Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-03-28
Jasper.

SpeaaI 10 tie NzO5.
Four little baby-birds,
CHIPPING In a nest;
Mother, come and warm us
With your downy breast.
Father, come and feed us,
Do not stay away;
Four empty tummies
Are gnawing all the day"
Poor little baby birds,
Chirp until You die;
Your fathers on a woman's hat,
Your mothers in a pie.
The biggest thing in town this
week, excepting some of the hats, was
the two millinery openings. Having
two and a half minutes spare timo Fri
day between a business trip to the
Registers Office and the grocery store,
we divided our time impartially be-
tween the two openings. Mrs. Jack
son and Miss Elizabeth Price deserve
great credit for their decorations. The
whole store was a bower of beauty.
MIR. Tinsley, the wholesale travelling
man, was on hand with his entire line
of pattern hats Miss Scarborough was
present and very busy. The souvenirs
were tiny white and buff chicks, sug-
gestive of Easter and, of course, the
bonnets. Mr.. Tinsley selected for us
a gorgeous creation in yellow and
white as artistic as a sunset or a fried
egg when you are hungry, but on
learning that the price was a hundred
dollars we suddenly remembered that
yellow was very trying to our COM
~plexion. We never admired 800 hats
on 10c faces anyhow. 1t takes an emp
ty head to carry a hat like that.
The whole second floor front Of the
Alley & Vann Brick was given over
to tho millinery art. This is a decid-
ed improvement. Mrs. Chss. Vann
dispensed punch from a huge punch
bowl in one corner Of this art apart
ment. Mrs. Lille Alley occupied a
huge rocker and did so much to make
everyone feel at home, as is her won't
at every kind of social gatherings. She
was assisted in entertaining by Miss
Willie Glide Vanu. Miss Lipps was
here, there and everywhere. While
not on duty Chas. Vapn and Frank
Griffith came up from the regions
below stairs, having in tow Hyatt
Simpson and Will Pope and these gen
tlemen posed at irregular intervals
and looked picturesque and ornament
al. The hats are in great variety of
shapes. There are squares, ~triangles,
quadrilaterals, champagne buckets,
wash pots covered with black velvet
and $50 plumes, draped wash tubs,
hornets nests with ribbons around
them, horses velvet nose bags, rec
tangles, comic sections and mathemati-
cal calculations. The trimmings are
ribbons, ~velvets, lace, vegetables,
cocktails and cherries, fruit, flower
gardens, grass plots and thached roofs,
and miniature parks, straw n hay
aviaries, cemeteries or taxider-
mics or what ever you call the things
birds with the blood
washed off-and lawns and organizes.
The big style hats were not started in
Sequachee Valley, but in Paris. Sc
quachee Valley is above such a thing.
The man who invented the first big
hat was said to have been on a jag.
But in all seriousness we think this is
as pretty a line of hats as ever came
into this valley,
Mrs. N. q. Rogers, who has been
friends and relatives in and
around Jasper, was called Monday to
bedside Of her grandson who is
real low with fever.
j. T. Arledge was in Jasper Mon
lay.
Miss Della Swafford returned home
rom an extended visit to friends and
relatives in Pikeville Monday.
Miss Nora Mccullough spent the day
with Miss Ethel Rogers Sunday.
Mrs W. R. Hinch was in Jasper
Monday shopping.
John Rogers, of near Caroline Cha
bel, was in Jasper Tuesday.
P. Turner was in town talking cleo
ion Tuesday. , !
T. A. Andes was in Jasper Friday.
]. D. Rogers, of Bridgeport, Ala,
visiting his brother here Monday.
Misses Ellen and Ida Graham we're
n town Tuesday. 4
Mr.. s. s. Tate's daughter, Miss Ly-
liza, returned home Tuesday morning {
rom school. .
John Blessings saw mill continues
o turn out large quantities of smooth
Y finished lumber. Mr.. Blessing is a {
He is being assisted by W. j. I
!. Hoge.
Mrs. John Gibson was called to