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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1899)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 14 1899. good in the world, and the readers several other friends, but only had able writer He kindly donated of the Torch are always glad to a few momenta talk with them. some of h,a books to the U mversity, hear from him. He is an intellec- Dr. Greer, Mr. Gammage, and which are greatly appreciated, BY P. W. GEER. tual honest capable man. Mr. Dahlström are always interest- Judge Waite is much interested in \r„ ed ori in the thp FrePthonffht I was greatly pleased to meet Mr. Freethought work, and I the Liberal I mversity. Many of our readers are familiar and Mrs. B. Lukina, of Anderson, enjoyed good visits with them. Dr. as not at all My trip to Chicago wai with the name and writings of Joel Indiana, while I was at Cheater- Greer donated 100 volumes of his barren of good results. I met many M. Berry, of the National Military field I had met these enthiisiastic j books to the .. ▼ •» i University, • ____ fnnu.iQ enld anmA «fork 1 Liberal friends sold some stock in the Lib- Home, near Dayton, Ohio. M hen I also eral University, and received sev- for the Torch of Chicago Sunday gersoll meeting, his mother, and Friend Berry. ----------- , . One evening and night was very Mr. and Mrs. Reeves accompanied trie car, which landed me at the | eral people. Perl and I returned to MHiUr, Home in a few moments, Muncie, where I stayed until the pleasantly spent with M , R. N. me to the train, where I hade them and I then tried to find Berry. I evening train came to take me on Reeves and wife, in south Chicago all goodbye. I was glad to get “ever saw so many soldiers in my .0 Chicago. While in Muncie, I Mr. Reeves is assistant editor of of started home again, but sorry to never saw so many the Freethought Freethought Magazine, Magazine, and and ,s is leave such kind friends. life. People People sometimes sonntimes say say that that was greatly greatly pleased to meet meet Dr. Dr. the life. I crossed the Mississippi about indeed a a very very bright bright young young m man, __ ~ nirkc tbp an, the most most pnthusiastic enthusiastic Secu- Secu indeed nearly all of « the old soldiers are R Bowles, midnight, and the next thing I dead, but they are mistaken and larist in that part of the country. whom I was greatly pleased to knew it was daylight and we were would so decide if they would visit The doctor subscribed for the Torch meet. We went to the old World’s just crossing the line into North anv of the various Homes in the of Reason and for some stock in Fair Park in the evening, where we western Missouri. I had never different states, or the Pension De the Liberal University, in which he saw a vaudeville performance and been in that state before, and as we some high divers jump into a tank partment at Washington, D. C. I is deeply interested. My trip through Indiana was by of water from a trapeze and a high dashed along through the corn am glad the boys in blue are still fields, among the low hills, I stud with us,and now that we have a new night, and I could not see much of pole. Mr. and Mrs. Reeves are ied the general lay of the country. crop, we will not be out of ex-sol the country. I arrived in Chicago very pleanant people, and will, un That part of Missouri is very plea diers for some time. I wish all the early in the morning and found doubtedly, make their way in the sant and productive, and tliepeople soldiers could be ex-soldiers and we every one in a hurry as usual. I world nicely. Mr. Isaac A. Pool, the Free- seem to be prosperous. About nine didn’t have need for any real ones. soon found my way to the home of o’clock we reached Kansas City, I enquired for the headquarters, the Freethought Magazine, where I thought poet, -lives near Chicago, and found they were closed for the found Brother H. L. Green in much and of course I could not visit so and a shower of rain began to wet things up considerably. I had no day and I could not find my frierd. better health than I had seen him near him without making him a trouble in finding Mrs. Mattie P. T asked every soldier I met if he for some time, and his enthusiasm call. Mr. Pool’s writings are fam Krekel at her home on Oak Street, knew Berry, but none of them hap for the cause is always at a high iliar to the Torch readers. Besides where I took dinner and enjoyed a pened to be acquainted with him. pitch. The work that Mr. Green writing poetical poetry and pointed It was like hunting for a needle in has done, and is still doing, is won prose, Mr. Pool is one of the best visit for a few hours. Mrs. Krekel a haystack, and as my time was derful and is of inestimable value practical botanists I ever saw. He is one of our best known lady lec limited, I had to return to the de to the cause of Freethought. His can produce any kind of a flower or turers. She was in Oregon once for pot and take the train for Muncie magazine seems to improve with a vegetable you want. He is now some time, where, it is needless to every issue, and I wish it could go devoting his time and energy to say, she made