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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
Tracy City.
SPECIAL 10 Tie Ne7OS.

SPECIAL 10 Tie Ne70S,
Ye writer is visiting her sister at
Mars Hill for few days.
A child of John Newsom's was bad
ly hurt Saturday evening while play
ing on a pile of cross ties. Two ties
fell on her.
Miss Cora Kigore was visiting Miss
Maude Brown Saturday and Sunday
and enjoyed her trip finely.
Walter Lenan was visiting in Dykes
Hollow Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Kilgore visited
his brother, Riley Kilgore Sunday.
Mrs Sam Bone is on the sick list.
Hope she will soon recover.
Clell Dykes passed Shad Hill Satur-
day going at the rate of 2:4O.
Mrs Riley Kilgore is ON the sick
list
Miss Cora Kilgore and Francis Shad-
rick visited Mrs. Allen Sanders Mon
day morning.
Mrs. H L. Brown visited Mrs.
Frank Kilgore last week.
Willie Dent made flying trip to
Mars Hill Sunday evening.
w. A. Kilgore visited friends and
relatives at Shad Hill Sunday.
Wonder Who.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
HOge's Crossing.
Old Sox.

Special 10 tie Nf70S
Tom Forester and wife of Jasper,
were visiting at Tom Dawson's Sun
day.
Mrs. Hinch was visiting at Mary
Hancock's one day last week.
Ruben Hancock, from South Pitts
burg, was visiting at the Switch Sun
day.
John Philips called at this place Sat-
urday night.
Miss Alice Pitman passed by here
Sunday.
Mr.. Thomas was at this place Sun
day.
Miss Maggie Barlew was out mule
back riding Sunday.
Willard Hinch passed by here Sun
day.
Will Dawson and wife from the
Switch. visited John McGuyrt Sun
day night.
Mr.. Blessing called at this place
Sunday.
Elizabeth Hancock is on the sick list
| this week.
Carrie Hinch was visiting Myrtle
Hancock Friday.
Dick Dawson passed by here Sun
day.
H. Hancock was out on the noun
tain hunting Friday night, but didn't
get anything but a good wettiug.
! Shoe Fly.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
Kellys Ferry.
SbSciai 10 Tie Ne7OS.

ob'cadE 10 the Ne70S.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kelly Hartman, of
Roope, visited home folks from Satur-
day until Sunday.
Charlie Hartman called at l. New
SONS Monday.
Albert Massengale Of Stanly, spent
Monday with Isaiah Newsom.
Miss Hattie Harwood spent Saturday
evening with Miss Lizzie Newsom.
Mrs. Nettie Jones spent Saturday
night with Mrs. A. L. Richey.
Mrs. Nettie Jones and Mrs. Addie
Richey and Mrs. Odessie Newsom were
visiting at Raccoon Gap Saturday.
Miss Minnie Hartman called at the
Ferry Monday.
Sunday was so much like summer
that lot of young folks were out
walking
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Newsom went to
Roope Sunday.
Mrs. Searline Anderson was calling
on Mrs. Ellie Anderson Saturday.
Mrs. Matte Hartman called on Mrs
Belle McNabb Saturday night.
Mrs. Odesie and Miss Lizzie New
som were calling on Mrs Belle McNabl
Friday.
A. F. Ellis was at the Ferry Sun
day.
Mis- Ethel McNabb, of Valdeau, wal
visiting her grandparents some few
days ago.
Mrs. Lizzie White visited Mrs. Ju
liza Newsom Saturday.
Albert Smith passed through our vi
cinity Tuesday,
Mrs. Julia Newsom, who has beer
very sick for sometime, is better,
Kelly's Ferry Girl.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
Christopher, I'll.
Sbeciai 10 Tie Nf7OS.

