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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08
Alexander Building
Changes Hands

The Alexander Building at
Jasper, one of the best store
buildings in the city. changed
hands Saturday. when it was
purchased by S. 7. Simpson. Jr..
of Bridgeport, and William Simp-
son, of Jasper. local manager of
the telephone Office. 1t is now
occupied by Vann & Alley as q
department store. who have not
yet fully decided what they will
do. They may possibly build as
they own a splendid corner on
the north side of the square.
The Simpsons expect to enter
the mercantile business next fall
or perhaps sooner with full line
of goods.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08
FEW ATTEND
GRAVEYARD WORKING

Very few attended the grave
yard working set for Owen ceme-
terry Saturday. The attendance
of workers was only five, but
considerable work was done.
There still remains a vast amount
of work. and more interest should
be shown. The people are again
asked to take a hand next Sat-
urday morning at 9 o'clock.
Some of the enclosed lots are
frightfully neglected and the
families concerned should make
an effort to clean them up.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08
To Live Forever
and Then Some.

Hon. B. G. Mckenzie, attorney
general of this circuit, forward
ing subscription to the News as
as prompt as the promptest,
says: May you live forever
and then some. Your paper like
springtime's sweet hour, brings
good cheer" Such comments as
these make us look up and fee
that life is worth while. The
News gets many hard knocks
and when it finds a friend ap'
preciates the discovery. Ben
seems to be all right and and 9
"big un. -
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08

/ am like that soldier boy who
lost both legs in the fight across
the Atlantic who in writing to his
father and mother asked them
not to grieve saying:
From the time you are born
Till you ride in the hearse,
There is nothing so bad,
But what it might be worse. f"
And he was right.
Lovingly,
TENNESSEAN.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08
'Tennessean" Writes Of Extra
ordinary Performance in a
"Flivver." docs Slack Wire
Act in Cranking Car in "Mid
Ocean-.-Goes Fishing But Fish
Decline to Attend Services.

preacher. mean he owns one
horse rather than two. That re.
minds me, also, that not many
men own horses in these days.
Henry Ford has put old Dobbin
out of business, and it is only the
man that cannot own a Tin Liz
zy" that goes jogging along at
the rate of four miles an hour
when his nelghbor across the
way gets out and wheels away at
the rate of thirty miles an hour
without having to use the whip.
Well, / was saying | went fish
ing and we did some good work.
too. | took the dear brother Che
is a brother when it comes to
eating at the Masters table) in
to my fiivver and soon we were
dragging the creek for the finny
tribe, but not a member of the
finny tribe could we pursuade to
take our bait. and so late in the
evening we made our way back
| to the village with nothing to
show for our trouble, but fisher
mans luck.
| | have decided that it is not
worth while to go fishing with
nothing but grub worms for bait.
If | were a fish | would have to
study a long time and be mighty
hungry to eat a grub worm. Now
| | like to go duck hunting and it
has been my good fortune to go
after the green heads quite, fre-
quently since / have been in this
big country. We have lakes out
here that cover from50 acres to
rs acres and the ducks are num-
erous. / am thinking now of my
last sortie for these fowls Of the
north. Two friends were visit
ing me, one of whom wanted to
go duck hunting and so to please
mya company and to pass the
time away as pleasantly as possi-
bic, | took the two men in my
little rambling Ford and went
forth. In a short time we round
ed up at a lake on which there
were from one hundred to one
thousand ducks. Now there are
no trees or embankments here
for you to slip up behind, so if
you get any ducks you have to
rush them, as they say out
here. That means you must take
a running go at them ynd rush at
them before they fly away. So
on this occasion l was at the
wheel with my two friends in
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08
BABY TANK
GREAT EXHIBIT

