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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1897)
THE TORCH OF REASON SILVERTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1897. TTT“ and smelled gas. lie had smelled For var«l, Elma Smith. \\ alter gas the night before but seeing the Smith, .Jerry Desart, Walter Dolan, Orthodoxy has been busy the bright light in May’s room had not A lb ert E. F ish er, S. O. C«»olidge, 1 «st few weeks trying to scandalize supposed it was there. W hen he Allred Down, Robert Down, Dona Samuel Putman and May Collins smell« d it in the morning he tried (inis-. Kreta Hicks and Anna who w. r, jxiy i*Ji ntllv kiTh «1 io tie : o t h e r r o o m s a i m i n n iiiiO iu g i t ’ilamin'uid. Boston not long since. If these T h e re w ere ju s t tw e n ty , a n d m ore he went to May’s room and putting people were as anxious to find the his nose to the crack in the door h a v e en ro lled to begin n e x t week. truth as they are to slander their The interior of the bid.«big was discovered it there, and opening the fellow man who happens to differ door saw’ both Mr. Putnam and photographed during school hours with them, these falsehoods would May lying dead on the floor. They and we wi l have ihe picture of the not he so often invent« d. were lying, he on his back, s ii on first day of school to compare in af The following is taken from a her face, or nearly so and had been ter yea is. Ltt every true Liberal letter written by a lady living near there all night, for the print of the feel that it is his duty to help this Boston and must surely be a cor carpet was on her face as it could grand movement. rect account: not have been otherwise. Mr. Miss Ada Dewey, < ur pianist will “ I arrived in Milford December Simpson was all broken up over it. be with us Saturday, ready to b - 8, and was getting ready to li^ve a He sent for the medical examiner, gm her wor.< Monday, a-» instruc- visit from Miss Collins when the and Ernest Mendum and Miss t >r in the musical d< partment of news came of her death. Knowing Minchen then telephoned to me, i tie Liberal University. She will also how mixed newspaper reports are, . . . . . . . , , , . . ; but failed to get the message to me assist in kindergarten work and and that you are interested 1 , . _ x , ugh I 1 got word there tnere w was pe primary teaching. . . . . . , though ’as a per- thought I would write vou the son waiting to talk with me, but Mi*s Dewey is stir • to give satis straight facts. My sister lives in when I got there they had gone; had faction in what she undertakes and Stoneham, an«l mv father and his waited four hours for me. When will be a valuable addition to our W ’ife have rooms of her, also Miss the evening paper came, I knew force of teachers. She has been Minchen has rooms there. Miss mv message must have been about acting as musical director and Sec Minchen invited Mr. Putnam, Miss the tragedy so I took the next train retary of the Portland Secular Sun Collii s and Miss GrasswinckD to for Boston, arriving at 9 p. m. I day school for ihe past three years dinner. ’• hey spent the afternoon went right to 47 St. Botolph Street and will lie greatly missed by the all the folks together, my father, W’here it occurred. The folks there Secularists .if Portland. step-mother, sister and all, but all are friends of mine and old friends who sat at Miss Minchen’s table Miss Nettie A. Olds will soon of Mr. Putnam’s. Of course the were Mr. Putnam, Miss Collins, bodies had been removed to the start «>n a trip over the western Miss Grasswinckle, Miss Minchen undertakers but I learned all about part of the state in the interest of and her sister Mrs. Tynan. They the Liberal University and the had dinner at 5:30. Mr. Putnam it. The next morning I sent to the T orch of R eason . She will lie took some claret out for dinner and undertakers to enquire if I might greatly mis-ed here but we feel thev 7 1 passed it around to those who1 stay . with ... May », , b > , until it .. was that she can do a great amount of body did not dine as well as those who sent home. The gentleman I sent good in the work for a few months dined, there were three bottles, got there before the office was open, «luring which time she expects to each bottle supposed to contain waited They said there visit as many localities as possible. enough They , . stay . and , the « Ail persons desiring to have her \ for one person. 1 . J left . was no good , place to Stoneham on the 6:15 train arriv- , body , was in . the , basement on ice, lecture will please correspond with ing * in Boston at /. . Mr. . T , _r. Putnam etc. 1 went . down and , saw’ the her at McMinnville, Oregon, or P. and Miss Collins took Miss Grass- . bodies .. . . , a ..... ... T and . staid little while. In W . Geer Business Manager, a t this winckle to the door of the Fremont r . • i • office. She will make no regular ,, . the afternoon I went again and in 1 heatre. (She was playing there.) T , \r- ,t. the evening I went with three charges for her work hut expects 1 hen Mr. Putnam took , Miss Collins others and staid more than an people to pr ivide accommodations to her room, arriving about 8 o’clock. , n,, , , A. , , , . ... , i hour. J he body was then in the and a hall to speak in, and pay her He lighted the gas or she did . and casket , . ready , to send , to . Kentucky „ . , what they can. Remember she is e in some w’ay turned on two burn- , .. . the next morning. I he casket was working for I he L iberal U nivers ers. Mr. bimpson spoke to them . \ , , , ,n the chapel and wre could stay ity . Help all you can. as they entered, and said they had ., . . . , , .. , . . J . there as it wras comfortable. Mav Josiah Kemp, Sec’y. O. S. S. U. b»en in the room but a few’ min- ... , , , . , , . , . • , , n°t look natural as her face was and Supt. of ihe Portland Secular utes when he was surprised that all . . . , , , , , , . . i, ,, bruised on her forehead where she Sunday school is deserving of much was so quiet, for Mr. Putnam was x , ... , , . ,, , 1 . . . . . . struck something when she fell and credit for his untiring energy in always so noisy, moving his chair ., . t . , , , • , the other side of the face was the Secular work, or in fact we may and his feet, and laughing and , , , ., . .. T> ,, . , ,, tt i i marked by the carpet. Mr. Put- say he would he deserving of a great talking so loudly. He thought , j as .i, , , get . nam i looked though , , he could deal of blame if he didn't do all he possibly he had dropped asleep in up and talk as well as not. Oh it is could, hut there is no danger he has his chair, yet it seemed so strange terrible, but I need not tell you the stick-to-it-iveness as well as the to have him so still that he kept that, I just wanted to tell you the ability. From the two Christinas wondering about it. The rooms facts of the case, as there is much stories in the last lesson in the S. are arranged like this and Mr. . . , ... , that is not true being circulated. S. quarterly, he arranged some Simpson on the lounge indicated .... . ... ... . . . , There was a bottle with a little tableaux which were very interesting bv black mark: whiskey on May’s table but it had and beautiful if reports are true. been there in the same condition of We do not often come across a emptiness for several days.” person so interested in the cause of Min« C olli UR* S e c u la r N ew s. Secularism as is Miss Julia Moffitt room._______ M « of Newton Iowa. She is doing some Wednesday Jan. 6th, marked a splendid work in the way of Mr Sim pson’s great page in the history of Liher- organization in her locality and ruoir.. Door a ism. It was the first day of the bids fair to be a leader of some open. first Liberal University. Those repute. who attended are: S ix S m iles. Lora Ames. Reber Allen, Elvin So you can see how near he was Ames, Earnest Maloy, George Young lady graduate, (to her to them. H«1 went to sleep and in Riches, Perry Venable, Frank B. father,)—Pa did you ever think w’ho t h morning h • got up at p a s t 7, Forward, Roy Fitzgjerrell, Arnie R. planted the stars in the etherial The D eath of O u r F rie n d s. blue? Father,—No, Sallie, hut I can tell you right now that I wouldn’t ever have such a feller as that plant taters for m e . ............ Mother (to little girl)—Pet, do you love vour Mamma best of all? Little girl—Yes Mamma,all ‘cept God; and 1’s afraid not to love him best. Mamma, who was in the parlor entertaining callers, said to three- year-old Bessie,“Go into the sitting- room, dear, and see if the clock is running, I have not heard it strike this afternoon.” Bessie went and looked at the clock, then came back and stood in the doorway. “ Weil, is it running dear,” asked mamma. “No, mamma, it is just standing still and waging its tail.” I don’t think my kitty is as nice as Charley Brown’s little dog, cause yesterday he came over and w hen he saw my kitty he went right up to her and put out his paw and said “Bow wow” to her, just as nice as he could, and she just stuck up her hack and blew her nose in his face. When you go for five cents worth of very sharp, steel point needles, wdiat do you want them for? For five cents. Smile once more, just to make out the number six. F ro m Io w a. R iverside , I ow a , Dec. 28, 1896. —To the Editor: Last July a few’ of us Freethinkers met at the home of Jacob Fesler and organized a Secular Sunday School. We adopted the quarterlies issued by the Oregon State Secular Union; have used them here ever since and find them both interesting and in structive, and in our opinion just what is needed in every Suuday School in the land. During summer months we met in the opera house but since it is too cold there we meet in the home where we organized. Last Sunday being the last of our sceond quarter new officer* were elected. The writer w'as re-elected President and Miss Daisy Fesler Sec. The prize offered to the primary class for the ones who would repeat the memory gems in regular rotation was won by all the class. The membership is not as large as it should be. There are a good number of Freethinkers here who should meet with us, but they have lieen out of every thing of this kind so long that they have become in different. Can some reader of the T orch suggest some way by which we can bring them into the fold? I w rite th is w ith th e h o p e th a t it m ay en co u rag e som e o n e w here th e re is no S ecu lar S u n d a y school to m a k e a n effort to o rg an ize one. I believe th e re is m a te ria l in every tow n in th e U n ite d S ta te s for a S ecu lar S u n d a y school, w herev er th e re is a C h ris tia n S. S. th e re sh o u d be a S e c u la r one. J.P. M c C luskey .