Sbeciai 10 Tie Meas.
Working is the order of the day here,
and we are glad of having, every day
work.
Harvey Turner and Pete Carter Wis
tied at DuQuoin, ILL.,. Saturday.
Brown Smith and l. R. Jordan Wis
tied at DuQuoin Sunday.
Will Culley and Clee Smith went to
court at Benton, H., two days last
week.
Tom Watts was in Benton at court
Friday.
John Leonard and John Arledge and
l. r. Jordan visited Sesser, Ills, one
day last week, and reported nice
time.
Tim Thomas, of Herrin, was up
here Sunday to see his girl.
E. D. Grimes is being treated by a
doctor at DuQuoin and is getting
along better than he was. We hope he
soon will be we'll
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Ballard, of Du.
Quoin, visited Mr.. and Mrs. John Ar.
ledge, of this city Saturday night
We were all sorry to hear of Dull
Young's death, but we were glad he
said he was going to rest. He is gone
where his troubles will be over It il
like the song, st is one more poor un
ion man dead and gone to rest, and
he was true union man and was low
ed by all of his friends.
/ would be glad to hear from Mach
Tate, of Whitwell, again either by let
ter or through the News.
Zeigler, ILL.,, had another explosion
last week. Only three men were kill
ed. Zeigler is the only scab mine il
the state and we don't think it will bt
scab mine always. If they have few
more explosions down there Joe Lei
Their will be broke.
My girl sent me two valentines last
Sunday and they are the trick. NJ!
girl and I go to church ,or to the ska
ting rink every night.
took Tim Thomas girl to the SHOW
the other night. don't guess he viii
like it but don't care. didn't Xix,
it either when Tim Thomas and Wilsy
Davis sent my girl some postcards.
Willie Weddle. you should come nj
and see my dogs. | have three. On'
is named Bob Taft.
Tell blue Grass" to write.
Clee Smith and best girl were at tn,
skating rink Saturday night.
Harvey Turner said he heard goo,
news the other day. He had a girl nj
at Nashville. Ill, aud he heard she go
married. White Face
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
KelIeys Ferry's

Special 10 ne Ns7OJ.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Newsome and lit
tie Gladys, of Kellys Ferry, were Wis
iting Mr. and Mrs. W. Bailey, at
Roope Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kelly Hartman, of
Roope, visited her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaiah Newsom, Saturday and
Sunday.
Charlie Hartman and Ed Rollins
were at the Ferry Thursday.
Alex Massengale called on l. New
som Monday.
Allen McNabb got Bill Anderson
and George HCuts to play music at his
house Saturday for a party at night.
Those present were Misses Phemia,
Lizzie and Mrs. Matte Hartman and
Mrs. Doney Browning, Eddie Houts,
Charlie Ellis, Bill Ande rson, George
Xix, George Houts, George Browning,
Tom Romines, Frank Ellis, Lister
Hartman. They had a nice time.
Jim McNabb called at Mr.. New
SONS.
Lots of men We're at |. Newsom s
stable while it was raining, looking
for F. A. Kelly, of Jasper, who was
expected on Monday morning, but he
didn't come up here.
Mrs. R. F. Richey, Nora and Myr-
tie Newsom called on Mrs. Taylor
White Thursday afternoon.
The railroad men are going to start
up work again this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Jones called on
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaiah Newsom Satur-
day night and Sunday.
JAMES Newsom, Charlie Hartman
and cousin, Bill Banks, called at |.
Newsome' s store Monday.
Frank Ellis called on his best girl
Sunday evening.
jeff HARDWOOD and Willie Sexton
were at the Ferry Saturday evening
Ed Newsom and his brother, James,
have their new house nearly finished.
Ed and his wife and children are GO
| ing to move here the last of this week.
| We are glad that they will move here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arch Peabody and ba-
| by and his mother will be here to see
Mr.. and Mrs l. Newsom next Sunday
week, coming by the steamer, John
| Patten' from Bridgeport.
| Mrs. T. White called on Mrs. l.
Newsom Friday.
Life is full of countless hours,
And every path is strewn with flowers;
But turn on me your loving eyes
And then I'll see paradise.
Blue-eyed Boy.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
Caroline Chapel.
So clai TO ne Mas

So cal TO ne Mas.
We are having some nice weather
now as the beautiful spring is coming
and the people are enjoying themselves
now.
Allen McNabb gave an enjoyable
party Saturday night and if you want
to see Frank Ellis blush ask him how
many girls did he say snapped him and
he was run so much ne asked if they
wouldn't please stop the clock and let
him run the girls while, for his best
girl Just had until nine O'Clock to
play.
Ask Mrs M H.. of Roope, and
Mrs. IL j." if they enjoyed their
flowers Saturday night and how many
mills of coffee they said TO grind.
think it was four. for they could hard
ly keep their eyes open.
Guess Who
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
CAROLINE CHAPEL.

