The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12
OBLIGATORY SERVICES
Topeka Typographical Union Monu-
ment Program Sunday.

| Appropriate dedicatory services for
| the monument erected in Topeka
cemetery by Topeka Typographical
union, No. 121, in honor of deceased
members, will be held at o'clock
tomorrow afternoon. The monument
is a Vermont granite shaft, six feet
and two inches in height. The base
is four feet by two feet six, and the
shaft two feet eight by fourteen inches
and four feet and ten inches high.
Headstones for members buried in the
plot are one foot four by tep inches.
The services will be held on the an
nual memorial Sunday of the union.
NJ. H. Gardner, president of the I'M
ion, will act as master of ceremonies.
Canon George Geisel will pronounce
the invocation. followed by the sing
ing of a hymn. Governor Capper will
deliver an address, Advantages of
Organization" followed by an address
Personal Experiences Printorially,"
by Mayor Jay E. House. Another
hymn, He Leadeth Me-" will be sung,
followed by another address, 1.-The
by T. B. Brown. A hymn, Nearer
My God to Thee" and a benediction
by the Rev. Arthur Henderson will
close the program. Governor Capper
and Mayor House are honorary men,
bers of the union.
The monument was erected thru
the work of a special committee. C.
c. Claudy. chairman; J. j. McConville
and f. B. Brown, assisted by r. c.
Sorby, special committeeman. Thir-
ty-seven members have died since the
union was chartered, December 20,
1869. Those who have died follow,
the first eight in the list being men
buried in the printers plot at the
cemetery:
Charles A. Phinney James B. Love
Andrew NJ. Barnes William Scott
C. F. Woodward James Stevens
j. d. WEIGH Charlie Root
Warren s. Bush Charles Ely
Patrick O'Doherty Loven Clark
Henry F. McComas Frank S. Rice
Marshall MontgomeryAlbert s Corey
Alden s. Huling W. S. Rankin
II. V. Scholes Harry l.. Epperson
Frank II. Jones William Sullivan
X. L. Whitfield Phil Goodreau
Il. H. Osborne c. f. Maxwell
Edward ?. Harris W. A. Jones
William ]. Pifer NJ. a. Miller
W. H Clark G. C. McFadden
Francis Potter w. B. Wagner
Frank Scott
The International Typographical
union comprises approximately 500
local organizations. with a total men,
bership of over $1,000, extending to
every part of the United States and
Canada Thru the payment of a small
per cent of the earnings of its MEM
bers, it is enabled to pay to its aged
and infirm members an old-age PEN
sion of IS per week, amounting in the
aggregate to 100000 a month. A
death benef1t fund is maintained, from
which the beneficiaries of deceased
members are paid from SIS to $500,
according to term of membership
The average monthly payment from
this fund is $4,000. The Union
Printers home at Colorado Springs,
maintained by this organization, is a
marvel of efficiency, rendering medi-
cal attention constantly and without
cost to the individual to an average
! of $50 inmates whose every comfort
| is looked after. One of the largest
i libraries in the country is found in
| this home.
Nearly 500 members of the 1. T. u
have enlisted in the European war
! from Canada, and tho reports are
meager as to how many have lost
| their lives in t-.e service, mortuary
benefits amounting to S7,675 have
| been paid the beneficiaries of twenty
| seven members of Canadian unions
who have been killed somewhere in
| Europe.