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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
JOHN S. McREYN0LDS.

Pikeville, Oct. 9.-John S. Nc
REYNOLDS died at his home here Mon
day afternoon from a stroke of par
alysis. He was seemingly well and
hearty up to the time of the stroke,
which came about two o'clock Mon
day afternoon, death resulting in a
few moments. He was native of
the valley and a member of a pion-
eer family of this section. He had
been married twice, his first wife dy.
ing about ten years ago. About
three years ago he married second
time, his wife being Miss Bert Wal,
icrs. She with his FIVE daughters
survive him. The daughters are
Mrs. Tellus Robertson, Mrs. William
Roberson, Mrs. Hines Homes, Mrs.
Herbert Bradshaw, and Miss Nell
NcReynolds.
He was a well-known farmer and
prominent man of his section. He
was about 81 years or age. His body
was shipped to Chattanooga Tuesday
and funeral services held yesterday
morning at II at the Concord Bap-
tist Church on the Byrd's Mill High.
way and mterment made in the Con.
cord cemetry He was atone time
resident of that section. -
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
TO FORM POTATO
GROWERS ASSOCIATION

A Potato Growers Associa-
tion was formed in Cumberland
county Saturday at a meeting of
potato growers at court house
in Crossville, presided over by C.
E. Brehm of the Division of Ex-
tension, Knoxville. The advan-
tage of such an association is that
it enables the grower to sell his
potatoes direct to consumers, a,
voiding the middleman and there
by getting better price himself.
The meeting no doubt was
largely attended as there is great
interest in potato growing in
Cumberland county where potato
growing is very successful.
The time is coming when Cum
berland Mountain Plateau will be
the great potato growing region
of the South. 1t will be no longer
necessary to send to the northern
states for seed potatoes as has
been the custom for years past
for the South will supply itself
with seed from the potato fields
Of the broad plateau. And it is
good seed, the stock remaining
pure. For instance the Curtis
family residing on the mountain
near this city are growing Blue
Peerless potatoes of most excel
lent quality from seed originally
brought to the mountain 80 years
ago. Specimens of potatoes, good
ones, can be obtained from J. w.
Scofield of this city, who on land
on the side of the mountain near
here, raised nearly nine bushel
from one bushel of seed potatoes
secured from the Curtis family.
A large amount of the seed pota-
toes planted around here this
spring were mountain grown
stock, imported stock being too
high in price, and the results have
been excellent. In time these
advantages will become more ap-
parent.
A steady stream of money is
constantly tending northward and
as soon as Southern farmers
wake up to their own advantages
and possibilities the tide will turn
and the money rersoaiin at home to
be spent in home development.
On the Cumberland Plateau near
this city there are acres and acres
of lands now covered with timber
which is splendidly suited for po-
tato growing and which will even
tually be put to that use - when |
our people wake up, or some one
comes in and seizes the golden
opportunity.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
DEATH FROM PELLEGRA
4 OCCURS At JASPER

Jasper, Oct. 8.-Harrison Hol-
loway died at Jasper this morning
at the home of his father, Jerry
Holloway, of pellegra. He was
one of the drafted young men Of
Marion but being i'll with the
disease at the time was excused
on the certificate of his physician.
Or. j. A. Price. He was 25
years old.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
THE WHOLE NEIGHBoRHooD KNOWS

Mrs. Anna Pelzer, 2526 Jefferson ST..
So. Omaha. sNeb., writes, 'Foley's
Honey and Tar, cured my daughter Of a
bad cold. My neighbor, Mrs. Benson,
cured herself and family with Foley's
Honey and Tar and in fact most every
one in our neighborbood speaks highly
OF it as good remedy for coughs and
colds" For sale by J. W. Simpson 4
Son, Jasper, Tenn. ....5
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
GOT $500 FOR
TWENTY-FIVE HOGS

M. L. Turner of this city, ship
ped Saturday Is hogs to the Chat
tanooga market for which he got
5000 live weight, an average of
$36 per hog. Some of the ami
mails were large but the majority
were small in size but fat. These
hogs a few years ago would not
average over $40 apiece and
would have netted gross some
thing like $3.50. There is steady
shipment OF stock to the cities
now and indications are there will
be great scarcity of fat stock in
this county before long.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
LOCAL
RACES
To be Held at Chatta-
nOOga Saturday. a