many friends who without meeting Mr. Berry. I arrived in Muncie late in the into every home in our land. Dur developing a variety of corn with would like to see her return. It is evening, and found my friend Perl ing my few days’ stay in Chicago, variegated leaves and some rhu not at all unlikely that we will Youngman waiting for me at the I spent many hours with friend barb that is sweet enough to make have her and her daughter with us depot. I went to his home with Green and his wife, who is a very pies with very little sugar. Mr. again ere long. Mrs. Krekel is en him and was soon made acquainted young-appearing and active woman Pool is very anxious to move to joying good health, and will pro with his parents and spent a very for her age. IL G. Green, the son, Oregon with his vegetables and bably work in the lecture field this pleasant evening. Perl was in Or is an excellent business manager, flowers, where he can have the ad season. Kansas City ¡3 a hilly city and, egon once and is arxious to get and is valuable help to his father. vantage of a better climate and be I next visited the headquarters of near the Liberal University, where in fact, a very pretty place. I back here again. Mr. Youngman owns a shoestore and has a large the American Secular Union, on he could give instruction to the didn’t have the time to visit many patronage. Muncie is in the nat S. Water Street, where I found the students in botany, etc. He would people or places. I was in hopes of ural gas region and this natural ReichwaId Brothers busily engaged be a valuable man, and I hope we getting to see Mr. Remeburg, but advantage causes many glass fac in their work. I spent several will in the near future be able to he was absent from his home, as I tories and iron foundries to be lo nights at E. C. Reichwald’s home hire him. He has just written a learned by ’phone, so I went on to on the west side, where I enjoyed series of poetical pieces, which he Lawrence in the evening, arriving cated there. The next day after my arrival in my stay immensely, as usual. Mrs. calls Ballads of the Bible. These just at dusk. I have heard so Muncie, Perl and 1 w’ent to Chester Reichwald and Miss Josie are splen ballads are the best I ever saw, and much of Mrs. Charlotte Palm that field, a few miles dist ant, where the did entertainers and very hospit ought to meet with a large sale. I shall always regret never having The Torch of Reason contemplates seen her. Her death is a great loss Spiritualists were holding a camp able. I found the Beattie family at publishing them in the near future to the cause of Secularism. Mr. meeting. There we found Mr. B. Palm and his daughter, Blenda F. Underwood, w ho had promised their home near the city limits, on in neat book form. I had a very pleasant visit with Palm Reynolds, live at the old two years previously to deliver a the west side, and the pleasure and course of lectures at this meeting, fun I had there in three or four Mr. and Mrs. Francis, at the home home on the hill, in the western and now was just in the act of fill- days, if told on paper would occupy of the Progressive Thinker office, part of the little city. I was not filling his promise. Mr. Under- a great deal of space. Mrs. Beattie where I was invited to take dinner, long in fiuding them, and they wood is one of the ablest lecturers I and her two sons gave evidence of Mr. Francis does a large business were not long in making me wel- have ever heard and his meetings much enthusiasm in the cause, and and has a splendid printing plant, come. They have a lovely home, are always well attended. His they are such cordial people that I with a Linotype machine, which and my two days’ stay with them work in Oregon about thirty years hated to leave their bright home, takes the place of many type-set- was one rouud of pleasure. Mr. ago did a vast amount of good for I wah given to understand that ters. The Progressive Thinker has Palm has lived in Lawrence many the Liberal cause. Mr. Underwood when in Chicago, aud in need of a a very large circulation, and is de years, and was working on a mill is not a Spiritualist. He says home, the latch-string was on the voted to Spiritualism. It contains when the famous Quantrell raid Spiritualism as an ism has no outside at the Beattie home. John many Secular editorials, some of was made on the city, in which charm for him, although there is runs a candy wagon, and I enjoyed which have been copied in the over 150 men were killed. Mr. much phenomena he does not un riding around on his route with him Torch of Reason. I found Judge Palm and several others barely es- derstand, and he takes the Agnost- a few trips. We all attended the C. B. Waite at his home on Loomis caped by being in a large stone ic’s view of it. I don’t agree with Ingersoll Memorial meeting to- Street, and enjoyed an hour or so building, which they defended. Mr. Underwood ou some things,but gether the Sunday I left. There I in his company. The judge is very We drove out to the Indian I know him to be a great power to do met Brother Otto Wettstein and | interesting to be with and is an school one morning, where we in- Abroad. tt