Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-03-10

G. W. Carey. Of Whitwell, was herr
Saturday.
VIM. Lee lost a valuable heifer this
week
A base ball team is mentioned tol
this place this season.
]. w. Scofield left Monday for Mem
phis on a business trip.
Farming has been going on at a live
ly step these days. The weatner na'
been ideal
E F. johnson, county court CLERK
was on the train Tuesday evening en-
route to Whitwell.
Standifer Bennett lost fine COW this
week, death supposed to have beer
caused by eating ivy,
Newton Fultz suffered the loss OF
valuable COW this week, through eat
ing poisonous vegetation.
Bryon Bennett went to Jasper sun
dav TO see his best friend-the doctor
since his hand got hurt
s. G. Chaudoin, of Jasper, candidate
for County Court Clerk against H. n
Johnston, was here today.
The Seouatchie Handle Works ship
ned several cars of lumber to the CARD
Lumber Co., Chattanooga, this week
Born to Postmaster and Mrs. Chas
Curtis Tuesday morning, big repub
lean. This makes the third republican
to make its appearance at their home
John Henderson is building Broom
cottage on his lots in South Sequachee
W. S. Pryor and Mathew Pryor are
the carpenters
G. A. Quarles, candidate for regis
trar, was here Saturday, returning
from a weeks canvass in the upper
part of the county.
Gardening has been on in full blast
this week, and nearly every man yor
meet drifts around to the question
''Where did you get your potatoes anc
how much did they cost your
NJ. FL. Merritt, of Victoria, wa'
here Yesterday, making arrangements
with the News for the tickets for tht
republican primary. He had just re-
turned from trip to Jasper.
Faroat Bros. show will be at the
Town Hall Saturday night. They were
here last year, but claim they will
present an entirely new program o.
moving pictures, among them some
very new and attractive creations.
When you see an individual bearing
bundle very carefully away from the
depot in the grey dusk, after the ar
rival Of the evening train, carefully
eschewing meeting his fellow citizens,
you can bet anything it is booze ne
bears.
!. G. Wagner returned Thursday
from Cleveland, O., where he has beer
visiting since Jan. |. He left Cleve
land embraced in the arms of Jupiter
Boreas, or the Snow King, although
thaw was getting in it's work, and
coming down here finds the people
planting potatoes, onions, lettuce, ra
dishes, beets. ETC., in the gardens.
Mr.. Wagner had most enjoyable Wis
it, the first time he had been back te
Cleveland in sixteen years. He saw
the Gabel and Milbrandt families
while there, and reported them as be
ing in prosperous circumstances.
A News reporter recently while al
the N. G. & ST. R'y station saw two
men slip in boarding trains, one II
boarding train going south and thu
other one going north, all in the space
of ten minutes Both men caught holt
carefully, but in each case slipped
from the step. The reporter remarked
to Station Agent Hopkins that TIVE
men had slipped that morning, and i
was wonder more were not killed il
boarding trains than were. A disgust
ed look went over the agents face al
he snorted, "Yes, and if some of thu
Young boys who hang around here tt
swing trains don't look out will have
to go out on the tracks with sho'
box to pick up their remains Which
meant, of course, that unless they
stopped swinging trains, some boy wal
going to find out what it feels like tt
be made into sausage meat.