Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-09-14
Third District.
Sssaal,o ne Nrags.

tional nature Russell Ashburn ha
received some word from Glen, hi
brother, that the Smith brothers wer
mad at him but the proof showed tina
Glen refused to tell Russell the natur
of the case, and Russell said, 81 will
20 and. see your wife and see what j
the matter" So be went down to hi
brothers. house and asked his wife t
explain the trouble, but it seemed
from tue proof displayed AT trial tina
Glen's wife became very Indignant
and unruly. and made sashaway a
Russell, and it seemed almost an i'm
possibility for him to make his escape
and be got somewhat out of order,
and as she came he laid her low in the
shade with bis fist by knocking her to
her knees, and shut her off in her mad
career, and made a very nice little
black place under one of her eyes. He
was arrested and submitted to assault
and battery in ESQ. Holloway's court,
and was cleverly fined $95. 90 and costs,
and went away very well pleased. ].
W. Morrison was attorney for defend
eut. 7 didn't hear Jim say how he
liked the court s sentence.
One year ago we had the great tick
law and tick eradication up here with
a number Of tick inspectors, and it is
said they wiped the ticks all from the
face of the earth, but what about the
pink eye that follows in the tick re-
gion: killing two to one of any prior
tick infection that ever existed here
tofore in the history of this part of the
country. If you know any remedy for
a permanent cure of this dreadful NAL
ady called pink eye, let us have it. |
have been looking over the field of pol
itics, and / fear this pink eye disease
has very near got into the eyes of our
leaders in politics. and if some remedy
isn't applied to them, they will go
blind as dog in meat house, and
are absolutely without doubt getting
to point along this line where it is
not safe for us to follow them any fur
ther, for don't think they have any
flag to stick in their band wagon any
longer. The very men that the two
DID political parties had on the band |
wagon some three years ago, and who |
cheered so loud until they strained |
jjinsis throats, are now speechless and
1umb.
/ regret very much to pen the death
Of the infant son of Lewis Layne.
which was about six months old. l
AN also sorry to note that his wife is |
very low. Hope she will soon recover.
She has been very feeble for quite a
while. Mr. Layne is good man and
we tender our sympathy to him and
lis family.
We are also sorry to record the death
If Grandma McGowan, who died of
lancer of the face, here Friday, and
was inferred at the Walker cemetery.
She was the widow of the late Pat Nc
4owan, and the mother of Henry Nc
1owan, Kate Hooper and Mary Mosier
# Whitwell. Mrs. McGowan had re-
ided at Whitwell for many years, and
vas known by all.
Mrs. Maliard, wife of Silas Mallard,
lied at Shirleyton Friday, and was
Inferred at Red Hill cemetery.
There seems to be great deal of
ickness up here. 1t seems to be caus-
d by the hot weather, which is the
ottest I ever experienced in the
Month of September.
Ye writer is on big turkey and
auirrel hunt on.Walden Ridge with
)r. N. B. Moore and J. E. Condra.
We pitched our tent at Anderson
prings, and went over in Marshall's
'ork and we had an old time hunt.
Re landed three nice turkeys and four
cen SQUIRRELS the first day and that
light got six opossoms, two coons and
ne ground hog. Next day we got two
arkeys, 10 squirrels, 3 ground hogs,
owls, 10 woodhammers. and 2
agles, but doubted them being
agles. w. E. Shelton has given us
sport of strange animal he has seen
d Walden's Ridge, and tomorrow is
le day set to hunt this strange ami
Ial, and if we succeed in capturing it
will give the News readers full
STORY and description of it. Mr.
helton declares that it is as large as
large size sheep with three large
es, about four inches long on its
ont feet and one large one behind .
le same as the front ones with long /
avs. He says it has a long tail like 6
monkey and has head shaped like
bull, and its body is long and very :
und and had "a few feathers on its
gs, and had had wings of some kind, {
I'd was sitting on dead topped pine I
ee with its tail curled around limb,
I'd it had such clinch in the wood :
it'll its claws that it actually broke :
1t part of the top of the pine tree.
l. Shelton is the authority for the a
nth of this statement. Further he a
i'd he went home and examined
brary of books and photographs of
! kinds of animals and fowls to see
he could locate the strange creature
saw and told us about, but failed
find anything like it, Tomorrow l