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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1921)
Social and Other Activities Among the Gentler Sex I OMAHA WOMEN ARE ENGAGED IN VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS Many Omaha women are engaged in successful occupations outside of the home. Of course there is no higher work for women than that of home makers and mothers; no sphere of activity in which she can make her in fluence for time and for eternity more felt. However, modern life has called women into other spheres of activity, and they are finding themselves in many occupations. And in these they are meeting with success. SUCCESSFUL MANAGER OF A SHIRT FACTORY Mrs. Pearl M. Alexander is the suc cessful manager of the M. E. Smith & Co. Shirt Factory No. 7, located at Twenty-fourth and Burdette streets, with which she has been actively iden . ■ ——-—■ ■ MSI tified since its organization. The fac tory manufactures work shirts and has the best record of any of the com pany’s factories in this class of work. The output is sixty dozen completed shirts a day. Fifty girls are employed who average, by piece work, the basis f upon which they are paid, $14 to $15 a week. Mrs. Eulah Hines is fore woman. COMMISSIONER COLORED COMMERCIAL CLl'B Mrs. Grace M. Hutten has the unique distinction of being the commissioner of the Colored Commercial Club. It is believed that she is the first and only woman in the United States to hold such a position. She was edu cated in Omaha and the University of Chicago. She taught successfully in Iowa and Porto Rico. As commission [ er she has done most effective work I in connection with the free employ ! ment bureau and other activities, in i eluding the Boy Scouts. Recently Mrs. ! Hutton was offered the position of pri ; vate secretary in charge of the Span : ish correspondence of a prominent : merchant, as she is a finished Spanish i scholar. Mrs. Hutton declined this ' lucrative position because of her ! anxiety to serve her own people. ^^^^^^gEVEMTEENTH^^S,^ —^POUC«.Ag gTWEET Omaha’s Great Market and Grocery f 17th and Douglas Courtney Bldg. j GREATEST VALUES EVERY BUSINESS DAY OF YEAR 1A Courteous, Obliging Service Awaits Your Visit to This Splendid Shop of DELICIOUS FOODSTUFFS I RIALTO I MUSIC SHOP I Phonographs AT BARGAIN PRICES % Standard Machines at 25% TO 50% LESS A MUSICAL ARTIST. Mrs. Florentine Frances Pinkston, graduate of the New England Con servatory of Music, is an artist of whom Omaha is justly proud. Mrs. Pinkston is a born teacher and has done wonders in raising the musical tone among our people in this city. Mrs. Pinkston is the daughter of Mrs. J. H. Crawford and was reared here. She began her musical education in Denver with Madam Azalia Hackley. Mrs. Pinkston leaves soon for a year’s study In Paris. Her husband, J. W. I Pinkston, has enthusiastically sup . ported his talented wife in all her plans of perfecting her musical edu cation. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED | Mr. and Mrs. Henry R Roberts an | nouneed the engagement of their ; daughter, Madeline Zoe. to Mr. Ray I Gibson, son of Mr. and Mrs 1J W. ; Gibson, Tacoma, Washington, at a Sunset Supper. Saturday, July 30tb, at I seven P. M. The guests were seated i on the porch where four prettily dec I oratd tables had been placed. Miss Roberts is one of the most popular girls of the younger set- She seems i to belong to all classes as she has en i deared herself to young and old alike I by her winning manner. She was born and reared in Omaha. After leaving High School Miss Roberts took some training at the Nicholas-Senn hospi tal, and is now the capable assistant at the Singleton Dental Parlors. She is a devout member of the Church of St. Philip the Deacon, where she is j a member of the choir The guests at the supper were, the i Misses Bernice McCaw, Margaret \jn Cour, Eloise Wade, Otis and Cuma j Watson, Darline Duvall, Carrie Gray, I Annabelle Shepard, Lucie May Collins, | Ethel Jones, Delores Johnson. Mes ! dames Ruby Webster, Anthone Ed wards Robinson, Ruth W. Killings worth. No date has been set for the wedding. THE HI HOIS DRAMATIC Cl.l II Mrs. Cecelia Wilson-Jewell, is man ager of the Dubois Players, the only organization of its kind in the state. The company which includes John O Woods, Andrew T. Reed, Pearl Alex ander, J. R. Lemma, Kva Peoples, Ce Ideal Button & Pleating Co. j NOVELTIES IN PLEATING I i Buttons, Hemstitching, and Picot [M Embroidering /jl Braiding. Beading, Cording*. De- /Mr signs Furnished. Prices Moderate IBM' Third Floor Brown Block J9^K1 Sixteenth and Douglas Streets Phone Jackson 1936 OMAHA, NEBRASKA * wmmiMi'niiwMiniiiHWwwnmn'WWNiwmiMWMtwmwmiwHWiimwHi.mwwpn«*mwmn-.mminm*HimHmm u"n '*•' 4 cil Alexander, Ruth Killingsworth, Jesse Peoples, Fannie Russell, John W. Griffin, Rae Lee Middleton, Ed ward Turner and Gerald Edwsrds, appeared successfully in “Under Two Flags'' at the Boyd Theatre in 1919 and last year presented the five act drama “Testing Fire'' at the Brandeis Theatre, playing to a capacity house, the door receipts from which were more than $1,000.00. They are plan ning to produce “The Price” thsi fall at the Brandeis Theatre, which will surpass ail plays previously attempt ed. BUSY HOUSEWIFE AND BUSINESS WOMAN Mrs. Hazel Terry Lewis, who is a busy house-wife and the mother of two children, found time to take a four-years’ night course in the Com mercial High School from which she received her diploma recently. She is the wife of J. D. l^ewis, an energetic and ambitious young business, whom she assists in the conduct of his bus iness. Mrs. Lewis, who is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Terry,1 was born at Emporia, Kans., October ! 