Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-12-03
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CeLtertown is improving. Four OF
five new buildings going mp. The
| housewives of this community have
no trouble in disposing of their barter.
Pedlers come right to. their doors once
or twice a week and get all the eggs,
butter and feathers. and anything else
they have to sell, paying the cash for
1T. With eggs at 30c per dozen the
| brown leghorn hen is a money maker.
Don't imagine the country women are
idlers. They never were and are not
now. From time away back they
clothed their families by spinning and
weaving. Now they clothe their fam
lilies raising chickens, turkeys, ducks
and geese, and girl who hasn't got
get-up enough in her to raise chickens
Is not much good. There are some
women at Tracy City who If they
were out on a farm would make bet
ter living than heir husbands do in
the mines. That mountain land will
grow anything if properly cultivated.
Cumberland mountain is the best
place in the world for poor man and
an industrious woman. Some day in
the near future it will be called the
"Garden Spot of Tennessee.
Well, there is no fear of starvation
down here, or at least l fail to see any
such a condition, and l don't know
that or any other man should waste
much time in pitying the condition of
the mining class when all around
them there are acres and acres of land
tnat can be leased that will grow al
most anything family needs Don't
tell me that the land can't be leased
for forward in todays mail two lease
deeds made by the T. @. |. company
to property near Tracy City. l am
ashamed of myself and other older
miners who let our opportunities to
make an easy living slip thru our fin
gers. You miners don't really de-
serve much pity for the condition you
are in. The land is all around you
and much of it is very fertile and you
can get it well know. But go ahead.
no use of me saying anything Better
clean up some ground this winter and
raise crop, is my advice. Don't de-
pend on the mines for everything.
The farmers wives and daughters are
clothing and almost feeding the fami-
ly by their attention to poultry. What
they can and-are doing can be done by
our miners wives.
Albert Lance says two of Mr. De-
berry's dogs treed coon not long ago
and he went to them. One was big
dog and the other a little one. He
saw the coon up the tree and very
large coon IL was. So he decided to
climb the tree, but the coon refused to
jump out as he expected it would, so
he had to cut him stick with hook
to it with which to pull him off of the
limb. When be hooked the coon around
the neck out he went and the little dog
tied onto the coon, and such fight
you never saw. The old dog Just sat
down and watched the little dog and
the coon fight. Finally the little dog
began to boiler for help and the old
dog ritched in and killed the coon cas-
lily while the little dog looked on.
Well, l notice the editor says for us
to sigu our names to our letters. L
reckon all know who "Uncle Tom"
is | write nothing l can't father,
fol l really don't want to abuse any
body, while come Go, I've been asked
lots of times to write things / could
MT and wouldn't vouch for, 'Aunt
Bell" gives us some splendid letters.
Some say she is Catholic and seeks
to get folks to believe in purgatory,
| really don't know what she is. She
writes liks gentle, loving christian,
and If she isn't give her credit for
believing she is She is not harsh or
bitter in her utterances, which is
more than some of her antagonists can
claim. The fact is, she is favorably |
spoken of by all who have read her let
ters that I've heard express them
selves.
| had nice dinner fixed for me by
Cousin Connie Luttrel and her daugh- |
ter Saturday, but W as too sick to eat
1t. I haven't been we'll since ] have
been here and haven't even been to
church yet. All who know me