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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1923)
CLUBDOM | School of Instruction for Trainmen's Auxiliaries ’ to Be Held Here. Mrs. J. H. Moore of Toledo, Ohio, Hrand president of the women's auxil ary, Order of Railway Conductors, and Mrs. E. E. Clark of Ottumwa, la., district grand officer, will conduct a School of Instruction for Ak-Sar-Ben division of Omaha and the auxiliaries from Lincoln, Chadron, Boone and Sioux City September 12 and IS at the Castle hotel, opening at 9 a. m. Wednesday. Ak-Sar Ben division will entertain the visitors at luncheon on Wednesday and Thursday and a din ner dance will be given by the local divisions of the O. R. C. Wednesday evening at the Castle hotel. Mrs. J. H. Davis is president of the hostess auxiliary. Mrs. W. F. Reinsh, past president. Is in charge of the muse and publicity. Sermo Club Opens Season With Luncheon. Mrs. E. H. Barnes, 3415 Redick avenue, will be hostess to the Sermo club at 1 o’clock luncheon Tuesday. This will he the first meeting of the season, and Mrs. R. I,. Staple will be ln'Vharge o fthe afternoon program. Mrs. J. J. Hess will read a paper on the "Best Short Story.” The program for the coming year is varied, including book reviews, and subjects of current interest. The of ficers nre: Mrs. F. J. Martis, presi dent; Mrs. A. W. Fenner, vice presi dent; Mrs. E. H. Barnes, recording secretary; Mrs. .1. J. Hess, correspond ing secretary; Mrs. J. P. Barnhart, treasurer; Mrs. G. G. Gearhart, cour tesy chairman; Miss Lillian GwiA, publicity chairman. City Mission Notes Mrs. Bessie Meyer, associate super intendent of the city mission, has re turned from a visit in Carroll and Cherdan, la. Miss Beatrice Harvey is enjoying a vacation at her home in Cedar Rapids, Ta. She will return later to continue her work the office of the mission. The supply rooms at the city mission will be open every Tuesday and Hri lay forenoons. - .Since the advent of cooler weather ^Pme street meetings have been discon tinued at the mission. But religious services will be held in the basement every Thursday and Sunday evenings. Miss Harriet E. Haney, superin tendent, wishes to acknowledge the donation of several very fine books for children to the library at the mission. The Magee memorial fund has reached a total of something like $30. It is hoped to have this sum augmented by enough more to enable the mission to erect, in the near fu ture, a suitable fountain to the memory of Nellie Magee. I/Alliance Francaiee. R'AlIiance Franraise will open the season with a social evening Qctober 12 at the home of Dr. Felix Despeoher at the Rakoma Country club. The evening will be spent In dancing and ga men Twenty-five Illustrated lectures on France will be given during the sea son and there will be a special lec ture in French given by a lecturer from France, also three social pro grams. Membership In R'AlIiance Franraise Is open to all who ftre In terested. Special rates are made to students of the French language. L. O. E. Card Party R. O. E. chapter No. 1 will give a card party for Its members Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Elks club rooms. Beginning with this meeting the parties will be held in the afternoon instead of in the morn ing. Mothers’ Guild Card Party. The Mothers’ guild will give an evening bridge and high-ftve party at Burgess-Nash auditorium, Wednes day, September 19, at 8 in the even ing. A sack of sugar will he given as a door prize. Mrs. P. Welch, Har ney 0177, will take hlgh-flve reserva tions and Miss Cassle Riley, Harney 1875, the bridge reservations. House of Hope. Rev. Allen Keith, pastor of the Pearl Memorial Methodist church, will have charge of the services at the House of Hope, 7915 North Thirtieth street, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The church choir will sing. Old People's Home. Rev. C. A. Segerstrom, pastor of the Swedish First Baptist church, will conduct services at the Old Peoples' Home on Fontenelle boulevard this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Mlnne Rusa Chautauqua. Mlnne Rusa Chautauqua circle meets Wednesday at 2 p. m. with Mrs. R. C. 