Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, September 08, 1917, Page 13, Image 13
THh BEE: OMAHA. SAlUKDAl. ahfiEMBtft 8, ltfl7. 13 ceiera 0 9PASADENA GIRL GUEST OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE. i r rij rm n...- ? yuuvnt, uia megance jxevivea By MELLIFIC! ASept. 7 Knitted for Civil War Heroes. Knitting and making hospital sup plies for our soldier boys is nothing new for Mrs. W. P. Harford, ven erated Omaha clubwoman. Mrs.-Harford performed such service during civil war, times. It was in her girl hood that she scraped lint and raveled homespun linen for hospital supplies and learned to knit so deftly that the accomplishment can now be put to good service. Mrs. Harford, who was formerly president of the Omaha Woman'? club anl also, heade the Young Woman's Christian association, as well as many church societies, and distinguished as a parliamentarian, responded to another call for war work. 'At her summer home on Madeline Island, Lake Superior, from which' she was unexpectedly called home by business, Mrs. Harford has been reaping the harvest of her war gar den. She and her daughter went north in May and planted seventeen different kinds of vegetables and fruit in soil never before tilled. The land was cleared since they took it over. Mrs. Harford proudly planted flags in' front, indicating her patriotism. Now. that she is home. Mrs. Har ford is ready to do her bit in knitting tor the Red Cross society. She would just as soon knit as eat, members of her family state. 1 M "..i v 11 1 k,l .1 X ! f 'J, V; v Wedding Announcement. The wedding of Miss Alice Mc Gavock, formerly of Omaha, and Mr. Elmer Raynor Colwell of San Fran cisco took place Wednesday morn ing in Berkley, Cal. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. X. Morrison of St. Joseph's church, and was followed by a breakfast at the home of the bride's mother. Miss McGavock recently finished a course in .the California School of jrts and Crafts in Berkley. Mr. Colwell is an alumnus of Ann Arbor and is well known in business circles of San Francisco. Social Affairs Planned. - Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Cotvin will en tertain fourteen guests at dinner at ( the Blackstone Saturday evening. Miss Bessie Ritchie of Idaho Falls, Idaho, who is -making an extended visit with Miss Marian Weller, al ready has her social calendar well filled. Saturday afternoon Miss Ritchie will, share, honors with Miss Virgiria Weller, an autumn bride,, at a shower at the home (if Miss Esther Knapp. Monday Miss Weller will en tertain at an.Orpheum party for her guest; Tuesday Miss Margaretha Grimmel will give an afternoon party; Wednesday Miss Margaret Gamble will entertain at a luncheon at the Blackstone; Thursday the Misses Dorothy and Marian Weller will give a shower at their home for Miss Vir ginia Weller and Miss Ritchie and Friday the Misses Weller will, give a week-end picnic. The objective point has not yet been determined. Miss Ritchie will remain at the Weller home for three weeks. Mrs. H. H. Loomis has made reser vations for seventy-five at a large tea to be given Tuesday at the Blackstone for visitors at the build ing owners and managers' convention. Irene Grojse Miss Irene Grosse of Pasadena, Cal., who, with her father, Mr. John E. Grosse, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. E. George over tlie week-end, will be honor guest at the large dinner dance the Georges are giving at the Country club Saturday veningv Miss Grosse was one of the out-of-town at tendants at the Ak-Sar-Ben ball last year. School Set Departs. Miss ' Dorothy Wright will leave .Sunday for St. Louis, where she will enter the nurses' training school at Washington university. Miss Wright was' graduated from Oberlin college last June. Miss Rachel Metcalfe leaves Sep tember 18 for George Washington university in St. Louis, where she will be a senior. The Misses Florence Jenks and Lotfise Bailey leave Sunday for Lin coln, where they will enter their third year at the university. Miss Kathryn Ostenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ostenberg, and Miss Artice Carter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Carter, leave September 20 for Mount Ida, a fash ionable finishing school six miles out from Boston. They will visit several days in New York before going to . school. Miss Ostenberg will special ize in music. Miss Dorothy Weller will leave Sunday for Chicago to resume her studies at the Elizabeth Harrison Kin dergarten school. Miss Lucile Rector will leave Tues day for St. Louis, where she will at tend the Principia school. Mr. and Mrs. Rector will accompany their daughter to St. Louis, after which their will visit their son, Lieutenant Virgil Rector, who is stationed in Des Moines, and their son, Voyle, who is stationed at Wrightstown, N. ). They will return in about a month. i Notes of Interest. Mrs. Garrett Trange of Butte, Neb., Uvlto has been the guest of Mrs. R. C. vioffman, left for home Thursday. While here she took a course in surgi cal dressing so that she might organ ize the women in Butte for Red Cross work upon her return. Mrs. Love Fillins and daughters, Misses Marion and Ruth, of Oakland, CaL, are visiting at the J. H. Carse home. Mrs. Fillins and Mrs. Carse are sisters. Miss Pleasant Holyoke is expected home Tuesday from Miss Portia Swett's Rocky Mountain camp school for dancers at Steamboat Springs. Miss Beatrice Montgomery, Miss Vir ginia Moore