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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
DYNAMIC RED CROSS MONEY
By FRANKLIN K. LANE,
Secretary OF the interior.

NUT of the S1OO 600. 900 gwen last June by the
~ American people to the Red Cross. nearly
one-half (S45, 900. .OOO) has gone to help the
refugees the orphaned children the repatriates and
wounded of the French. Belgian. Italian. Serbian
Roumanlan and other peoples.
The Red Cross has spent more than $50. .OOO.-
600 IN France alone in the establishment of canteens
for the poilus the reconstruction of devasted dis
tricts the care of homeless children the housing of
refugees the sending of food clothes and supplies
to the sorely burdened civilian population. More
than $2 600 900 has been spent in fighting tubercu
loss one of the worst of wars byproducts 81, 49,.
OOOhas been expended for the shelter ofwar orphans
7O9 736 has been appropriated for the reconstruc
ton of villages and general relief work in the dew
asted areas
In Italy great work of relief was organized
after the Austro-G German drive of last fall and the
thousands of refugees that came pouring over the
Pc and the Piave were aided by business-like and
far reaching supply and canteen service, mprovised
out of the existing organization. More than
So. OOO. 900 was thus spent for Italy.
American funds will soon make the plain of
Monastr fertile once more through the importation
of seeds and agricultural implements. In this section
of Serbia more than fifty thousand refugees have
been on the verge of starvation for nearly two years.
1t should be source of daily pride to every
American that our own Red Cross is adding new
glories to the American Name in the Mother
Continent Our full support is essential if its pres
ent mighty work of succor and human brotherhood
is to be continued on an ever increasing scale
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
Pine Hill.

Steeiai to tie NtacS.
Singing was attended at Pine
Hill by a large crowd:
Miss Matte Layne visited her
sister, Mrs. Jane Griffith, Sun
day night.
Farley Layne and Ike Slatton
visited in Happy Hollow Sunday.
If you want to see Oscar Crit
Eth smile ask him if he likes to
go to singing. Il.
Misses Alice, Eleanor and Ma
ry Harrison attended singing
Sunday night. .
Would like to read q piece from
Grays Creek.
Wonder when James M. Tate
is coming home on furlouQh. His
friends here would like to see
him.
Frank Layne called on 1. j.
Morrison Sunnay.
Sure would like to know who
Tulip" of the Pocket is.
Miss Violet Mccoy calledon her
cousin, Miss Delilah Layne Sun
daV afternoon.
Misses Mildred and Louise
Crenshaw were in Whitwell Sat-
day night and SunQay.
Jahu Layne and wife visited
in Happy Hollow Saturday night
and Sunday.
There will be Sunday school at
Pine Hill next Sunday. Every
body invited to corce as we want
to have a nice school.
If you want to see Mrs. W. F.
Crenshaw smile ask her how wet
she got the other day.
Mrs. Alice Griffith is still sick.
Hope she will sooC recover.
Walter Williams attended sing
ing Sunday night.
Miss May Morrison. of Victoria
is visiting her brother, W. c.
Morrison.
Wonder what Las become of
Sleepy Eyes" Of Griffith Creek.
| will describe myself next
time | write and ycu can guess
who | am. Good luck to all and
hope to see man good pieces
this week. Primrose.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
Thomas A. Campbell.

Thos. A. Campbell died Thurs
day night at the home of his
brother, Chas Campbell, on the
Turner place, east of Jasper, af-
ter an illness. of about three
months. beginning with an attack
of la grippe. He had been very
i'll, but was apparently some bet
ter Thursday when a sudden
change for the worse took place,
and he died that night. He was
At years of age, and had never
been married. He had been max
ing his home with his brother,
Charles, for some time. w. M.
Campbell of the mountain, is also
a brother, Funeral services
were conducted at the Lasater
graveyard Friday afternoon by
Rev. N. F. Thomas in the pres
ence of a number of friends and
relatives, and interment made
there. He had been a consistent
member of the Methodist Church
for years. and was an honorable
and upright man, whose demise
is greatly regretted.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
Pryor Ridge.
SbeciaI 10 he Ne7OS.

