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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1924)
:■ -oass'sj™.') The Omaha Sunday Bee ’ * -. i, . / __- . ... —. .j VOL. 54—NO. 10. PART THREE OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1924. 1—C FIVE CENTS wmm/jjpmus.. ' -. .isnMn j BOSTWJC.K PHOTO First table, left to right: Katherine Allison, Mrs. Charles Allison, John Byron Davis, Mrs. Hark ness Kountze, Mire Kountze, Malcolm Baldrige, jr., and Mrs. Malcolm Baldrige. Second table, left to right: Mrs. Edwin Davis, Edwin, jr., Mrs. George Flaeh. Jean Flack, Mrs. Douglas Peters, John Milton Peters, Mrs. Louis Burgess, Ward Burgess II, Charles Burgess, jr., and Mr*, diaries Burgess. Fully appreciative of the auspicious occasion was John Byron Davie when he blew out the two candles on hie rose-topped birthday cake a week ago at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Arthur Metz. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Davis. Cake implies ire cream, of Course, and both were served in ti.e garden to the young guests who sat at small failles whirh were matched with diminutive chair*. Two groups are seep in the picture. a. with chaperoning mother*. Others at the party were John Byron’s cousins, Bobby and Patsy Garrett and David §33 M and Albert Sibbernsen; Dorothy and Ann Thomas; Milo Gates, jr.; Ann Hanighen, Clarence Peters, jr.: Mercedes cSX Im Caldwell, Frederick Bucholz, Katherine Ann Tukey, Jane Barker and Herbert Davis, jr., John Byron's brotliei; SI M and the youngest guest at the party. IA Gay balloons and innumerable favors entertained the young visitors so well that the afternoon pa-sed without 3 - M rU discordant sound. The older children played together bn t the younger ones, like woodland creatures, satisfied with a single delight, gathered favorite toy s unto them selves and sought Isolated haunts for undisturbed and *ure enjoyment, suggesting perhaps that one Is most Independent at J, life thereafter being more narrowing and demanding. _ 6detti/ (BfarH HE1VN photo Three members of the 0. T. club of Central High school, who have been renewing affiliations with their clubmates this summer, a;e Mis os Klizabctii McDonald, Natalie Hastings and Betty Clark. Miss McDonald will enter her junior year at Sinitfi college this fall. She is spending the week end in Nebraska City with l« r mother, Mrs. John K. McDonald, as guest of Mrs. George Parr. Miss McDonald will leave earK in September for the east to visit college classmates in Kochester a • I lira, N. Y. Miss Clark is returning to Central High school for her junior year follow in* a year in Brownell Hall. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank (lark, she is devoting herself to a musical career of great promise, for she lia a soprano voice of unusual charm. Miss Hastings, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hastings Is to enter Vassar college this fall. Fast winter she was a student in Miss Madeira’s school in Washington, I*. C. For the last two weeks Miss Hastings has been the guest of her sister Mrs. Byrne Holmiiuist, during her family's absence in the west. ’ • Illustrious Past Fails to Impress Official A Line May Be Anything From Geneology to Con versation—This Time It Is a Modern Railroad— Omaha’s “Floating” Population Enormous. By GABBY. WK Americans are strictly bus! ness, there's no doubting that. Gabby heard of one of the biggest railroad officials located In the city who'd prove this If we didn’t know it already. Although he Is possessed of a pedi Free which takes him hack to Ply mouth Rock snd Is a direct descend ant of one of the country’s early presidents, whose names he hears, his presence at a dinner given f"r the Mayflower society by Carl Gray couldn't shake him sufficiently into his Illustrious past to forget his sue cessful commercial present. During the evening a devotee among the guests, who was almost Chinese In the matter of ancestor worship, approached the official In question and after a long dissertation on his otvn family tree, Inquired po litely, "And what Is your line?" only to be mystified by the reply, "The Cnlon Pacific.” --<* GOLF girls are playing for stakes and bringing home the baron this year. One of the prizes for the matches played by invitation at the Allen Dud ley private course several weeks ago was a side of hacon and a trophy to he given at the Field club open day "Wednesday, August 27. It has Just been learned Is to he a shapely plnl. ham. Do these Innovations mark a new era In prize giving favoring the use ful gift? Or Is there a hope thnt golf widowers may he more quickly placated If a day-long departed wife returns home with refreshments for the family larder rather than a new vanity case? The custom Is new here, hut prere dent Is found In many of the larger cities where matches for a Thankr giving turkey are