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[[newspaper clipping]] Palo Alto, where she has since made her home, leading a quiet life, finding her greatest pleasure in books. Mrs. Baker was the widow of Sylvester Baker, who was for many years a well-known shipmaster in the Merchant Marine Service on the Pacific Ocean. Captain Baker was in command of a merchant-ship which was in Japan at the time Commander Perry made his famous treaty with the Japanese government and Captain Baker's vessel was one of the first American ships to enter a Japanese port. Mrs. Baker had no relatives here save her daughter, and grand-daughter, Miss Virginia Wilson. The funeral will be held Sunday and the body will be taken to Cypress Lawn for cremation. The members of the January graduation class at the Palo Alto Grammar School were given their diplomas this afternoon. Twenty-seven were graduated, none failing to reach the required standard. The class presented to the school a handsome oak table made by the boys in the Manual Training Department and a hand-embroidered cover, the work of the girls in the sewing class. The design on the cover was drawn by Ethel Campbell, a member of the class. The program at the exercises this afternoon was as follows: "Liberty Bell March" (Sousa); "Yale Boola" (Hirsch), Grammar School Orchestra; "The Gypsy Chorus" (arr, by Veazie from Balfe's "Bohemian Girl"), Upper Grammar grades; class poem, "A Retrospect," Bernice Ewell; instrumental duet, "Rhapsody March" (Liszt), Ida Beckwith and Celia Benson; class poems, "The Gold and Black," Ethel Campbell, "A Schoolgirl's Fancies," Gladys Millar; "Rain Song" (from the opera "Mignon," by Thomas), girls of the graduating class; class history and prophecy, Russell Drew; "The Clang of the Forge" (Rod- ************** street-O. P. Shrout, minister, Services, 11 a. m., with sermon by the minister, "Blessings Through Struggle." Mrs. John G. Jury, Director of Music; Miss Florence Sayler, organist. Sunday School, 12:15, Dr. Hall, Superintendent. The minister's "Emerson Club" will take up the essay on "Self-Reliance" at this hour. All who wish to attend will be made welcome to this class. Trinity Church, corner Second and St. John streets-Rev. J. Wilmer Gresham, rector. Jan. 19, 1911, fourth Sunday after Epiphnay: Holy Communication, 7:30 a. m.; Sunday School, 9:45; morning prayer and sermon by the rector, 11 a. m.; evensong and address, 5 o'clock. Weekday services: Thursday, Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Holy Communion, 10:30 a. m.; Friday, litany 10:30 a. m. A hearty invitation is extended to all. Saratoga Congregational Church - C. W. Merrill, minister. Morning service, 10:30; Rev. L. D. Rathbone of San Francisco will speak. Five-minute illustrated talk to boys and girls. Bible School, 12. m.; 6:30 p. m.; Christian Endeavor meeting. At 7:30 union service in Congregational Church. Mr. Rathbone will give an address illustrated with the stereopticon, "The Stranger Within the Gate." This service will be in charge of the W. C. T. U. Bible Students' meeting - The San Jose Class of Bible Students will meet Sunday at Marshall Hall, Hale's building, South Second street. 2 p. m., Berean Bible study; 3 p. m., Bible talk, Romans, 6th chapter. Pilgrim Brother Walter Bundy will address the class Monday afternoon at 3 p. m. and also at 8 p. m., when he will deliver his lecture on "The Millennium-What It Is Like; Where It Will Be?" A cordial invitation is extended to all these meetings [[/newspaper clipping]]