Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-04-29
LOCAL.

J. p. Rogers, of Whitwell. was here
ON business Saturday.
W. s. Wilson's cornsheller was taken
down to the Crouch farm below Jasper
Monday.
Robt Owens and wife visited rela-
tives at South Pittsburg last week, go
ing down Friday.
Miss Dora Wall, of South Pittsburg,
visited her cousin, Miss Juliette Hop
kins, one day last week.
The Handle Works resumed work
Monday after shutdown Of three days
last week taking stock.
Mrs Walter Parker, of Sewanee,
has returned home after a visit to her
sister, Mrs d. Hopkins.
Hayden Simpson, Of Jasper, was
here Monday to make some repairs on
g. Sherman's automobile.
Clay Owen was in Tracy City Fri
day and saw Tracy defeat South Pitts
burg in game of ball 8 to 2.
Baling hay is the order of the day at
the Hotel Quincy this week. This is
new article in breakfast food-for
equines.
Mrs. W. A. Station, of Louisville,
KY, spent last week with her hus-
band who is at work here on the
bridge over Little Sequachee river.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Wallace, of
Rochester, N. H., arrived here Tues
day evening Mr. Wallace is largely
interested here, and comes to make his
annual inspection of the management.
John M. Lewis, of Jasper, was here
Saturday, and paid us a pleasant call
He is considerably improved in health,
which we are glad to note. See his
advertisement regarding sweet potato
plants.
The Philomathesian Society of Pryor
Institute, Jasper, will hold its annual
picnic at this place Saturday, May Is,
at the Blowing Spring. There are
about go members of the Society and
number of invited guests will also
be included.
Austin Coppinger reports the pleas.
ure of hauling out Bib trout from
Little Sequachee last week, which
measured IS inches. That's some fish,
and if people would get sense in theil
heads and quit dynamiting the river
there would be lots of just such bis
fellows hauled out.
Hugh Coppinger, of Whitwell, wal
here Friday, and says the Red Men
picnic will be with us on the 18th O.
May. Good Let her come. The Rec
Men lodge is good one and its mem
bers compose the best citizens, and Sc
quachee will be glad to turn over thu
town to the visitors for the day.
D. J. Duffy, of Chattanooga, i
stopping in Coppingerville, staying
with the genial Austin Coppinger
Mr.. Duffy is a great fisherman, ant
we opine he will find lots of sport t.
be obtained on Little Sequachee River
under the guidance of Austin, VIII
knows just where the big fish are. Mr.
Duffy received a 12-ft steel boat b.
freight Thursday with which he will
navigate the waters of Little Sequa
chez, and bring back fish galore
Some of the News force took tim
Friday and Saturday afternoons to tr
to fish in Little Sequachee, but the
are better accustomed to singing typ
than handling fish. Saturday after
noon, however, they found Austi
Coppinger, George Crutchfield an
George Coppinger pulling in the fish a
the Westmoreland ford, and manage
to get up trade which resulted i
fish fry that night. Crutchfield ha
two fine ones, and Austin Coppinge
had another, while George Coppinge
had secured some smaller varieties
Those residing near the river al
mighty fishermen, and their luck ha
been good. Austin Coppinger reporte
fish for breakfast at his house ever
morning last week excepting two
and the Crutchfield family repol
plenty. 1t takes the minnows to q
/ EN-, and it is rather demoralizing t
the constitutions of the minnows, BIT
1 they have to take it.