SpsciGl 10 The Ne7OS
Arch Billings called on Miss Ruth
Griffith Sunday afternoon.
J. H. Privett and Arthur Evans
made flying trip to Victoria one day
last week.
Walter Billings was out looking for
girl Sunday afternoon
Charlie Long and Toby Ricarls were
out horseback riding Sunday.
Arthur Evans went up the road Sat
urday with banjo.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Billings visit
ed J. 7. Billings Saturday and sun
day.
Willis Lewis and Lee Gates went
down the road Sunday.
Come on, "Pink and Rose, :" for we
like to hear from you both.
Walter Pitman was out horseback
riding Sunday. Bill Dooley.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
Bunker Hnl.

Speeidl 70 the Mt7O5.
| want to say TO 81. g.. at East
land, know you well. do not de-
fend these whiskey rings at all, for |
believe that they are one of the worst
curses that our government could have
put before the people in the way they
have got it, but do dispute that any
whiskey dealer has starved any woman
or child ON earth. Do not blame some
one for what do myself No, accord
ing to your statement, if go to hell
you are to blame and not |. Now,
isn't it true if man will not drink
whiskey that he will remain sober so
if he drinks and gets drunk blame
him, not the seller | tell you that
some of our merchants are selling as
unfair goods as the whiskey seller, and
at high price. Stop the whiskey sell
ing in Tennessee and the money that
is spent for it will go to some other
state, and that is not all. Our cities
will go down and it will be harder on
the laboring man in these cities. 1t
takes so much tax to keep up the city
tax, and the laboring man pays one
dollar year in Chattanooga, and |
believe the whiskey seller has to pay
fourteen dollars city tax. Now, when
the saloons are closed out, labor will
have it all to pay. 1t is this way in
Tennessee. You grab up these sim
lin headed lawyers and send them to
make laws, and what do they do.
Nothing in favor of the laboring man.
They are for self and the money. II
they are for labor why not pass law
prohibiting any incorporated company
in the state from working any labor
except organized labor so labor can
compete with capital2, That is what
we neel IN Tennessee and all other
states, but laboring men are against
one another, knowing at the same
time that the money power gets its in
come through labor. have toiled in
mines and blacksmith shops all my
life, and the money gods have gobbled
it up and | have now been disabled
from work for three years. Will the
T. G. l. e. r. R. Co help mef help
ed them about fifteen years. No, they
do not want me even to walk on their
land and whyH Simply because | am
too sound for them. If l would suck
around them and was able to work
would get job, but I would starve to
death before would have that degrad,
ed principle in me. | have union
brothers all over the world.
A certain preacher said he wanted
to get up at four O'Clock one morning.
So in the night, he woke up and out he
came, yelled for his wife, kindled the
fire and to the barn he went and fed
and came back. His wife cried out
breakfast, in he went and after he
ate he looked at the clock and it was
only two in the morning. He still
wanted an early start so he got uL
again at four that morning in big
hurry, and cried out breakfast. "
He went and fed and came back and
grabbed up paper and his wife CRIED
out, Its ready" Up he jumped anC
went to wash and ran against the ban
listers. Down on the floor he went,
flat on his back with balls of fire flash
ig from his eyes, and the blood run
ing down. l bet he thought his wife
had hit him with the shovel.
"New Writer" Of Cedar Spring,
come out to see us. Tell Jack Hollo
way "Uncle Blue is still a unior
man and will die the same way.
Uncle Blue.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
RATHER FRANK.

