Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-04-03
UNCLE TOMS LETTER

Well, folks, I'll have to tell You
what a fine time we had the fifth Sun
day at Altamont in the singing con-
Vention led by S. A. Ganus A nice,
| genteel looking audience WAS present
and the court room was filled, and
some as fine singing was executed as
the most exacting could wish for.
really enjoyed the day and the only re-
greet had was that | didn't get the
chance to express my appreciation OF
! the days exercises, but I'll reserve my
ammunition until the fifth Sunday in
May, when the convention comes off
at Beersheba. The president of the
convention, Mr.. Levi Woodlee, had
right smart to say about "Uncle
Tom" which l in no way objected to
but then, kinder think should have
had a chance to make some kind of
reply to the honorable gentleman's
good natured criticism about me..feed-
ing my face. l had the audacity and
presumption to put in nomination Ira
cy City for the May convention, bat
never got a single vote. Never mind,
we'll have an all day singing and pic
mic here at Tracy City about the first
Sunday in June that will make people
sit up and take notice, and will make
the Altamont convention look like a
wee baby. Tracy City can have any
thing she wants and make a success of
it, so l serve notice now that if you
want to be at fullgrown singing and
picnic. watch for the time when Hobbs
Hill, Myers Hill and Oak Grove sing
ing classes and Tracy City decide to
have an all day singing and picnic.
Mrs Cams has been employed to
teach 90 days singing school on My
ars Hill Prof. Davis is teaching at
Oak Grove.
Mr.. Ganus said everything loved
music except a hog | believe hog
likes to hear the music of his masters
voice calling him to his feed. In fact,
one old fellow taught his hogs to come
home by singing Home, Sweet
Home Another hog raiser used a
trumpet to call his hogs home. Ev-
erything under heaven can be reached
by music. l predict that tho Oak
Grove class will, If they try regain
and occupy the place that community
occupied only few years ago, away
up at the top. It was actually the
foremost class on the mountain. We
had two of the johnson boys and Mr..
Henry from Dunlap with us at Alta
mont, and also at night on Myers Hill.
These Sequachee Valley boys have lots
of push and vim and certainly can
sing, and showed to as mountain peo-
pie that Sequachee Valley is up-to-
date. One thing | noticed about these |
young men, they don't smoke cigar
cites, which is a good recommendation |
for any young man just starting out
in life.
Sam McCord gave the sheriff or his
deputy, leg bail Saturday.
Our officers are criminally negli- |
gent. That ie, th1ir cleverness aids |
criminals to escape. Turning a man |
loose to walk across the street to make |
a thousand dollar bond is not just the |
thing.
Our town is all right and is on the |
up grade.
The scramble for postmaster is get
ting to be interesting. Capt. A. d. |
Hargis, Will Josie, A. G. Alexander, |
J. V. Walker and Eli Handy are all |
in the field. Capt. Hargis is strong,
but they say he is Socialist and too |
old i. Well, one thing I know, Capt. |
Hargis is not Socialist and if the |
democratic party thinks it good poll
tics to shelve the old men, that's its
business. I'd be ashamed Of such
party but of course, we have no demo-
cratic party worth the name, just a
party Of Office seekers, that is all. The
Williams people seem to be against |
Capt. Hargis and the Moon forces are
about all for Hargis. Being social
list, it amuses me to watch the scram-
ole. Moon would do we'll to listen to |
his actual friends in the matter, and
not pay SO much attention to men who
placarded him all over Tracy. Enough
on this as don't suppose a socialist
would be needed in the matter.
UNCLE TOM.
Tracy City, Tenn.