Special 10 lie Ne70S.
Hardie Cox, Raymond Tate
and Pat Bryant went fishing the
other day, but did not catch any
thing but tadpoles.
Roena Tate called on Hester
Cox Wednesday.
Hester Cox called on Myrtle
Nolan Saturday.
Mrs. Susan Cox called on Mrs.
Hester Brown Tuesday.
Mrs. Hettie Brown cslled on
Mrs. Louisa Nolan Saturday
morning.
Mrs. Susie Cox called on her
daughter, Mrs. Kilgore. Sunday.
David Nolan got a limb hurt
Saturday morning while shaking
pine logs. Hope he will recover
soon.
Miss Hester Cox says she would
like to go down in the cove agoin.
Come on, Dixon Cove CORES
pondent, we like your letters,
Hardie Cox has returned from
Whitwell, and is working in the
mines at Longs Ridge
Misses Myrtle and Ethel Nolan
visited Miss Hester Cox Sunday
afternoon.
Come on, soldier boys.
Honeysuckle.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
Whitwell.
Speetaife tie NeaOs.

Speetaife tie Nraos.
Mrs. |. R. Jordan is recovering
slowly from her fall from the de-
pot platform three weeks ago
and is now able Ito change from
her bed to a reclining chair. She
is still under the care of her moth
er, Mrs. S. G. Graham, at the
Graham House.
Holder Bros. are disposing of
their livery equipment and will
go out of the livery business.
Ed Holder and P. S. Harris
have formed partnership and
started the Whitwell Cafe, an
up-to-date restaurant, also hand
ling fruits, confections and ice.
0. r. Deakins now has one of
the best stores in Whitwell, locat-
ed in the Shirley Building. 1t
looks like department store.
N. B. Moore. the popular den
tist, is getting the fishing fever,
and as soon as the garage man
repairs his Maxwell he is going
to try Tennessee river.
A Carnival Company is COM
ing attraction to this city.
Esq. W. L. Barber was pretty
busy Saturday in Justice Court,
several civil suits being on the
docket.
B. T. Barber, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. L. Barber, who is now
in France with the American Ex-
peditionary Forces, cablegrams
his parents that he will be back
here in about sixty days, and
that everything is lovely and the
goose hangs high.
Whitwell Postoffice, under the
capable management of H. E.
Hudson and assistants, is selling
lots of stamps at the advanced
price and proudly floating A.
merican and Service Flags from
the flagstaff.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
BIG DEAL IN
MOUNTAIN LANDS
is PENDING

Rumors are circulating that a
big deal is pending affecting the
sale of the mountain lands near
Sequatchie, known as the Wal
lace lands.
An advertisement in the South
Pittsburg Hustler serves to in
dicate that G. Sherman, of this
city, will be appointed Trustee OF
the properties. so as to effect a
legal transfer in case of sale.
which it is rumored is already
made to the extent of $98. 825, OF
which one. fourth has been paid.
1t affects nearly 10000 acres OF
mineral and timber land.
One of the parties mentioned
in the deal is the Marion Timber
& Iron Co., of Chattanooga, but
it is not known that they are the
buyers. y
Several parties have been here
in the past sixty days looking
ing over the property, including
mineral experts, as we'll as capi-
talists.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
SecO, KY.

Sprf,ai 10 the We1Os
We are having fine weather here
M. K. Basham and son. J. K, went
to Neon Sunday.
Webb Kiser says Kentucky is the
only place for him.
Clyde and Charles Hamilton left
Nashville Saturday morning
Come on, "Peggy," of Ringgold,
l enjoy reading your pieces. Also
those of the soldier boys.
Wonder what is wrong with
"Rookie
Henry O'Neal was seen going to
the postofiice Saturday.
Come on, "Lone STAR" of Dallas,
your pieces are fine.
Wm. Monus says he is going to
leave here for Florence, Ala, before
long.
Andrew Powell was all diked up
Sunday. Wonder who his best girl
is.
John Sexton was injured in the
mines at LOWERS, Ky. He was
brought to Seco TO the hospital. The
nurse reports him getting along fine.
N. G. Prince has moved from Low.
iers, KY, to Seco. Tulip.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
Visiting Father.

