The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-05

Motorists who use Gordon street as
a speedway were obliged to slow down
Sunday evening between Van Buren,
and jackson streets, owing to the
of the street. whose owners were at
tending the union services on the lawn
of the Second Presbyterian church.
The Rev. o. L. Weir of the Baptist
church preached the sermon and NJ.
c. Holman. chorister of the Kansas
choir master for the union choir. The
service was well attended.
The regular meeting of the North
Topeka Civic club will be held Tues
day evening at O'Clock, at the Com
munity house.
The Ladies' Aid of the North To-
peka Baptist church will meet We'd
nesday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
D. L. Button. .919 Van Buren, street
The Official board of the Kansas
Avenue Methodist church will meet
Wednesday evening at the church.
Seven new members were taken into
the Kansas avenue Methodist church
yesterday. These included Mrs. Car
penter, who was received thru tran
ferred membership from, Clifton. Kan;
Miss F'reda Huber, previously baptised-
who was received into preparatory
membership; William Kennedy, Clyde
Retter, Ralph Retter. Samuel E. But
Ter and J. B. Butler, who were also
received into preparatory membership.
Galen Finch. 15-year-old son Of
Mr. and Mrs. George Finch, of 1924
Monroe street, was knocked from his
bicycle last evening by one of Roy
Payne's taxicabs at the corner of
Quincy and Kistler streets. Conwell's
ambulance took the boy to his home.
One of the wheels of the taxi passed
over his ankle and he was badly
bruised. The taxicab was driven by
Ira McKeely. The accident occurred
about Z o'clock. Persons who saw the
accident say McKeely was driving at
high rate of speed, and the boy was
hugging the curb. He was dragged a
distance of about sixty feet. The hi
cycle was badly broken.
Notes and Personal Mention.
The Rev. Mr.. Gordon of the Kansas
avenue Methodist church, and a quar-
tet composed of Miss Dena Slaybaugh,
! Miss Pansy Antrim, Leon Holman and
Theron French, went to the Tubercu-
losis hospital yesterday afternoon
where a short service was held and a
| song service given which was enjoyed
by the patients and attendants.
Mr. and Mrs Park Kimball and
eyville. Okla, will come this week to
visit their sisters. Miss Martha and
Miss Eleanor Kinball of West Cor
don street, and Mrs. W. T. Brown and
Mr.. Brown of PIG East Eighth.
Mr. and Mrs. George Stuckert and
son Everett, CT Quincy street motored
to Lawrence yesterday to spend the
Fourth with relatives.
The funeral services for Earl Simms,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B. Simms,
| who was killed last week in an auto
mobile accident near Cameron, Mo-,
will be held Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock at Conwelrs chapel. The Rev.
George r. Jackman of the Second
| Presbyterian church will have charge
of the services. Burial in Topeka
cemetery.
John A Myers. aged rs, died at s
his son, Charles K. Myers. 1900 Tyler
street. Funeral arrangements an
nounced later
| Mrs. Arthur Brintnall and infant
daughter were brought to their home
in Topeka avenue Saturday from the
hospital.
Take the State journal with you on your
| vacation this summer. Call phone $3.50
| Circulation department
Henry Huntley Saunders of 1921
Polk street. who died Saturday. July
| 3, was porn IN GamDrOOk.f county oil
| Kent, England, March 10. 1850. He
was brought to the United States by
his parents in 1852. He marEed Mis-:
katherine Mary Walters in Kirkland
1 Oneida county. New York, in 1878. o.
4 this union two sons and one daughter
were born. Mr.. Saunders is survived
| by his widow, his sons, VIM. H. Saun,
ders and George L. Saunders OF NORTH
/ Topeka; his daughter. Mrs I. J
/ Ketchem of Salt Lake City; six grand
In 1878 Mr.. Saunders came to Topeks
! and lived here until his death. Tit
funeral services will be held Tuesda!
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at the Kan
sas Avenue Methodist church. o
which the deceased had been a mem.
Der since coming to Topeka.
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