A lecturer asked leading citizen of a
country village:
show do you think lecture by me
on Mount vesuvius would suit the PEG
pie of your town."
VERY well inde-d,sir," was the reply,
"a lecture by YOU on Mount Vesuviu,
would suit them much hotter than a
lecture By you in this village"
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18
Revolts Al Cold Steel

Your only hope" said three doc
tors to Mrs NJ. L. Fisher, Detroit,
Mich, suffering from severe rectal
trouble. lies in an operation. then /
used DIR. Kings New Life Pills. she
writes, 'till wholly cured. They
prevent Appendicitis. cure Constira-
ton, Headache. 95c nc Whitwell Drug
Cos
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18

Tue superintendent OF streets in
Cleveland recently summoned to his
an Irish officer TO whom he said: cit is
reported To me that there is dead dog
on Horner street ] want you to its dis
position"
"Yis, sorr." said the suhord nate.
In hglf an hour the lrlshma tsleph-
oned hi. chief as follows: II have made
inquiries bout the dogs disposition,
and tind thst II was a savage one. s.
Lippin ',u', Magazine.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-02-18

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- can be obtained at this Office or
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The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08

who has beached great ships to keep
them out Of the ice at Nome and st.
Michael, was chosen to do the work. He
bid on the undertaking and lost. but
when 1T came to doing the actual work
he was the man for the job.
The tug Pilot towed the Gjoa out
through the heads and to a point 500
yards south of the Cliff house, where
1T was to be beached. There the
Pilot dropped anchor among the white
caps and waited for developments.
Captain Norman Nelson and eight
men from the Golden Gate life saving
station pulled out through the surf.
making spectacular showing for the
delighted crowd and took back four
inch hawser from the Gjoa. To the
end of this was fastened a five inch
steel cable. which was hauled ashore
and fastened TO a dead man." buried
deep in the sand.
Captain kits eard meanwhile was
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
SG1I-7IE 70 7171S SEA TT7z7oI .SzE AOW0<aED

years. They saiIed from Moray on
the night OF June IT. 1908. lighting
against head seas to Greenland, where
at Dalrymple island, they found pro-
visions which had been taken in ad-
vance by Arctic whalers.
Proceeding then in the long sum
mer day to Barclay island, the CON-
pass Indicated that they had passed
above the magnetic pole, and Amund-
sen felt certain for the first time that
he would be able to locate that elusive
spot. if the ice only broke toward the
southwest. which, according 10 the
currents. it was bound to do.
August % the foes opened and the
Gjoa drifted among them toward
Prescott island, where. at Peel sound
the compass. all in a futter at the
proximity to the pole. failed absolutely
Then they steered by the stars.
Before the short summer passed and
the packs froze solid again. they
reached King Williams land at Iati-
tude IS minutes 81 seconds. which
Amundsen decided must be near the
magnetic pole. To get there they had
gone with the currents, saving their
fuel and letting the great sloop sail
catch the sharp breezes off the TOP
of the earth. The icebergs and enor-
nous floating islands of ice, they
slipped through, would have caught
its very smallness, escaped. The voy-
age was full of exciting incidents, but
to men used to hard conditions, they
were but little bit worse than the
rest.
Frozen tight on King Williams land
they set about their scientific re-
searches without giving thought to the
precarious position they occupied and
the uniqueness OF their quest 1t took
two years absolutely to satisfy the de-
mands of exact science. and during that
time they were busy. That saved them
Even at that their tempers grew SHARP
and the north was beginning to break
them down, as it does all white mer
who remain too long. when they agair
cast OF to drift with the currents
through the wonderland OF icebergs
and ice foes to the westward. Again
they escaped constantly threatening
perils, slipping at last into more oper
water and to the farthest point reached
by the San Francisco whaIers. Or
! August 2s. 1905, they met with the
whaler Charles Hansen. Captain Nc.
Kenna, and with her they spent the
winter at Hersohei island, beyond tn.
mouth of the Mackenzie river.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08