established custom UK latest summer soclsl func tion, as every one knows, 1s a watch party for the night sir mall. Hortety has sanctioned It ss the logical end of almost any sort of sf fair and often the field Is dotted with group* gowned In the most formal of summer modes. Rut alas! This Innocent diversion ha* been desecrated. Gabby hears that, officials have had to post their own watcher* around to rout out mJs crennt Spooners, who. moon blinded, await the arrival of planes. Omaha's floating population has enormously Increased this sum mer. And, like a certain brand of well known soap. It floats mostly on ths surface of the water. Swimming has never had the local popularity It enjoys this year. People of all ares have dipped Into the pri vate, public an Institutional pools by the thousands dally through the sea son. And this, despite some chilling days. A Sunday morning group at Krug Park pool today Includes Mr. and Mrs. Harry Doorly, Mr and Mrs. Clark Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Tukey and Mr and Mrs. Pred Dnugh erty. Mr. and Mrs. Crosby Khevlln, the Newman Bensons. Misses Vlr gtnla Barker and Josephine Srhur man, are others who have favored the 10 o'clock swim hour at this bath ing beach. — --4— -. TO THOSE who, like Clahhy, know their geography but sketchily the news that Jean Palmer, daughter of Mrs George Palmer, has h**n sent a consignment of winter shooting togs, for use In Honolulu will seem a hugs cllmatlo Jest. It's Pus, nevertheless, and Miss Palmer le spending August at Mel aka!, Hawaii, high In the snowcap pod mountains, not 15 minutes by motor, however, from villages whose grass ek’ried cltlxenry are disporting themschee to their ukulele music In the warm sun. Miss Palmer Is the guest nf Marlha Conk, who has been her classmaln at Bryn Mawr until the two gtrls graduated In June with Miss Palmer as class president. Molakal Is on# of five estates, run ning the gamut of ellmatsry and entertaining facilities In Hawaii, which Miss Cook's father, one of the Island's wealthiest hankers, owns Miss Palmar Is a good shot, hut has never gone after big game be fore, snd her experiences are novel and Interesting. At the end nf September the party will return to the eoas t and the beaches, fur s stnv before setting sail for the United Htntes. Mism Palmer wlU arrive In Omaha In October _„ °Jof\ri ^Byron Davis BO ST WICK PHOTO I G- I <Sfi zaCe th \A(.e(Donaf() Rinehart marsdkn Consul to Africa Comes to A isil I liis Month. MIa* Kvn Dow hihI her father. O. N. Dow, who are at (ircon Bay. Wla , nrf> ex|>«» f|.,| home eritly thin week J hey will be visited two weeks henre by Mr. «nd Mr* Charle* Ihiw an*I children of Algiers, Africa, who an In Washington, 1). (V. now. Mr. Dow Is T nlted State* consul to Algiers Miss Eva Dow \ 1*1 ted her brothei thei-e two year* ago. Mrs Hussell Fisher Is also n sinter Miss I.ovell I,eaves. MIsa Almira I.<i\ i ll, who hae hern the (.'tip t pf Mi- unit Mra Hanry II Lovell, loaves Monday for her home In New London. Conn. She will stop en route at Drs Moines to visit her ♦Inter, Mrs. John W. Million Mr Million In president of D«a Molnen university, V Liberty Kensington. Utterly Star Kensington Hull Or der of Eaafern Star, will linv* 1 o'clock luncheon and cards Thursday, August 21, at Prettiest Mile Huh Telephone reservstlons should he made with Mrs Ora Hushntan, Wsl nut 2676, or Mrs I.etn Zust, Wsl nut 2451, not Inter than Wednesday evening, August 20 Mrs J. A C Kennedy and daugh ter, Anna Marie, will leave fteptsm tier 15 fur Troy, N. V, where Miss Kennedy will enter the Emma Wll Inrd school. Mrs, Kenneily plans to rentRln In New York for several weeks before returning home. Mrs, Edward Peterson and daughter, El len, will accompany the Kennedy* us fnr es (,'hlcago, where they u II spend s few days before going to talk* For est, 111 . where Miss Peterson will eular Ftiry iUii, Mrs. nropan Returns. Mr* F A Progan ha* returned from two month* In California. She wn* accompanied horn* by Mr. Brogan, who went weal a few week* ago Mr* Progan »p*nt moat of her time at Highland*, nenr Carmel, where ahe I* accnatomed to go alternate year* Sha brought hack with her menu acrlpt* of two play* written hv neigh her* there tin* of them, "Children of the Moon," hy Martin Flavin, I* now playing In New Tork Mr and Mr* Flavin are among Mr* Progan * heat friend* at Highland* The other play I* the work of Ira Mallory Ren acn, "Mr Punt,' a delightful fantaay dealing with the Invlalhle playmate* of childhood, preaented flrat at the Foreat theater at Carmel. John O'Shea, a painter theta, did a portrait of Mr Rrogan a mother aom* year* ago Mr. Rttchell. paint er; Vernon Kellogg, writer, who waa with Hoover during the war and Mr. Criley, playwright and arllaf, are other* In the arllat colony of Highland*. One of the moat commented on home* on the con at I* the S1MV000 