The exhibition eff the baby tank
at Jasper Monday evening was
thoroughly interesting, and gave
the large numbers attending a
much better idea of some of the
terrible machinery of the world
war. The tank left South Pitts
burg via the pike at 2 o'clock.
but broke down. rivets being lost
from the tractors. which are like
the feet Of a caterpillar. Ar
rjving in Jasper the people were
addressed from the top of the
strange construction of steel,
by the sergeant in charge and
what he said had considerable ef-
feet on the people. The armor
was dented by bullets, and his
description of the work of the
tanks was the vivid one of a
soldier who was really there.
Mr.. Kline, of Richard City. spoke
for the Victory Loan. which in
the Jasper Zone was $11,50O be-
hind, and in a short time it was
reduced to less than $40, 600, and
we understand more will be
heard from later. Two thous-
and dollars we're pledged by Thos.
Turner and J. r. Janey and $500
by Mrs. M. E. Walker
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08
My dear Mr.. Editor:

My dear Mr.. Editor:
You may tell Miss Smarty''
for me that / have not been
foundered and in the hospital
from eating too much shortened
bread" have been otherwise
engaged since the shortened
bread letter was written. | have
been to Missouri where they say
Show me" | like Missouri
pretty well, bul if Miss Smar-
ty" has occasion to pass through
Kansas City, would like to warn
\ her against going into the places
where they propose to give away
!. catalogues. saw a fellow come
very near getting taken in by a
confidence man. Had it not been
for the warning voice of friend
there is no telling where that
fellow would be at this writing.
How sad it is to think that there
are, men who make it their bust
ness to prey on the trustful and
unwary. But there are many OF
that kind in this great big, beau
tiful world that our good Heav-
enly Father has given us in which
to live and get ready for a more
glorious one after this one is to
be our home no longer.
Then, in addition to my having
been to Missouri. | have had 9TH
er duties to perform. 1t will
soon be twenty-five years since |
!. took blushing, trembling young
/. lady to the marriage altar and
made some very strong promises
to the officiating Justice of the
Peace, and saw her change her
name which was a long and mus
ical one, for my name which is a
short and unmusical one. | shall
never forget that day. 1t was
the thirteenth day of May, an un-
lucky day for the girl. but most
lucky one for me. Mr. Editor. |
am not given to superstition. |
do not believe in the "hoodoo"
but | do believe that one day is as
good as another. | had just as
leave sleep in room number thir-
teen, or ride in birth number
thirteen as any other. 1t is not
where you are, but what you are,
/, that makes or mars your happi-
ness. This | have found out for
myself during the little short life
of half century that | have liv-
ed.
Fishing! Yes. | went fishing,
and with a one horse Baptist
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08
Graveyard Working.

There will be a graveyard
working. at the Pickett graveyard
near New Hope the fourth Satur-
day in May, which is the oath.
Everybody is invited to come.
Bring full baskets and plenty of
tools.
J. L. PICKETT,
New Hope, Tenn.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08

Mrs. Ethel Sampson, Cleve-
land, Ohio, wishes to keep in
touch with the news from this
section and pays subscription for
one year.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-05-08

the rear seat. They were enjoy
ing life. swapping yarns and sc
forth. Ihad the only gun there
was in the crowd, and although
| was dying to do the shooting.
courteously asked my friends il
either of them could shoot. They
replied. we can shoot, but we
cannot hit anything" | said,
well, | can shoot and hit. too, y
so here we went | pulled the
throttle wide open and rushed 'em
at the rate of thirty miles an
hLur right down toward that
lake. When we were in shoot
ing distance of the ducks pulled
the trigger of my Sears & Roe
buck hammerless and down came
a duck. But that was not all,
far from it When | tried to
stop my Jitney, the brakes would
not work, and so on we sped and
did not stop until | had split that
lake wide open for a distance of
twenty yards or more. Seeing
what | was into and not being a
Baptist, | laid my old gun down
somewhere and took hold of the
wheel and headed for dry land
but when | was in about fifteen
steps of the bank, my Jitney
stuck and so there we were. |
turned to see about my company,
and there they were with their
eye balls standing out on stems
and their feet hanging over the
sides of the car, waiting for the
next move which was to put
chains on the best we could and
get out without getting wet and
cold. While we were there work.
ingito get out dry some men pass
ed in wagon and by their kind
ness helped us out. We had a
wire and tied it to the front AK
lie of the fiivver and cranking it
with my left foot we were soon
out. The boys asked me what |
meant by such a stunt. and |
told them | was writing a book
ON Life on the Plains of Tex
as" and was pulling off that
sort of a thing to make the book
interesting. They said they
would like to read the book, but
did not care to assist any further
in illustrating it.
Well, since the last sentence
was written have eaten dinner.
Miss Smarty", you ought to
have been here for dinner. 1t
would not have been like being
at Mr.. w. R. Jones'. They have
fried chicken or good old boiled
hen and dumplings. | had pota-
toes for dinner, just plain Irish
potatoes. PerhapsI | had better
modify that statement, for had
only potato, just one 'tater- 1t
is this way. That good woman |
spoke of just a while ago, has
been away on a visit to some
down in Texas three
hundred miles away. You see
we do not stand back on distance
in Texas. If we did we would
never go anywhere. Well, when
she is at home she is my cook
and we have lots of good things
to eat but when she is away |
have potatoes and boiled eggs,
but today the eggs were conspi-
cuous by their absence. | had
but one potato. That re-
minds me of dinner | ate a long
time ago out at Walden's Ridge.
My father and | had been toChat-
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17