Whether or not local drivers can
make better time in their smaller cars
than could Oldfield and Chevrolet,
will be demonstrated at Chattanooga
next Saturday when series OF events
for drivers from the Chattanooga dist
rct will be put on.
Last year at the Chattanooga Far
a day was devoted to races by local
drivers. This year Barney Oldfeld
and Louis Chevrolet were the stars.
Local drivers now claim that they
can make better time than the famous
pilots and to satisfy them, the Fair
Association has agreed to sponsor the
races which will be held at the Fair
grounds, Saturday afternoon, October
18th.
The purse will be $400. The elimi-
nation races will first be held for
distance of ten or fifteen miles and
then the three who are ahead in these
events will race twenty-five miles for
the purse. 1t promises to be the most
interesting and exciting series of auto
races ever held in this section of the
south, owing to the keen rivalry be-
tween the drivers, and the fact that
thew are all out to beat the time made
by Oldfeld and Chevrolet.
The local drivers claim they will
beat the professional drivers, or race
the wheels off their cars in the at
tempt.
The Pryor Garage of Jasper,
has entered two cars, a Ford
Special and a Buick, the Special
to be driven by Arthur Ferguson
and the Buick by Walter Price.
In the language OF a poet in the
Chattanooga. News, who has got
their go-et:
Old Terrapin Chevrolet ".I.
Met old Barney Oldfeld Snale;
They decided they would race bit
Together in the kale;
So they slipped off down in Dixie,
Where they thought we wouldn'tknow
The difference tween monkey wrench
And things supposed to go;
Though we haven't much to say,
And our mottos not to wall,
We can beat their time by parcel post,
Much less by frst.class mail.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
Something Worse.
(Exchange.)

Can you imagine, " said the
facetious teacher of natural his
tory, anything worse than a
giraffe with sore throat?"
Yes, sir" came the answer
from one boy.
What, pray?" asked the teach,
er, in surprise.
"A centipede with corns."
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
DEMOCRATS OF MARION
..a TO HOLD CONVENTION

Jasper, Oct. Son call of
Chairman A. T. Stewart the
Democrats of Marion will meet in
convention Saturday at Jasper to
appoint and instruct delegates to
the judicial convention to be held
in South Pittsburg Dec. IA, to
nominate candidates for judge
and attorney-general of the 18th
judicial circuit.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
THEVIOEINM MAKER

He wrought it tenderly, like lover
Out tof the heart of singing tree;
Humrning the song of the forest over
Marvel. and magic, and mystery;
Shaping with care the sounding hollow,
Curving it down like woman's hand
To hold the notes that should call, or follow,
Or laugh, or sob, tthe BOWS command
Piece by perfect piece he fashioned,
One sweet whole when the work was done;
But the flashing soul, the spirit passioned,
Were wood and river and morning sun;
And more than these-when, long years after,
Leapt out the song he had shut Within
Men said, with wonder, and tears, and laughter,
ale left his heart in the violin"
KATHARINE ATERTON GRIMES.
'N In Southern Agriculturist.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11

The four children of Mrs. Nettie
Pryor, who are confined with fever,
are improving rapidly. They have
been under the care of r. 0. Curry,
and Miss Lula Ferguson, as nurse
South Plttsburg Hustler.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11

Mrs. Belle Sutherland and son,
Mart, are spending the week with
relatives at Jasper.-Sherwood cor.
South Pittsburg Hustler.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11

Clint Colston of Whitwell. has
been attending court at Jasper.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
DAUGHTER BORN TO
d ASST. ATTY. GEN. STEWART 7

Jasper, Oct. 8.-A daughter
was born to Assistant Attorney
general A. T. Stewart and wife,
of Jasper, Saturday.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11
GRADE CARDS.

Grade Cards, large size, ox7t, lc
each, postpaid anywhere.
IT News PUBLIsHING Co,
.r nv, Sequachee, Tenn.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-11

Mrs. Josie Hardy. Whitwell,
will read the News for six
ordered by a friend.
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American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15
Value Of Wood Aahes.

