Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-12-03
FARMERS
EAT GRUB
Local Union No. 1853
Banquet Thanksgiving.
Plenty to Eat, Good Attend.
ance, Nice Program, and
FraternaI Spirit Makes
Enjoyable Evening.

The Farmers Union Banonet Tbrrs-
day, Thanksgiving night, Was a b;g
success,
Jack Martin says it was. and 40
Jack was>a prime mover in the affa;T
it must have been.
There were some obstacles trrpod
up, as usual. but they didn't count.
The Solo cooperation of the balance
OF the farm gang turned the trick
Cooperative" is part of the title of
the organization and the rest is "Edu.
cational, hence the knockers should
learn from this that education ia nee.
essary for them to be cooperative. If
the organization is to do any good for
its members. as we'll as the county at
large, each member must get the idea
OF cooperation, or working in harmo-
ny regardless of personal feelings, more
firmly fixed in his mind. .
Supper was spread at Z O'Clock on
tables In the Town Hall, and a large
number of representative farmers and
others of Seduachee were present. Big
baskets were unloaded, and the table
was sight to behold Talk about
hard timesl These farmers wives did
MT show it when it came to cookery.
Grace was offered by W.. A. Chadwick
and all fell to with hearty good will.
Jack Martin, j. F. Lewis, Lee Turn
er. Tom Lasater, Brown Rogers, VIM.
Lee and w. K. Marlin nearly killed
themselves eating. They say cold wa
ter had to be applied to their feet that
night. and to the top Of their heads
next day. Turner said it made him
wish he was married to see such good
things to eat.
Following the supper there were in
formal speeches by Maj Hill, W. A.
Chaa wick and County Organizer Lew
is Harris, after which the program
was entered upon as follows:
Quartet -'Waltz, Piano. Misses
Louise Hill, Nell Leland and Master
Joe Leland, violin, W. c. Hill
Piano Solo, Throwing Kisses,
Miss Randle.
Reading Of Presidents and Govern
or,s Thanksgiving Proclamations,
Maj. Hill.
Trio, Flower Song" Piano, Miss
Hill, Master Leland, violin, Mr.. Hill.
Song, tblackface), sold Black
Joe, +" E. A. Pryor.
Solo,. "The Gypsy Trail," Miss Le-
land, violin obligato, Mr.. Hill.
Piano Solo, Miss Randle.
The program was uniformly good
and highly enjoyed. In fact the
farmers acted as If few more num-
bers would go mighty well. No at
tempt bad been made to get up an
elaborate program, only one of inter
est to almost any music lover, and the
very fact of this simplicity seems to
have added interest,
1t was intended to sing the closing
ode of the lodge, which is set to the
air Of "Auld Lang Syne," with all
the members gathered around the Ia
bles, but this feature was omitted be-
cause some of the members went on
strike, not because they couldn't sing
it, but because of other reasons. 1t
was feature which would have made
pretty close to the evening. and
greatly strengthened the idea OF FRA
ternity
The attendance was excellent. bar
ring the absence of several members OF
the lodge, officers, who failed to ap-
pear This embarrassed the promoters
considerably in various ways. but the
trouble was eliminated. A considera.
Bile number of representative people OF
the town were present, perhaps nun
dred all told, enjoying the banquet