PART TWO
SOCIETY
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PART TWO
AMUSEMENTS
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War-Time Wedding Dates Dot
Pre-Season Social Calendar
T
HE cry is "Still they come,"
Weddings, my dear, seem to
be rolling over this fair land
like , a great tidal wave. All the
handsome young fellows, looting
their best in khaki uniforms, seem too
fine and strong to be sent away and
the pretty girls too lovely to be left
behind. The swe et sorrow of parting,
you see, makes all the good qualities
in both soldier lover and maiden
sweetheart oredominant. so that when
the tears well up in ner big blue eyes,
he surreptitiously blows his nose and,
presto, you have them seeking the
minister together.
' Last week saw not only all the wed
dings scheduled, but several which
did not appear on the calendar. The
two latest were the weddings of Miss
Gertrude Owen to Major Amos
Thomas and Miss Gertrude McCrann
to Mr. Joseph W. Breen of Des
Moines. Both of these took place
yesterday and it so happens that bofh
brides will go to Des Moines to make
their homes, at least temporarily, for
Major Thomas has been ordered to
Des Moines for duty.
A wedding of the week in society
circles is that of Miss Agnes Russell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rus
sell, to Mr. Frederick Stott, which will
be solemnized Thursday at the home
of the bride's parents. The plan is to
niake it aquiet, family ceremony, as
is characteristic of war times. Mr.
Stott comes from a St. Paul family
and has lived in Omaha only since
last spring.
The marriage of -Miss Grace Mc
Bride, daughter of Ir. and Mrs. Will
W. McBride, to Mr. Harry P. Thor
een of Chicago will be solemnized at
the home of the bride's parents Sat
urday afternoon at 3 o'clopk. The
service will be simple and brief, be
cause of the bride's recent recovery
from a nervous collapse.
The following Saturday in Des
Moines Mi Ruth Bewsher, daughter
of Mr. A. H. Bewsher, well known
in Happy Hollow club circles, and
Mr. Reece Stuart, jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Reece Stuart of Des Moines,
will be united in marriage at 6 o'clock
at St. Luke's church.
Both young people were graduated
from West Des Moines High school
and the University of Iowa. Miss
Bewsher also took some work at
Drake - university. She belongs to
Jota Alpha Omega and Kappa Kappa
Gamma sororities and he is a member
of Sigma Nu fraternity.
Wednesday of the first week in Sep
temper will see Miss Eleanor Patrick
the bride of Mr. Edwin Eels of Seat
tle. The next day, and the day of
the nuptials of, Miss Ruth Bewsher
and Mr. Stuart Reece, will be the
wedding day of Miss Ruth Ganson
and Mr. Xenophon W. Kynett of
Council Bluffs. , On Wednesday of
the succeeding week Miss Mildred
Carruthers will become the bride of
' Mn Peter W. Ritlough. Some time
during September Miss Irrhel Clare
Orris of Stanton, Neb., whose mother
is well known in Omaha as an officer
of the Nebraska Federation of
Women's Clubs, will be united in
marriage with Mr. Andrew Padgham
of Gooding, Idaho. On September
22 Miss-Lenora Young, daughter-of
Mrs. Thomas J. Young of Macedonia,
and Mr. Eldred Schuyler Hart, son
of Mrs. Ernest Eldred Hart of Coun
cil Bluffs, will be united in marriage
at the home of the bride's mother.
The actions of friends who are in
the secret seem to indicate that the
marriage of Miss Helen Scobie to
rMr. Allan McDonald will "also be a
September event, but no date has
been divulged to the public. Miss
Marie Woodard will be an early Oc
tober bride. .
Omahans will be interested to hear
of the marriage Sunday of Miss Nellie
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the, Week
Dudgeon and Mr. James Wesley Vos
at St. Thomas' Episcopal church,
Sioux City. la.; the Rev. Coleman E.
Byram officiating. The wedding was
to have taken place in October, but
was solemnized at an earlier date be
cause the bridegroom is expecting a
call to government service.