Wood ashes are OF much value in
the garden and fruit plantation. They
supply potash, which some plants need.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

ture and feeding lots. Since MIR. Wood
began TO give his milk COWS pure wa
ter. he has added a female college.
several soda founts, and numerous
families 4 his list OF customers.
More Live Stock Needed.
= This farm and the surrounding coun-
try wal thoroughly infested with the
cattle or Texas fever tick. This tick
prevents the importation Of cattle from
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15
5000 RED-BLOODED MEN
ARE WANTED RIGHT NOW
Ry {. y. clark. RecruitIng sergt. III. S. I'd

(By {. F. Clark, Recruiting Sergt. U. S. Al
Uncle Sam wants $1,000 strong, red-blooded men by June goth TO
bring the regular army up to war strength!
Men who have the spirit of 7' in their breasts, who love their
flag and country, and who refused to have their freedom and persona
rights interfered with by some autocratc despot!
Valuable time for training and preparation is being lost. Why?
Because the. country at large does not realize the enormity of the task
America has undertaken. They are holding back-the men who should
go-waitfng for some horrible catastrophe to waken them to the stern
realization that the nation is embroled in a war that if lost will not
only saddle the citizens with a huge war indemnity, but reduce the
United States to a second-rate power.
Awaken, men of the westi You ar not engaged in a war of con-
quest nor of lust You are in a conflict that America entered into in
the interests of suffering humanity, throttled and kept down by the
iron heel of despotism and monarchy for centuries. You are in a war,
not Of Americas making, but one in which your mother nation was
forced to strike and strickland to preserve the liberty and self respect
you and yours have enjoyed.
Your flag has been tramped upon. Your rights as we'll as those
tiers, brothers, fathers and husbands hearts have been filed with sr-
row by scores Of despcable, murderous acts perpetrated and inspir-
ed by one who seeks to rule the world as he has ruled Germany-by
the mailed fist! Your rights, your sorrows, your trials your liberties
your respect your flag, your nation are at stake.
Are you going to stand slpiney by and later see the fighting forces
OF Kaiser WIhelm-forty years in the making-land on your shores
and take terrible toll Of the nation and its manhood and womanhood?
Or are you going to throw out your chest like the REAL MAN your
parents prayed you would be, and shoulder a musket like your ances-
tors of '6 to decisvely beat the enemy and insure the worldwide
peace for your children and self?
Young man, registration is no bar to voluntary enlistment. You
can enlist any time up to the date of your selection. Go to the recruit
ing office TODAY Take up arms in defense of your family and
country, and never have it said by others to those whom you love
and who love you, that you had to be forced to respond to your
cOuntrys call
Get into the army-make your neighbors. family, town and coun-
in the interests of humanity and America!
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15
PRACTICAL FARMER CAN, WITHOUT
BANK ACCOUNT, DO GOOD FARMING
Mississippi Farmer Changing Stumpy, Rundown Cotton Plantation
Into Profitable Dairy and Diversified Farm-New System Put
into Operation and Modern Implements Have Replaced
Old Ones-SoH Is Sandy Loan.

tho North for breeding purposes. It
often decreases the weight and al
ways lessons the rate OF putting flesh
on beef cattle and decreases the
amount OF milk produced by dairy cat
tie as the result OF the irritation and
loss OF blood occasioned by great num-
bers OF ticks. II decreases the price
that southern cattle bring on the mar
ket on account OF the quarantine line
This territory needs more and better
live stock and a larger and better dairy
industry and these objects will be
greatly promoted by the destruction
OF the tick
The concrete dipping vat filled with
arsenical solution has proven to DO the
most effective method OF destroying
the cattle tick. Mr.. Wood built a dip
ping vat by the plans and specihca-
lions and under the direction of Doctor
Chambers, inspector OF the United
States bureau OF amman h~usbandry.
Lincoln county furnished the neces.
sary money to purchase all material
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15
MONEY NOT TIED Up.