'fooke, 5023 North Twenty second street. Rt. Bernard Card. Radies of St. Bernard parish will give a card party Widnesday after noon in the Benson City hall at 2:30. x m cai * * Phom* JA ck«on 1953 Doe* the 3 look like Bn 8 or the 5 like a 3? And do you have to extend this paper at arm’s length to see the numbers clear ly? If so, you need glasses. Our large, round ahell spec tacles or eye glasses will answer your purpose. Frame and lenses, 86.00. Bifocal I.entes. Distance and near work combined in one. Lenses only, 87.00 Same service in our South Side store, 24th and N streets. MA 0784. Flitton Optical Co. 13th Floor 1st Nat’l Bank JA 1953 Chairman of Casino for “A Night in Pars.” £Aft?. ^aLt'tjey 'Du.jfatt B05TWICK PHOTO Assisting in the Women's Overseas Service league armistic eve enter tainment, "A Night in Paris/’ Is Mrs. Barney Dugan, formerly Miss Joseph ine Neary. Unless plans "gang aft agley" this mammoth and unique fete at the city auditorium will be a memorable one in city annals. The "soldier girls" know how to organize, their plans already being very defi nitely made. They are not afraid to tackle a huge enterprise and their motives are the same unselfish ones which took them across an ocean to help win the war. Mrs. Dugan was one of the famous I Neary sfsters. There were four of them, all nurses, two of whom served overseas. Miss Agnes Neary, who served with Dr. Grayson Murphy of Chicago, distinguished American medi cal officer, received four citations from different governments. Mrs. Dugan was in charge of the officers’ division of a convalescent hospital on the Mediterranean in the south of France. She will have charge of the casino at the auditorium, Nov. 9 and 10. War Mothers Name Convention Delegates. The regular meeting of the Omaha chapter. Amer.can War Mothers, will he held In Memorial hall, court nous*, Thursday, 8 p. m. The following dele gates will attend the national con vention of American War Mothers to be held in Kt nsas City, October 1 to 5: l^Jrs. A. W. Wilcox, presi dent of Omaha chapter: Mrs. J. H. Shields, Mrs. Charles Haarman. Mrs. C. W. Hinzie, Mrs. S. A. Weeks, Mrs. John Mordlck. Auto View Rest. At Auto View Rest Saturday night Dr. James Patton entertained 15 guests at dinner and Mrs. Anna Meyers had 4 to dine. Malva Whist Cluh. Malva White Shrine Whist club ; '.' ill meet Tuesday, 2 p m. at the -Masonic templo. ' B~P.0.D7k The Benevolent and Patriotic Order of Does will meet Friday at 2 p. m in the Elks club rooms. Extension Society Card Pnrty. Extension society will meet at 2:30 p. m., Friday, September 14, at Knights of Columbus hallk ^Twenty third and Harney. Hostesses will be Mesdames M. F. Murphy and D. E. Murray. Business Women's- Dinner./ Mrs. Helen Collins and Miss Martha Shafer, who are in charge of the Omaha Business Woman's cluh dinner and program Tuesday evening, 6:30 o'clock at the First Central Congre gational church will be assisted by Gracn Grant, Fannie MacDairmid, Harriet Allberry, Alma Bailey, Fan nie Brown, Dorothy Cooper, Elsie Fisher, Emma Krutll, Effie Klee Marie Scofield, Ethel Thorngate and Verle Williams. W. C. T. U. Notes Johnson Memorial Woman's Chris tlan Temperance union will meet Thursday, 1 p. m., with Mrs^ Frank llensman, 2828 South Thirty-third street. Department superintendents will give their reports and delegates will be elected to the Douglas county convention to be held at the Y. W. C. A. September 17. Frances Willard W. C. T. F. will meet Wednesday, 2 p. tn., at the Y. W. C. A. Delegates will be chosen for the county convention North Side Mothers Cluh The North Rule Mothers' club will open the season with a luncheon Tues day at 1 p. m. at the home of Mrs. II. C. Newton. 3S24 North Eighteenth street. Mesdames George Crocker and B II. Anderson will assist. I--—--■ Country Clubs Happy Hollow. Miss Margaret Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Johnson, gave a bridge breakfast Saturday morning at Happy Hollow club for 24 guests. At the Saturday night dinner-dance Judge and Mrs. Leigh Leslie and Mrs. Charles Leslie had 30 guests. Mr. and Mrs. Anan Raymond had as their guests Dr. and Mrs. Floyd Clarke, Dr. and Mrs. D. T. Quigley and their ^uest, Miss Ruth Streitz of North Platte; Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Chllde, Miss Kate Seyferth, Mrs. E. M. Sunderland and Mr. Harry Ab bott. Charlea Manley made reservation for 4 guests. B. R. Hastings, 12; R. Russell, B; J. B. Buchanan, 4; E. A. Sunderland, B; B. W. Powers, 8; How ard Engler, 6; George Roberts, 5; B. If. Dunham, 4; E. F. Howell. 4; Gladys Mickel, 7; J. F. Dale, 10; A1 K. More, 4; J. A. Llnderholm, 6. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Fell en tertained In honor of their wedding anniversary, when their guests in cluded those whose wedding anniver saries fall on the same day. Cover* were laid for Mssers. and Mesdames M. D. Cameron, Charles Belden, T. L. Combs and W. O. Carey. At the Country Club. J. L. Hall entertained 10 guests at dinner at the Country club last eve ning, George C. Smith had 7 guests and Glenn Wharton 10, honoring Mr*. Arthur Lloyd of Pittsburgh, Pa., the guest of Mrs. Ed Megeath. At the Field Club. At the Saturday evening dinner dance M. H. La Douceur had 6 guests. Joseph Hough had 18, Dr. J, S Hyde 12, Colonel Goodrich 10, Made line Krug 10, Major E. F. Ely 6, Ann j McConnell 8, at intermission, and for luncheon on Saturday Mrs. James Trimble entertained 8. Party at Okoboji. Following the wedding of Miss Rachel Metcalfe and Edward J. Phelpg, Jr., on