- In the wedding party which mor
tored to Sioux City from Omaha were
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Dudgeon, par
ents of the bride; Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit
Vos, parents of the bridegroom, and
Mn and Mrs. H. W. Benolken, the
bride's uncle and aunt Miss Gladys
Hicks of Sheldon, -Ja., aunt of the
bridegroom, was maid of honor and
Mr.'H.'W. Benolken was best man.
Mr. and Mrs. Vos will be at home
in Kingsley, la., after October 1.
Gossip of Army Folk.
Wilbur Haynes Saturday evening
entertained dinner Charles H. Ep
person of Clay Center, who Is on his
way to th officers' training camp at
Fort Snelling, and Leslie Stephens, a
junior officer in the United States Na
val academy, who is. home on a fur
lough. The young men are fraternity
brothers. '
Major and Mrs. W. O. Gilbert are
in Chicago.
Lieutenant f Virgil Rector arrived
home Wednesday from" Fort Snell
ing, having stopped at Okoboji for a
few days. He, with most of the Snell
ing officers, will go to Camp Dodge
at Des Moines.
Lieutenant Jack Baldwin is spend
ing his leave of absence at Memphis,
Tenn., and returns to Camp Pike
near Little Rock" for duty in the
quartermaster corps.
Captain Robert Burns and Lieuten
ants Cuthbert and Cedric Potter mo
tored down from Fort Snelling, stop
ping on their wcy at Okoboji, where
they were guests of Mrs. Miriam
Boyce and Miss Eugenie Patterson at
the Patterson cottage. Captain Burns
is v staying with his brother, Sam
Burns.
Miss Hortense Geest, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Geest, and Mr.
Carl Volz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Char
les Volz, with Mrs. Beckett, South
Side, will leave Monday for a trip to
the Pine Ridge and Rosebud' Indian
reservations, at the summer camp of
Mr. Volz, Martin S. D. Miss Geest
and Mr. Voltz returned from a trip
there a month ago with Mrs. Volz.
Allisons Entertain Soldiers.
Twenty-five privates from Fort
Omaha will be the recipients of the
hospitality of Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Alli
son at their country place, Rosemere
Lodge, today. At 9:30 the young men
will be taken in automobiles to the
scene of the frolic and thre they "willl
spena me entire aay aotng wnatever
they please. A fried chicken dinner
and supper will be served to them at
The Latest "Yarn"
Knitting at the theater, the lat
est vogue of the fair , sex, lost one
devotee at the Wednesday matinee,
at the Brandeis.
One of Omaha's fairest society
maidens is the principal in the
tangle. -
Some one shoved her knitting
bag as the throng was leaving the
theater and her ball of yarn slip
ped out, wound itself round and
round and in and out of the feet
of the exiting crowd, drawing
them and the fair young maid all
in one stumbling mass to the
street.
Kind on-lookers unraveled the
embarrassed maid from a man or
two who were heard to ejaculate
something that sounded like
"Yarn!" but might have been
"Darn!" , ;
OMAHA,
in Social
Monday
Societv nieht at the Oroheum.
Omaha Women's Golf association'
r meets at Seymour Lake Country
club.
Junior Tennis tournament at' Field
club.
Afternoon for Mrs. Thomas J.
Parker and Miss Eunice Ensor,
given by Mrs. Hugh McCulloch
and Miss Hortense Eads.
dance at Happy Hollow
club.
Dinner-dance and women's lunch
eon at Carter 'Lake' club.
Carter Lake Bowling and Swim
ming club, i
Hard times dinner-dance at Happy
Hollow club.,
Women's luncheon and bridge
tournament at Field club.
Dinner at Happy Hollow club for
Miss Alice Wood of Springfield,
111., Miss Mildred Todd, hostess.
Wednesday
Cottagers' .dance at Carter Lake
club.
Happy Hollow Bowling club. v
Dinner-dances at Country and
Field clubs.
Hollow bridge tournament.
Women's luncheon at Happy Hol
low and Seymour Lake Country
clubs.
Original Cooking club.
Second Happy Hollow Bowling
club.
Stott-Russell wedding at home
of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Russell.
Friday
Matinee dance at Field club.
Cottagers' Bowling club at Carter
Lake club.
