Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-10-23
UNCLE TOMS LETTER


Well done, thou good and faithful
servants, we send you our greeting,
and compliments and thank you fol
the law bills Won have given unto us.
We as citizens can show our apprecia.
ion bess by seeing that our officers ex,
eeute and enforce the laws. We be-
lieve now we can abate all nuisances
so it will be a pleasure to live in this
old world. believe recruits for the
saloons, gambling dens, and houses OF
vice will cease aud our children are
not going to be sacrificed any more.
Let us enforce every law we have and
let morality and christianity triumph
from Carter to Shelby. I've no apollo
gies to make for the stand l have tax.
en-.
Thanks to the Tullahoma Guardian
for its complimentary references to
Judge Erwin L. Davis. The bootleg
ger breads the judge
The MOrristown Sun seems to have
come into contact with a spray of to-
bacco juice in a street car and rather
rejOices in the fact that there is hell.
| expect there is lady in Tracy City
that is also glad of the same thing, as
she bad her dress badly soiled on Shad-
rick Hill at meeting one night by a
tobacco fiend
| am wondering what is the next ar
gument the lawless element will pro-
duce to help them evade the law.
| don't know whether Miss Tucker,
whose marriage ] reported is disgrunt-
led or not If she is l beg to apollo
gize and wish it was So Charlotte
hints it may be soon AS to Frank, be
only wishes it was SO.
notice statement in the News
where fellow proposes to leave has
wife because she joined the Holy Roll
lers Do you reckon, friends, that the
POOR fellow has really let the devil in
fiueuce him to make a martyr of his
wife? My opinion is he is tired of
paying 20c pound fol bacon aud II
to Is cents a pound for steak and
wants all excuse to get rid of her.
Well, he can go South, but if he does
MT mind he'll land in hotter coun-
try than the South is and have deal
more trouble than Holy Roller wife
gives him. know nothing about
Holy Roller religion but / guess they
are not half as bad as reported and if
the sister happens to lose her husband
on the strength of his bitterness to her
religion, some of you tell her "Uncle
Tom says he don't think she has lost
very much. Times are mighty hard
here at Tracy City, but our married
men are not leaving their wives be-
cause some of them profess holiness.
The fact is religion is at very low
ebb just now and about all there is
seems to be among the women. Our
women, so far as christianity is con-
cerned, is largely in the majority and
stand that way in everything else that
has any good in it. There is only one
place / know of where the men out
number the women and that is in the
penitentiary, so l haven't amy pa
thence with these men who want to
leave their wives because they profess
holiness aud qualification. Such men
need to be on rock pile, breaking
rock. Oh, well, Holy Ghost religion
was never popular Neither was hob
BILE skirts at first, and lots of things
we turn down because we are not us
ed to them. Riding astride by ladies
isn't to our liking, yet it was the an
cient mode of riding, from what we
can learn.
Well, friends, ] am really glad that
fellow, Gov. Hooper, got his law bills
thru. Now let's all of us see they are
enforced. and that our officers get bus
Y. 1t ism t exactly as Mr.. Officer says,
now we've lot of bootleggers and
gamblers that our officers must put out
of business or get into trouble them
selves and officers will have to be
mighty careful from now on because
buOIo dlo ioIo u CJ oh buOL anu
when they begin to dodge and twist
somebody is going to see it, The
struggle has been long and bitter and
very costly and the victors are not 60
ing to let their victory be barren as
the lawless element hopes for 1t is
believed here in Grundy county there
are men doing nothing else but selling
liquor and gambling and they are be-
ing watched. Not only are they being
watched but our officers are under the
eye Of scrutiny. Well, they ought to
be.
We have nothing new, except Mr..
Taylor Tate, navy man on the good
ship Minnesota, was married to Miss
Myrtle Crabtree, first class Tracy
City girl. the other day. We wish
them much joy and long and happy
life. reckon Mr.. Tate will return to
his ship about the s5th inst.
Well, girls, some of you ought to
capture Leonard Harris, another ma
rine of the same ship.
UNCLE TOM
Tracy City, Tenn.