taught it's builders that the short,
stocky boat, thick in the waist can
better live through a gale than any
craft that floats. Batten it down and
the wind may jerk the very mast out of
IL, but it will roll on unhurt below.
The very crudity of it's build, the
harshness of the lines and the lack of
all attempt at comfort above or below
decks, is the most striking thing about
this small sloop that did what no other
boat has ever done. The donors should
always use their influence to keep it
as it is. Paint must be laid on to
preserve it, but let the stained and
handworn fo'cstle remain.
Humble in appearance as it is, the
Gjoa has been loaded with honors, par
ticuIarly when il first arrived on
october 10. 1906 When Consul General
Lund presented it to the city recently
Mayor Taylor and many prominent
citizens came to receive it with due
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08

there yet It is IN the very timbers
and it tells Of strong men who went
out, not that they cared about the
magnetic pole or the northwest pass
age, but because their quest was some
thing that it took brave men to do.
Steamed into the very oak of the Gjoa,
to remain there until it falls to pieces,
their spirit will live.
Having made the famous voyage Of
discovery. the Gjoa had come to a part
OF the world where there were no wild
seas to demand a ship of its strength
and build. 1t would not have been
profitable 10 work IT. So it lay
half forgotten until the Norwegian
people of San Francisco made of 1t
a monument to daring. II 1t had
eyes to see, as I am sure it has
sense to feel the proximity of the ocean
and the barrier of sand between-it
could look out to sea on clear days
and watch the lumber schooners going
south as 1T used to do. but under far
different conditions. No such high
deckloads could have lived through
the seas to which it was used. No
smooth water slipped along under its
forefoot
1t looks fat and clumsy, not nearly
so graceful as the trim schooners which
carry the lumber along the Pacific
coast. but long experience with the sea
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08

rising waters and by the time high
tide came at night they were able to
put skids under it. preventing 1t from
sinking in the sand.
1t required 4S hours of almost con-
slant work to bring 1t into shallow
used. So far it had come head on,
but it was now more convenient to
swing its stern around so that it lay
side on to the beach, as If cast up by
a hurricane.
An inclined plane of heavy timbers
had meanwhile been built up to the
level of the boulevard with a donkey
engine at each side. So. careened over
to one side, the Gjoa was lifted
slowly up by jackscrews and rollers,
taking weeks time in all to traverse
200 feet. 1t was used to slow progress
among ice foes, but, even then, II
never rose 40 feet above the levep of
the sea. as it did on her overland jour
ney. The feat of lifting $50 ton
ship Is no small one.
The most difficult trick in the land
ing of the Gjoa," Captain Klitgaard
said afterward in discussing the in
land cruise. was to choose the right
moment to cast off from the tug. The
tide changes so quickly that a few
minutes makes all the difference in
the world. By watching the seal
rocks I could tell when the tide rip
turned south; then 1 gave the signal
But even in the space of FIVE minutes
between the time we cast off from the
tug and before we hit the beach the
tide from running strong to the north
was already pulling us to the south
Five minutes later we would have
been pulled 200 yards further south
before we could have beached It,"
Her Last Resting Place
Once on the boulevard it was COM
paratively easy to move it across and
let it down into the hollow where it
is to rest until 1t leaves its last rib.
Nansen's arctic ship Fran, said OF
the Gjoa, when Amundsen was fitting
it out for the exploring expedition
that he considered 1t the stoutest
vessel he had ever seen with the ex-
ception OF the Fran.
Amundsen bought the sloop out OF
his own savings from hard life at
sea, but Nansen and King Oscar, as
we'll as many others. contributed to
scientific instruments and plenty oi
coarse, wholesome food to last five
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08

but 1t did not advance half a cables
length toward the beach before it hit
the bottom with a jar that shook it's
frame. On the next wave 1t lifted,
moved and grounded, and again it
lifted, and then 1t was question of
pulling with heavy cable. as the sand
swirled around its keel in the already
fast receding tide.
Two hours later it was standing in
a few feet of water and nothing more
could be done until the next tide. AS
the water receded even farther it did
not careen. but settled upright on it's
keel in the sand.
That night the big work had to be
done. In heavy fog. with the sirens
whistling plaintively, they lifted it
foot by foot to the dry beach, so that
in the morning it lay two ships
lengths nearer shore. Again that
afternoon advantage was taken of the