and Miss Blanche Deuel, other Omaha girls at the camp, have already returned. Miss Holyoke will teach dancing this winter. Miss Mar- ; garet Holyoke is visiting in the east and will probably remain there until the first of the year. Miss Mary Munchhoff returned this morning from the east, where she has spent the summer. She was with Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith at Cc hasset, ' Mass., for three weeks and kh Miss Frances Nash at Heath, Mass., for some time. She also vis ited in Buffalo and at Lake Placid. Miss Martha Barr, daughter of Mrs. William Barr, will be home from Denver the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs, Fred Paffenrath, Miss Elizabeth and Mr. Harold Paffenrath arrived home Tuesday from a month's sojourn at Lakj Hubert, Minnesota. Mrs. F. S. Dresher, Mr. Edward and Mr. Henry Kulha were called to Mo desto, Cal., to attend the funeral of their mother, Mrs, F. J. Kulha, who passed away Wednesday evening. Her death was unexpected. The husband, F. J. Kulha, survives. Mrs. H. H. Glover of Grand Island, who is visiting in Council Bluffs, entertained a party of seven at lunch eon at the Blackstone. Mrs. Irving Chapin and Lliss Lil lian Chapin of Lincoln, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Rector, returned home vesterday. Mrs. George Hamlin of Chicago will arrive the first of the week for a visit with hef parents, Mr. and Mrs. H..G. Streight. Mrs. Charles Skokan left today for Toronto, Canada, for a visit with her grandmother, Dr. Reed. Lieutenant Herbert J. Hoffman, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hoffman, has returned to Camp Dodge. He received his commission at Fort Snelling. Fine Arts' Lecture Course. The Society of Fine Arts, owing to the war, can not yet announce a completed, program for the coming season, but the list of lecturers al ready engaged gives promise of an interesting lecture course. As previ ously announced, William Howird Taft, chairman of the Red Cross cen tral committee, gives the opening ad dress of Friday evening, October 19. The Fine Arts society has been try ing for several months to secure him. Mr. Taft's appearance in Omaha will be an event, and an evening talk has been planned instead of the usual 4 o'clock hour. In December Thomas Whitney Su rette will present some-of; his inter esting theories about music. He is the first person in the United States to give educational lectures on music. He writes on children's music, opera for the people, and community music. Two lectures on art topics will be given by Ralph Adams Cram and Royal Cortissoz. Mr. Cram is the architect who has charge of the com- letion of the church of St. John' the livine in New York. John Mase field will give a talk on English poe try and will read from his "Tales of the Sea" and other poems. Among the possibilities which Mrs. Leonard Everett, chairman of the lecture committee, is trying to make certainties are Meredith Nicholson, H. Charles Woods, an English trav eler and war correspondent; Charles Theodore Carruth of Boston, and Ambassador James Gerard. Spetids Furlough With Parents in This City A. W. Tonge, first-class electrician on the United States steamship Wis consin, returned to his ship after a shott furlough spent in this city. While" here he. visited with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. David Tonge, 1820 North Thirty-second street He was a member of th naval reserve- and responded to the call, when war was first declared. A younger brother, Haryey. is .planning an joining him this month. - GIVEN a spray of waxed flowers ' in a rounded glass case, an insist-. ently flower carpet, innumerable tasseled draperies, intersperse a few strains of "Rob in Adair" and you have the proper set ting for this primly e 1 e g a nt broadcloth gown. The quaint and perky bustle effect is perfectly balanced by the very dignified high collar and long sleeves. Of course, there is that neces sary finish in a bit of white ruching every Victorian gentlewom an wore ruching at the neck and sleeves. Likewise many buttons. 4 WOMEN TO LEARN OF REGISTRATION Three Information Stations to Be Maintained When the Women of Omaha Go to the Polls. i X ft Three information stations for women's registration day, September 12, will be maintained on that day, one at the public library, one at Election Commissioner Moorhead's office in the court house and the third in the Woman Servic league rooms in the Bee building. Mrs. Albert Egbert, Miss Hurd and Mrs Harry Sharp will be in charge. Dr. Jennie Callfas has volunteered to serve as chairman for the Fourth ward, the stock yards district. Attendance at the instruction classes for registrars is very good, Mrs. W. f . Baxter reports. The in structors are Miss Margaret Vincent, Miss Jennie Salmon, Miss Elizabeth Stewart, Mrs. Alexander Hodge and Mrs. Draper Smith. Mrs. Baxter addressed the Ladies' Aid society of the First Methodist church at the home of Mrs. Uavid Cole today on registration. Miss A. B. Mills of the Rome hotel will take all the women employed there to the polls on registration day in her car. Montgomery Maintains That Kelly is Innocent John Montgomery of Villisca, la father of Mrs. Joe Moore, one of the victims of the notorious' ax murder, was in Omaha Thursday. Mr. Mont gomery maintains that Kelly is inno cent and says the trial is not the re sult of an effort o bring the murderer of the Moore family to trial, but is the outgrowth of a political