Saturday, September 1, Miss Metcalfe's parents the James Metcalfes. and their sons, George and Walter Lee, and a group of St. Louis relatives, Including Mr. and Mrs. Richard Waite, Jane, George, and Richard Waite, Mr. and Mrs. Burt Wyatt and Catherine and Helen Wyatt left by motor for a week at Lake Okoboji. ^ Miss Bailey anti Guest to Attend Rush Parties. Miss Grace Bailey and her house guest, Miss Mary Wettllng of Chi cago, will go to Lincoln Tuesday to attend the Kappa Alpha Theta rush parties. Miss Bailey will be a senior at the university this year. Christ Child Society Classes and clubs of the Christ Child Center will resume activities Septem ber 15. Istomin Chautauqua Circle. Loomis Chautauqua circle will meet Tuesday. 2 p. m., at the T. W. C. A. Mrs. W. L. Bridges, leader. Dundee Chautauqua Circle. Dundee Chautauqua circle will meet Thursday. 1:30 p. m., with Mrs. Fred Elliott, Jr., 5190 Webster street. Miss Nan Hunter will leave Septem ber 14 for New York city where she will Join her aunt, Mrs. Luther Drake. Mrs. Drake plans to return to Omaha the first week In October. She is president of the Omaha Society of Fine Arts and is assisting Brownell Hall In an advisory capacity. Scrubbing. The scrubbing brush should he moved up and down with the grain of the wood, never acroas It. Cold water Is better for scrubbing wooden floors as It does not soak Into tho wood ns quickly as hot water and the floors will dry sooner. Won't Know the Difference. By soaking shredded eocoanut In sweet milk and pressing the milk out gently Just before using. It will he as jury and delicious as fresh eocoanut. Winter Will Soon Be Here • Now is the time to get out your heavy clothes and have them put in shape for cold weather. You can easily make your old garments last another season by having them CLEANED or DYED, REPAIRED or REIANED. Dyeing Our dyeing department is in charge of one of the best dyers in the United States. We suc cessfully dye dresses (either ripped or whole), suits, coats, sweaters, men’s clothing or chil dren’s garments. We employ only expert tai lors and can make any repairs or alterations desired on either men’s or women’s garments. Repairing, Etc. We put in new linings, put on velvet collars, put in new pockets, make new edges on sleeves or pants bottoms, alter jackets, lengthen skirts, etc., at about two-thirds what regular tailors charge. Dry Cleaning For garments that are not faded there it no method of restoring life and luster equal to Dry Cleaning. Our new "Continuous Flow" system removes all dirt, groa«e and germs and cleans linings as well as the outside. No dan gri' of fading or shrinking the most delicate fabric. Rug Cleaning Our'cug cleaning is better now than ever be fore. Your rugs are cleaned through and through, color restored, resized and made to look and wear like new rugs. Send us one nig as a sample, and If you are not delighted with the result you need not pay one cent for It. Remember, The Pantorium is the oldest and best known Cleaning and Dyeing stahlishment in Nebraska. For over twenty-five years we have been “building for the future,” so we can’t afford to turn out inferior work. Why Not Have the Best? Out-of-town people ran have the service of this hig plant by using the Parcel Post. We pay return charges on all orders, and our prices to you are just the snme ns to residents of Omnhn. We have hundreds of regular customers, consisting of bankers, lawyers, doctors, merchants and farmers in the small,towns near Omaha. Many of them have been with us for years and yearf. Write us for prices or any other information you wish. The Pantorium "Good Cleaners and DyersP 1513 to 1517 Jones Street Phone ATlantic 4383 South Omaha, 24th & L Phone MArket 1283 Guy Liggett, President for 26 Years j[ Speaker at Women Voters* Convention Mrs. Nancy Schoonmaker of New York, prominent woman and suffra Slat, will be one of the principal speakers at the meeting of the Ne braska League of Women Voters to be held at Aurora, October 5. Her subject will be "The World Court.” Mrs. Shoonmaker recently made a tour of Europe, studying the leglsla tion which the newly enfranchised women of teh various countries have been supporting. The tour was made under the auspices of the National League of Women Voters and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. It included the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland. Germany. France, Czechoslovakia and Eng land. Mrs. Schoonmaker came per sonally into contact with many of the more prominent women now serving in' the national parliaments, and has brought back material of vital interest to every local club and league of the national organiza tions which she represented. Mrs. Schoonmaker addressed the Nebraska league two years ago in Lincoln. Scottish Rite Woman’s Club Reopens. Scottish Rite Woman’* club will hold