THE TORCH OF REASON SILVERTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1897.
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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, . . . . . .
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and that you are interested 1 ,
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ugh I 1 got word there
tnere w
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, 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
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, 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
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. and , the « Ail persons desiring to have her
\ for one person.
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. 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.
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1 went . down
and , saw’ the her at McMinnville, Oregon, or P.
and Miss Collins took Miss Grass- . bodies
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and . staid
little while.
In W . Geer Business Manager, a t this
winckle to the
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the afternoon I went again and in
1 heatre. (She was playing there.)
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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. ,
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, 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
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. Kentucky
„ . , what they can. Remember she is
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in some w’ay turned on two burn-
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the next morning. I he casket was working for I he L iberal U nivers ­
ers. Mr. bimpson spoke to them .
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, , ,n the chapel and wre could stay ity . Help all you can.
as they entered, and said they had .,
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Josiah Kemp, Sec’y. O. S. S. U.
b»en in the room but a few’ min-
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n°t look natural as her face was and Supt. of ihe Portland Secular
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bruised on her forehead where she Sunday school is deserving of much
was so quiet, for Mr. Putnam was x ,
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struck something when she fell and credit for his untiring energy in
always so noisy, moving his chair .,
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and his feet, and laughing and
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i marked by the carpet. Mr. Put- say he would he deserving of a great
talking so loudly.
He thought
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. 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.
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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._______
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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 .