Dinner-dances at Seymour 1 Lake
Country club and Council Bluffs
Rowing association.
Saturday
Dinner-dances at Country, Field,
Happy Hollow, Prettiest Mile
and Carter Lake clubs.
Thorsen-McBride wedding at
home of Mr. and Mrs. Will W.
McBride.
noon and in the evening. Some young
men of the college set have promised
Mrs. Allison to furnish music ap
propriate for the occasion, so that
nothing will be lacking for the enter
tainment of the guests. Misses Kegina
Connell, Daphne Peters, Florence
Neville, Emily Keller and Grace Alli
son will assist the hostess.
Honor Miss Shirley.
Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Holtman enter
tained at dinner at their home Thurs
day night for Miss Elizabeth Shir
ley of Los Angeles, who is visiting
Mrs. J. K. Hazzard and Mr. Hazzard.
Miss Shirley was formerly principal
of the Dodge street school in Omaha,
which building is now occupied by the
city jail. She is now supervisor of
the Los Angeles schools.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Hazzard are
giving an interesting dinner in her
honor Sunday evening. The guests
will include all the members of the
Transvaal club, formed in Omaha and
elsewhere during the Boer war. Wil
liam Jennings Bryan was a member
of the club. ' ,
News of the Sojourners.
Mrs. Jennie Barnum and daughter,
Miss Virginia, left Saturday for North
Platte. Mrs. Barnum is on her way to
Oakland, Cal., to spend the winter
with her son, George. Miss Barnum
will be accompanied in her return to
Omaha by Mrs. A. V. Barnum and
Social Calendar I-fxy,. W I '
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1917.
Circles :
children, Virginia and Walter, of
worm f latte.
James McKenna left Wednesday
for Chicago to take the lake trip to
tsunaio.
Mrs. A. V. Kinsler and daughter,
Gertrude, left last week for Lake
Placid, where they are at the Lake
Placid club.
John 'A. CaveTs, with his daugh
ter, Margery, and son, Keith, are on
their way back from a motor trip to
Canada.
Lucy and Ben Cotton, children of
Mrs. G. A. Meyt, returned Friday
from a summer spent with their
grandmother, Mrs. Herman Kountze,
at Spring Lake, N. J.
Mrs. J. E. Summers and her
mother, Mrs. George Hoagland, left
Wednesday for Atlantic City, where
they are at the Marlborough-Blen-heim.
Mr. and Mrs. John M: Dauehtery
Upent the last week-end at Greeley
with their son and his wife Mr. and
Mrs. John C. Daughtery, and their
new grandson, John M., 2d.
Mrs. 'Arthur Lockwood returned
Thursday from several visits in Indi
ana and Detroit on her way home
from Fortress-Monroe.
Cornelius Clarke, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. S. Clarke, jr., and Austin
Sturtevant returned Friday from
Woodcraft camp at Culver.
Mrs. R. F. Kloke returned Tuesday
from Estes Park.
Mr. and, Mrs. George B. Thummel
expect to leave the -first of the week
for a trip to Glacier park or to the
Adirondacks.
Dr. and Mrs. Clyde Roeder, who
have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. H.
Thummel at Richards Landing, On
tario, are enroute home.
John W. Redick left for Prior lake
Thursday and J. T. Stewart 2d went
Friday to join their families.
Mrs. E. M. Fairfield returned Tues
day from two weeks' visit with Mr.
and Mrs. Sherman Canfield at Sheri
dan, Wyo., and expects to leave to
morrow for Fish Creek, Wis., to visit
the camp where her daughters have
spent the summer. Mr. Fairfield was
at the camp last week.
Edward Murphy, who has been liv
ing in St. Joseph for the last year,
spent a few days in Omaha enroute
to Chicago where he will enter Fort
Sheridan training camp. His mother
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Activities
into insignificance In -this
season of war weddings. What
commission the bridegroom holds
.and the novelty of the military
uniform worn at the ceremony
arouses far more comment.
