Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-02
Rabbi Heoht viii Go North

DIR. S. Hect, rabbi of the Temple
B'nai Birth, will leave Saturday even
Ing for the north, where he will lecture
i'm Portland and Seattle and various
other towns as the grand orator of the
order of Bnai Birth. Dr. Hecht will
be absent about two weeks.
Barber Injured
Otto Purcell, a barber, received a Sc
we're laceration of the forehead yester-
day morning by falling downstairs at
second street and Broadway. The in
lured man was taken to the receiving
hospital He was later sent to his
home, 1853 East Twenty-ffth street
Missionary Arrives Today
Rev Philip Delaporte, missionary
of the American board, who has spent
the past six years with his wife labor
Ing on Pleasant island lonely island
of the Marshall group in the mid
Pacific, arrives in Los Angeles this
morning and will speak in Peniel hall
tonight.
Body viii Be Cremated
Edward Griffith, who came here from
New Jersey with his parents a little
more than year ago for his health
died yesterday at 119 South Avenue
Eighteen. The funeral will be held this
afternoon at 2 O'Clock at the undertake
ing parlors of Sharp &c Co. The body
will be cremated.
Struck by Auto
Cecil Kelley, the 6-year-old son of
r. S. Kelley, living at the Portland
apartments, was struck and slightly
injured by an automobile driven by r.
S. Burke, a real estate dealer, on
Spring street, between Fourth and
Fifth, yesterday afternoon. The boy
was taken to his home. where physi-
clans attended him.
Temple Union viii Meet
The literary section of the Temple
union will meet this evening at s
O'Clock in the assembly room of the
temple B'nai Birth. The meeting was
postponed from last week on account
of the rain. Mrs E. K. Foster, presi-
dent of the Friday Morning club, will
make an address and Mr.. Blumenfeld
will give a violin solo.
Aged Resident Dies
Mrs. Ida Cummins, aged so, died
yesterday at the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. p. E. Weaver 934 Thirty-seventh
street. Mrs. Cummins had resided in
Los Angeles twenty-six years. She
leaves her husband and one daughter.
The funeral will be held from the resi-
dence this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock.
The interment will be at Rosedale GEM
etery.
Real Estate Man Dies
William Willard Thayer, q we'll
known real estate dealer, died early
yesterday morning at the Bellevue ter
race, following a long illness. Mr..
Thayer came to Los Angeles four years
ago for his health, but the past few
weeks had been confined to his bed.
Mr.. Thayer came from Brooklyn, N. Y
He was a member of the Los Angeles
Country club. Funeral services will be
held tomorrow at 1890 o'clock at the
funeral parlors of w. H. Sutch.
VIII Hold Inquest and Funeral
The funeral of Mrs. Harriet M
Gray, who was killed by a Santa Mon
lea car, will be held this morning at
10:30 o'clock from the First Congrega-
tional church, Rev. DIR. Day officiating
The interment will be in Rosedale
cemetery. The inquest will be held
this morning at $3.50 o'clock at the un-
dertaking parlors of Orr e. Edwards.
Mrs. Gray was. the mother of Mrs. C.
e. Richards of 1911 Magnolia avenue.
Killed by Train
member of a track laying gang on the
and instantly killed in the yards near
the river station late yesterday after
noon. The man was crossing the track
dead when picked up. The body was
taken to Bresee Brothers undertaking
establishment. The coroner was noti-
fled and an inquest will be held today.
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