comes pauses. seems to mediate; resumes Its
course, rushes along the ship from end to end like
an arrow, circles about, springs aside, evaces'
rears, breaks, kills, exterminates."
The bomb was a regular sized depth charge,
weighing hundreds of pounds, and 1t would have
been impossible for anyone to have lifted 1t and
carried 1t to safety even II one OF the crew had
cared to take the risk of catching it In its Wild
rushes and rollings about the deck. So the Off
GERS and men stood for a time watching the
charge as 1t thrashed madly about, wondering
what to do, and not knowing what minute the in.
fernal machine might explode and send all hands
flying into eternity.
Suddenly someone cried "The pin has come
outl"
Whether Mackenzie had been In some other
part of the ship until that moment, or whether
he had been standing with the others staring In
hopeless wonder and was only aroused by the
cry. reports do not say. But 1t is recorded that
less than a second after the shout was raised the
plucky Yankee boatswain's mate dashed down the
deck and flung himself on the rolling bomb, much
after the fashion that football players throw
themselves on the ball.
Three times he had his arms about II, but each
time Il tore away, once almost crushing him as
the roll of the ship hurled 1t upon him. The
fourth time, however, he got a firm hold on 1t,
and with almost superhuman effort heaved 1t up
right on one fiat end. Then Mackenzie sat down
on the deadly charge--though even In that po-
sition the bomb might have exploded and blown
him to atoms-and succeeded In holding IL until
lines could be run to him and the charge lashed
safely to the deck.
The commanding officer OF the Remlik In his
report recommending that the medal of honor be
conferred on Mackenzie, says:
Mackenzie. In acting as he did, exposed his
life and prevented a serious accident and prob
able loss Of the ship and the entire crew. Had
the depth charge exploded on the quarterback
with the sea and the wind that existed at the time
there is no doubt that the ship would have been
lost"
Mackenzie is a native Of Massachusetts. His
home is South Hadley Falls.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17

men was ordered to go into Sergy and to hold a GER
tain street. The Germans were still in the town and
were raking all roads approaching with a storm of
machine gun fire. The platoon emerged from a
wooded shelter on the north bank of the Ourcq
and made its way across a sloping field toward
the outskirts of the village. There it was met
with a whitening hail of bullets that Immediately
began to thin the ranks, but the men kept on GO
ing.
AS the little company drew nearer the town
= the fire from the German machine guns increased.
1t became so deadly accurate that by the time
the platoon had entered the village only 20 odd
of the original 80 men remained, and James Hy-
land of Brooklyn, N. Y, was one of those 20.
Immediately on entering the town the platoon
made its way to the street it had been ordered to
hold. The men sought shelter behind a pile of
debris at the head of the thoroughfare, a poor
shelter indeed and one swept by machine guns and
snipers from three sides. But the lieutenant in
command, who is now dead, decided that mas.
much as his orders were to stay there until re-
lIeved, there he would stay.
Every Hun in that end Of the town seemed to
be directing his undivided attention to the little
company of Americans behind its fimsy shelter.
The snipers were everywhere. A particularly
deadly fire came from machine guns placed in a
Red Cross building; so fierce was it that the men
spent nearly all of their ammunition trying to get
those guns. and finally rushed the building, but
they had to come back.
Foodless and waterless, they stayed there all
that day. AS the hours dragged on, the gallant
band grew smaller and smaller. BY afternoon I'll
of the officers had been killed and the privates
elected commanders, who one By one were shot
down.
When relief reached them at seven. o'clock that
evening Hyland and one comrade-whose name
isn't given-were all that were left of the 80 who
started out In the morning. Hyland was In COM
mand, and the two men were shooting their last
cartridges at the machine gunners up the street
they had been ordered to hold.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17
Forest Fire Is
Big War Evil