9, 1890. Upon the death of her mother in 1900, Hazel, then ten years old came to Omaha to live with two old er sisters. Here she attended school and subsequently married. STATE FEDERATION OK COLORED WOMEN’S CLUBS The Nebraska State Federation on Women’s Clubs was organized in Oma ha, Nebraska, in 1905. Our number consisted of ten clubs. The object of this organization is to secure harmony ; of action and cooperation among all women n rising to the highest plane of mora and civil life. The Federa tion meets annually the fourth Tues day In June in a city or town where there is a Federated club The Colored women of Nebraska have done excel lent work for their race. We have secured homes for girls and boys and ‘ old folkB. We have helped the wel fare work throughout the state. The i Colored Women's Club has purchased a place and made a home for any col ored dependent living in the state of; Nebraska. At our last meeting which was held in June In Lincoln, Nebras-1 ka, we made our last payment on the home and received the deed We hope to open it Boon. Let’s have more of our women join the club and work for ’ the uplift of tb« race. Our aim is to have a club in every town in Nebras ka where there are at least enough | colored people to have ten women to ! organize. We realize that we are pass ing through a readjustment period and i ■ we as club women of the race must be up and doing and help to solve the I problems that aerlously affect our : 1 group. Rev. M. H Wilkinson left the city ! last Friday night for Chicago, Pittb burgh, Philadelphia, and Williamsport, I the latter where he pastored for five 1 1 years. He went on a business trip and ; will be away about two weeks. .Mr. W- P. Wade, Mrs. Blanch Wade i Black and children left Wednesday for Wichita. Kans. and other points to visit her sister and brotherin-law Mr. j ! and Mrs Brilev. — (Continued from Page ft.) 'true that any paint will help, but only j i in the best will you secure full re- j turn for your investment. Let us all strive to make Omaha a ! brighter and better city, and there j is nothing that will do this better than to PAINT I P, and KEEP IT UP. MULLIN’ PAINT COMPANY. 313 S. 14h Street. “Jim" Mullin. I Ford I . Immediate Delivery on Any Type. We use Genuine Ford Parts Only. Our Repair Work is Guaranteed. Your Patronage is Solicited. Sample Hart Motor Co. Atlantic 0513 18th and Burt Sts. OMAHA i ) ♦ • 4 + V ♦ V^rVV'rV 'rVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVfrVVV £ ❖ | Don’t Say “Bread” Say f I “Betsy Ross” I A ►> ♦> t When you older soap you don't call for just “soap”—you ask, by name, for the kind J t you prefer, V *% " ^en y°u call for washing powder you ask for a certain brand. ^ •$* ^ e^’ w^en it comes to the important matter of bread—something on which the fam >% ‘ly health may depend—many people are careless in saying: “Send a loaf of bread.” *$* Is the bread you and your loved ones eat, then of less importance than the soap you 1 use or the washing powder you employ ? ♦♦♦ V* Bread is a iood that plays an important part in every meal. All members of the family *** \* partake of it; children eat much of it. ' ♦ Is it of no concern that the bread on your table should be of pure ingredients, made V y under clean circumstances and bear full food value? «$* i All bread is by no means, alike. Take BETSY ROSS Bread, for instance. Here is a ♦ loaf scientifically made of carefully selected ingredients. It offers the maximum in food *♦* V value for child or grownup. «£♦ ♦ * ^ OU should call for BETSY ROSS by name. Only ^ so can you be sure of bread that answers to your »*♦ ideas of goodness and healthfulness. * * ft ( That Good Old Fashioned Taste” $ A FEW OF OUR REGULAR VALUES f , I STAR STORE ! V 24th & Parker Street *1* I Come To Look You’ll Stay To Buy % ♦ I Appliance or Remedy for every ♦ l foot trouble. These sim V I pie and effective devices ♦*♦ have brought foot com V SANDALS X'»rrx»r • MEN’S *■ * X ctyi..,.,,'. la w. s.n. ssSMSSriss1 sandal oxfords ❖ ♦ £•! • anJ P,ay °^ord* °“r cause of your suffering. R . r , , . , ♦*e Price, Sizes 5 to 11. Per pair Bring your foot troubles Keel C omfort and of the Best Quality l ♦ Cl /IQ to us. No charge for ®ur Price Per pair (n nr V y ^1.^0 this service “ ij>d£.05 *% X MEN! LADIES! * $ New Fau Shoes New Fall Suppers f j"A»Th"Nr“sh"7-sdBr*h'* s°iid MiKr,:r;s.d.B'^i,idsu.ptV.”dt' $ Leather, Rubber Heels, Our Price, per pair p*r pa;r pr,ce ej» 4 $4.95 $5.95 t x___.{. p and G “®l ,Y0RY Golden Rod Fel, N.plha X <’Whit. Naptha , KLHEAN“d SOAP F!£'ly Washing s«lp l v Soap for H»u“hold 3 i>oap Powder ♦♦♦ * 10 BARS 69c 5C Can 25c 10 bars 59c 5c Pkg. 10 bars 69c •% X OPEN STAR STORF 0PEN i' X EVENINGS •31 AlY 131 UI\E EVENINGS % ^ 24tl. AND PARKER STREETS V | North Omaha's Large Department Store X V *♦* (