Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-07-26
Arlington, Tex.

ter days together, but such was the
happy occasion that We writer partici
pated in recently To begin with, on
the 18th inst, l got letter from my
old friend, Milt Dame. of Crisp, Ellis
Co. Texas, saying he would be in
Arlington that evening and for me to
meet him. I was catching my team
to go to blowing when the wife got
the letter and called to me that Milt
was coming. turned my team lose
and caught old Bonaparte and hitched
her to the buggy and tied her to the
hitching post. ran into the house to
dress up for the occasion. pulled off
my dirty shirt and put it back on,
grabbed my hat and jumped into the
buggy, and called to Boney to start.
and every time l started she would go
back to the hitchiug post The wife
and girls were on the porch laughing
at me. At last they said If would
unbitch from the post may be l could
get away. 1 did and it worked like a
charm. I got to town without any
more trouble, found Milt and got
back home all right. On Saturday,
the IA, A. L. Bracken, better known
as Lone Star" came over and we
sat up until the wee hours and cussed
and discussed everybody and every
thing in old Marion county from 1861
down to the present bond election. On
Sunday morning we hitched up two
buggies and the big wagon and wend-
ed our way out to w. E. Haward's.
and we're met there by another son.
in-law and daughter, and also by Mr..
Haward's father and mother, of
Grapevine, to celebrate the Both an
niversa1y of the birth of our oldest
daughter, Mrs. W. E. Harvard. Each
one brought well filled basket of
something good to eat. and little tok-
ems of love and remembrance for EN-.
ma. At high noon the good women
spread the dinner ont under the shade
of big oak tree, and oh my. L am
not able to describe, nor can tongue
express what took place there for the
next hour, but one thing certain, l
know clone Star" was not able to
cat mole than one little dish Of ice
cream when we got back home that
night, and everyone that knows him
can draw their own conclusions about |
what had taken place under that oak
tree Amos and Milt left for their
home Monday morning to our regret
that they could not stay longer Will
say to them, come again.
Well, the threshing season is about
over and great was the yield. Some
crops of oats made as high as III
bushels per acre and some wheat 35.
average about 25. Seventy five at pres
ent prices is very good.
On Friday evening someone lit
cigarette, and dropped the match in
the stubble, it caught fire and If it
had not been for quick action and
good judgement they would have
burned 30 acres of wheat and 80 of
pats for Mr.. Hendricks, but the boys
grabbed the feed sacks and buckets of
water and lit into it, and extinguish
I'd the fire before it had done much
1amsge. Four shocks of wheat were
burned before they got the fire out
md it was so hot that several got
,verheated in the time Of it, and are
ZEAL sick at present, among them be-
ng my Oldest boy Sam. He is under
he treatment of doctor this week,
,ut is improving. 1t should be
warning to all not smoke cigar
ties or drink strong drink. They
themselves are not the only ones to
uffer, but the innocent as well. For
Instance, we bad drunken row here
t Arlington the night of the 9Th.
FOUR country boys got too much John
3arlecorn and got into a fight, and ;
heir best friends went to separate
hem and one was hit by brickbat.
bursting bis skull. He is lingering
unconscious In a FIT Worth sanatari- Z
IN and charge of attempt to murder 4
$ resting on the boys. Fathers, be s
areful how you train your boys. One q
f those boys father has taken his Bi .
lie and preached that it was right to 4
lake whiskey and drink it. but alas, 3
fter bis boy is in trouble and an in 3
ocent man near deaths door, that 3
ian has changed to the dry side, and .
avs be has been wrong. .
Crops in my settlement are good, 3
ut three miles west and the same 3
asst, corn is burned up. There is a b
rip here of three miles wide that has ~
OF suffered a great deal for rain, and n
lille am writing this, we ale having AZ
mother good rain. n
| was in Fl. Worth a few DAYS ago Al
nd called on J. A. Lewis over the at
ire. He told me be was we'll him ~
If, but Mary had been very sick, a
ut was able to sit up at the time. At
rit and wife were in Houston on bus Il
less 81
Was the Arthur Smith that got ~ >,
armed at Dunlap, our old friend, Ar Al
lur, of Jasper. | am sorry to hear II
ko a.