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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 9, E. M. 300 (1909.)
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versify opens M onday, October 1st. t ion begin with the August num ber
Mr. H . Fowle, of Lewisville, Ore., and get this picture to show to
made us a pleasant call last week. | your C hristian friends.
For ,he ,orchof fteuton.
Notes From fly T ravels.
man in the electric chair being
electrocuted.
His bead laid back
on the chair, and his pale face
BY MRS. ELIZABETH DAVENPORT.
turned upw ard. The a tte n d a n ts
stood looking on while others a p
plied the electric battery. I felt
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n like I would rather read a dime
novel, th a t ended “ just lovely,”
the Passaic river this afternoon, than to go farther; and I ju d g e
the placid, tree-fringed Passaic, H om er was of the same opinion, so
where at
a * one time George u Wash we turned back.
, ington crossed with his soldiers
TO be CO N TIN U ED .
Our business m anager went to
Miss e Em ily J W akem an, ' of New I I a and
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but
a short distance
P ortland M unday, returning Tuee- York City, who has spent the Pa *1 ; frorn j(H banks
A Liberal Offer.
day.
six weeks in Silverton, visiting her
June 13.— We visited the grounds
M aster Sidney Rogers, our stu-
and sister at the L. U. O., of the “ Black N unnery,” a C atholic
A good friend of the L. U. O. has
d en t from U tah, is m aking him self lefl f,,r lhe EaHt la8t M onday, where institution. Girls who w ant to offered to donate Two T housand
useful in the Torch office during "He goes to create a principal char- quit the outside world go iu there, D ollars in cash to our in stitu tio n if
the vacation.
ac,er PaH in the new P1“ ?- “ Calfb and when once the door is closed other F reethinkers will raise it to
W est.” Miss W akem an m ade m any after them , they never see the Five Thousand.
A nice little shower I,as cleared friends „ hj|e
8 i,verton> wh(> a r„
Let us fill up the contribution
light of day again; their coffins
the atm osphere, settled the dust Borrv
,,ave her ,eave and h(
box!
and added new life to the gardens for ¿ er return n(.J t (,um m er gh(. are there, and so is the tomb in
L ater — Mr. R. C. B urtis of M ich
in the vicinity 01 Silverton.
haB & cheerfu| di, po8ilion; a „ d which they are buried. It has a
dense, high wall around it, vine- igan adds one thousand dollars to
Prof, and Mrs. W akem an are seemed to enjoy her stay with us in
covered all over, with sm all w in the above offer. At this rate we
having a week’s outing in P ortland spite of what she suffered from the
dows with cu rtain s closed except will soon be able to go ahead with
a r d at the seashore. They accom- injury received while riding the
one, which is draw n a little to one our building. “ A friend who helps
panied th eir daughters as far as bicycle. Miss Clara W akem an ac-
side. I am told all the d aylight quick helps double.”
the m etropolis.
com panied her sister to New York.
they have is a subdued light pass
S till L ater .— A friend in Silver-
We have ju st received a new lot She will rem ain there until October, ing through the windows so th a t
of type, which will be used in p rin t when she will return to her work in the sky or high lights are never ton offers fifty dollars on the above
The am ount already re
ing the Catalogue of the Liberal the Liberal U niversity at Silverton. seen. I don’t believe there should plan.
University.
We expect to have We wish the girls a pleasant jo u r be an institution in the U nited ceived and acknowledged in the
C ontribution Box, goes to help
ney.
them ready by Sept. 1st.
States th a t has the sem blance of
m ake up the balance of this fund,
cruelty
th
a
t
should
not
be
under
The Torch of Reason is only one
which now lacks only $1528.35 of
d o llar a year. If this issue comes The New Spirits and M ythology the surveillance of governm ent being complete. C an’t we, by a
officials.
in the New World.
to you as a ssmple copy, you are
I Ju n e 15.— I took an autom obile special effort, reach th is am ount
invited to subscribe and solicit the
before Septem ber 1st?
ride
with
H
om
er’s
wife
and
little
interest of others.
Concluded from 6th page.
son, out p> G ra n t’s Tom b—a grand
H on. J. P. Geer, who has been for
The Ingersoll Chair.
m arble structure, with most m ag
the past two years in the Klondike mind (“ the m ighty m otion” ) of
nificent scenery around it.
Mr.
country, spent a few days at the h u m an -k in d ” as “ the A th e ist”
The am ounts subscribed and paid
Nelson,
a friend of H om er’s, es-
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L. U. O. last week, visiting his Shelley says it. W ith this hint,
corted us around the city, showing in for the Ingersoll C hair are set
d au g h ter, Miss Ollie Geer.
Mr. who is there so blind th a t he c a n
us the old, historic buildings forth below. This sum is actu ally
Geer is deeply interested in our not understand this glorious p h an
Grace Church was one of the nu m in the hands of our treasu rer to be
work.
tasy of the new birth and career of ber, built in the year 1842. We safely invested, the income only to
The nam e of Gen. W m . Birney the New Spirits in “ the New World passed through th at. It is a fiuely be used.
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was om itted by m istake from our of Man?” Every word has a m ean finished building inside. In a house Mr. George Anderson,
England 6 0
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D onation Day acknowledgements, ing as real and deep as it is ex- adjoining it is a charitable in s titu Mr. Alfred Marsh,
Mrs.
E.
Holyoake
Marsh,
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but appears this week in the Con- 9 u ’Plte« T hus as Shakespeare sings, tion, where little children are cared Mr. Robert Applegarth,
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J. M. Gunson,
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tribution Box. I f any other names nothing perishes—
for while their m others are out Mr.
Mr. Arthur Ginton,
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have been om itted, please let us
earning a living for them .
Mr. Sidney Ginton,
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But doth suffer a sea-change
know.
John Leach,
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Into something rich and strange.
Ju n e 27.— Homer, Mr. D. and I Mr.
Mr. Thos. Allsop,
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Miss Em ily W akem an wishes to
Miss Phipson,
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say through the Torch th a t she has growths of ideals are m erely fanci there some wonders of the briny A. H.
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great love and adm iration for S il ful and unim portant. The Ideals deep and m any of the fresh water Dr. G. Sworn,
Mrs. Holyoake Smith,
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verton and its charm ing people, of a people are their life. The les kind. Some of the most b rillia n t Miss Julia C. Smith,
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who treated her so kindly during son of H istory and Sociology is and gorgeous colors th a t eye ever Mr. T. R. Mudie,
Mr.
A.
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her visit, and were such a comfort th a t no nation has ever survived beheld; all shapes and forms. No Mrs. Daniel Baker
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its food supplies or its religion. one has seen the beauty of New Herbert Spencer.
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