Il. E. Tate, of the US. Navy,
is visiting his father. S. s. Tate,
Circuit Court Clerk, at Jasper.
The young man left Thursday to
rejoin his ship, when a message
was sent extending his furlouph.
He was already a. Bridgeport
awaiting a train %fen his father
caught him by auto. and convey
ed him the pleasing intelligence
that his furlough was extended,
and that he had a few more days
with the folks at home.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16

Rev. E. r. Lewis was called
to Victoria yesterday to conduct
funeral services over the BODY
of the 12-year-old daughter of
Walter Green, who died the day
before.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
The Tolbert Tent Theatre

The Tolbert Tent Theatre Co.
will be at South. Pittsburg next
week. This company will be
very pleasantly remembered as
putting on some excellent plays
at South Pittsburg last year.
The company is a good one. aug
mented by band and orchestra.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
Jasper.
Sbectal TO the N<11S

Special to the Nt1Us.
Mrs. Joe Warren has been very
sick.
The infant of Tom Colston was
brought to Oak Grove for burial
last week.
Hugh Curtis of Ft. Oglethorpe,
has been here, to see his sister,
Mrs. Henry Haynes, of Pryor
Ridge, who is very sick at the
home of her father, K. D. Cur.
tis.
Mrs. Gibson spent Saturday
and Sunday with Mrs. Sarah Hol-
loway.
John Gibson has moved to
Dunlap.
Miss Lena Hudson spent Sun
dayin South Pittsburg with Miss
Flora Proba.
Lewis Holloway has gone to
Montgomery, Ala, to work for
the government.
Hubert Webb has been sick.
Mrs. Nell Webb was in Jasper
shopping Monday.
John Curtis, wife and little son
went to Tracy City,Sunday to see
Mrs. Curtis father. who was
leaving for Herrin, III.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Grimes called
on Mrs. BERTHE Curtis Sunday
MMr. and Mrs. Scarborough call
ed on Mrs. Tom Forester Sun
day.
Will Hudson and wife called
on Mrs. Rebecca Quarles Monday.
MarysHolloway has gone back
to her father since her husband
has been working for Uncle Sam.
Mrs. Bertie Curtis is working
in the hosiery mill at So. Pitts.
burg.
Mrs. May Pennington was in
Jasper shopping one day last
week.
People are very busy garden
ingnow.
Mrs. Nellie Forester called on
Mrs. Willie Webb last week.
Mrs. Hughes called on Mrs. j.
B. Warren Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Russell,
of Whitwell, spent Saturday and
Sunday with Albert Templeton.
Mrs. Geo. West has returned
from a visit to her mother, Mrs,
Privett.
Mrs. Griffith Ihach called on
on Mrs. J. B. Warren one day
last week.
Mrs. Nancy Tuders called on
Mrs. J. B. Warren Tuesday.
Rose Warren spent Tuesday
night with her grandmother,
Mrs. Nancy Tuders.
Mrs. Iva Templeton called on
Mrs. Ben West Tuesday.
Mitchell Welch has joined I'm
Gle Sans work and is well and
enjoying it very much.
Jack Warren has quit hauling
coal and gone to plowing.
Some of our gardeners have
had new potatoes.
Like to hear from Red Rose"
and the soldier boys.
Black Beauty.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
Want Pretty Girls to Write.

Editor News:
Can't and wont you get, obtain,
borrow, beg, steal, lend or give us
some names of pretty girls to cores
pond with?
TROOP OF
LONESOME SOLDIERS
26th Balloon Co, Post Field, Ft
Sill, Okla. By Sgt. VIM E. Nay
lor.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16
0kfuskee, Okla.
SnTciaIfo fAe Nezpr.