Such a train of nuptials at any
other time comes within the ken
of no present-day society chroni
cler. A major and several lieu
tenants, first and second, have led
girls of prominent families to the
altar since their return from Fort
Snelling. 1
Saturday, afternoon Major Amos
Thomas, who received the' highest
rank conferred at Fort Snelling,
and Miss Gertrude Owen, daugh
ter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank S.
Owen, were married. ; The cere
mony was quietly performed at
the Owen home, with only the
family and a few near friends
present for the event.
At a larger church wedding
Thursday evening Miss Anna Mc
Connell and Lieutenant Harry
Jennings of Council Bluffs were
united in wedlock. The same eve.r
ning Miss" Rachel Hager and Lieu
tenant John Robel plighted their
troth at a home ceremony.
Two military weddings of Sat
urday last were the ceremonies
which united Miss Ivy May Lee
and Lieutenant Donald J. Burke,
who received his commission last
year at Plattsburg, and Miss Mil
dred Lee Gardner, who became
the bride of Lieutenant Winfield
O. Shrum.
Dressing Well is Not War -Time
Sacrilege, Say Women of Nation
FROM .the gilt-wreathed Roman
legionaries gazing sternly down
at the entrance to the gowns
of the women in the boxes, an
air of freshness pervaded -the open
ing of the Brandeis theater Wednes
day night. Monday night the Or
pheum, fresh an1 clean from its sum
mer rest, will call forth dozens more
of new frocks for the first society
night performance of the season.
Women's gowns, said a -New York
writer "once, are the surest, sixn of
the advancement of the season. When
you get home from the opera or the
theater and glance down at the skirt
of your frock, you can tell by its
state of preservation just how far
advanced the winter season its. Cer
tainly by that sign this is only the
beginning of the winter social activ
ity, for every frock looked new for
the occassion, Wednesday night a
truthful statement and not made with
intent to soothe the feelings and ease
the consciences of any delinquents
who wore old garments.
An interesting question which is
agitating the fashionable women-folk
all over the country is, "Shall we buy
new clothes this winter, or will it be
sacreligious war-time extravagance?"
New York is said to have answered,
if not in words, at least in deeds,
"Emphatically no, to buy clothes in
war-time is not sacreligious." Femin
inity there is "preparing for the gay
est and most extravagant winter of
its career." Furs are not even for
sale in some Pacific coast shops, be
cause furriers have found that they
can make more profit by supplying
the enormous demand in New York
than ' by paying express charges
across the continent. The most neces-
SINGLE
in Woman's Realm
SuTiimer Travelers
. As Cool Autumn Days Approach
mHIS week has begun to seem like
I autumn, tor many of the summer
travelets are beginning to drift
into town or are sending word ahead
to their waiting menages to prepare
for their arrival The breaking up of
the first officers' reserve training
camp at Fort Snelling, which was
cnronicied a week ago,, removed the
necessity.. for the popular feminine
protion of society to remain among
the . Minnesota lakes, so that the
Omaha colony which lias flourished
at Lake Minnetonka the ' last , two
months is well-nigh dispersed and re
established ,in its regular haunts.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Hochstetler
have sent -word that they will arrive
in vjmana prooaoiy on the morning
of September 4. They were to spend
Friday in the Grand Canyon of Ari
zona, and would arrive at the Daugh
erty ranch in Ogallala, Neb., to visit
with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Daugherty,
on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Kirk
endall made their stay in Hollywood
particularly pleasant. They took num
erous motoring trips together and en
joyed the visit fully.
1-or the first time during their Cali
fornia travels the DauKhertvs visited
the Valley of the Yosemite and from
the jenthusiastic accounts which they
nave sent to inenas ana relatives
here, they must have felt themselves
well paid.
. Mr. C. E.-Hochstetler of London.
who arrived in Omaha a short time
after his' brother's departure, will re-
sary accessories to fashionable dress
and materials without which one may
not be, are more costly than ever
in their history. Palest ' colors will
predominate in winter costumes, it is
avowed, seemingly in direct contradic
tion of the laws of nature.
