Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-08-31
Third District.

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Tie law bus;u s. i, up and on board
agnin a welm unlawf' detainer
} suit has ben tho is=r. of thl Cay for a
week or more betwc J. NJ. Thomas
IN wife VS.. Mary Pickett to get POI
session of house AMI lot deeced to
Mrs Tnomas hy Jesse Pickett, de-
yeasel. ~. Il White was the attorn-
ey for plaintiffs, J. ". Morrison, at
to-ney for dtfeudent. Judgement for
| plaintiff
There was cutting ARRAY led
here Friday and rock duel between
John Ballard and Bill Graham and son
in which it is said old man Ballard is
cut and bruised NJ right sharply, but
! not fatally hurt There are some war
rauts out but trial Is not set yet.
| Don't know who will probably be the
leading lights in this law suit, but
who ever the burden falls on will have
a hot box indeed to deal with, as there
is likely to spring up few things of
a sensational nature.
came very near locking horns yester-
day over some advice given to c. J.'s
wife to 90 home, who had been sepal
ated some two months and had at
temped to have her hu,band arrested
and put under a peace bond before she
entered his home, ard court failed to
sustain her in this action. Her men
tai faculties seem over balanced some
way. She is sister of Cebe johnson,
of near Jasper. .
Ny wife and son and daughter in
law disturbed me while writing. They
said within 200 yards Of the house
there was bunch of opossoms feast
ing on some muscadines they had spot
ted during the day, aud they said
while you write we will take the dogs
and 90 down to the pond and land
them So in about Is minutes they
came boiling right in the room where
| was writing with two big 'possoms
by the tail and held them up and said,
''Look here if You don't believe we
landed them Yes" said |, lyon
are fixing now to get yourselves and
those two old rossoms written up in
the News for disturbing me in my
business, for tell you now | write up
everything like that I see or hear
about of local nature, and if you
don't retire with your game viii be
writing up our conversation. l only |
write this tU remind other 'pos'om |
hunters that they are not known in
the race.
One of the old News correspondents
from Texas will be here with his dogs
on Sept Z, Mr.. Joe Hackwortb, to
take another big mountain hunt with
We writer and few select frienGs, We
are to go to Walden's Ridge near
Montlake well supplied and equipped
for4he occasion, to be gone 8 days, so
yofreaders may look and expect a
short history of this hunt to appear in
the News. As Joe was raised here
and has been gone for many years we
want to make his visit pleasant and |
long to be remembered as be is type |
of Washington. He likes to ramble /
over the wild wood with his dogs and
kill few deer now and then. Joe is
great sportsman. IS
Henry Pickett and family have tenn
porarily moved to Walden's Ridge for
few months to log for the Grandview
Coal and Timber Co.
Robt. and Frank Pickett have gone
to Cumberland Mountain to cut timber
for a stavr mill, new enterprise set
up out there from Kentucky, and do
ing an extensive business. They have
built number of houses and are ex-
pecting to do successful business and
are giving employment to number OF
Valley boys Ye writer has been out
there and has noticed an important
feature in their business They have a
boring machine by which they have
have bored /, 600 feet and have now
got what is called an artesian well
with water spouting up hundred feet
high and there is fine mineral spring
right by this we'll and is as fine as the
state affords The company is expect
ing to build hotel and has already
got store aud company stable built,
and they are expecting to make that
place a summer resort and noted
place for the sick, and pretty soon will
add to our county another town and
the resort will be called Cumberland
Hotel and Mineral Springs.
have just been figuring on the cost
of wild cat whisky, One gallon will
fill 10 or 1 short pints, and they sell
it at Zoe pei pint. bottle included, and
they add one half gallon OF water to
each gallon, which makes total of Is
shor pints. They make oat of each
gallon, at 60c per pint, bottle included,
a total of 80. co. The net profit to the
wild CATER is s.. per gallon for
which he got 81 90 for half gallon of
clear waiter, or at the rate Of 81 per
gallon for clear water, which pays for
hi wnisky bill ct the wild cat still,
which leaves him clear after all bills
are paid with water, $500 clear profit
with no revenue or taxes to pay. This
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