Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-05-25
Third District.
Speaal to tie Mt7os.


Davis was one of Marion County's no
spected by all that ever formed &C
quaintance with him. We regret with
the keenest of pain in our hearts t.
have to lose such good and noble an6
useful man as JAS X. Davis from
among our midst. He leaves two
brothers, R. E. Davis, of Sulphur
Spring, and William Davis, of Arkan
sas, to mourn his loss. All the upper
end of the county Join in extending
heartfelt sympathy to the entire Davis
family.
Uncle Billie Harris is getting quite
feeble of late years. He is one among
the old pioneers of the valley. It's
Just a matter of time that all the ole
union soldiers that fought to save this
great union of ours, will be laid tC
rest in the land of the free and the
home of the brave. 1t makes me fee
proud, indeed, to know that we have
G. A R. Post and at Sequachee, ano
to see that body decorating old sold
iers' graves and to see a flag placed on
my fathers grave, and am proud that
l know what it means. But, DEAF
comrades, it won't be long until you
will meet each other at your q. A. K.
Post for the last time as far as this
old, unfriendly world is concerned, for
tell you you are going one by one SC
fast. Just few more tieeting years,
and you will all be gone. 1t makes my
heat ache and my eyes fill with tears
when l look back over the field of the
dead and count up the number that
have passed to the sweet bye and be-
yond in the last 10 years that could
name to you. OF any class of people |
do like to honor, it's the old soldiers of
the late civil war of both blue and
grey, if they Gid politically differ. l
am one of these kind of boys that new
er get so smart but what an old sold
Ter that passed thru the late civil war
can teach me something by listening
to his experience of what he has to
tell me, and what he had to undergo
dnring war times. This history from
experience is better and greater than
artificial history to me, and l always
pull my hat from my head in honor
and submission to them.
l see ex-Gov. John |. Cox is the
leading star now down at Nashville in
the great law making power of our
state. He sure is applying the pure
turpentine to the absconding state CO.
aIition and we want to know just
what benefit they are to the people of
the state anyway. This move ON the
part of the ruLaways has made bad
record in Tennessee politics that will
go down in history, that will rise up
against the perpetrators throughout
ages to come. 1t will be an elephant
in the path of those that are guilty
for any Office in Tennessee. can't
believe Gov. Hooper is connected with
this runaway move in anyway. He
surely is too sharp man to get hob
bled up and caught in such net as
this and spoil his race for the guber.
Material chair the End term. Let him
declare their offices vacant, and either
order a special election or otherwise
shut the entire Legislature for the full
term, and openly declare Tennessee
has no legislation, and is absolutely
without representation from start to
finish, and what else can be said of
such band of political buccaneers as
we have ON hand just now. Just few
of our newspapers of Tennessee are
laying up in the gap with them and
sustaining their outrage on public
business. The question is, can any
thing be done to get quorum assem-
bledT If not, why not, and when will
this trouble come to an end2 We vot-
ed for Gov. Hooper and we will not
doubt him in the least until further
cited of non official performance of du-
ty, and we will speak out loud on the
great issue now pending the action of
our present elected representatives and
their advisers and managers and poll
tics, if famed in public administra-
ton, shall at once be cut entirely out,
and let the old ship of state go Keeling
and rocking on, and quit leaking and
dipping water.
The famous law suit, Ridge VS..
Esqs. Harris and Holloway May 81. at
1 o'clock. This is an attempted muir
der case, Atty. White is for defend
ants and Atty. Morrison for plaintiff
and state. White continued this case
and said he wanted the heat
of passion to quiet down, that it was
always the best in murder case that
the evidence allowed to the benefit of
the defendant
The case of trespass on real estate by
W. F. Simpson charged by Hense
Layne, is set for hearing May 26th.
White and Morrison are the leading
lights in this case
Joe Griffith of Whitwell, was arrest
ed last week on warrant sworn out :
in Sequachee county ON the charge of
fraud and conspiracy in the sale of
horse. Case waived to grand jury and
bond given.
J. D. Ridge was arrested to day on
a warrant charging him with indie
cent and immoral conduct in public
place and in the presence of his neigh
bors' wives and children by standing
a jack in public view until it became
a public nuisance White and Morri-
son are the appointed attorneys All
get ticket to the big show which
opens at l O'Clock and closes at 5.
Special rates on reserved seats.
Jas. Fl. Bailey, who got stroke at
the T. G l. Co. mines with electric
wires, while working in the shop as
is not doing any good,
and we fear it will terminate in some
thing serious. Jim is an extraordin-
airy good man. Representative.