Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-11-30
South PittSburg.

Special 10 The Ne7Vs
AS have just been a resident of
South Pittsburg a few days, | will
write the News as to what l think OF
the little city | want to say l have
never met a more sociable lot of peo-
pie in life than have in South Pitts
burg Work is good here, and there
ism t any excuse for idleness IL anyone
wants TO work. When 1 think of how
/ have tried to live and support my
family at Wbitwell, and knowing
there was no employment there for
to kick myself. My girls are all en-
ployed, those that are large enough to
work. at the hosiery mill. Thev all
start at SOC per day until they learn
the trade, then. they make more as
they learn. would advise man
with small family who has no child
rem large enough to work, not to move
here, as the cost of living is higher
here than at Whitwell. The meat
and bread proposition are about the
same as at Whitwell, you can get
nearer what you want here than
there, but house rent and fuel makes
the difference. Coal delivered to your
house here costs five dollars per ton.
A house that tents for six dollars rer
month at Whitwell, rents here for ten.
Water is seventy-five cents per month.
If the citizens of Whitwell and sur
rounding country there would get to-
gether and get a good hosiery mill,
there, 1t would DO great bel p to the
town in more ways than one. It would
help the miner who has large family
of girls who have no employment at
that place. 1t would make his family
self supporting. and they could help
lift pait Of the burdens off of their
parents for their necessities of life.
Merchants would soon quit putting
out their accounts for collection aud
garnishments would soon be thing
of the past OF course there are some
men who won't pay their debts unle:s
they are forced to pay by law, but
there are plenty Of men that don't pay
because they get In debt when it Ia
unavoidable, and their wage isn't
enough to buy their living and pay
their just debts Their intentions may
be ever SO good, but their income is
MT sufficient to feed and clothe their
families and pay anything on what
he owes A spell of sickness or death
in many families there and elsewhere
would and has Put many honest men
in this deplorabe condition. If man
ia miner by trade he likely knows no
other way of making living, so he
has got to work where there is coal
to dig. and IL be moves to a place
where his family can get work he is
idle, so if there was hosiery mill at
Whitwell they could all work togeth-
err. A hosiery mill at Whitwell would
also help the surrounding country
there and bring many dollars to the
business class of people of that place.
Maloy Jones, of Sequachee. was ia
South Pittsburg SATURDAY. Il
Hubert Grayson, Cecil Dykes, Hu-
bert Hickson and Mitchell CoWan, Of
Whitwell, we're on the streets here
Sunday. Hubert Grsyson brought
them down in his car.
John Bailey was here Sunday. He
came down in his car to bring Bud
Hooper, Estes Grant and Garnett Cow
an to see their best girls.
Roy Norwood aud Byron Graham
of Whitwell, weie on the streets here
Sunday.
Leonard Rogers, of Jasper, county
trustee, was in South Pittsburg Sun
day.
A man gave larky 75c Sunday to
get him a pint of booze, and the dark.
ey has never returned with the booze
or 75c either. guess he had long
ways to go, likely to Cincinnati as
Tennessee has gone CRY
| will clo'e with best wishes to the
News and its readers Old Arch.