine
chickens for us and when we left
asked Do how he felt and he remarked
that he felt like steer in corntield.
Well, must say a word about the
farmers up here. They are badly be-
hind. Some are Just now finishing
planting, and the bud worms are very
| bad in the bottoms Ye writer's croI
is in upland | have % acres plowed
over the 2nd time, and will soon be
done laying by | want to say that
next year will be the hardest year we
have had for years. Apples, peaches
| pears, ounces, cherries, grapess.ant
various other fruits are almost ..tota
| failure here, and there will not be very
much hay, and all early corn will be
| almost failure here. This country i
short one-third its wheat crop. Watcl
the drouth as it sweeps us under il
July and August. Put this on you
day book so you can't forget it. TIL,
more we are cut off the harder we hav
to work, and if we fail on this poin
we will have to get part of our provis
ions from other countries. We will
have but little to sell this year, and i
Mr.. Dofetchit doesn't kill and eat al
the hens we are thinking about goiny
into the chicken business as a last re
sort. The blackberry crop is fine an,
Irish potatoes and peas, cabbage
beans, onion and other garden vegeta
blse are all very fine, but few will b
marketed this year. The honey bee
are short and numbers have died out
right.
The health of this place is good, bu
now and then a marriage takes place
Our country is going down hill yer
fast A county without industriOu
people is like blank piece of paper
hung on the wall-nothing on it. Ey
erybody up here has quit attendin
Sunday school and church. Each on
is doing his own teaching and preacl
ing, while a few are engaged in a
tending to everybody else's bushes
and leaves his own undone
Ye writer was at Sam Young's La
week at Whitwell for the first time
10 months, and heard some excelleI
music, which l greatly enjoyed.
/ certainly pninYed reading Dnfatcl