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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1917)
PART TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO EIGHT TM Omaha 7 ' TODAY VOL. XLVII NO. 14. PART TWO AMUSEMENTS PAGES ONE TO EIGHT OMAHA, SUNDAY .MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1917. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. mrnmHi i r" -ammp.. "wiiMMiMiiOTnMMpMa,. riiiMaiiiimiiiiiiiiimii minmiim..,ii..,........ii..,m-,...m,,, iffMhi1r)'T'K-n'i')'i-"-,riniVi no" - mt an mmhhii I hi r mi mw firJwimnnnmT'" 1 - ' , - ' ' : - A. V . . , ' ' - t 1 1 . 1 1 11 ' i. in xi .... .1 ;ti5t 7 i J. Kj y - l1v.?oVV ; " II:-r-if V - x . (gs. ' 'im 'fJU3C -- "i 'ii - - . - L. W KTV, -X v.,,,v i,,.V' AiV. .'.V. If . T . . .v -v.-.s. ftV,:-'.-.li,-,'. KB Social Coleim V JivW; ,7 f if. . j kxbi . - Field Club is1 the First to Close: 1 - , ... Winter Social Affairs Announced .73 AND ALL BROWN, Everett XV -Buckingham and W. D,"'Hos- committee are exceedingly busy men this hh lli i 1. 1 11 . , ' luuuiii, auumnig 10 an tne ae Uils Of the big -Corohatio event They have to be on constant guard, too. for fear thv un'11 Isf ci; due to the identity of Her 3fajesty uuccn yK-oar-iien aaiii, and that of His Majesty as well The list of special maids who wilf aticna ine queen is, top, the subject of itfUch conjecture. Announcement of: the names of the girls who -will receive this honor is expected vithin the next few days. In the meantime society is occupy s mg the few intervening weeks until Ak-Sar-Ben, festivities with, closing the country clubs and beginning the recreations of the winter season. The Field club closes this week-end with a dinner-dance, while the-other clubs are 1 holding closing parties ' in "ad vance of the last dinner-dances, Sep tember 29. . v : Harvest ; Home . dinner-dances are planned by Happy Hollow, ' Carter Lake and Seymour Lake clubs. At the Happy Hollow dinner Thursday, eveningr Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Fry will have eleven - guests, and ; Mr. 'Harry Byrne, will entertain . a party. Seymour Lake Country club members will also enjoy 'a, masquerade! dance Friday evening.. . .! To take the place of the Country club dinner-dances the- Blackstone management has already initiatedits week-end functions. The dance clubs, too, are announcing heir dates,: the executive committee of the Cinosam eliih havinor met rerpntlv tn ntan- ftip winter parties at the Scottish Rite cathedral J. H. 'Stine "was elected president, A. N. Smith vice president, M. Nt Hepstonstall secretary, H., C Cutler treasurer and H. C Forster chairman of th6 music committee. The first party will be given Thurs day cveninfi'. October 23. and will he followed by similar events every two I and , an evening : of old-fashioned dances, December 6, are red letter dates on. the, club calendar. Dancing parties will also be given November J, jJecemDer &), January A, 17 and i February 15 and 28 andf March IS and 28. t . . , Le Mars club announces the dates for its dancing parties of the coming season, the first of which is scheduled for Tuesday evening at Keep's acad emy. Vincent- Schmittroth is presi dent, Jay Collins secretary and Jack McCarthy treasurer. Dates for other parties are September 28, October 19 and 31, November 9, 20 and 29, De cember 14 and 31, January 18 and 30, February 12. March '16. Aoril 1. 12 and 23 and May I and 17. After Ak-Sar-Ben the season of the Tuesday Morning Musical club is of prime interest to society.. The first concert in November will be one by , Louis Graveure, Belgian baritone, in . whom Omaha is particularly inter isted because he is the husband of an Omaha girl, Nell Painter,' who tarred in the. "The Lilac Domino," nd other Andreas Dippel produc- , - i tions. Eddy Browne, violinist will appear on the same program.' ,' Julia Calp, whose engagement of last year was cancelled, has promised to come in December;1 Yvette Guil- Den . win De , tne January attraction, while in February the club-will nre- sent two Omaha damrWrs f red ...I -r ... naitn l,. waeoner. mamst. nsitpfi by Mrs. David Stone. Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowich in a two-piano Concert, will be th, March numhpr and Frieda Hempel is engaged for April. The annual students' oroKram will also be given in April. rAll ene-aeements ar fnr fVi Rnwcl theater. .. Mrs. R. C. Doripr 5 nrc!r!nf mil Mrs. V. D. Cree sprretarv.traciirr of - the women's organization of St Cecelia's,; which will give a number of-parties this -winter to raise funds for the completion of the cathedral. The women olan at lpast ffir nor. ties a month, -the first to be given Wednesday at St. ; Cecelia's audi torium.; Hieh five and hnMcr- he played and refreshments served. .Committees appointed are as fol lows: Prizes. Mrs. C. H. Cauchlan and Mrs. WJE. Hills: arranirprnnt. Mn J. R. Hanlon and 'Mrs. M. T. White refreshments. Mesdames T P Ti. dale, J. G. Miller, J. A Kervan, M. r. canker, ichopp, btanwick and Miles; publicity,-; Mrs. Williams and Mrs. A. N. Eaton." 1 -MM . Residence Changes. ' C I. bmvth. who IS as nrcnr in Boston. exoectS to return FnMaw'tn take his family to Washington, which is to De their home in the future. Mr. Smyth takes his oath of office , as chief iustice of the court of anneals on October 1 and will leave here with his family Septemebr 25. Their home has been .taken by Walter L. Stickel a banker and lumberman of Kearney. Mr. and Mrs. Henrv T. Clarke and lamily have taken the C. C. Rose water house on Dewey avenue and will arrive from Lincoln today. It is with.great pleasure that their bid friends will welcome Mr. and Mrs. Carke back to Omaha, where they both spent their childhood and early married .life. v ...... - - Cdrds Used to Tell : Of Soldiers at Camp The war hat given rise to a new, social form announcement cards of one's admittance to the national army. " '-... '-, Omahans with friends enlisted or drafted into the United States army, have" received correctly en graved, cards bearing the inscrip tion: f The call to service in the. na tional army has been met with a hearty 'Ready!' Stepping from civilian life into that of a soldier of the United States of America has been my privilege. Sincerely" then the name. In the lower left hand corner is the name of the training camp where the young soldier will be stationed. , - Monday- ' ' , ' Knitting party, Miss Harriet Wal ters, hostess. V , Card party at Seymour Lake Coun - try club. Tuesday-. Luncheon "at' Fontenelle for. Miss Nina Clithero of Chicago. Mrs. W. H.' Calvin, hostess. Luncheon for Mrs. Celia Shelmire of Meridian, Miss., Mrs, F, B. . Palmer, hostess., -' Last bridge tonrnament at lField Club. ' Omaha Whist club meets at Fon tenelle.. - Dinner-dance at Happy ' Hollow club. ' - i Women's luncheons at Field, Hap- v py - Hollow and Carter Lake rlnhs. Afternoon for Mrs. G. ' Eldridge , Hamlin of Chicago, Mrs. George ' F.. Howell, hostess. Le Mars club dance atKeeps academv. .. Bridal . dinner and rehearsal for Davidson-Weller wedding, given by Mr. 'and v Mrs. Charles K. Weller. . . ,-. Presentation of golf prizes at stag dinner Fi'eM rliih . . Wednesday 1 ' .,';". Davidson-Weller wedding. . V Card party and entertainment, at 1 Prettiest Mile. dub. ' -' Card party at St-Cecelia's audito rium. - -. Jf:- Country and Field clubs dinner, " dances. ' , .- Military dinner-dance of Compan ies u;and it, t on . Uraa4ia, at farter I.alre clnh i Cottagers' luncheon at Carter Lake 'Luncheon at Prettiest Mile club, Mrs. Walter Meyer, hostess. Thursday- Women's " luncheon ' and dinner dance at Happy Hollow club. party at '.Seymour Lake Country club. Saturday- y. Hart-Young wedding. ' ? Closing dinner-dance of Field club. Week-end dinner-dances at Coun try, Happy Hollow, Prettiest - Mile and Carter Lake clubs.;.