lte first business meeting of the season Friday at 2 p. m. in the Scot tish Rite cathedral. Holy Angel* Parish. The Holy Angels Parish club will entertain at cards Tuesday evening, September IS, at Twenty-eighth and Fowler avenue. A New One. I have heard that baked potatoes are delicious if rolled In salt before baking. The salt permeates the po tatoes while baking and gives them a much better flavor. Gleanings from Federation News (Condensation of the August-Septcni ber magazine published by the press and publicity department of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs.) More than 40,000 visitors In two weeks’ time visited the model home built by the general federation in Washington in celebration of Better Homes week. The temporary building may be made permanent in response to a demand for it. Plans for the house are available through the bureau of information of national better homes committee. 233 Spring street. New York City, Mrs. William Browne Meloney, secretary. Cost, $2. The house can be built for $14,000 or lead. It has living room 26 feet long, kitchen, breakfast room, dining room and hall downstairs: upstairs are hall, nursery, bedroom, children s room, guest room, two baths and a linen closet. library books were se lected from list submitted by Mrs. Rose V. S. Berry, federation of fine arts chairman, and musical equip ment by Mrs. Max Oberndorfer, feder ation chairman of music. Elizabeth O’Toombs, vice chairman of press and publicity, and profession al writer for Good Housekeeping and other magazines, prominent member of the! Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs, died last June. Mrs. Wallace T. Perham of Glen dive. Mont., will be proposed for the office of president of the general federation at I.os Angles1 biennial In June, 1924. Favorable recommendation has been made on a plan to launch a campaign for a $5,000,000 endowment fund for the federation. Nebraska has pledged $1,525.50 to the federation headquarter* fund, and has paid $529.30. "Our federation problems are not women's problems, nor men's prob lems, but humanity's problems," says Mrs. Edgard B. Penney, president of the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs, whose object Is to organize In every town and community a woman's club with an open door and with members studying citizenship, community service, child* welfare, public welfare and the laws and leg islation affecting the community, state, nation and the relations with other nations. A Clean Bathroom, There is nothing that is quite so damaging to the housekeeper as a poorly kept bathroom. It should be washed always with diluted disinfec tant and at least once a week disin fectant should be poured down the pipes. The bathroom Is one place where one"s work and care can show very plainly. /—DIAMONDS—\ Finest Quality $50 $100 $150 and Up ALBERT EDHOLM JFWFI FR 2d Floor City Not. Bk. Bid*. ^ 16th and Farnam \ “The Store of Individual Shops” / Paxton Block ' — the season’s new — Dresses and Coats Its easy to harmonize the mode of the moment with your type, when there is such a diversity of beautiful apparel to choose from. Moderate pricing also makes selection easy! Frocks of exclusive charm $19.75 to $139.50 Especially appropriate for the street are wool coat-frocks, individual ized in countless clever ways. Smart simplicity characterizes school-girl modes, while dresses of subtle sophistication are here for more mature types. Dresses of silk, too, for every occasion from business to formal wear. COATS Contributing Luxury and Warmth $19.75 $269.50 Slim, becoming wrap-a round coats developed in the softest fabrics and often trimmed in beauti ful furs and embroidery. Coats, too, without furs, fqr those who want them —and a wide selection of dashing plaid sport models. v the indispensable Separate Skirt takes to many new style-ways and materials for fall—Loose basket weaves and gay Scotch plaids and stripes for sport wear. Conservative blues and blacks for utility, and a score of clever models which will prove the starting-point for many an attractive costume. $6.75 to $22.50 ft Announcing Exclusive Model Hats From designers of renown, some of whom are represented for the first time in Omaha by us. 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Navy, black g< nq Checked Velour—54 inches w ide, all w ool, in the sea- g a QC son’s favored colorings. Special for Monday, yard V * ea/aJ Canton Crepe - 40 inches wide, all silk, in black and fashionable shades. Specially priced for CO CO Crepe Satin 40 inches wide. An exceptionally good quality in black and the colors most popular for new frocks. go qp Priced for Monday at, yard. All Silk Chiffon Velvet Priced so low only because g a QC of a special purchase, yard.,.,. Xew Coatings Cvcry weave and shade found in better grade eoats, priced consistently loir. Main Floor