Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-08-20
Third District.
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uoi"So was uono AZ nODOuy nOllereu
when the reports of the gun were
heard, and don't think anybody was
in danger unless the shots happened to
fall back on somebody's head 1t was
intended for big bluff, but somebody
has violated the law by firing off fire.
arms and breaking the sabbath. Moth
ing will excuse these parti es for viola
ting the Sabbath, Boys if those shots
had taken effect and killed somebody,
the law would have held such parties
guilty of murder. We have Grimm
al law laid down in our code that must
be observed. If person commits any
depredatiOns you must resort to the
law for your redress, but don't set up
the theory of an outlaw by taking the
law in your own hands. Here is ad-
vice from one that ought to know and
the judge will sustain me in what
say to you. 1t would be better for
those boys to be tried by a court and
jury for petit larceny for taking a few
melons from you than for you gentle
men to be tried by the same court and
jury for murder. Take this for what
it means. If it's worth anything to
you very good, if not pass it by. Two
heads, as an old saying goes, are bet
ter than one, if one is a sleeps head
You will find Incorporated in the ten
commandments, "Thou shalt not
kill. ] am lead to believe you shoot
ing christians have overlooked the
commandment and taken vice versa,
and were obeying the commandment
that is not of God, which reads thus:
Thou shalt go and kill and don't be
long about it. -
W. II. White, notary public, was
called on Tuesday to fix up the land
papers for the public school property
for Hicks school house, so as to make
it public school property, so it will
come under the jurisdiction of the
board of education and have the title
to property authenticated and be ready
for business in the future. The school
at Hickory Grove ran down to eleven
pupils Thursday, when John Burnett
walked out. The school situation is
getting worse every day, as near as We
writer can figure. There are in daily
attendance from ten to IA going to
Hickory Grove. There are 85 entitled
to school at Hicks Chapel. Common
sense and public justice in the lapse of
time will over ride the wrong doing
of self interested individuals. 1t will
be made a political ISSUE Here is the
condition that the matter has drift
to: Neighbors and children nd
reached that condition that they
each other on the road and refuse
speak to each other. Big protra
meetings have no more effect on
than cast steel, and mixing and nd
ling them together only makeS
matters worse. If we fail to geS
county officials to settle this MI
permanently, we will be forced to
this school property become ST
school property, and let the title
vested in the state of Tennessee, but
oppose this move for know the couI
ty board of education will yield to
two third S majority.
We have some sickness here just.
now-too much melon and other vege-
tation, but little grease and no old ba-
con to go with the vegetables is the
principal cause.
Politics, murrain ticks and religion
are at low ebb just now.
Today is the day set apart for all to
bring their cattle off of the mountain.
Some parties will have, to haul water
for 10 or 25 head. Sorry boys, but
can't do anything for your relief
Kate and Annie Coppinger, of Dun
lap, are visiting their sister, Mrs
Pearl White, this week.
Joe Pickett has carbuncle on his
jaw almost as big as Bunker's Hill,
and had DR.. McNabb lance it today.
This is the hottest weather we have
had since the war Of the rebellion.
The cheapest product of the farm up
here is watermelons, and in some peo-
pie patches it looks like cyclone had
struck.
am going to inaugerate bush ar
Dor meeting here to reconcile and har-
monize the people, for have tried ev-
cry other plan under the sun.
want good letter from each and
every brother and sister correspondent
of the News next week, so l can hear
flom all. will still hold my fort.
Hurrah for all the union boys the
world over God grant you the stabil-
ity to stick together until every nation
under the sun and every laboring man,
regardless of what his present views
may be on the labor movement of the
nation may see their own interests
/ Nv heart desire is to see every labor
ing man of this nation of ours organic
ed into one solid bond of organized I'M
ion labor of America, and by so doing
you will promote higher standard of
living, higher standard of wages,
higher grade of education, better re-
sources for children. They will be
better fed. better clothed, better edu-
Gated, better in every way equipped
to fight the battles of life, when they