-',, Fort Omaha officers'' dinner-dance at Carter Lake club. . . . At the Country Club Mr. and Mrs. James L. Paxton gave a dinner at' the Country club,,; last evening, when most of the guests were from Council Bluffs, the latter including. Mr. and Mrs. George Mayne,'Dr. and Mrs. Donald Macrae, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. William Coppock, Mrs. E. A. Wickham, Mrs. Ernest Hart, ' Miss Mary Key and George Wright Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Keller; Mrs. H, M. Powell of Fort McDowell, Cal., and John A. Cavers were the other guests. , V ; Mr. and Mrs". Charles Kountze and Judge and Mrs. W. D, McHugh en tertained other parties at the club, t Interesting Gossip ' ' 0 Weddings A" surprise wedding, the engagement for which Mellificia rumored in last Sunday's Bee, was the marriage of Miss Grace Louise Hancock, daughter of Mr. andllrs. W. H. Hancock, and a well known pianist of this city, last evening to Mr. James Willard Snell of Madison,' Wis. 1 Only relatives and a few intimate friends were present at the weddine and the informal sim per which followed. The decorations were pinK ana white. I he ceremony was performed by Rev. T. J. Mafkay, and Miss Henrietta Rees olaved nre. ceding. the ceremony; Mr. and Mrs. bnell have gone to ifinneapolis and for ijmef trip to the pine woods before taking up their residence sin Madison. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hancock and small daughter Barbara of-Kansas City arrived Fri day for the. wedding. ; i Another interesting wedding an nouncementin fact, two of them is made by., Mrs. A. J. Dutcher.- Her daughter Miss Myrtle Priscilla, is engaged to marry Mr. W. L.j Ander son, the wedding to take place Wednesday evening, October 10, at 8 o ciock at cmton -fiui. .rresbyterian church.' The .ceremony will be fol lowed by a reception to relatives at the home of the bride's mother. ' ' Miss Elizabeth Watson and Mr. Wesley Bristol will be the attendants and Miss Katherine Dutcher, the bride's sister, ring bearer. Miss Mabel Fulton will sing and Miss Mamie Jardine will play the wedding march. , r Wednesday of this week the bride's brother, Mrs. C. W. Dutcher, will be married to Miss Helen E. Pickel at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.A. J. Pickel, at Comstock, Neb. Rev. Von der Lippe will per form both wedding ceremonies. Mrs. Dutcher, her daughters and several other, friends will go to Comstock for the wedding- ' Mrs. . J. Smyth, for many years prominent in the social set, leaves soon for Washington, D. C., where. Mr. Smyth's position. takes him, to make her home. . J Miss Henrietta Mc Arthur is the beautiful niece of? Mr. and Mrs. Gould Dletz, who has come from California to be with them. Miss McArthur is helping in the work at Red Cross headquarters in the Baird building, indeed, she is Mrs. O. C. Redick's assistant. The quartet of pretty girls just off for college includes Miss Freda Haas, a freshman at Smith college; Miss Gretchcn Swoboda, who may enter the University of Nebraska this fall, if not, for the February term; Miss Helen Wahl, who left for Lincoln during the last week to enter the state university, and Miss Lucile Lathrop, who has al ready gone east to enter Rockford college at Rockford, I1L Army. Set Once More Occupies Fort G roofc; Officers Home onFurlough 7 Sojourners Return T" 1"" Y- i . juts. r. roiaa ana tamiiy re turned Thursday from Ephraim, Wis., where they spent the summer at their place, "Engelmar." Miss Martha Folda remains there some time longer ad expects Mrs. Warren Rogers and Miss Mildred Rogers to arrive today to be her guests for two weeks, after which they are expected inSOmaha. Mrs. and Miss Rogers have, been east since last September." . , , , Mrs. Arthur Remington left Grand Rapids, Mich., last Saturday for the east to join Mrs. W. R..McKeen and Mrs. Warren Rogers and Miss Mil dred Rogers at West Harwich, Mass. Mrs. George H. Thummel and daughters, Miss Katherine Thummel and Mrs. Fred Clarke, jr., arrived home Thursday from Richards Land ing, Ontario. , Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Hochstetler are home from two months in Cali fornia, where they were part of the time with Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Kir kendall in Hollywood. Mrs. Frank Colpetzer will be home Tuesday after a summer spent with her.1 daughter,. Mrs. Harry Wilkins, at Harbor Point, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Fell have