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ie Omaha PART TWO SOCIETY PXGS ONE TO EIGH1- PART. TWO- AMUSEMENTS PAGES ONE TO EIGHT VOL. XLVII NO. 12. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1917. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. 8ii 1 ix "-xv VxV v "Si. Jf' V v, , X X XX VkX X X vVfc U X x x x x X xXx i x x xXx.x- mil . " -SWHuW xi.- VMXtfumtwt . HWWWKMK r x. 3 f vH f .v x.- "44 1 I . h( i'i!1 I iyhm'iwitiMiAAyi.iiniiwti , 4 i i imMum i 1 f IVVv l m "t f r i in1 1 or muttmit wnni ' IT J &Sl vVT 1 1, 1 9 XW - ' VTk ,.. 1111 S X 'N I I X 4." j ' ' 1 4. yiv Pit or o Tag Day for Visiting Nurses Lends re-War time Air to Social Activity WEDNESDAY will see a sem blance of former times in Omaha, for on that day all the .pretty girls and society matrons will drop their war-time p'ur--N suits to conduct the annual tag day of the Visiting Nurse association. For the last four years Omaha society has devoted one day each autumn to the cause of the visiting nurse and from early morning until late after noon the most prominent women of the city have graced each public place selling tags to the multitude. ' Informal luncheon p'arties at the Fontenelle enliven the day, but for thd most part the tag-sellers find the day one of hard, unceasing toil. This year the women,. wHl be tailed from the various phases of Red Cross and war relief wojrk to carry on a charity that, whatever conditions exist across seas, must not be allowed to lapse. Mrs. Luther Kountze, whose every spare moment is devoted to work in the comfort Jkit shop, will suspend her labors there for the day in order to give her time in collecting the -donations from the various tag stations. She is one of the committee includ ing Miss Daphne Peters, Mrs. Ben Gallagher, Mrs. W. J. Hynes and Mrs. Fall Wedding Announcements The wedding of Mr. Robert H. Walstrom and Miss Sadie Christian sen was quietly solemnized at the home of the officiating pastor, Rev. M. Halverson, at 7:30 o'clock Satur day morning. The only .attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Harry G, Johnson. The bride wore her go-away suit of brown with hat to match. Mr. and Mrs. Walstrom will be at home after November 1 at the Carpathia apart ments. The young couple have gone on a western wedding trip. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Helzberg of Kansas City announce the marriage of their daughter, Bernice, to Mr. Samuel D. Newman, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Newman. Mr. and Mrs. Newman will be at home in the Ath lone apartments, Twenty-sixth and Douglas streets, after September IS. The marriage of Miss Marguerite Colcord, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Francis Colcord, and Leon Dudley Callahan "took place Tuesday at the summer home of the bride's parents, at Oklahoma Point, Oko boji, la. Lieutenant Cedric Potter of Omaha was best man. There were "no other attendants. 'After the cere mony the bridal couple left for a mo tor trip to Minneapolis and Duluth and will be at home after November 1 at Kansas City, Mo. Among the Omahans who attended were Mrs. Miriam Patterson Boyce "and Miss Eugewia Patterson, who are spending the summer at Lake Okoboji. The bride has been a guest on several oc casions at Miss Patterson's home in this city. Mr. Callahan is the son of J Mrs. T. C. Callahan. Mr. Howard H. Thatcher and Miss Bertha Wangberg were married Fri day afternoon at All Saints' rectory, Rev. T. J. Mackay officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cuttle were the only attendants. The young people will make their home in this city. Will Live at Blackstone. Several changes of residence are being made this fall and a number of families have taken apartments at the Blackstone for the winter. After ' the first of October Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Patterson and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Creighton will be established there. Mf. and Mrs. C. M Wilhelm' nd Miss Esther Wilhelm, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Bradshaw and daughter, Mr.' and Mrs. R. M. Harris and ' daughter and Mrs. H. F. Hamilton tove taken apartments at the Black-Hone. Victor Caldwell. She is only one of the members of the Visiting Nurse board, devoting her time to- patriotic work, who will take this day to pro vide or the sick and wounded at home. Two weddings will enliven the same day, one the marriage of Miss Eleanor Patrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Patricks to Mr. A. Edin Eels of Seattle ;"he other of Miss Mabel Kathryn Anderes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderes, to Mr Thomas Bertrum Thompson of Ral ston. Two, more weddings will be sojemnized on Thursday: Miss Ruth Ganson will become the. bride of Mr. Xenophon W. Kynett of Council Blurts, and Miss Kuth Bewsher, daughter of Mr. A. H. Bewsher, to Mr. Reece Stuart in Des Moines. Weddings nowadays seem bound to have something in common, be that link ever so smalL' Tha fathers of the two Wednesday brides are named Charles and the two Thursday prides both bear the name,. Ruth. Miss Alice Duval goes to Des Moines to