feud. iil':i'il'iti'l!!l'i"ni"liiliil'!iil':iil:i;il!!lii:il!!l!!lt:ll;li Red Cross Activities Choose Chairman at Carter Lake Mrs. W. T. Bourke was chosen chair man of the Carter Lake Red Cross auxiliary to fill the vacancy made by Mrs. E. E, Crane, who has acted as president since the organization of the circle. The meetings will be held every Wednesday from 9 unUl 1 at the club. In addition to the reeiilar garment making the women will begin "0 knitting for the Red Cross at the meet ing Wednesday; Woodmen of the World Auxiliary The Woodmen of the World Red Cross auxiliary has been organized, with Miss DoreaAlexander as chairman. It will meet in Miss Alexander's office in the Woodmen of the World building every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon. Bandage Requirements Strict So exacting are the requirements for the samples in kits sent to Washington by the women in the surgical dressings teachers' training class that one head bandage was returned to an Omaha woman because it measured eight and one-fourth Inches instead of eight. Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Success. : Quality Cold Cream 1 and Face Powders i 5 1 You cannot afford to risk ' I buying inferior or unknown brands of Cold Cream, face f powder or lotions. We sell prep- arations which we know are helpful, soothing and pleasant s Green's Cold Cream. ? Hudnut's Marvelous Cream, f Violet Se Face Lotlosw j Fiancee Face Powder. . FREE j i A week-end package contain- g 1 ing 1 I Vanishing Cream. f Cold Cream. i Liquid Shampoo. Shaving Stick. Toilet Soap. f FREE with each 50c purchase I s in our Toilet Goods Dept. ' 1 t III I 1W W Hll 7 J. HARVEY GREEN. Pros. ; ONE GOOD DRUG STORE i lth aad Howard, Douf 84. 'niiii;iliiliiii:inliniiiiriiiiHi!iiiH!i:!liilMHii!i:nt'liiliiliiliii 1621 FARNAM l.ft How Is Any Woman to Know? Now with the opening of the Fall Season for Women's Apparel, each ad in the newspapers Is sprinkled with the words, "Exclusive," "Individual," "Different," "Greatest V&V upp," "Lowest Prices," etc. All the stores cannot have the host the greatest values, the best styles, the lowest prices How Is any woman to know? No matter nnat price a, woman pays, she wants to leel she has bought the best In style and value that is possible for her price to purchase. How is she to know vluit store can give her this? There is only one way to know, and that is to go to the several stores and compare, and when that test Is oscd we .ire confident your purchase will be made here. When we purchased our fall slock of women's apparel we paid the greatest regard to the style and the Quality of every garment we bought When we pit our retail prices on the garments we remembered that this season, mors than any other this country ever faced, merchant! mtust be moder ate In the amount of profit they ask from the public and our. merchandise 1$ marked with this in mind. Come in and let us iihow you what we think is the snap, plest line of Women's Suits and Dresses ead Coats, that we have had in recent years. 1621 Farnam. WOMEN'S SHOP 1621 Farnam. "77te Store for Fine Millinery" House ofmenagH s "FLEMING HATS 1613 FARNAM ST. Saturday Informal Opening Of New Fall Millinery Representative Collection From the Foremost Modistes of America. Distinctive New Creations From Our Own Ateliers. WE have the honor Saturday to invite Omaha women to see a number of the loveliest and, . t most distinguished millinery- productions that it has ever been our good fortune to bring to this city. . The hats are freshly landed and bring the latest inspiration. Their fashion points are distinctive and authoritative; they bring final and definite word for Autumn vogue of the better-dressed woman. ' The styles are varied and of a sort that will win Instant admiration; suited to both young women and matrons. Our Millinery Section is replete at all times wtil. the newest ihnovations; style and moderate pricings here definitely related. Vices $10 to $50 It will give us pleasure to show them to you. 4k j $25 Reward For the recovery of 1915 model Ford Runabout License No. 9558-Neb. Engine No. 788904. Stolen from Manawa Park on the night of September 3. The car had a complete set of practically new Fire-, stone Non-Skid tires; demountable rims; lower! wind shield broken; brass radiator painted black. Telephone or communicate with C. I. Palm, Manager, Manawa Park, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Omaha phone, Douglas 1365. Council Bluffs, 947. I i i i ; I I Omaha & Council Bluffs j I lir v Fast trains on convenient schedules arrive Englewood Union Station (63d St) and La Salle Station-most convenient locations in Chicago connecting with limited trains for all Eastern territory. The Leaves 6:08 p. m. daily. Have dinner on the trainarrive La Salle Station, Chicagoin the heart of the business district ready for the day no time lo6t. Carries sleeping car for Tri-Cities may be occu pied until 7 :0Q a. m. Low round-trip fares to points in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Brunswick," New .Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Nora Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Quebec, Vermont and Virgins, also circuit tour fares to Boston and New Tori, in effect daily. Automatic Block Signals Finest Modern All-Steel Equipment Absolute Safety Write, phone or call at Rock Island Trarel Bureau, 1321 Farnam St, for tickets, reservations, information. J. S. McNALLY, Dir. Pass. Agent Phoni Dosj. 3