returned from an extended eastern trip. They visited relatives in Phila- (Continaed on rge Two, Column Opt) i TTlORT CROOK is affain to he oc H cupied by the regular army, the , ' " third battanon'bf the Forty-first infantry having been ordered there from Fort Snelliqg, the arrival ex pected today.. Since the increase in the size of a battalion.it fneans that one battalion will brink sixteen offi cers to Fort Crook and will fill the barracks with men. fantain ParticU Whiting, whose wife is the daughter of Mr. and-Mrs. C. A. Sweet, is among the officers who will come here, ac cording to the recent order, i The Whitings were stationed at Fort Crook when he was ordered to the border several years ago and most of their, household effects are still stored in rJ.eir quarters, so it will not take, them long to reopen, their home again. ynoth:r bit of good news for Mr. and Mrs. Sweet was a letter from their son, Lieutenant Lewis Sweet, who has just completed his training at Harvard under the French officers, sayiig th-at he' woutcL.be here Mon day ort a ten days' leave before going to Camp 'jan at Houston, Tex. , Colonel and Mrs. James McKinley and Captain Robert Burns, are ex pected over from Camp Dodge at Des Moines today, and if they come they will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kountze until . tomorrow evening. -Colonel McKinley is com ing on business and will motor back in his car, which he left here. Mrs. McKinley has, just joined him from the south, where she has. been, since leaving here. - Arthur Loomis,' who .has been with the mosquito fleet at Newport, arrived home Sunday on leave ana has since .received permission to re turn to Cornell, where he enters his senior year. This permit is in ac cordance with the decision of the Navy department to allow enlisted men or tne naval reserve under ll years of age to complete their college course, subject, of course, to call in case of need. ' , - Lieutenant " Commander Allen B. Reed, U. S. N., arrived this week, on a ten days' leave , and is . with his wife and family at 128 North For tieth street, a house which Mrs. Red has taken for the winter, as she will T remain here indefinitely. , Mrs. Reed was formerly Miss Bess Uoorhead, daughter of Mr.' and Mrs. G. P, Moor head. ?..:'... .! ,?,-.' , ., Scott McCormick, son of Harry McCormick of 'this city, received a second lieutenancy at the close of. the officers'' training camp at Platts burgh, N. Y., and has been sent to Camp Upton at Yaphank, L, I.,;- -. Mrs. Hal Brady left 'Wednesday for St. Joseph for a few days' visjt, and today goes from there to Man hattan, Kan., where she, has taken an apartment to be near her hus band, Lieutenant Brady, at Camp Funston. . . Jack Webster has . enlisted in the quartermaster department of the army, and left yesterday for Camp Custer. Battle Creek, . Mich, .. for training. Mrs. Webster went with him and expects ' to stay in Battle Creek. ," .... ,-..,' , ', Arthur W. Wakeley, son of Lucius W. .Wakeley of this city, has re ceived his appointment as first lieu tenant in the ordnance department of the army, a- posifion for which his education in the engineering school at Cornell university, well qualifies him. He also has had'five years' training in technical industrial work. His younger brother, Morton, is now at the officers' training camp at Fort Snelling. v , , . . . , Captain Rex Morehouse, was called to duty in the quartermaster corps at Camp Sherman, Chillicdthe, O, and left here last Saturday evening. Mrs.-Morehouse ajid little daughter, Margery, plan to go to - Chillicothe later to be near1 Captain Morehouse. What Society Han in Prospect V .Th will be a stag party at the Field club Tuesday evening, at 7 o'clock, after which the presentation of the golf prizes will take place.. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Baldrige will entertain a small dinner party at the Blackstone today . , - A card party under the auspices of the Holy Name, parish will be given Friday evening at St. Mark's - halL There will be eight prizes, four for the women 'and four for the m., '