Women in Paris, we are told, have
never dressed so elaborately and so
exquisitely as this fall. Those who
are not in deep mourning will wear
the gayest of gay colors. Everything
seems topsy turvy, for just when we
were making up our minds to live
dolefully in our last year's best bib
and tucker, we discover that all the
world of women and fashion is pre
paring to revel in pretty and expen
sive garments. Truly no one but the
women who has pinched and scraped
all her life is preparing to pinch and
scrape some morel
Mrs. Joseph Lamar of Georgia,
representative of the Council of Na
tional Defense, decries the tendency
of women to conserve by wearing
khaki instead of buying the present
styles or by demanding simple gar
ments, when elaborate ones are on
the market. - "It is poor political
economy and poor patriotism. Right
spending is right economy." The fur-
uici auvnc luiiiaiiicu in lurs. i-a-j
mars protest has been soundly
scored by women of the nation s
capital and from the first lady of
the land to the most recent bride
the clothes for fall and winter are
extremely smart and becoming. Some
one suggests that the psychological
effect of war upon women is the cause
of this fashion revel. Because pros
pects are so black we are putting
forth every effort to brighten the
scene.
COPY FIVE CENTS.
Turn Homeward
main until after the return of thi
family to Omaha. He leaves then for
New York, where he will be engaged
with business until he recrosses the
Atlantic. -
Ware Hall, with his aunt and sister,
Miss Ware, and Miss Dorothy Hall,
are .motoring back from Winegar,
Wis., and. are expected to reach here
today or tomorrow. Miss Dorothv has
been visiting a school friend of . Chi
cago at the latter'a summer home at
Winegar. Mr. Hall, accompanied by
Kenneth Paterson, motored to Chi
cago about ten days ago and thence
to Wisconsin, where Mr. Paterson
joined his wife and baby at Elkhart
Lake to return with them about Sep
tember 1.
Miss Gertrude Metz and Miss
Helen Peycke returned Tuesday from
the Metz ranch at Cody. Mrs.' Charles
Metz will not be home until next
week. ' -
Mrs. .W. S. Poppleton will return
Monday from Spring Lake Beach, N.
J., where she has been spending six
weeks with Mr. T .1. Mahonev. who
has a cottage there for the summer.
Miss Blanche Deuel and Miss Irene
Carter, with Charles L. Deuel, were
at Lake Louise this week on the
Canadian Pacific road on their way
home, but are making stops at the
different points and are hardly, ex
pected home before the latter part
of next week.
Mrs. W. E. Shepard, who has been
at Estes Park, left there Thursday
for Green Mountain Falls, near Mam
tou, and is expected home Wednes
days Mrs. J. J. Hanighen, who has been
at Fortress Monroe, Va., returned
Friday, having stopped in Chicago on
her way back.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Yost returned
Wednesday from Christmas Lake
and stayed a day or two at the
Blackstone while their house was be
ing opened and put in readiness, after
their absence of two, months. Mrs.
Charles Olfutt and Miss Virginia Of
futt and Miss Helen Hibbard motored
down from Christmas Lake, reaching
here Friday.
Mrs. Charles T. Kountze. accom
panied by Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Sweatt
of Minneapolis, motored down from
Minnetonka, arriving Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Sweatt will be here un
til this evening. t
Ali ivi ; a. m; i until wui
reach home September 4 from La
Jolla, Cal., where Mrs. Powell and
the children have been for two
months. Mr. Powell ' joined them
about a month ago. His mother and
sister, Mrs. A. C. Powell and Mrs.
Bryant Rogers, who are also In Cali
fornia, will remain another two weeks.
Miss Ida Sharp was the first of the
Omaha colony to leave Estes Park.
She arrived home Sunday, but Mrs.
John A. Kuhn and Miss Marion Kuhn
came Tuesday and Mrs. G. A. Meyer
returned Wednesday, accompanied by
Mr. Meyer. Most of tHe other Omaha
people will remain untit September
at least. -
Arthur C. Smith returned lat week
from his Wyoming ranch, limping and
somewhat disillusioned as to the joys
of farming. He thinks the furrow
behind a plow horse can be as dan
gerous as the trench in front, of a
"boche.". Torn ligaments in his leg
and three weeks in bed as the result
of a kicking plow horse are prooi
enough of that, in his uiiu