Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-02-27
Third District


SPECIAL 10 the Me7gs.
All the News readers please pardon
me for so long a vacation in my CORES
pondence TO the good Old Reliable.
My disability is such that am excus-
able for the same
We have great deal Of sickness up
here. Joe Pickett took on too much
beef soup last night and got fouuderad
and today is under the treatment Of
DR.. P. c. Gr0yson, aud is very low,
but by close attention he may recover.
Elijah GraySon has sold his little
farm TO Z. T. Rogers and will live in
old 9th near lnman in the near neigh
borhood of Roe Griffith Their lands
join.
Milton B. White, son Of w. H.
White, is very sick with fever this
week, but is out Of danger.
Rev. g. w. White set out two thous-
and cabbage plants yesterday and ex-
poets to reach the early market in the
spring.
There was a certain party saw GER
tain party the other day carrying off
certain party's hay on the ridge that a
certain party had bought from third
party the other day. This case will
end in criminal court by and by.
d. r. Layne 81 Go. sell ladies' hats
TO his customers on the side of the riv-
er that are so cheap that one would
have to study hard to keep from think
ing they had stolen them. A lady
burned up her old hat the other day
and bought SO, 90 hat from Layne for
less than wholesale price.
A gentle sinner shot and killed poor
old blind Wash Hollands marked hog
the other day on the side of the noun
tain near his home, and Holland went
after being notified, to the gentleman s
smoke house and, though blind as he
was, ran his fingers over the head Of
the bog and recognized the mark, and
got half of it and went away. This
case viii Land before the grand jury,
Jas D. Ridge was married at the
brides home to Miss Cotfman, by
Rev. G. w. White, and after the cere-
mony was over took his better half and
went south to spend their honeymoon.
We wish them long and prosperous
life.
r. F. Rogers, formerly from Sequa-
chez, is now located permanently in
the Bird district and has purchased the
A. W. White farm near W. H.
Whites Rev. G. w. and w. FL
White are cousins to II. F. Rogers and
any candidate That expects to carry the
banner of the Third District viii do
well to get his credential papers en-
dorsed by these three gentlemen, OF
| they will be marked null and void.
| have two dogs and three hound
pups and the devilish pups tore up my
wife's broom this morning, and she
was az mad as the deuce. She fred
them out of the back door and my ba-
by boy went out in great sympathy
with the pups and pretty soon he re-
turned and reported to his mama that
the pups had freed the milk COW in the
back yard sure as guns are made OF
iron. ] said, "what kind of tree has
the pups freed the COW up inT' and al
that expression of the boy my wife
laughed heartily and the torn-uI
broom was forgotten, and the hound
pups and l both made good our escape
to the woods and never showed up un-
til noon, and had brand new broom
and placed it in lieu of the one the
pups destroyed and so we got out Of
this scrape with only the cost of q
quarter and half days work to get
! the broom.
From present outlook we are going
to have an abundant fruit crop this
year How glad it make us to study
about these good things awaiting us.
just little while longer to wait and
then we will be blessed
Jas. Hatfield and wife and two
daughters are visiting Rhoda Hill here
from Arkansas, but will leave for theil
home next week.
Where did sold Blue" move to?
can't hear from him these days. Please
take notice and wake up, old boy.
All parties expecting to run for any
kind of an Office don't forget to cal
and see Representative, " and remem
Der the story about Jack Rabbit L
you can't run get out of the path ant
let man in that knows how to run
Charley Quarles can tell you if yol
/ have forgotten.
There was a negro arrested last weel
in Chattanooga for carrying a pistol
|, When asked by the police why he wa
carrying it he said he was carrying i
/. to keep the mad dogs from biting him
The Judge said, Il will put you up il
, Jail where the dogs can't bite you.
J If there were few young rascals hi
by that Judge up here it would put
, quietus ON them.
Good luck to the News editor and al
!, my brother and sister correspondents.
Representative.