Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-08-24
Caroline Chapel.

this morning, and 1t continues 10
| thunder and rain, and I am feellhg
very desolate and lonely, | thought l
would thy to break the monotony ny
| trying to call to mind and pencil some
of the happenings of our burg. SINCE
last appeared. Newsy items OF ihter-
est is very scarce in our ulgsl hs
! The health of our people in general Is
reasonably good. There is no one Sc
! rlOusly sick at this time, and our peo-
pie seem to be enjoying the many
blessings that seem to be allotted tnen.
Our prospects for corn bread announcer
| year are very much more prohIsluS
| than it WAS when | wrote before l
notice good deal of corn that was III,
/ undated during the high waters thaI
was considered completely ruined, mas
come out and is going to make tairly
! good corn 1t will yield more thah
rs much again than the farmers anu
cIl ated at the receeding floods
Well, we hope there will he plenty
for home consumption aud some u
| uIvide.
Well. We writer has been very busy
for three or four weeks, looking after
the Chestnut timber business. he
is now engaged in having cut ana 9e-
| livered at Sequachee extract timber
! for the Marion Extract Co., Of Chatta-
nOOga. Geo. H. Lewis and John NC
! Nabb is Going the cutting and w. M
| Moore and Eph Pitman are doing DIS
hauling, and owing to the continued
rains and soft and mushy GROUNDS
caused by the continued rains. gives
the haule7s quite good deal of trouo-
lie and worry.
Since the floods came and destroyed
the greater part of Alvin Billingsley
corn crop, he has left OUT diggins ana
| gone to Chattanooga, and has JOB
with some of the carpenters and ls
trying to make back what he has lost
| Hope he will succeed. If be decides
he can make more on public WORKS
than be can on the farm, he VIII
move his family to Chattanooga, aud
quit these floody bottoms.
Our farmers sure need organization
and cooperation in this part of the
world. Farmers in Sequatcbie Valley
need farmers organizations and coop
Grafton in full and in fact, but 1T
seems as they are hard to make realize
this fact. What a pity it is that all
farmers can't or won't stop and see
the disrupted state they are in, no
harmony, no brotherly love and kind
ness seems to belong to this class of
people
Ye writer attended the county con-
vention of the F. E. q C. u. of A. at
EbeneZer last Saturday, and was very
much surprised to see as small turn
ont Of farmers as was there. Bro
Farmers, let's wake up and assert our
selves to redoubling of our diligence,
and let's make ourselves heard and
felt in this fertile valley. We can do
it. and let's not stop until we accom-
plish the purpose of our great under
taking. 1t is fact, the farmers can
rule and control the whole world II
they will do it. Oh, farmers, what a
set Of towards we are, to just sit down
and allow the great wheels of the cor
porations to grind us to ashes, aud
Just stand still with our arms folded
and our mouths closed, and are too
cowardly to demand our rights.
Stand to your brother farmer, if you
find him in trouble, go to his aid. If
be is sick and in need, visit him and
lend him youl assistance. Don't wait
and depend on the merchant man to
DO all the aiding and assisting, for
when be does, of course be has become
under obligations to that merchant
man, and he uses this method to keep
the poor fellow down, and in debt to
him, and he is looked upon by this
great merchant man as his servant.
"Do you see.
Well, next Sunday will bs the great
gathering of the unsteady inclined at
the Fair Grounds near Richard City.
Am very sorry, indeed that poor
health, long distance and hot weather
is going to debar "Old Joe" from en-
joying the occasion Last yea he took
in all tue musical gatherings of both
conventions, except one or two, and
owing to declining health, he has not
been permitted to enjoy but one. But |
| want to assure those that are engage
ed in the glorious work, that though |
my frail body is absent, my mind |
aud heart is with you in the work,
and bid it God speed.
Well, it seems as if today is runa-
bout Sunday. Old Mrs. Joe and grand
sou, Ernest Billingsley, went to Vic
toria this morning to visit the form
Err 8 daughter. Mrs Nettie Gates, who |
is in very delicate health. Mrs. Sal |
lie Billngsley and son, Hubert, and |
daughter, Clara, went up to pay Mr.. |
and Mrs. Tom Billingsley a visit to.
day. John McNsbb and all bis family |
have gone to visit Johns father and |
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Silas McNabb |
at Mineral Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Spears AMI AL |
wins father have gone to pay Mr.. and
Mrs. Wash Long, Of near Iuman,
visit.
Melvin Moore and family are in
Whitwell attending the bedside of |
Mrs Moore's mother, Mrs Brown,
nee Mrs, Phelps. who has been very
low for several weeks, and it is i'm
possib BILE fOr Der to recover. The doc.
tors, nurses aud attendants of the sick
room, have been expecting every day
and night to end her suffrrings for the
last two weeks. but it seems t1at a
little spark of life still remains. The
doctors gave her np twoWeeks or more
ago, and decided at every call that
she would b. lifH5ss corpse ere an
other sunrise, but yesterday, Satur-
say, SHE was still alive, but her de-
mise was expected every hour.
Fred BiIiinsgley is in the valley for
a week or twos stay, visiting his faith
er ana motler, Mr.. and Mis-. Tom
Billinsgley.
Mr. ana Mrs. Arch Billinsgley call
ed on Mr. BiIlingsley's fatuer and