The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-08

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work for about twelve years. In this
time he has been around the world
| twice, conducting revival meetings
1 among English speaking people of the
| different countries. He will remain in
| Topeka for a few days and will go
| from here to Herington where he will
| conduct another revival.
| Mrs. Lucy T. Underwood Holman
| died at 4 o'clock Sunday morning at the
family home, 1903 North Kansas ave-
the widow of the late Rev. Calvin Hol-
man, pioneer Methodist minister. He
came to Kansas in January, 1859, set
tlfng at Williamsburg when there were
but two houses in the town. He sub
sequently held pastorates in various
parts of Kansas. In the early eighties
the family moved to North Topeka
which place has since been their home
Rev. Mr.. Holman died about six years
ago.
Mrs. Holman was born in Putney, Yer
mont, December 10. 1916. She was mar
rfedi April 8. 1912, to Rev. Mr.. Holman,
and the couple began their pioneer life
in Hopknton, N. H, the birthplace of
Mr.. Holman.
Mrs Margaret Hill McCarter has
been writing on the pioneer life of a
hundred Kansas women. Mrs. Holman
might well have been one of them, for
the life of Methodist minister's wife
was doubly that of a pioneer In those
early days and a part of history. Mrs
Hampshire among the White noun
tains, and what pioneer life in those
days really meant is not now fully un-
derstood, not even in Kansas.
In late magazine article the ven
cradle Rev. Edward Everett Hale, now
chaplain of the United States senate,
who was not born until Lucy Under
wood was 7>years old. tells of the trials
of his early days. Then there We're
no iron cook stoves. there we're no fric-
tion matches, very few carpets. The
tinder box with flint and steel was the
only resort OF one who wanted to start
ashes of the capacious fireplace the
night before. Where there was no flint
and steel nor Goals some
neighbor who was fortunate enough 10
have preserved Goals of fire, was called
on. Well sanded floors were common
where carpets afterwards became
known. The only lights to be had in
the up country life of New Hampshire
and Vermont were from homemade tai
low candles. There were no Indians,
it is true, but there were bears and
wolves and their depredations were the
dread of the country housewife.
Whatever the pioneer women of kan
sas suffered within the last SO years the
pioneer women of the older states suf-
fered equally 70 years ago and that
without the many modern conveniences
now often accessible in the most dis
tant communities. In this respect Mrs.
have neared the century mark endured
the hardships of early pioneer life. such
as is seldom known in these later days.
In all the years as wife OF Method1St
minister Mrs. Holman bore her part of
hfe's burdens, bravely, cheerfully, help
fully. Her declining years were peace
full as becomes one whose good works
are ones best reward. Mrs. Holman
leaves two sons. NJ. C. Holman. we'll
known in business and musical circles
and E. A. Holman also we'll known,
and two daughters, Miss Clara Holman
and Miss Lura Holman. Another
daughter. Miss Harriet Holman, died
two years ago. For over % years the
family have lived in Holman's addition
and here Rev. and Mrs. Holman cele-
brated their golden wedding in April,
birthday, December 19,
1908. Many friends left their gifts In
memory of a, noble wife and mother,
the recollection of whose radiant life
her faculties to the last, fully recog-
nizing the friends at her bedside.
The funeral will be held from the
Kansas avenue Methodist church. at
2:3O O'Clock tomorrow afternoon. The
Rev. Edwin Locke, presiding elder,
will officiate. The remains will be
inferred in the Rochester cemetery.
s. Dolman & Son are protesting
against the statement accredited to
Chief Eaton of the police, saying
that the dixie laborers were the off
securing from the country at large
and that he feared they would cause
a crime wave to sweep over Topeka
after they were out of employment
when the work on the dikes was done.
The Dolmans said this morning that
seventy-five of the men under their
employ on the dikes lived in Topeka
and that most of the remainder were
young men who came from good
families and were out for the exper-
ience of camp life. They also say
that they have known many of their
workmen for ten or more years and
that as a rule they were generally
honest.
"Such a statement like that ap-
pearing in the morning paper relative
to our men is an outrage" said Mr..
Dolman, sr, this morning. Il have
worked with these men for nearly |
twenty years and I know that they |
are generally hard workers and hon |
est. 1 wouldn't hesitate to leave my |
coat around the tents where they live. |
"a number of them have worked off |
and on for me for ten years. AS to |
their being out of work and lOaing in |
that is nonsense. AS soon as the dixie |
work is finished here they will go to /
some place else where there is similar |
work to be done. 1 refer to the |
transients. but then about seventy-five
of the $50 men employed live in To- |
peka. both in on the South Side and |
North Side.
Just because the others are tran
sientS that is no reason that |
they are criminals. The laboring man /
is not a criminal. 1 have lived with |
these dixie men and know what am
talking about. The man mentioned in |
the paper as stealing the coat was
probably a tramp"
Fire totally destroyed the barn be- |
longing to Charles Haywood, 827 To-
peka avenue about 10 o'clock Satur- |
day night. The building was rented |
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