There seems to be an idea held by
some that money invested in a Liberty
Loan bond is going to be tied up for
fifteen or thirty years. This belief is
not warranted. Probably no property
in the world outside OF actual money
or currency will have a wider and
more ready and constant cash market
than the Liberty Loan bond.
There will be a constant demand
made for them from many sources.
They are good security for loans from
the federal reserve banks; courts have
decided that they are legal and proper
investments for trust funds; they are
legal Investments for insurance COM
panies and other corporations whose
investments are supervised and regu-
lated by law; their international
character being issued for an inter
national purpose and guaranteed in
part by our European allies) gives
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

my q. IA. Afford. state Demonstration
Agent. Maryland1
w. X. Wood, B~roOkhayen, Miss,
Is changing a stumpy. rundown gull
lied, cotton farm into q profitable dairy
and diversified farm. He Is attempt
Ing 10 show how an average farmer
can. without a bank account or the
use Of the credit system. do good farm
ing. An entirely new system Of farm
ing has been put into operation mod
ern implements have taken place OF
the old ones. stumps have been re-
moved from all but eight acres OF the
land, better drainage has been estab-
lished; improved seed has been intro
duced the land has been broken deep
or; better methods OF cultivation have
been praoticed plenty OF feed for man
and beast ia To- grown; fairly good
pastures have been established a dip
ping vat built; a silo built; a cream
separator purchased and 50 on.
Tho farm consists OF about 100 acres
OF hin and bottom land. Tho soil Is
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

same time of furnishing the necessary
ash to pay all expenses. In the farm
ing sections OF our country which have
enjoyed TIE greatest and most lasting
prosperity. the grasses and clovers
have always occupied an important
place. He has SO acres in a bermuda
and lespedeza pasture. The larger
part OF the land now devoted to per-
manent pasture was first planted to
winter oats. Small areas of the pas
ture is now well sodded in bermuda
and lespedeza or Japan clover. He
will thoroughly sod every square foot
of this pasture land in bermuda grass
and lespedeza within the next year or
two. The best pastures in the cotton
belt r perhaps those which In sum
mer consist of bermuda grass and les
pedeza. With the addition Of burr
clover, white clover. crimson clover,
hairy vetch and red top. when the
soil Is sufficiently fertile. such pas
lures a be grazed the year round.
MIR. Wood is not only increasing the
productiveness OF his soil he is also
improving the yielding power Of the
cat, corn and other seed planted on
this farm. He realizes the fact that
like produces like and he has pur-
chased the very best seed from per
fectly reliable seed breeders and will
use every known scientific method to
further improve the yielding power OF
the seed. His part In obtaining the
most prolific seed and in growing, Sc
lecting and caring for such seed will
not be ~appreciably greater thsn the
work necessary TO handle scrub seed.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

a sandy loan with yellow clay sub
soil. The lower levels OF the farm
were very poorly drained and as a
consequence the crops on these por-
lions have suffered severely during the
seasons OF excessive rainfall During
the past five years the willows in all
the low places have been cut and
bitches opened and the bottom
drained.
Land Was U~nproduotiVe.
For upward OF rs years the crops
have been for the most part cotton.
grown under the negro tenant sys-
tenn. As a result OF this practice. the
land was badly washed and reduced to
a very u%nproduotive state. II had a
local reputation OF being both poor and
Improbable. Il sold for $1,000 in
1898.
A. IN good farming, is clearing land
OF stumps and roots. We have reached
n point where the use OF labor saving
machinery ON the farm Is absolutely
necessary II we are TO supply the grow
ing demands OF a rapidly increasing
population and reap the highest re
wards OF prevailing prices. The noces-
sity for l~abor-saving machinery has be-
come more and more obvious with tho
growing scarcity OF labor and the con
sequeut high cost Of production.
The water supply for all stock comes
from a deep well. The water is raised
by means OF a pump aud a four-horse.
power engine and Is piped 90 the dwell.
ing and 10 the troughs and hog pas.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

May II, 16, 10, %, 26, 80;
June 2, 6, 8, 10, 16, 20, %, 27, 80;
July 4, IL, Is, 25;
August l, s, Is, %, 20;
September 8 and II, 1917.
Special low fares to Denver, Col
oradO Springs, Omaha, Kansas
City, Chicago, st. Louis, st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Memphis and many
other points.
Long Limits; diverse routes;
stop-overs.
Ask 0. S. L. Agents for rates and
further details.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15
Excursions East
Oregon Short Line

