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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-06-14
WhitWell.
SPECIAL 10 the Ne7DS

| SPECIAL 10 Tie NeaOs.
Rainy weather seems to be the orde,
of the day, and going to the show il
the order of the night.
Mrs. Ike Cursey is visiting hsr sis
ter at Whiteside, Tenn.
Ben Yell called on ye writer FRIDAY
afternoon.
Eleck Layne, of Whitwell Top, call
ed on ye writer Friday.
We sure had rain here FRIDAY
morning. 1t rained 40 hard only a
few men went to work, and those who
went said they got as wet as drowned
rats.
Clint Colston was seen going nm the
mountain Friday with his best gill.
IT you want to see Sam Wilkey give
You a dry grin, just ask him who he
saw at the postoff1ce Friday evening.
Ask Eleck Farley who he was talk
ing to Friday and see him smile.
Ye writer passed Mat Hudson's Fri
day. He must be a good worker or
have smart wife, as he has a nice
garden.
Jim Shirley has some garden. He
started across it and got tangled up in
pumpkin vine.
Brown Eyes" got sick after he
went to Dunlap. I think he must
nave got hold of piece of cake like |
hat Ben Yell had. Blown Eves',
'ure has time in the mines trying TO
Keep his buddy awake since the cat
eft.
No "Dill Pickles." I haven't a bup
n my ear. l am only taking lessons
Inder Bsrnie Mason.
Jim Payne said he would lose a
lights sleep and good warm meal to
ct to be in good ball game.
G. G. Shirley went up the mountain
unday.
Come on, lone STAR" with vour
lteresting pieces. think you used
i've here. Brown Eyes.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-06-14
Family Gathering.

There was held at the home of
Mrs. S. D. Thurman, in High
land Park, Chattanooga, last
! week, a reunion of cousins who
in their early girlhood had lived
in Seuuatchie valley and most OF
them at Dunlap.
This gathering was in the ma
ture of a surprise to Mrs. Thur
an, the ladies bringing their
L ~, L with them and eating it pic
nt ~ =. 'ion. To hear their lively
nlo . = would have thought
I,i"''',' ' 1.> heir early girlhood.
e olleIii 9I,'S =" -. : Jokes they told
Many were the of one and
first at the expense
then another. h,,r,or
They recalled incidents r,on,
Gus and otherwise related to u. -.
during their childhood by theh
Grandmother Kirkland, who as
Louise Anderson was the first
white child born in Sequatchie
valley. These incidents referred
mostly to pioneer days in the val
ley days when the Indians roam
ed at will over the country. They
related several Indian stories.
But one that interested the listen
err, who belongs to another gener-
alton, was to the effect that their I
great grandparents, Col. John
Anderson and wife, who settled
in the upper part of the valley in
1905, brought the first sitter to
the valley, and their neighbors
used to congregate at their home
on Sunday morning to sift meal
so that they might have for Sun
day dinner bread made Of sifted
meal. -,-.->g n~..~...4...
Another told of a woman a. !
mong the first inhabitants who
wished to cut out a pair of trous-
ers for her husband but did not
possess a pair Of scissors. She
spread the cloth on a log and cut
them out with the axe. Many |
We're the stories they told. .ss,~ :
sequatchfe. valley has an inter-
esting ssfly history whch should
be preserYfd| It seems, to M, that
a series of artlttsa al6ng this h, ne
in Tie Tribune would
prove interesting to a great manyf
people, taking up the history of
b, esection and Interviewing with
sk> 'tches Of the pioneer settlers
E tie =, alley, in this way preser-
ing for II. 'ture generations much
'hAS AES ~ |
lat would otherwise be lost.
hese ladies wit, = their reminis-
'nces brought the fact home to
/ absorbed listener II. at this had
zen neglected much too long al
ady. -
The ladies in this party were:,
rs. John R. Stewart, Nashville;
RS. A. c. Broyles, Dayton; Mrs.
. L. Alley, North Chattanooga;
RS. W. L. Bates, st. Elmo; Mrs.
B. Mitchell, Lookout Noun
n; Mrs. W. C. Garden, Alton
rk; Mrs. James Rogers, High
I'd Park. Mrs. C. A. Wyrick.
attanooga, daughter ofanother
lsin. -"One Among Them" -
Dunlap Tribune.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-06-14
RID OF LINGERING COUGH

