Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-04-15
Third District.
.Speeial 10 TIE M7gs.


Or. N. w. BlalOek, Of Chattanooga,
is visiting G. W. White this week.
Twas ont the other night and as two
boys came through a cut off l gave
one Of them "Whistling Jack" lips.
Oh my country, how they dug down.
tried 10 make myself known 10 them
bat l made a complete failure, and
they were at the house long before
-gotthere just the same. No, damage
done except few hriar scratches.
Joe Pickett is moving 10 Whit
this week to dig coal. He is profess
sional miner.
George Layman, of Cumberland
mountain is moving to the Pickett
property here this week to cultivate
Joe's farm while he digs coal. Mr.
Layman is one of the old type that
plows late and deep. and makes corn
to sell and corn to keep.
John Dempsey and Joe Holloway are
peeling bark on the side of Walden
Ridge.
julius Pickett has last three sorrel
mule colts on the mountain. They
went from the Anderson sailing ground
near the Suck.
A. d. Thomas & Sons have bought
out the A. w. White farm by decree
of court sale for the heirs of the de-
ceased.
Gillian Barker has moved from
Whitwell back to his old home near
his fathers mansion.
DR.. Elijah Grayson, the star root
specialist, was here Sunday on bust
ness.
We had a square mess of fish and
poke sallit Sunday. Oh hush your
fuss Get away, 'lasses, you have a
last years taste.
G. w. White and T. B. Saynes have
killed two 'Whistling Jacks this
week, and from all report they hav'
been eating them. They measure q.
to 3 feet from tip to tip. History
from time immemorial fails to recort
any case of such fowl ever being 10
Gated in this part of the country. The!
are getting very numerous here in tn
uplands and old sage fields. They d.
look funny with their long necks ant
large bills sticking up out of the grass
but there is one good thing about thi
strange fowl, powder and shot will
f sure kill them if you have stead
nerve and will only hold your gun O.
the object, and can keep your hal
from pushing off your hat.
DR.. N. W. Blalock is taking off
number of scab cancers and wen Of
of Mrs Robt N. White, and is doin
a thorough and complete job. d.
4 Blalock, is cancer specialist and
the father of the editor of the Dunla
i Tribune.
We are glad to note in the New
r that that portion of Marion Count
lying north and west of the Tennessee
n river. is entirely released from ii
quarantine law. That is the yer
:, thing / have been advocating an
fighting for all along the line.
o There is rumor around here th;
two old helpless invalids are about
y marry. Their ages rang from IS
70. Just what will become of them
n question.
E. G. Cowles, of Dunlap, was visi
ing the home of W. H. White Satu
l. day and Sunday.
d am ready to plant corn this wee
I believe by the time it comes up Il
a frost will be thing of the past.
wish some writer would give Il
10 the whereabouts of cold Blue" as
can't locate him. He might have a
Ks cidentaly died because he couldr
live. You know life is very unce
IN tain and death is sure to come
" What has become of a number
friends of the News in the persons
le correspondents. / miss their articl
and get very lonesome these days VIII
= I pick up the News and fail to Fl
to their communications. Will tn
please hand in the news next we
ne and not wait for mo to have to vi
lie them and investigate just what is I
a delay. They might be court martial
in sorghum court and sent to Ora,
IN Ridge and compelled to reside wi
r. the hill billies and that 'Whistli
Jack" two whole years before bel
IT. allowed to change their residence.
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