| SnEnaIko tAt Nezpl.
| Something got wrong with the
electric plant Monday night and
the city of Okfuskee was in dark
ness all night, and the street cars
could not run.
Lee Burklin came down Broad
street at breakneck speed in his
new Ford.
A. J. Dickson has purchased a
fine span of burros. | guess he
is going to Arkansas, as he went
down there about a month ago
and stayed all night and said it
was a fine country.
]. L. Burklin is done planting
corn and cotton and has plowed
his corn over.
Lee Burklin, K. Gilbert, Leo
nard Burklin, A. J. Dickson,
Herman and Homer Dickson went
fishing last night and came back
loaded.
DIR. Barlow, whose Office is on
the third floor of A. J. Wheeler
& Co.'s drug store, has bought
his daughter. Helen. car, and
you bet she can drive it. too.
Say, used to know man by
the name of W. H. Jordan, who
used to live between Victoria and
Inman, and if l knew his ad-
dress might write him a letter.
Anyone who ever sawh him, knows
him, for he is the ugliest man in
the world, but used to be mighty
good man-say, wait a minute
until | explain-I mean physi-
cally, for | sure saw him toss a
man over his head who weighed
100 pounds, in a shop at St. Elmo.
J. N. Dickson, who is mana
ger of the Okfuskee Grain & Ell
evator Co., has moved off of
Main St., and now lives in North
Okfuskee near Cottonwood Park.
Alb Newten has put in a gar
age on 18th St.
Pearl Coins, formerly of Ok
mulga, has moved on Main St,
and is running a barber shop,
Say, that oklahoma Sister"
who used to write for the News,
| don't think she liked for peo-
pie to know how big she is, She
don t weigh over $50 lbs. Poor
little sister.
L. f. Dickson has his crop
planted and his corn plowed ov-
er. Linus is a hustler. He is
strong on poke sallit and says he
likes corn bread, but he is liar.
| went over to stay all night with
him and he had poke sallit laying
back il one corner of the house.
Charlie Vickers is running the
Main Hotel now on the corner of
Main and Sandusky SITS. Char
lie has a good trade started. He
accommodated two lodgers last
month.
Homer Dickson, the Okfuskee
cow boy, got a pay day Saturday,
and Okfuskee wouldn't hold him
and he had to go a,fishing and
stayed all night.
Listen, John Dickson went to
town and got a pair of shears.
He came back home and started
to shear one of his big burros,
but it kicked so hard he had to
take it to a barber shop to get it
reached.
Alb Newton and Herman Dick
son walked to Tuskeega and back
and said they got lost. | think
they went up there to swap pock-
ct knives with someone or to sell
a knife or buy one, don't know
which.
Wonder what has become of
H. +. Holmes, of Superior, Wyo-
ming, as | haven't heard from
him in a long time.
l.. F. Dickson, veterinary SER
geon, performed an operation on
n WOO rl;po which had hpap shot
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-05-16

Lee Brewer has purchased the
house and LOT of Edgar Barrett in
South Sequatchie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
Disappearance of L. S. Collier
Still a Mystery.
Theory of German Raider Is
Discounted.

Washington. April 16.-Disappear-
ance of the navy collier Cyclops. with
about 800 aboard, promised today to
go down in the annals of the sea as
one of its strangest mysteries.
The navy, tho still searching the
tropic seas, has virtually abandoned all
but the faintest hope of finding her
or any trace of her crew.
The strange engulfing of the ship
in the waste of waters lent itself to
many romantic tales of plots to wreck
her, but thus far Captain Wells intel
ligence officers have been unable to
establish the truthfulness of any of
the stories.
A complete tabulation of intelli-
gence reports from all corners of the
world seemed to dissipate the theory
that German raider or submarine
had again SUNK into the western At
lantic- So today many turned to the
theory that plotters within wreck ed
the engines. put out of commission
the wireless and somehow spirited the
ship away to some out of the way port,
or scuttled her enroute to home port.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
HOW AN |. w. W. WORKS
Tactics Practiced to Brighten Pro-
posed Jurymen.

Chicago, April 16.-Tactics alleged
to have been put in practice to
brighten prospective jurors in the trial
of 113 I. w. w. members accused of
conspiracy to hamper war activities
were made public today by federal
agents. A stranger will visit a neigh
borhood where a prospective juror
lives, according to complaints II ade to
government officers and will strike up
a casual acquaintance with some one
known to be friendly to the venire-
men. In the course of conversation
he will be likely to say:
These l. w. w. fellows are a bad
lot. Now there was a case out in the
northwest. They convicted an I. W.
w. and at the end of six months all
the jurors were dead Oh, they are
a desperate lot
With this seed sown he goes away,
it is added in the hope that the story
will get back to the prospective juror
and it usually does. Rapid progress
was made in the trial yesterday the
first day since the dismissal of the
panel a week ago by Federal Judge
Lands. AS a result six men were in
the jury box today as tentatively ap-
proved by the government attorneys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
SANTA FEE NOTES