You can get relief from racking, hack
ing coughs, from wheezy, srieezy breath
ing, from raw, inflamed throat and tiobt
chest W. G. Glazier.. BentonviIIe
Ark. writes: ~ can recommend FoIev,s
Honey and Tar Compound used il for
a cough that had for years, and was
to have consumption but it cured ma
Sold by j.. A. S mpson e Son, Jasper.
Tenn.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-06-14

49,
amp.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-06-14
JUST WHAT SHE NEEDED

when women complain of WEAKNESS,
backache, dull headaches and similar
ailments, they accept those troubles as
their lot because they are women, when
the ailments may be the results of dis
ordered kidneys. Mrs. Mary V. Bun
ker, Mi ton-on-t tn g. hudson, N. Y.
writes of Foley Kidney Pills: just
what needed. Sold by j, w. Simpson
4 Son, Jasper, Tenn.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-06-14
on-Resident Notice.
j lanes Miller
VS..


Stella May Miller
In the. Chsncery Court of Maroon
County. Tenn.
In this cause it appearing to the sat-
lstactlon of the Clerk and Master. from
Compliments Bill, which is sworn 10,
that defendant Stella May Miller is A
nonresident of this State so that the Or
binary process of law cannot be served
1t IS therefore ordered that nubli.
ZION be made in the Sequacbee
valley News, newspaper published in
the town of Seuuachee for four conse-
cutlVe weeks, commanding said non
resident Defendant to appear at the An
gust Rules of the Chancery Court to he
leId In the Courthouse in the town of
Jasper on the First Monday of August,
WI, and plead, answer or demnr IN
'ald Bill, or the same will be taken for
confessed and set for hearing ex psrte
~ to her.
This the 4th day of June 1917.
A. L. ROBERTSON.
p- Clerk and Master.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-06-14
DENTAL NOTICE,

L will be in Sequachee and Jasper
on the following dates:
Sequachee. at the Randle House, on
third Monday.
Jasper, at Hughes House, on first
and fourth Mondays.
-. n. B. MOORE.
H. Dentist.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
WHEN TRAMPS GO AWAY

One morning when Mary and
Frank got up it was showing. They
wanted to go out and play right
away. But their mother said they
must eat breakfast first.
While they were eating breakfast
they heard tap at the door Their
mother went to the door and who
do you suppose was there? Why,
there was an old tramp at the door
He was very ragged and mean look
ing.
Il want something to eat" said
he
Their mother gave him a piece of
bread and jelly, and he went out
into the yard. He would not go
away. He just kept walking around
in the yard.
Pretty soon the tramp saw the
children's father coming home and
then he ran away as fast as he
could, and he never bothered them
again. Mildred Louise Focht.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
THE BIRDS SET FREE

Once upon time a man was
walking through the street Of a
city. He saw boy with number
of small birds for sale in cage.
The man looked with sadness up.
on the little prisoners flying about
in the cage; peeping through the
wires and trying to get out. At
last he said to the boy, "How much
do you ask for your birds?
Five dollars" said the boy.
The man gave him the money.
No sooner was the bargain set
tied than the man opened the cage
door and let all the birds fly away.
Then the man turned to the boy
and said, 81 will tell you why set
the birds free. was shut up three
years in French prison as a pris-
oner of war, and | resolved that
when | got out | never would see
anything in prison which | could
make free. From Marie Smith.
age 10, Morgan Creek school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
A SENSIBLE BOY