The president, we are told by Sci
ence, New York, has authorized a loan
Of 81 100000 to the forest service for
fire fighting expenses, to meet emer-
gency conditions in the national for
ests Of the northwest and the Pacific
coast.
The loan was made from the special
defense fund OF $4,000, 900 placed at
the disposal of the president by con-
gress. 1t Is recognized that the pro-
lection of the national forests Ia nm
important and ~essentia, war activity.
Forestry officials regard the present
fire season In the northwest az in some
ways the most serious with which the
government has eve had TO cope. Ear
ly drought high winds, electrical
storms, labor shortage and depletion of
the regular protective force as a result
OF the war have combined to make the
fire conditions unprecedentedly bad.
Necessity for resort to the presidential
fund wa due TO the fact that the APP
preparation bill for tho department OF
agriculture for the current year had
not yet been passed.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17
Y. M. C. A. IN DARKEST RUSSIA.

The rural group (f the American Y. M. O. A.
In hussia) dealt with another need Of national
magnitude. The mighty Yolga basin, covering
more than half a million square miles, IN unable
even In normal times wholly to feed the huge
population 1t holds. 70. T. Cotton in Association
Men says a floating exhibit was made up to visit
and Impress the teeming riverside communities
with the Importance of more sowing, better pro-
auction and fuller conservation. A staff Of 35 was
organized to demonstrate with models, moving pie
lures, lantern slides, charts and lectures such neg.
lected subjects as seed selection, cultivation. dairy
ing, horticulture, animal husbandry. bee keeping.
domestic economy, play life for children and other
aspects OF community welfare.
This association conception and undertaking
won instant recognition, the government furnish
ing a steamboat, a barge and some funds.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17
Why OIL Floats on Water.

II seems very curious nt first sight
that n liquid should be able TO float
on the surface of another; but II we
think carefully about II we see OF once
that whether e thing floats on the sur
face OF water or not depends upon
two things, writes the Child's Book
Of Wonders. First, whether It Ia solu-
ble-that IL, will dissolve-5n water or
not. For instance, II we put a piece Of
salt In water IT disappears, because
the salt IL soluble In water. If, how
ever, we put a piece Of light wood on
water II floats there because IT Ia not
soluble. and therefore remains intact.
and also because the weight of the
piece Of wood Is less than an equal
piece OF water. II In much the same
with oil. OIL and fat are quite insoi-
uble In water, and as the oil is con-
siderabiy lighter than the bulk Of wa
ter 1t floats on the surface.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17

to ugly severity but generally n OF
the most substantial buildings. Then
comes the post Office, with its bl-lln-
quail notices; for, since the Boer var
and the settlement OF the Union, the
Dutch and English languages are now
given ar equal position even In dis
tricts which are essentially English.
Finally, there Is the town hall. livery
dorp aspires to a town hall. eve
though II be built of wood and iron.
1t may have tQLserve as a market hall,
or eve for a picture show It times.
The visitors general impression IL
that life Is quiet and %peaceable, no one
seems to hurry, every one appears ,
have time to tarry and talk. Business
often takes "A second place In n store
until the small social amenities have
been exchanged. 1t is usual to apply
the term sleepy" to all dorps; the
gentle accusation may be true after
the hurry of Durham or johannesburg,
and certainly would be just II thinking
In terms OF New York. Life is happy,
the air is warm, the simple necessa-
rles are easily obtained, and, provided
that n Ia not possessed by the fiery
ambition OF the hustlIng type. peace
and calm may easily compensate for
the lack Of some or the veneer of mod
ern civilization which. after all, is so
thin.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17

