Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-10-02
UNCLE TOMS LETTER

On Friday. Sept. %, the patrons Of
Bonnie Oaks PHblie School, Grundy
County, gave to Miss Edith Ponder
and her pupils eue vf the finest and
best diRners I've had the pleasure of
bsing st In long time. never saw
q more orderly and we'll behaved set
Of students than l met at Bonnie Oaks
at the dinner There was no snatching
and grabbing Of any kind. They acted
much better than lot of grown folks
/ have seen at public dinners and /
will say the old and the young acted
genteel and nice as they could, so |
with Bro Keathly. the stationed
preacher of Tracy City. delight to com
pliment the young teacher and the pat
rons and students. Bro. Keathly made
them an extia fine talk and flom every
indication his talk was appreciated,
Supt. John White was present and
gave the school and its patrons fine
business talk, complimenting the
teacher, patrons aud students | be-
lieve the feast will\prove beneficial to
all the patrons and students and I
think Bro, Keathly's sermon, lecture
and council will prove benefit,
There were no spongsrs on hand Of
any kind or description that noticed.
Order was Of the very best.
am off to Myers Hill to Sunday
school picnic today, Sept. 81. | hope
to have good time and will IL they
come anyways near emulating Bonnie
Oaks as / hope they will
l have NO war to make on any relig-
ious organized body of christians, but
would bid them Godspeed and would
invoke all their power and influence to
help overthrow the vices and immor-
alities of the day. Don't fall out
with me because don't fight the Ho-
ly Rollers and other christians. There
is bigger enemy to fight than chris
tians of any class or character. / So
licit all we'll meaning persons to join
hands with each other and fight the
common enemy of all mankind. Do
this and we won't have time to criti-
else holy Rollers or any other kind of
worshippers.
Well, l am back from Myers Hill
picnic and would you believe it, we
all had good, social recreation and a
feast fit fol- kings. Order Was good
while the program was being render
ed. Then dinner came on and there
was plenty aud to spare. The spong-
ers were all absent, as did not see a
single one. and no lady was pushed
away from her table as / have heard
of being done. Hurrah for our great,
big hearted women. Why, they en-
joyed the evenings pleasures hugely.
Mrs. Sam King. Mrs. Ella Wright
and Mrs. Sam Bryant ran foot race,
which tickled the children very much.
Mrs. Della Graham deserves chrome
for making snch success Of the day.
I hope the readers of the News will
not attribute to me any evil designs
for hitting at picnic spongers SO hard.
l did it for the protection of our
big hearted people whom l knew had
been imposed on by a lot Of worthless
characters. hope we are rid of them
fol- all time to come and the patrons of
the public schools and also the Sunday
schools can give their children a din
ner without being overrun by horde
of gluttons who care nothing about
the welfare of the children at all.
Don't fall out with your "Uncle
Tom" because don't see things as
you see them, and don't you think I
can't see the very small notes in my
brothers eyes, for can see just like
the rest of you, but my trouble and
yours is we can't see the beams in our