Once upon a time boy and his
mother went up town. The boy was
ten years old. His name was
Ernest. They were poor
So Ernest saw a suit and he
wanted it.
Mother" he said, please get me
that suit"
"My dear boy" she said, do
you know we are poor?"
"Oh, l forgot dear mother. l will
get one some day." he said.
"My father Is away and wont
send me anything. l will save my
money till I get a little to get me
a suit" ,.-.
A year later he had money for his
suit
This is all, from Maynard Milton,
"A, Whitewater School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
THE FRISKY SQUIRREL

Once upon a time two little girls
asked their mother if they may go
to the woods and have picnic and
gather nuts and flowers. So the
mother said, Eyes If you will
promise not to stay too long and
get lost" The little girls said, "All
right mamma"
The little girls names are Mary
and Grace. Mary is five years old
and Grace is three.
So their mother got their lunch
ready and they started for the
woods. They played until they got
hungry. They they ate and had a
good time. When they had gather
ed all the flowers they wanted they
began to gather walnuts. They
heard noise up above their heads
and looked up. Then what do you
think they saw? A frisky little
squirrel gathering his nuts for win
ter. They thought they could catch
II but it was too quick for them.
So they went home and told their
mother all about the squirrel and
the nuts. Written by Martha
Smith, Grade "A, Whitewater
School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
THE PUZZLED CHICKS

Once there were two little chick
ems. They were about q week old
when they left their mothr's nest.
The two chicks got into the garden.
They were digging worms, when
to their great surprise they found
a toad in front of them. They
stared at him, and they looked at
him. Then they pecked at him and
he jumped away. They chased him
cut of the garden too. And chased
him behind a tub. They could not
find him so they went TO get their
mother. While they were gone he
got out and ran away. Dora Macy,
No. 8 School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

his little grandmother's neck as she
sat by the window stemming straw
berries for a short cake, and his
eyes made up in enthusiasm what
his words lacked.
Nov Jimmie" said Grandmother
Gray, begin at the first and tell me
all about It slowly, and then we can
see about your elephant bank"
"Well. you see, you were clean i.
ing cupbOards. and so I went down
to the back fence and saw Mr..
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
PAW" AND "MA"

One day my little cousin saw
cat washing it's face. He asked his
mother what the cat was doing that
for. So she told him it was licking
its paw and washing its face to get
it clean
A few days later he came running
in to his mother calling, Mother,
mother, come see the kitty splitting
on it's ma. "A true story from
Richard Edwards, Whitewater
School, Ina.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
WARMERS PLAYGROUND

Last Monday when delegation of
five representative from Warner
school went to the city hall and per-
sonally presented their plea for a
larger playground, they spoke SO
well that the Board of Works was
very favorably impressed, and Mr..
Bavis, president of the board, at
once took up the matter with Mr..
Giles. the superintendent of the
schools. To use Mr.. Bavis's very
words, the children spoke their
cause with exceptional intelli-
gence"j and the board will cooper
ate to supply this needed ground at
the earliest date.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
Girl Harnesses Dogs to Sled

l have two dogs, two birds and
four kittens. In the winter time I
harness my dogs and hitch them to
my sled and go for ride. l love
my birds dearly. One is named
Erma and the other one Billy. IF
60 to put my finger in Erma's
cage she will fly at me, and try to
pick my finger l take care Of
them every morning. My kittens
names are Fly, Fanny, Topsy and
Tom. I have a little brother who
likes to play with them very much
He will take them by the neck aud
put them in a little box. l love my
pets dearly, and always will love
them.-Myrtle Irwin, IA grade,
Whitewater school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
DoNALD's FIRST DOLLAR
Dear Aunt Molly:

Dear Aunt Molly:
am going to tell you story and
here 1t is. One day Donald was out
doors playing and he wanted some
money SO he thought about his old
hen that his father gave him. He
went to the barn to see if he could
get some more eggs to ill his bas-
ket and he found some. It just fill
ed the basket and he made dollar
on it Yours truly. Ralph Henson,
IA, Whitewater School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
HAVE BIG FEAST ON
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