abled plane. The pilot was crouched on the top
of the under plane just over the bomb rack with
a heavy wrench in his appraised hand, ready to
strike a blow.
A mile away the first of the German destroyers
was tearing the sea in its haste to take the broken
plane and get away before the British patrol
should appear. The boy turned and swan away
from the tragedy which he knew was about to
take place.
A few moments later there was the mighty roar
Of an explosion, and he heard the swish of the
air blast along the surface waters and the rush
of the approaching wave from the sea disturb
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17
FUTURE HIDDEN FROM CLAY.

Could the shade of Henry Clay. reused from the
slumbers of more than threescore years by the
emo as 100 engineers tied down their
whistle cords and shrilled forth exultant shrieks,
have trod the atmospheric space from his haunts
IN the Blue Grass country to Sault Ste. Marie a
few weeks since, and looked with dull eyes on
the newly finished engineering feat spread out be-
fore his astonlshed gaze, he would have been
forced TO admit that his declaration back in 1910
was at least shortslghted.
ut is a work quite beyond the remotest settle
ment of the United States, II not in the moon"
said Henry Clay on that memorable occasion,
when by the power of his silver-tongued oratory
he Influenced the congress of the United States TO
defeat a measure ~by-which a canal could be dug
around ST. Mary's falls.
He was believed, and the project that now in
finished form ranks In world importance far great
er than the Suez canal, and In some minds greater
than the Panama canal, was condemned as Inn
practical 1t was not until II years later that
congress saw its mistake and yielded to the per-
suasion OF influential citizens OF Michigan and
New York to grant an appropriation of land
whereby the state of Michigan could finance the
excavation of a CANAL. Paul Chandler In Detroit
Free Press.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17
oW English Aviator Exercised
the Commanders privilege"

a VIATORS were often compelled to destroy
their own machines to prevent the Ger
mans from obtaining some jealously guard
ed secret about the new type of aircraft. This Is
a story Of an aviator who did that at the cost Of
his own life.
There were two men-thep pilot and his observer
in the latest flying boat which England's aircraft
builders had turned out. The two flyers were well
out to sea when a fog came down and cut them
off from their companions. The pilot headed for
home, but the engine suddenly died"
A hasty examination showed the pilot that only
a repair shop and a squad of expert mechanics
could hope to make the engine run again. He
told the observer so, and the two men-the OBJ
server was really little more than a boy-sat down
to watch. and wait with the hope that a British
patrol boat would come along and pick them up.
The night came on and the young observer fell
asleep. The pilot sat on the deck-coaming and
listened all the night through. In the morning
the fog lifted and the observer, looking out over
the waters, caught sight of a little black smudge
on the horizon, which grew steadily In size, and
behind It another smudge and another. 1t was a
patrol fotilla rapidly approaching them. The boy
was elated.
ut Is German, my son" spoke the older man In
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17
low Man Tackled" a Deadly
Depth Bomb and Saved a Ship

TT ISN'T recorded that John Mackenzie, chief
boatswain's mate In the United States naval
- reserve force, was once a great football play
err, but he was recommended for an honor medal
and a %gratuity of 500 for doing one of the great
est football stunts ever reported.
The navy department report shows that on the
morning of December IL a depth bomb on board
the destroyer Remllk broke loose from its posi-
ton on the stern of the craft, and, bursting its
boxing. went bouncing about the deck. A heavy
sea was on at the time In fact, the waves were
breaking far over the stern of the destroyer, and
the rolling and pitching of the little craft sent
the big bomb flying backward and forward TO port
and starboard, crashing into the rails OF the ves-
sci and hitting everything outstanding on the deck