Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-09-05
Third District.

Inehl ionS, prosperous anu happy
life.
Nancy White, aged rs years, widow
of late Robt. N. White, was partially
with paralysis in her right
side this week. but at this date is some
better. Her mother settled in this
country when the Indians occupied it,
in 1910, and she lived to be 104 years
old, and the last 30 years of her life
was totally blind, and had to be led
wherever she went and as she was dy-
ing her second eyesight came to her
and she could tell the color of dresses
the women had on in the room. She
had never taken dozen doses of med
icine in her life. All the old citizens
remember Grandma Cunningham, the
mother of Nancy White, who is wide
ly known far and near throughout
this county and hundreds of old sold
iers that are yet living haven forgot
ten her daring and brave feats during
the late civil war, and how she sue
ceeded in carrying dispatches through
to Yankee headquarters in her mouth,
and how she eluded the rebel officers,
and rode through the lines and deliv-
cred the dispatches that defeated the
enemy. She delivered them for her
husband, Robt. N White, who was
Yankee spy, that every old soldier
throughout this country will to this
day remember. Esq. league has a
book printed on the life of Nancy
White, with photograph that was ia
ken during the war of her ON horse
back, with her long hair hanging
down riding through the rebel camps,
with the war dispatches. The little
sketch | know will be interesting to
many old soldiers that are still living
and know these facts, and will be sorry
to hear her sickness, and l know we
will get good piece from some old
soldier through the News along this
line.
Now, just few words to my friend,
'P. W" He seems to want to criti-
else what | said about a drought up
here, and that there wasn't but lit
tie early corn, and that corn crops look
ed fine. will admit they do look fine
to a man on Gravely Ridge. All the
corn crops up to the county line are
nearly all early and they are pulling
fodder and topping and cutting their
corn. And they say for average this
year compares with last, only but lit
tie over half. Every word | said in re-
gard to the shortage is correct. 'P.
WIS. crop is short one third | will
guarantee. He said that sowing tur-
nips was the issue of the day. Now,
"P. W." | will call you down just
one notch. Us good people up here do
MT SOW turnips We only SOW the
seed. "P. W" said l charged the
commissioners with trying to make a
democratic gain at republican pre-
cincts. | never said that. | don t
know which party it affected the
worst. At Sequachee l only rendered
my sympathy to those good people who
had to go to Jasper to register, both
democrats and republicans alike. AS
to the republican gain up here, the
End district has two voting precincts
on the east side, and one at Whitwell
on the west side of the river, and all
can reach these points, at the farther
est only distance of three miles. He
is strong Hicks Chapel man and
heads his pieces that way. He says
they are going to dig well there, He
fixes it there is no water at Burnett S
Chapel and none at Hicks Chapel, by
saying that they will dig a well there
soon. Don't that sound funny to you.
want to state the facts in this case
and end the controversy by stating
that Hickory Grove and Hicks Chapel
school houses have both got everlasting
springs at each place, and neither
needs any well, and will be glad to
furnish proof of this fact to anyone
living away that don't know. | will
quit this subject by saying that l am
highly in favor of Hickory Grove,
Hicks Chapel, or Looney's Chapel, and
am perfectly satisfied and got no kick
to make against either place, whatev-
er. The decision of the board of edu-
cation in this matter will be mine.
Now, Mr. ''P. w." / don't wish for
you Just now to become critic up
here. Wait until we can get in touch
with other leading correspondents and
then come on with your criticisms.
There was an all around fight last
Sunday between the fair sex. Four
ladies' fought with clubs, fence rails,
pulled hair. mashed one another $
mouths with their fists, on the road
from school and tney were very much
skinned up and bloody after the battle.
| They were of the Cherokee Indian
tribe and their forefathers used TO re-
side on the Cherokee Indian Reserva-
| ton, and when Cherokee blood is at "A
high pitch it is bad. Young men, You
had better quit and take down your
| sign and give over yOur belt.
! There was little boy had an order
! from negro the other day to certain
store for only zoe. and the clerks asked
the boy whose son he was. The little
/ boy told them and when they found
out that his father was a union man
| they refused 10 pay the boy after the
darkey had it charged on the book Ia
him. and the boy lost the produce he
sold the negro. Now, here Is what
/ have got 10 say ON that subject. A
man that takes 20c through his preiu.
/ dice and malice. from little innocent
I boy, will take $50 from a man and al
/ he wants is chance. Every man
I steals according 10 his calibre. tn,
calihre of a man that will steal little
things is .22. A man that will steal a
sheep or a hog worth s. to $40 is 81
| A man that will steal COW or horse
or mule is a .3s. A man that will rot
a company, rob a bank. forge check
I and defraud the state or National Gov
/ eminent out of few thousand is ~
I Larceny is hereditary. It's in tbs
| blood and runs in generations Of PEG
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