The country schools were out last
Friday, and ore CT the boys was
generous enough to start his vaca.
ton by writing letter for the
Junior. We poor town folks surely
arc glad TO know what a good time
they are having even If we do have
so Flooding along with our win
ter work five week. longer. And
none CT us would be one bit sorry If
ether happy country boys and girls
would tell us what they are doing
since school was out, would We?
Dear Aunt Molly:
Our school Is out We had a pro-
gram the last DAY. You ought to
have been there for dinner. We
had everything we could eat. Lots
Of people were UP to see us per-
form And they brought things to
eat, too We had fine time play
ing and eating.
We have oil kinds Of flowers in
the woods. Flowers are growing
everywhere now. There are woods
around our school house. Lots OF
boys and girls hunt flowers out in
the woods. You ought to come out
and pick flowers some day.
John Bull, II years old. College
Hill school, Spring Grove.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
GRANDMOTHER GRAY STORY

make my onions set, and I'll raise a
whole lot of little onions and things
and grow myself a dinner when
everybody else's a-starving, and he's
going to help me and show me how,
and-an' where's my bank?" Jimmie
was quite out Of breath by this
time, but he threw his arms around
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

Michael making his onions set, and
l just went over and he told me
all about it, and he said that I can
make garden down by the fence
and grow myself dinner, and he'll
spade 1t up for me. And now, will
you give me my elephant bank,
please? I want to get some seeds
and start right now"
Grandmother Gray took one Of
the biggest red Strawberries out Of
the pan Of cool fresh water where
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
PREPARE FOR FLIES

Dear Aunt Molly:
Flies are not here yet. but they
will be here soon enough. The flies
are a bad insect. They will carry
disease. Do not leave old garbage
cans out. All people should try to
keep things clean. Then we would
not have any more flies-Russell
Crane. 4B Grade whitewater
School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
MY FAVORITE BIRD

The red head woodpecker has .
red head and a white breast and
black and white wing. The wood
pecker builds his nest in a tree
The red head wood-pecker is a pref
ty bird. The woodpecker is build
ing his nest in the tree. The wood
pecker has a stiff tail and is pretty.
-Theolinda De Veto, "A. White
water.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

Jimmie G.. burst into Grand
mother Gray's kitchen like small
cyclone.
ooh grandmother" he shouted,
Where's my elephant bank? I'm
going to make a garden and buy a
whole bushel full of seeds and Mr..
Michael's going to dig it up and
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

rAARarsE coRRs r2n .ByreE1J Iaao7So
writing
they wanted The
printed form card and
scratch what they do want to
mail it, If they
thrown
has said 81 quite
letter from long time. That
easy O omefolks, isn't it?
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

Do unto other, as you would wish
to be done by.-Wills Aughee,
Fountain City, Ind.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy and
wise.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
POST CARDS FROM SAILORS

NOTHING is 70 be written on this side except the
dates and signature Of sender Sentences not requi.
cd may b crossed out II anything else i added the
post card will be destroyed.
The Irish standard., 1917-06-16
TO REDUcEH. c. OF L.

Rev. David R. Heffernan, st. James
parish, Arlington Heights, Mass, has
stocked the barn of his rectory at 6
Appleton street with several tons of
sugar and hundreds of barrels of flour.
which he is distributing at cost among
his more than 1900 parishioners. He
thought of the idea, provided the cap
ital and did the purchasing himself.
making better bargains than would be
possible for even grocer of ordinary
resources. AS Father Heffernan
passes along all the profit to his flock.
they are delighted with his plan, which
is saving them two cents or so on
every pound of sugar and several dol
lars barrel on flour. He is finding
that the arrangement means a good
deal of work for him and his assist
ant, but does not regret this, and as
the cooperative purchasing has proved
such success with flour and sugar.
may go into it more extensively.
The Irish standard., 1917-06-16
When the war is may find for furnishing
the Liberty statues to several capitals We would be
cked to death to send Petrograd and Berlin also
to London and Dublin.
CLOSE TO TREASON.

