Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-05-02
Caroline Chapel.
TO tie NeWS

! SpefidI 10 TIE NelOS
Well, Mr. Editor, l have found my
old carpenter pencil and some wrap
ping paper to write on, and as | did
mt have any girl to write to l thought
would write to the News, as it has
been so long since wrote any. l got
in my trapping boat Monday morning
and went to my traps. When l got tC
my net had coon caught by the left
hind leg, and by the time / got to my
bank hooks heard a racket up a will
lowtree, and, don't you believe, a
beaver was on my perch hook. !
shook the tree and it jumped out on
me, and / caught it and tied it to my
boat Then l went to my steel trap
and there was seven pound catfish.
By the time gathered my traps all
up and started home the river was all
over the bottoms, and couldn't find a
place close enough to dry land to stop
my boat, so just landed in a drift
and stayed few days.
Well, everything in this part of the
country, is getting along nicely. Ev-
erybody is going to Sunday school ev.
cry Sunday and learning all they can.
j. FL. Privett went to Whitwell Sat-
urday on business.
J. D. Lewis and family attended
Sunday school Sunday.
B. Mitchell passed through hele Sun
day.
Will Griffith of Whitwell, attended
church at Union Grove Sunday.
Gilbert McCurry called to see his
best girl Sunday
Louis Harris attended Sunday school
Sunday.
W. G. Moore and daughter attended
Sunday school Sunday. .-~ ,~~ -.-..
Miss Grace Pitman looked sad Sun
day morning. Wonder why.
Will Ross escorted Miss Nettie
Moore home Sunday.
j. W. Miller sure did enjoy himself
Sunday singing at Sunday school,
Little Roy and Ernest Billingsley
were at Sunday school Sunday.
Misses Stella and Pearl Privett at
tended church Sunday
Charlie Mitchell and Perry Ross
were all smiles Sunday.
John Billingsley is on the sick list
this week
Jim Privett and A. A. Billingsley
made flying trip to the lock and dam
Monday
A. A. Spears visited home folks
Sunday.
Lee Gates, Luke Dame, Willis Lewis
and Jasper Pitman were out horseback
riding Sunday.
l.. L. Billingsley called on his best
girl Sunday evening.
Well, we have been hearing from
alabama Coon" few times.
think l know him and enjoy reading
his pieces We are glad he is not as
stingy about subscribing for the News
was one time. This is story with a
moral He was too stingy to subscribe
for the paper and sent his little boy to
borrow copy from his neighbor. In
his haste the boy ran over "a stand |
Of bees and in ten minutes looked lik
4 warty summer squash. His father |
ran to his assistance, and failing to
notice a barbed wire fence, ran into |
that, cutting handful of flesh from
lis anatomy and running a "a pair of
PANTS The old COW took advantage of
The gap in the fence and got into the
'ornfield and killed herself eating
green corn. Hearing the racket the
wife ran out, upset four gallon churn
ull of rich cream into basket of lit
lie chickens, drowning the entire
latch. In her haste she dropped $25
et of false teeth. The baby, having
'een left alone, crawled through the
piled milk and into the parlor, ruin
ng new $50 carpet. During the ex-
itement the oldest daughter ran away
With the hired man, the dog broke up
leven setting hens, and the calves got
ut and chewed the tails off of four
ne shirts on the clothes line. Now is
be time to subscribe. Fifty cents in
ested In the News for a year may
ave you all this trouble and expense.
Well, the old clock is striking and
'lll have to close, 80 come on, all you .
ood writer's. We sure like to read
our pieces. Blue-eyed Boy. .