Union Pacific System
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

tested each month for butterfat by the
"Babcock test" He keeps only COWS
that show profitable records at the
pail. These COWS are kept In clean
arters, furnished pure well water to
rink and every p%recaution is taken
to prevent contamination Of the milk.
The cows Craze In a bermuda and
lespedeza pasture and are fed on les
pedeza hay, sllage and %cottonseed, mo-
lasses and cornmeal during the winter
months. The velvet beans, soy beans,
corn stalks and grass furnish good
grazing IN the fields during the winter
months. He sold s12.85 worth of dairy
products IN June, 1911. He sold S128.76
in October, 1915.
Mr.. l.. A. Higgins, dairyman for the
United states dairy division, deserves
much credit for the success of this
dairy. He planned the work and visits
the dairy every fifteen days and gives
full Instructions which are carried out
TO the letter. He and the many other
dairymen employed by the United
States dairy division are doing a great
work In. the South.
Disposition Of Milk.
He sells nearly all of the milk to the
female college, soda f%ounts, and pri-
vate families. However, he purchased
a separator to separate the surplus
milk. He does not make butter as he
can easily dispose of the cream OBJ
tanned from the milk hat he does not
place on the market. The separator
gets all the cream of the milk, the
cream obtained is sweet and Of the
highest purity and brings the top price
on the market. The warm, sweet milk
SKINNED by the use OF the separator
poultry. Practically all of the fat has
been taken out, but the milk still CON
tains proteids; that is. the material for
the formation Of ear flesh, blood,
%tendons, nerves, brain and horn.
Barnyard manure is rich in nitrogen,
phOsphoric acid and potash, and may be
regarded as just 50 much vegetable
matter. When left exposed in thin lay
ers or small piles in the barn lot, the
rains leach out a large per cent of the
soluble plant food. He allows the
horse manure to remain In the stables,
using plenty of straw for litter, It is
kept dry and keeps with practically
no loss. lie built a common large ma
nuro pen for the cow manure. The
rain water is not sufficient to leach
through but is usually sufficient to
keep the pile moist.
Farm Poorly Drained.
A considerable area of the farm was
poorly drained. Fortunately a small
creek crosses the farm and affords
an outlet for the water from the whole
farm. Although the fall in the bottoms
is very gradual, the water runs OFF
slowly after heavy rains. Thing and
other forms OF under drainage were
too expensive to be considered for the
entire farm, so fiat bottom bitches
have been dug to thoroughly drain the
land. Only ten acres have been tiled
The great problem before Mr.. Wood
is to restore the fertility of his worn
out cotton farm and to make the neces
sary money to support a family anC
equip the farm while he is accomplish
ing this much desired result. Grass II
the foundation OF successful dairy
farming, and dairy farming is probably
the most practicable mean of increas
ms the fertility OF the soil and at th'
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

and he built tho vat and filled IT with
a mixture OF 70 pounds OF sal-soda,
"a pounds OF white arsenic, three gal
Ions OF pine tar and 1900 gallons OF
water. His cattle and other farmers
cattle are dipped in this vat regularly.
The value of a silo on a farm can
not be overestimated. The dairy farm
er who has been unable to see the
value OF the silo in connection with
his dairy farm is generally looked
upon as IN unprogresslve farmer. Es-
pecially In the winter does the value
OF the silo become apparent as II Is
possible at all times to feed green
fodder to the milk cows and thereby
preserve both the quantity and quality
OF the milk product. With the use OF
the silo the farmer is enabled to save
the shucks. the fodder, the corn stalks
and the ears. and to keep up summer
feeding throughout the winter without
a break.
Mr.. Wood built a round stave silo,
cotton capacity. on a concrete founda-
ton at a total cost OF $116.35. II cost
s2.05 per ton TO grow the corn and
put the silage In the silo. This silO
was built according 70 the plans and
specifications and under the personal
supervision OF Mr. l. A. Higgins of the
United States dairy division.
Dairying Is Profitable.
There is no branch of farming that
Is more needed in the cotton belt than
dairying. Il is a most profitable indus
try In itself and is the means OF rapid
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

them as international status and mar
ket. They will be sought for in In
dia, in Egypt, Japan and Russia, Eng
land and France, Italy and Australia,
and in fact wherever any government
bond has a market.
They have been truly called the pre-
mier security of the world.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-15

Forty-fye persons at Freeport, ILL.,,
have entered a plea of guilty of fail
ure to register. T%hirty-six were
aliens and seventeen confessed to be-
ing members of the /. w. w.