The country is and the CONSUMPTION
out the policy of the citizens may
have their personal feelings but is law of the land
they wish to exercise their constitutional right next
election of Congressman they do So they have
no right to hwart the policy long as the
act is in force.
1t is not surprising to leading anarchists and l. w.
W. agitators active in opposition Whenever there is
opportunity to make assault law they seize
with ardor The aacrity with which they have called
for protection of the they have protested
despse has its amusing feature little practical anarchy
applied to them brings instant though not a permanent
cure
The country has been generously indulgent to their
preaching and practice of They have enjoyed
license here that other government would have al
lowed But there is limit and of these anarchists
have gone beyond it. They should be summarly and
effectively suppressed.
In time OF peace certain leniency be justifabe
We cannot afford to treat them eniently time of war;
They are in real public menace and should be
treated such.
The Irish standard., 1917-06-16
"MY DAM"

(The Retired Sergeant's Son.
BY Damon Runyon in the Examiner.
He's under eighteen, and the dead
spit O. me
My Dan!
(The heart inside me is bleedin'D
But, ah, was glad when he said to
me: dad
It's the likes of US Macs they'll be
needin,'"
He's only boy, but he wanted to 60
When I looked in his eyes I couldn't
All, he's good kid!
A fine kid!
He'll make great man!
He's the son O. McCarty-that's me!
Mary Mother, he's young, you see,
And you will watch his tenderly-
All, bring back safe and strong to
me
My Dan!
He's under eighteen, but bound he
would serve
My Dan!
(The heart inside me is dyin'!)
gave him card o. permission
twas hard
But he couldn't get in without lynn.
"a sailor?" l. asks, COR perhaps ride
q horse?
mot SOL" says my Dan, "the dough
boys of course"
All, he's a good kid!
A fine kid!
He'll make a grand man!
The Irish standard., 1917-06-16

we'll set
No man near his size can lick him,
I'll bet!
All, he's a good kid!
A fine kid!
He'll make q grand man!
He's the son O. McCarty-that's me!
Mary Mother, tits an old mans
prayer
You'll watch and guide him every
where
And bring back young, and strong,
and fair.
My Dan!
The Irish standard., 1917-06-16

back stronger than ever so the great went
the followers of each claiming advantages for their
favortes they noted the and counter
thrust
But at the end Father Tom won out magnifcently He
had refued Froudes history with Protestant
He had, as the New York Tribune (Froudes champion)
acknowledged torn Froudes history to shreds and his
logic to atters The palm of victory almost unani
mously awarded to the great Dominican, and Froude
skuked back to England looking like singed CIT
arrived.
The Irish standard., 1917-06-16
Saturday, June Is, 1917

BY all means let increase production and efficiency
Let waste and put to work hands that
been idle.
But officials must the time talk of increased
production and advocate cowardly parsmony that would
strangle the buying power destroy produc
ton simultaneously.
Those that say "save everything don't buy be fright
ened and stingy dangerous enemies of public welfare
and prosperity.
Hard times and panics caused by sudden violent
cessation of buying
If the citizen does buy the merchant, the
turer must discharge his employees, will have the
hard times depression fear and stagnaon that the
country should most carefully avoid.
TO stop the circulation money in the community, to
discharge buying and selling like stopping the crcua-
tion of blood in the human body.
The good citizen while doing his duty working faith
fully will continue his life usual buying encouraging
his fellow citizens i'm business going the shops the the
aers giving to his family the things to which they
accustomed, helping carry the country along in the
normal, prosperous channel
The life of nation is running stream it must not be
stopped frozen by fear damned suddenly by those
that preach false and harmful economy
We going to win this if proceed intelgently
and prepare energetically
We going to be just when the is \
We going to out of it, went into it, not
quite rich still richest powerful nation
the world.
They foolish who try to make the people body of
tmd Children suddenly changing their lives njuring
the countrys entire business structureLos Angeles
aminer.