Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-06-16
Third District.

reading public. / have been engaged
in the tan bark business on the noun
tain, and got above the news of the
valley, hence l failed to report the
locals TO the News Office.
We were shocked to hear of the kill
ing of a young man from Bradley
county at Whitwell by John Condra's
boy. From facts gathered in the case,
the affray occurred over some outsiders
meddling with baseball game which
was in progress. Young Condra called
the crowd on the outside some ugly
names, but didn't apply the words to
any one individual. and the young
man, wilbur Eads. took it for grant
ed that it applied to him, and COM
mitted an assault and battery on young
Condra with his fist by knocking him
down or partially SO. Then Condra
stabbed him in the side. Neither
young Condra or the deceased thought
at that time that he was seriously hurt
until he fell and medical aid was pro-
cured and the wound proved fatal the
following day. The young man died
with statement to his parents and
the reading public and especially to
young Condra. his assailant, that he
didn't want him bothered or prosecu-
ted for the crime. To meet him in
heaven was the last request of the dy-
ing boy. This ARRAY between those
two young boys has caused profound
sorrow on both sides. The deceased
was from noble and highly respected
family of Bradley county. His body
was prepared and carried back there
for burial and was met by his be-
reaved parents at Chattanooga and
carried from there to his home in
Bradley county and laid to rest in his
home cemetery. j. E. Condra, the
father of the boy who slew Eads, is
one of WhitwelIs leading black
smiths and like many other poor, un
fortunate men, has had hard strug
gle through life to raise his boys to
manhood and to avoid trouble, but it
has fallen to his lot to share his part
of the trials and tribulations that be-
fall man in this life. We tender our
sympathy to the bereaved parents of
the deceased and also to Mr.. and Mrs.
Condra over the sad deed of their
young son.
While was up on the mountain SO
high, l got birds eye view of part
of old Sequachee Valley from Dunlap
to Sequachee City and tell you, read
ers, that there is more corn planted
this year than there has been for ten
years past, and this move ON the part
of farmers who are tilling the soil will
get the required answer. It will bring
bread to hundreds of homes that are
destitute of bread to day.
We all enjoyed very much the article
written by Mr.. Barnes, of Washing
ton, D. c. It was sensible and true
and full of comfort.
As went to Whitwell last Monday
! saw a family by the way. ten in
number. six pillow boys, two grown
girls and two old folks. who had stop
ped plows and hoes right in this rainy
and weedy weather to have graphic
phone entertainment. am a dear
lover of music, but 1 don't indorse
that for such as that would break up
j. Gould and would cause all Sequa-
chez Valley to howl and cry for bread
jules Pickett has closed his timber
contract with Robert Marshall & Co.,
at the cable incline at the Suck, and
moved back to the valley and took a
bark contract with White and Layne,
and will start his wagon and teams to-
day.
Robert j. White, of Tatesville, was
here this week to see his mother, Mrs.
Robert N. White, and left here to at
tend the Odd Fellows Lodge at New
Hope, where he is a member.
Times are as hard up here as they
were during the civil war, and the
prospect is that it's getting worse ev-
cry day. There are more people up
here getting in debt this year than
ever was known before. There ane
more mortgages executed and liens
given this year than ever appeared on
the records and history of the
country before. We are about to drift
into adoption of the system that's in
force in the Cotton Belt, where the
mortgage system is in full force, where
one bale of cotton at maturity is
dumped off to the land, one dumped off
to the merchant, one to the doctors
and nothing to the producer nor any
thing left at home for wife and child
en-, SO look out, boys, sleep at night
with one eye open or you will have to
sing that old song that your daddy
sang, "Good bye, wife and potato
PATCH
Thank you, Mr.. -. g., of East
land, for calling my attention to my
negligence of duty. I promise to do
better in the future.
w. 81. White has got three daugh-
ters-in-law now and they are all Cop
pingers. He said tell Austin Coping
Or that potatoes just now we're too
nigh priced among the bloods and to
Just say what he pleases and he would
back him to the fullest extent of the