Notes and personals from Santa 20
ty Frances Jones. 211 Grattan street
Telephone between anc ~ a.. $50.
other hours 4751 K-2.
Word has been received from Daniel
Butler who is in France sending his best
wishes to his fellow workers. The letter
which written March 16 was received
by his uncle. William Butler. of the coach
shops. Mr.. Butler is with Railway Unit
and before his entrance into the army
worked in the Topeka shops.
Lieut.. B. III. Porter has resigned. from
the 10th Field Artillery. Battery G. and
has re-entered the employ of the company
in the stores department Lieut. Porter
WAS stationed at Fort Sill. Okla.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Metzger are the
parents of a daughter. born Sunday morn
ing They will christen her Helen Vir-
sinia Mr.. Metzger is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Metzger.
Mr.. and Mrs. George HelwiG and family
have changed their residence from 81
Chandler to 626 jefferson street
Engineer Robert Brentnan is aking the
place of Engineer John Hand on 101 and
los between Topeka and st. Joseph. Mo.
Engineer Hand is off for several days.
Fireman William Roberts has returned
to work on 81 and e. after spending a vaca-
ton visiting varions points in Colorado.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Roberts.
Engineer and Mrs. I. Roy Hoover of
Argentine spent short time in the city
Monday.
Miss Anna Barton of the~telerraph de-
partment is i'll at the company hospital
She expects to undergo an operation soon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
NEW IMPORTS BILL
Restrictions Will Be Placed on Some
Articles Imported.

Washington. April ia new inn
ports restriction list will he issued in
a few days by the war trade board, be
ginning the curtailment of transporta-
ton of many articles of every day use
in American homes. The first list cut
off only commodities of which there
was an ample supply or which would
be produced here. The second will
make ii necessary almost for the first
time since the war began. for people
80 do without"
Extent of the list and the amount
of tonnage to be saved for war pur-
poses have not been made known.
Com erences have been held with rep
resentatives of the trades affected and
in some instances with representatives
of governments of foreign countries
from which the imports come. Every
effort has been made to work as little
hardship as possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16

clerk of this court conditioned in de-
fault of said agreement to continuous
ly operate said railroad, to pay this
plaintiff, or his assigns. all DANA ges
by him sustained in not being awarded
the right to dismantle and sell said
property at this time in the most ad-
vantageouS manner"
The hearing of this motion and the
motion to confirm the sale occurs at
Kansas City. Kansas, next Saturday.
THE decree recites that under no
circumstances will the purchaser be
permitted to junk the railroad but,
being given the right to buy it at a
fraction of it's admitted value, they
must operate the road or pay the
present owner whatever he may lose
by reason of his not being permitted
to sell the property at this time in
the most advantageous way.
Every railroad operating in Leav-
enworth has been offered the L. & T
on very moderate terms if an agree
ment to operate it would be made. AT
the hearing, Mr.. Cass, She president of
the Kansas City Northwestern rail-
road, testified that after he had care
fully examined the property and audit
ed its various stations, he would not
take the property as a gift, if coupled
with a contract to operate it. Every
one who has given the subject any
investigation is convinced that it can
not he made to pay operating ex-
penses. and the money invested by the
purchasers will inevitably be lost
When the merchants and farmers
along the line discover that they must
operate this railroad and give the
bond. and that they have been mis-
| led bv the soft words of the politicians
seat at the ring side will be worth
Uhile -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
WANT AMERICAN GOODS
But Denmark Must First Agree to
Deny Germany.

Washington, April 16.-Eeports
that Danish importers seeking to force
a release of American products have
been circulating, limiting that unless
they are permitted to purchase what
they please their trade will go to
Germany after the war, has drawn
from the war trade board assurance
that everything possible will be done
to safeguard American commerce.
Proposals for commercial agree
ment with Denmark. similar to those
with other countries, have been held
in allegiance for several weeks owing
to the refusal of the Danish govern
mert to give assurances required of
all neutrals that the goods obtained
from the United States should not be
allowed to go into Germany or to
substitute for domestic products sent
into Germany. Until an agreement is
reached nothing will be licensed for
EXPORT to Denmark but as soon as the
two governments come to an under
standing the United States will allow
the expectation of ample foodstuffs.
raw materials and Ctured
goods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
WILL annex NOW
German Reichstag Peace ResO-
luton Is AnnulIed.
No AnneXatiOns or Indemnities
Peeved Hertling.

Washington. April 16.-The Ger
man government has definitely an
nulled the peace resolution without
annexations or indemnities" passed
by the majority of the reichstag last
July, according to an official dispatch
today from France. The pan-German
organ Tageblatt Rundschau is quoted
as follows:
Count Hertling informed the lead
ers of the majority parties that if
they adhered to the resolution he
would resign. Factions of the MAORI
ty then adopted the chancellor's point
of view and formally declared that
they accepted the new program of the
imperial government which includes
the incorporation by Germany OF
French territory and of the abolition
of the coast of Flanders well as
the payment to Germany by the west
ern powers of a considerable W. in
demnity"