Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-29

Childrens Industrial school.
Previously reported. observation-disclosures. III w
Total ............ $3 90
Comrade II. Chlson of Yelm Wash, sends
AS some pc pcorn and millet for seed.
Equality Cereal Coffee is the best made. a
trial package by mail only loc. Try it.
Comrade McEachern of Seattle is looking
Ms over and thinks SO far that we know no "
to cooperate.
More garden seeds received from Comrades
=. G. MaddO of Snohom ish, Wash, and A.
X. Hansen at Equality.
Commonwealth, a reform journal of great
merit ISL a year, and Industrial Freedom 80
cents), both for 81 for short time.
We are in receipt of another remittance
from stephen and Mary Maybell as our share
in the proceeds from the sale of the ''Sciencc
Of the Millennium" and because of the ad. in
the |. +.
A special meeting to arrange for the OBJ
servance of May LIST was held Tuesday even
ing, the 18th inst Sister Darr and Bros.
Eddy and Lee were appointed a committee on
program.
On Thursday afternoon last DR.. Powers
successfully performed the operation of re-
moving morbid growth or tumor from the
cheek of Comrade Davis. The orifice is rap
idly filling with healthy and normal tissue.
The Progress has made two trips to What
com this week for the pipe which is necessa-
ny to supply US with water The plan is to
pump it from the creek at the saw mill to the
general kitchen, whore access to it will be
generally convenient for the present.
We are on the trail of a fisherman and cal
culate to camp there until we stalk man.
There may be an opportunity for another
fisherman however, so whomsoever. might be
concerned can get the requisite information
from Secretary Belknap. Heard Also from
brickmaker,
Bros. Hansen. Marcus and Cochran have
just put in a little overtime leveling the walk
to the school house; devoted and donated some
surplus energy in this direction to the colo
ny. Our social improvements are largely
done this extra way. Every clear night some
valiant forester can be seen welding his
trusty ak in preparation for the fire intended
tn remove an ugly stump from the earths
beautiful surface. When once well aire the
heat of these stumps is terrific but not awhit
warmer is it than the arguments which wage
in the vicinity when all's agIow.
You have noticed that yelled intimation
which appeared in these columns of late
Well, recent events prove our specuations
were well founded, the match we pre-
dicted has been happily contaminated and we
now take pleasure in introducing to you Mr.
and Mrs. Mccoy. Bros. GunnisOn and Pelton
on their last cruise to WhatcOm were com
nissioned to procure that interesting little
piece of legal parchment, which was neces-
.sary in order that the proposed union should
have civil sanction. but never word was
hruited about until Sunday evening, the 10th
inst, at about $50 p. m, when Bro. Joseph
who performed the ceremony, intercepted us
~ the dining room door and requested that
we starry for a moment or two after our appe-
lite was satisfied, rs he had an interesting an
nOuucement TO make. Everybody tarred rs
requested and supper being over and the few
predatory remarks also, and the contract
ing pas ties arising from the table the simple.
sensible suggestive and impressive ceremony
which made Denis Mccoy and Helen Topman
man and wife was proceeded with Bro 10
seph is minister of the gospel, but the
probabilities are that orthodoxy would not
invoke the divine benedictiOn in exactly such
terms as he did, and that 1t could not associ-
ate the mutual obligations of fidelity and
duty with a more explicit and impress
siye ssnctity, or tie the knot or kiss the bride
With greater dsxterity.
The ceremony over, the older folks indulg-
ed in the usual congratulations, etc., while
the small boy proceeded to pound the TOM
tom and shout the ki-yi until reminded thai
his ancestors had made a fool of them.
selves in that particular way for more than
a Thousand years and that the youth OF Equal
ity should have more originality. when he
sesisted and sabbath stiffness reigned again,