aummer realdence of Mr. Jama* of Kanaaa City, built out on the rock* of the aca very near the Progan place It bea been called hy beua* and bom# m*g*ttlnc* lit* moil The Townsend Netchers Visit h red Hamilton. Mr Fred Hamilton entertained at dinner last night at the Country club for hla guests, Mr. and Mrs Town send Netoher of Chicago. For Eugene Eppley. Mr and Mrs. Jess Whitmore an tertallied 10 griests at dinner at their home In Valley on Friday evening honoring tvigene Kppley, who leaves today for five weeks'travel In Europe Birthday Party. Mrs K M Kennedy gave a birth day party Friday for 10 little guests honoring her 4 r ear old grandson, Payton Tdindrith Johns, son of Mr. and Mrs A H Johns At the Mety Ranch. Mrs, Charles Meta, end Mrs Arthur Mels srs In Cody, Neh, at the Meta ranch They will return Thursday. • Mrs. I.angdon Hostess. Mn. I! A Lfuigtlon will entertain n#**t work At a nhowfr for Mrs 1’ It Yoder. Supper Party. Mr a tit! M • K U l»non will *n tertaln At njpptr At their home to Mrs. Wyman Entertains for Mrs. Allen. Mri Henry Allen of Philadelphia who la ataylns w th her mother. Mr* Henry' Ya'e*. during the abaenr* of Mr*. Yo*». who 1* at Home Ijrke, wa» honor g'je»t Friday at a bridge given by Mr# Henry Wyman Billy Engler's Party. Billy Kngler will celebrate his fourth birthday on Monday with a party Riven hv hi* mother. Mrv George Kngler, for 11 of h.s little friends. Visits the Campbells. John Foster of Mont Clair, N J . former Dartmouth student, will st rive on Wednesdav to v sit Mr and Mrs Frank t'lropbell, Jr. who will entertain tnfromally in his honor Miss W elch Hostess Miss Gertrude Welch will enter tain 13 tables of hridirs at Cherry croft, the country home of her par ente. Mr and Mrs. John W Welch, Wednesday, in honor of Miss Helen Wsterbury of Nov ^ ork w ho with bet mother. Mrs Ktigene Waterburv arrived Tbuiadax to spend a week w ith the \N eh hoe. attd Miss A'.ice l<eslie who will attend the \ ? tvei eity of Neht'iska this fa ’ Mt Water bury and Son. Theodore will arrive the latter part of next week t spend MMHai de:» hvi a. i .'^Le. 1 il._1 j Chi Omega Affairs Out-of town Chi Omega sorority girls are having a gay week-end aa visitors here. Miss Marie McCarthy entertained Friday night at her home for them and on Saturday morning they were taken for a swim and breakfast at Carter Lake club. Mrs. William Randolph was luncheon host ess at the Field club Saturday and in *he evening. Mise Frar.rea Foot* had 4n guests in their honor at the club dinner dance. Mrs B T. Fan-ell will rreside at dinner at her home today in their honor and ton'ght the activa and alumnae members will picnic with the guests a. Elmwood park. Misses Mary Br- wn and Helen Aghen of Glenwood, la.; Bernice Gross of Ceresco and Yerene Ander son of Lint in are house guests with Miss Marie McCarthy. Misses Betty Welch of Lincoln Pauline Barber. Fullerton, and Velma King of Fairbury are with Miss Frances Foote M:«s Alice Pfe.ffer Is hostess to Misses Esther Re.hord of Waco and Dorothy Hilscher of Lincoln. Miss Marguerite Viola Fcraell has at her home the Misses Eva Robbins. Irma Otrtil and Evelyn Phumway of Lyons and Irene Tour.g of Winter set. Ia. Misses Edna Barber and Josephine Schramek of David City are with Miss Florence Bianco McCombs of Counoil Bluffs. • 4 Country Clubs V_ J Field Club. Mr*. J F. Hamilton had eight guest* for luncheon Saturday. At diner last right Mr and Mr* Victor Roo* h*d f guest* Mr and Mr* W. C Sample if. C P. Mason 6, A P Dunbar 14. T. M Slater i and W J. R a Roll «. Carter l.ake Club. Attend.r.g a dutch treat dinner given at Carter Lake club la*t night were Messrs *nd Mesdames John E Hoffman. Howard Orcnk. Herbert Stubbendorf, Earl M'ore. Ray Beat. A. E. Schneider. Andrew Kinder. Ed Emera-m. H. H Jones, George Wil liam*. Mis* Abble Lake and Joe Mayfield. Happy Hollow. F S Martin h 1 S guest* for din ner lest night: W. r r>er.ney, 4. D. T Vrleaman. 4; R H Punhim, 7 H. K Schaefer. * H P Rhoades 4 \t the Country Club. C T K'utitf had rune g est* for dinner at the club last night. Highland Country Club. Mrs Jack W > man entertgined 1* guests at a msh lent parts »t the club on Thursday Sev entvflve n ember* attended the dinner dance last night. The club will give a nvah Jong and bridge party Tuesday evening. Woman's Prrv t Inb Mr* Guy Spencer will 1^ hostess t<* (he manuscript section of tbe Omaha Won in s Press cl cn Tuesday at her home at Carter lake Mre Harry Doorly w 11 lead the discus s on of the Alice Brown Harper prise storv Mias Bess Furman will reed sket cheat M1s* Jeanette Wile \ ami Miss TVir 01 hv Wilcox leave September 1 feu New York C.ty, sir* thev will s'4 several week* prior to going to Brad, ford Mis' wh e V * Jeanette Wlh cox will enter Bradford a. tdetny l>r and Mie John B Pott* have gone to New Y . whence thev 'l l 1h ' » ••ns f t 1 , pe to he (Ml 3* .frrerfl >