Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-04-10

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Young Folks Make Trip to the
"Penitentiary" Sunday,

A jolly crowd of girls aud boys, in
| GLIDING some married sufferers, went
| TO the 'Penitentiary" Sunday, which
! is located on the side of Cumberland
mountain above Jesse Coppinger' S
home in Sequachee Cove. They left
after Sunday School, like good people
attending to their religious duties
first, and after a three mile tramp
along the sandy and rocky and mud
dy, but wildly beautiful COppinger
Cove road. they arrived at the Cop
ringer Spring at noon, A cloth was
spread and good old grub packed away
into the interior economies until it
was nearly debateable whether they
should not stand in the creek instead
of climbing the mountain. However
Mrs. Brewer, one of the party, who
had ate the most, solved the difficulty
by a supreme effort, and start, and the
rest was easy-except the climbing.
They arrived at tho Penitentiary as
hot as Holsters Just out of a boiling
kettle, and about as red -complexioned,
but it took only few minutes lest to
re,tore the normal circulation an
then the mysteries of the "Peniten-
tiary" were ext lored.
The "Penitentiarv is vide gap
next the mountain Cliff, enCircled by
wall of piled up, loose rocks which
ar, surmounted by twin stone towers
like guard houses ON the wall of
Denltentiary. There is only one open
ing to this place and you descend a
gentle slot6 within this wall and the
mountain, comprising some three acres,
which is so soft under foot that it re-
sembles descending the carpeted aisle
of great theatre in city. All sorts
of stunts in climbing are possible, for
the cliffs are very high and nearly per-
pendicular, and enormous boulders are
scattered around in reckless profusion,
as if Nature when she laid off this
park, didn't care darn what she did
with the materials, except to make
something bizarre
The girls and boys. everybody, in
cluding the married sufferer, climbed
like squirrels 'possoms, turtles, eels,
and all the rest of the climbing fami-
ly, the animals mentioned representing
the system followed, some scaling a
cliff in a jiffy, and others sort of boost.
wriggled up like. an eel Many pic
WI 90 WClO lhhCu ny hllIUIu
who brought his camera along.
At o'clock the return start was
made and after falling down the |
the rest of tue grub was
demolished at the spring and march |
taken towards tho crowded streets of |
the city of Sequachee, where the pike
runs every Sunday and the Spring
Branch likewise. Twenty four and |
two-tenths gallons of arnica have
been consumed since in an effort to lu-
bricats wearied muscles. 1t was
thought that twenty five would be I
but it is a pleasure to note /
that it took less
Those comprising the multitude
we're:
Mr.. and Mrs. W. C. Hill and daugb-
ter. Mildred, Mrs. L. P. Brewer,
Misses Louise Hill, Beth, Muriel and
Clara Sco6eld, Bertha and Carrie Bold
en-, Elizabeth Deakius, Juliette Hop
zins, Minnie and Ethel Mosier, jon
ME Condra, Brittle Martin, Nellie
Bray. Messrs j. G. Wall, Jr, and
ION Temple, Will Coppinger. D. Burn
TT, MILFORD and Ross Scofiald, Arthur
Bowler, Alton Burnett, Jim Martin.
Ault Mosier, Grady ami Jamie Con
Ira, Herman Carnes, Osborn Smith,
Will Hamilton, lsobt. Fults.