Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-04-01
MR.. LANCASTER DIFFERS.

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Editor News:
A, you rave jumped on the people
of Battle Creek about wearing out
Voa IL, please give space to reply
Fir t, there is no railroad or steam
boat line on Battle Greek, SO per cent.
of log anu timber is hauled to Kim
ball You p,r-onally know there is NO
b. tier road in the county than from
the intersection of Battle Greek road
to Kimball gate. Do you think the
log uaulers unload when they get to
that niece of good road AMI only haul
liRut loa on same / do not want to
see one part of the county against an
other, but | challenge you to sho y
whore any part of the county has tax
en- tae Interest and done the amount
of free work that the ptoAle of Battle
Creek and s tens Cove have done
am incloSing you cory of So. PITTS
burg Hu tier, dated Sent 8, 1914,
showing that the citizens of the above
nameu place pledged them selves to co
operate with Mr.. R G Aycock, pike
comm ission1r to CAT days work with
wagons AM teams l can prove to you
the nle gvs were met and a road built
on Battle Greek that has stood the
wor t intr ever know and is in first
class shape today, and that among the
log baulers on Battle Greek, as you ZEE
fit to term u. For your special in
formation you can see that Mr. r G
Avcork, pike commissioner. donated
his years salary to this road, as you
leave the impression that only Dne
sact / a nnf =
ing any controversy as to the best
route for Dixie Higbw but from
your article Battle Creek will do moth
ing but ar out roa Is So afr in
We tig ting tbs, / think yen at least
oue time in life you spoke Without
kDo vie ge.
Yours respectfully,
j. A LANCASTER.
Ketchall, Tenn, March 80, 1915.
We are glad to get the above from
Mr. Lancaster, because 1t imply gives
Us an rortunity to accent our posi-
ton t1at the Whitwell en- of Marion
county has never had a. good road
as B title Creek. as it seems that the
road in that section IL not altogether
worn out, but is in fact in excellent
con lition thanks to the interest Of
numbrr of its citizens who probably
were not all log haulers. Perhaps
some of them we're buggy users. but
until the log hauling was over had to
81 9 track their buggies. It is refresh
ing to fad out that there Is such a
good road there. Last spring we
were informed that toe road was
very bad. and about a month ago
citizen of Battle Greek informed Us
tat the citizens of that section were
gong to use the month of August of
each year as work month for their
roaus If Mr., Lancaster had been a
subscriber to the News which he Is
not I'D would have noted that we
commended this action of the Battle
Greek people
Mr. Lankester mistakes our article
W. want Battle Creek = all it's citizens
to have a good road all the time, not
good road part Of the time, and the
only way they will do this will be to
either pay more attention to farming
and less to logging, or get wider tires
to their wagons and not haul in in
clement weather. Fourm mule teams
hauling mammoth loads Of logs over a
wet OF partly frozen pike, is not con-
ducive either to the welfare Of the
pike. or to the feelings Of thoss who
travel the road after the log hauling 10 |
over. Mr.. Cameron, of South Pitts-
burg, who Ia mentioned as contribut.
ing $40 90 to that road. in the meet.
ing at Ja-per recently, questioned the
Justice Of this course, and as Mr. |
Cameron is considered truthful man
there must be some weight given to
his opinion Mr.. Lancaster himself |
gives tue impression that heavy loads
we're hauled in his opening words.
We ,egrtt that there ale not rail
roads or steamboat lines in Battle |
Creek Cove. This is an affection That
Expresses lots OF other places. Very
few engines or steamboats, go out In |
the forests and attempt to gather up
logs When they 90 some people |
would call this wreck.
We are glad Mr.. Aycock is donating |
his salary to the work. We only learn
cd that Mr.. Sherman was donating his |
salary Tuesday of last week, and that
Mr.. Aycock 10 doing the same is re-
The last and most important point
we wish to bring is this, and in that
connection we will offer little more
report Of that Dixie Highway meet
ing. When the resolutions wero pre-
,ented by the committee it contained
The word ''macadam' specifying kind
IF road for the Dixie Highway, also
The Battle Greek route was endorsed.
motion was made and carried to
hi nge this to "good, permanent. +"
On the vote a single, solitary "No"
vas heard, and after motion passed,
Mr. A. r. Rankin rose and asked IL