act "as maid "of honor at the Reece-Bewsher wedding and her parents will also attend the ceremony. It is to be- performed in the evening at St. Luke's Episcopal church, fol lowed by. a hotel wedding dinner. Lieutenant Francis Bewsher will be best man. , Country clubs are still popular, but their vogue for this season is in the wane. There are so many comfortable things to do in town that the incen tive to spend the -cool evenings at the clubs is not so great. Matjnee dances are discontinued at all the clubs this week, because the opening of school will take away the small patrons. Prettiest Mile club plans to have special children's parties on Sat urday, because it is an all-year-round club. Bridge parties, luncheons and the other features of weekly pro grams will be continued until clubs close th,e latter part of September. The theater season is now in full swing, with the Orpheum beginning on-its second week and a permanent company at the Brandeis, which will give a series of plays, which an Omaha society woman, who frequent ly visits New York, characterizes as "promising." i.'W 1 ' t x xxxx V I x w t A " - ' Sv f 4 :?i ' .' fi,; MOHHMHilMiaHIWUA-i ' 'Wi; '."MdrVTk. - ' 1'. . WW ' . ' 1 j-f4' v xs . x. 4 ' 1-a7 t ' xk Jm- CAOV PHOTO Exodus o f the School Set for Big Eastern Schools Begins This Month Social Calendar Monday Society night at the Orpheum. Tuesday Women's luncheon and bridge tournament at Field club. Woman's luncheon and dinner dance at Carter Lake club. Dif.-v-dance at Happy Hollow club. ' k Wednesday Cottagers' luncheon at Carter Lake club, Dinner-dances at Country and Field clubs. Eels-Patrick wedding. Thompson-Ander wedding. Thursday Luncheon at Happy Hollow and Seymour Lake Country clubs. Reece-Btwsher .wedding in Des. Moines. Kynctt-Ganson Wedding. Friday ,. Dinner-dances at Seymour Lake club and Council Bluffs Rowing association. Cottagers' Bowling club at Carter Lake club. LeMars club ' dance at Lake Manawa. Saturday Dinner-dances at Country, Field, Happy Hollow, Prettiest Mile and Carter Lake clubs. OMAHA college men for the most part are now-in the service of - Uncle Sam, so it is the depar ture of the girls to eastern institutions of learning that the society editor rec ords. At Smith college alone there will be thirteen Omaha girls this winter. Miss Eleanor McGilton, Miss Kath arine Woodworth, Miss Katharine Robinson and Miss Irene Rosewater will be seniors there, and Miss Flor ence Russell, Miss Harriet -Sherman and Miss Lois Robbins, juniors. Miss Mildred Rhoades enters her second year at. Smith, while the freshmen from Omaha will include Miss Ruth McCoy, Miss Freda Haas, Miss Mar ion Booth; Miss Dorothy Dahlman and Miss Edith Howe. Wellesley will get two new recruits in Miss Ruth Carter and Miss Elenorr- Carperiter, while Vassar will have one in Miss Emily Burke, who graduated from Brownell Hall in Tune. Miss Erria Reed will be a Vassar senior this year and Miss Helen Peycke'a sophomore. . . Dana Hall at Wellesley will have four Omaha girls, Miss Mary Gif ford, Miss Rut-h Hamilton, Miss Vir ginia Pixley and Miss Margaret Watj ties, the last two just entering. jJliss Spence jn'Nejw York will have Miss Olga Metz, Miss Claire Daugh erty, Miss Dorothy Jkit, Miss Louise Clarke and Miss Helen Smith, daugh of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Smith, as Omaha representatives. Miss Dorothy Weller will 'return to the Elizabeth Harrison Kindergarten school in Chicago for her second year, and with her will go Miss Gertrude Potter, Miss Elizabeth Wellman and -4-.- it , . .... ' rrtiiss nyen carrier. , j - Miss Mary Wattles and Miss Helen Hoaeland arecoinz to the Ten-Acre school at Wellesley and Miss- Jean nette Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. FranK-B. Johnson, and Miss Esther Winnifred Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Smith, are going to St. Mary's-on-the-Delaware at Burjington, N. J. Miss Esther Smith, sister of Miss Winnifred Smith, will enter St. Mary's school at Peekskill, N. Y. Miss Grace Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Smith, has chosen Miss Wright's school at Bryn Mawr, and will not return home from the east before entering. Miss Harriet Walters goes back to Kemper Hall at-Kenosha, Wis. Miss Virginia. Crofoot returns to Miss Maderia's school at Washington, and Miss Peggy Reed and Miss Marie Neville, will begin their first year there." Miss Mary Fuller will go to the Bennett school at Milbrook, N. Y., and Miss Dorothy Balbach is going to the Principia school in St. Louis. Miss Marjorie Cavers is going to NeW York to school, probably Miss Finch's, although she has not defi nitely decided. Miss -Mildred Khoaes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rhodes, and a Brownell ' Hall graduate of last June, expects to en ter Bradford academy at Bradford, Mass., unless she decides to give the winter to the study of art at tjie Chicago Art institute. Of the boys, Thompson Wakeley, Russell Peters, Robert Edwards and possibly Arthur Loomis will return to Cornell, -and Frank Campbell, Roderic Crane and Douglas Peters will enter their freshman year tJiere." ; rraz