Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-05-02
Third District.

of farming Just now. If part of oul
state in the western division should
fail to get in its crops this year on &C
count of the high water, 1t will be
fair warning to US that we should ado
a little more t. our crops and try tC
make enough to supply u people, II
possible, for next year is going to be d
scratcher and if our part of the coun-
try should fail what shall
we expect to look to for u support
next year How long can You stand
the present prices Are You stltt
enough to hold your families Is
months longer under the present con
ditiOns3 If not, now is the time and
the proper time to fight the earth to
ave the country. If you do have to
resort to the bull weed patch to make
your crops On, il is better than none
at all. | have known thousands of
bushels of corn made on bull weeds
and stock looked we'll at the end. 1t is
up to the people now. Hand times are
knocking at our doors, and worse is
ahead, just coming around tho curve,
and will SURF strike you, and can you
manage to dodge itY Have you tgur-
ed IN it any. If you haven't now Is
the time to drive old Gray.
l want to warn all my friends that
there is going to be more people get
poisoned this spring III eating polk
sallit than ever before. Why Be
cause they won't have enough lard to
kill the poison, and on top of this the
democrats up here have all gone hog
wild over thei1 candidate, Beepe, for
Trustee of Marion. He seems to be
their choice for the nomination of
their party. Now, boys, don't forget
to bear in mind that | will be on hand
this pop in your t%raficking and trad
ing and dealing with the republican
party. Touch the key note very light
for fear you wake me and stir up a
hornets nest You can't whip out. L
will give you fair warming now in
time of peace, that you can't deal with
my party as though you were handling
stock, as has been lone in days gone
by. | will appear always when a
trade is on to figure on the price.
Honesty and a square deal is all we
ask, and that you may bet your boots
we are going to demand.
There was a high water block up in
the mail delivery OF Route No |. Sat-
urday from some cause. We failed to
fully understand the situation, but
John Cowan's horse got snagged in the
breast neal Dry Creek and he was
forced to return to head quarters with
the East Side mail.
Miss Louella Bull is the best equip
ped and the most suitable and exper-
fenced mail clerk that has ever served
the public in the postoffice at Whit
we'll, and nobody can file any com-
plant against her. She is energetic,
quick to put up the mail, and quick to
pass it out to the people and full salts
faction is expressed by the entire pub
lie.
l can't get my little democratic bull
ly, Jimmy Price, over there at the T.
G. /. Co, to talk any more. He abso-
lutely refuses to reveal his opinion in
any way as to how he expects to man
age the next democratic campaign in
the county. Now, look here, boy, you
don't want to be trying to fool with
in that light for, son, you have got
a great elephant to ride and a oun
tain to climb before you overtop this
political campaign and reach the vale
down below.
There is my old reliable friend, s.
L. Havron. He won't hardly speak
since the primary. He seems to real
ize the situation that l knew what l
was talking about beforehand when l
said that Cantrell would be the prize
winner in the field for the contest for
the sheriff's race. Now. l will thank
you very kindly in advance if you can
f~oretell me who will be the prize win
in your democratic ranks.
Let me call your kind and undivid-
ed attention to IL political fact as
you scan yer my article, and that is
this: Green P. Layne and w. L.
Barber are the contesting candidates
for the Board of Education of the up
per end of Marion County. They are
both good men. Mr.. Layne is running
the democratic ticket and MI. Bar
Der is running on the independent tic
ket, non-political. They are placed
before you as a target for you to shoot
gust, 80 1 will notify you all to get
your guns ready on that day to fire
and cross fire on nj or the other con
testant. Their politics hang as a star
in the East or rs the comet with a tail
to it that hangs in the west. 1t is Wis
ible to the natural eye. 1t is left en-
tirely with the people to pass on.
When I began to write this article |
know what to say, but now I
have plenty to write about. There Is
q rain and wind storm on now and 1t
has swept down the best of the upper
end Of the county and has flooded this
section and has washed away |
and ruined hundreds Of crops already
and is, indeed. a sad and heart
;ickening condition. The situation !
and present condition of u people |
Just now looks as though we will get
IN the same boat as the people in the
.ow lands of West Tennessee. I pray
may escape the point where the
state and government will have to
render assistance and relief to the peo-
pie, or else they perish. just a few
more weeks and it will be too late to
raise a crop on the uplands and to
Iook out on the present situation to.
day is discouraging to all, the coun-
Try flooded, the backwater frogs hol-
.ering all owe the land, ven out on
;he uplands. The people as a majority
Ire out of COIN and hay to feed their
stock. Got no corn wherewith to
make their bread, no money to buy
any more with, and not even an acre
If land plowed yet towards making q
crop and back water today is stand
ing from three to five feet deep on
hundreds of crops in the bottoms, and
jhe water in the mines has about got
;he miners disheartened. There are
80 r,oAar r,nD;nn ont tho aldo |