cucnoiz wm return ror nis senior year at Yale and Clarence Peters for his third year. Eugene Seville will be a freshman at Yale this year. Denman Kountze will return to the- University school in Cleveland. while his cousin, Harkness Kountze, will enter the Berkshire school at Sheffield, Mass. Edward Crofoot, .An, H7ji x if. Pieto Patriotic Colors, "What a patriotic color chemel flashed through the minds of hun dreds of Omahans when the French high commission 'was whisked through the downtown streets Saturday enroute from the Fontenelle to the Commercial club and back. Colonel James Martin of the French army aroused the comment. His uniform was a deep sky blue and hjs cap red, but it was bis white mustache which gave the finishing touch to the trio of col ors. Fsench tri-color or our own "Red, White and Blue?" Either one. ' " ' If i.?y a Society Revives Interest On Return From Summer Haunts OMAHA families who have not re turned from their summer trav els are growing fewer and fewer as the autumn days grow shorter. Mr. and" Mrs. F. H. Gaines "and their son, Francis, returned early last week from Estes Park. Others are. steadily retracing the'r steps from that and other Colorado points. Mr. and M.'rs. C. M. Wilhelm and Miss Esther Wilhelm are expected home from Estes Park the first of the week. . Mrs. M.C. Peters, Miss Gladys Peters, wfth Messrs. Clarence and the Yellowstone and the . Canadian George Coit, George Voss and Rich ard Page wil be at Lawrenceville, and Floyd Smith, jr., and Dick Stewart at St. Paul's Charles All: son, Edward Daugherty and David, Caldwell go to Andover, and John Clarke and Jasper Hall to the Hill school at Pottstown, Pa. James Love returns to the Principia school at St. Louis. Robert Fuller and Robert Storz to Brookline, Conn., to Mr. Washburn's school. Jqhn Sunderland returns to Dart mouth and Warren Ege, Wilbur Fullaway, Paul Nicholson and Clar ence Mooe enter their first year there. " - Herbert Davis, who has already graduated at Cornell, goes into the Johns Hopkins medical school as a sophomore. Ralph Powell goes to Ames col lege and Morse i Palmer to Harvard. Richard , Page left Monday for Lawrenceville to do some extra work before school opens. Herbert Davis, who has been study ing all summer at the Chicago uni versity, will be home Tuesday for two or three weeks before going to Baltimore to enter Johns Hopkins medical' school. Douglas Peters, are expected home today from Estes Park. Mrs. Edgar Morsman,' jr., has re turned from Estes Park, but left Tues day for the east to get her daughter, Mary, who has been at a girls' camp in New Hampshire all summer. Mrs. F. B. T. Martin returned last week from Estes Park and Mr. Mar tin and sons, with Mr. GeoYge E. Barker, motored, back, arriving Sun day. Mrs. George E. Barker remain ed at Elkhorn lodge, where she may be joined later by her daughter, Mrs. Charles W. Martin, and Mr. Martin, with whom she will motor back later in the month. Mrs. E. P. Smith and daughter, Ida, have returned from Glen Isle, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. John Madden, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Storz and Miss Ophelia Hayden returned Wednes day night from Glenwood Springs, Colo., where Mrs. Storz and Miss Hayden have been since early in July. Mr. and Mrs. Madden went to the springs about four weks ago. California, too,' is sending back its share of Omahans. Mrs. E. L. Burke and family will be home today from a summer spent at Bolinas, Cal. Mrs. Howard G. Loomis returned this week from a summer at San Diego, Cal. - Mr. . and Mrs.' Clarke G.' Powell and children ' arrive today from La Jolla, Cal., where Mrs. Powell and children have been sinpe June. G. W. Wattles and daughters re turned Monday from Hollywood, Cal. Mr. Wattles left again Tuesday, for Washington. Mrs. A. S. Rockwell and daughter, Mildred, returned Friday evening from Long Beach, Cal., where they spent the summer; - Mr. C. L. Deuei and daughter, Miss Blanche Deuel, and Miss Irene Car ter returned early in the week from Pacific trip. "Mr. Frank T. Hamilton arrived home Friday from a month's trip over the Canadian Pacific to Seattle, Gla cier park and other western points. Mrs. Hamilton accompanied him, but returned .to 'Minnesota, - where she has had a cottage for the season and where she will remain another week or ten days before returning to Oma ha with the children. The various lakes ate being rapidly deserted by Omaha peopl?: Mrs. . George Voss and son, George, jr., and Mr. Henry W. Yates, jr-T, came home Wednesday from Dome Lake. Mr. C. N. Dietz returned Wednes day from Dome Lake, Wyo., having motored both ways. Mr. Edward Daugherty went to Minnetonka Monday to motor back with Mr. Denman Kountze and Mr. Charles Sweatt of Minneapolis Thurs day. They stopped at Okoboji on the way down and are expected to reach here today. Mrs. F. A. Brogan returned Tues day from Trout Lake, Wis., where she visited . Chicago friends for a month. Mrs. SamCaldwell and children are expected home from Prior Lake Monday or Tuesday. Mrs. Arthur S. Rogers returned Tuesday from Pearl Lake in northern (Continued on Fsra Two, Column One.)
