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life! Th vnlnf beam that mile tbo
clouds away and tints tomorrow with pro
phetic ray.
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State asnato will bo incroated by on
whtn George Brown Martin, th new tn
ator from Kentucky, tak hi teat.
SOCIETY
Miss Meyers Home
Social Calendar
SUNDAY
Tea for Miss Helen Eastman and
Mr. Sherman Ruxton, Miss
Helen Ingwersen, hostess.
TUESDAY
Watch party rt the Athletic
club.
Dinner party given by Dr. and
Mrs. B. B. Davis.
Watch party given by
Helen Walker.
Party for Fort Omaha men given
by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mal
lory. WEDNESDAY
Reception given by Col. and Mrs.
Jacob W. S. Wuest at Fort
Omaha.
Cronin-Farrand wedding.
Tea given by Miss Gertrude
Koenig and Miss Catherine
Coss. '
Marmeta-Anderson wedding.
Comrade club dance at Kel-Pine
academy. ,
SATURDAY-
CarJ party at Prettiest Mile
club.,.
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- Family Dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Jackson en
tertained 31 guests Christmas day.
,. The 'custom originated with Mr.
ackson's father and mother in
owa 51 year, ago, and has been an
annual affair since that time. The
out-of-town guests were Messrs. and
Mesdames D. C. Jackson, R. O
Jackson and family. Dean Jackson.
M. T, Deupree, Ed Marshall and
family, E. S. Warren and family of
Glenwood, la., and John Tipton and
family of Tabor, la., Mr. and Mrs.
William Barclay, Miss Wallace,
Miss Geneva Warren and Miss Fern
Jackson of Omaha.
Dinner Party.
Mrs. Walter Baker entertained at
dinner Friday evening for the Kirk
smith sisters, who appeared at the
Orpheuin during the last week. Oth
;r guests included Miss Gertrude
Pinault, Edward Monroe and Elton
Baker.
New Year's Eve Dinner.
A special New Year's eve table
d'hote juppcr will be served from
10 p. m. to 12 in the main dining
room and grill room at the Athletic
club.
- Theater Party
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Mors
man will entertain a party of 16
guests at tht Boyd theater, New
cat's eve;
1,1
Miss I . . I
Wives and Mothers of Our
Fighting Men Are Cared
For by Home Service
The holidays would lose half their
gladness if we did not have the
school girls, giving little parties ?id
filling each day with mirth and
youthful jollity. Vivacious Miss
Esther Meyers is one of the most at
tractive of these maids from school
Miss Meyers is at present a student
at the Sacred Heart Convent in Park
Place, but will probably pursue her
studies in the east a little later.
Denise Barkalow has been very ill
with the influenza but is improving
now.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Burgess and
Charles and Lewis Burgess, have
returned home.
Gossip About People
: -You Know
ff fra Walter f! Klnim
I and daughter, Mary Chillis ot Kan-
with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burke
and Mr. and, Mrs. A. D. Klopp.
el - MA 4hd Mr.'J. R.-Scobie leave
1 January. 10 for Qrmond, Fla., where
they will spend the winter, after
1 stopping in New York for a few
b days to be with their son, Ralston,
J who recently received his discharge
f from Camp Taylor and is now with
the National City bank of New
York, ;".; '
Mtf. and Mrs. A. H. Murdock have
?j returned from Washington where
t they attended the wedding of their
2 daughter, Maurine. to Mr. C. W.
namuton ot Umaha.
Lt, S. M. Hahn of the medical
corps has cabled New Year's greet
ings to his mother, Mrs. Gustav
Hahn. Lieutenant Hahn has been
in France since June 1.
' Miss Dorothy Gavanaugh, who is
- attending National Park seminary at
Washington is spending the holi
y day with her parents.
- Miss Betty Coit, who has been at
? Miss Bennett's school at Milbrook,
N.Y and George -Coit, who has
been at Princeton, came Sunday to
spend the holidays here.
Jir. Edward Megeath from Rock
VvSprmgs, Wyo, spent Christinas
S here.
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Mr. Gurdon W. Wattles has been
ill with the influenza, but is improving.
Mtss Naomi Towle is spending
Christmas with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Towle at Wilmington,
N. C
Miss Ruth McCoy, who is attend
ing Smith college, is spenfling the
holidays in New York and Boston.
:. Mr, Charles Jerome Simon, fiance
of .Miss Henriette Bergman, will
arrive Sunday to be a guest at the
Bergman home until after New
Year's.
Joseph W. Schmidt, who is sta
tioned at the navy radio test shop,
Washington, D. C, is on a 10-day
furlough visiting at the home of his
mother,M.rs. J. H. Schmidt.
Mr. and Mrs.-Berge Birkeland of
Denver' are spending the holidays
with Mrs! Birkeland's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. S. Switzer.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Caldwell
left Saturday evening for a week's
trip to St. Louis, where they will
visit Mrs. Caldwell's brother.
lit. and Mrs. Gould Dietz re
turned Saturday morning from New
York and Atlantic City where they
spent Christmas.
Lt. Robert Stout leaves Sunday
to return to Camp Taylor, Louis
ville, Ky.
Mrs. Jolin N. Baldwin, who has
been, spending .several months in
Waterville. N. Y., has returned and
is with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur
Guiou. Mrs. Holcomb. Mrs. Bald
win's mother, is also with Mr. and
Jfrs, Guion.
Mr. Casper Yost returned Sunday
from Long Beach, Cal., where Mrs.
Yost is spending several months
with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dempster.
Mrsr S. D. Barkalow and Miss
Carolyn Barkalow, who have been
in California art now in Denver. Mr.
George Voss returned from the
east Sunday to spend the holidays
with his mother, Mrs. George Voss.
Mrs. James B. Austin and chil
dren and Mrs. Austin's sister, Miss
Nelle Calvin, have left to spend the
winter in California. Mr. and Mrs.
E. E. Calvin expect to join them
later in the winter.
Mrs. Harry Cummings has beci
in Washington, D. C, for the past
five weeks where she has been en
gaged in work in the Walter Reed
hospital where 3,000 convalescent
soldiers are being given attention,
Mrs. Cummings spent the holidays
in Chicago with her mother and may
visit in Omaha before she returns
to her duties in Washington.
Mr. Jefferson Smith has returned
from Albia, la., where he spent
Chistmas.
U. S. Girls in Italy
Miss Sylvia Coney of New York
and Mis,s Sarah Fleming of Boston,
Red Cross workers in Italy, have
been made honorary members of
the Bersaglieri as a reward for their
services to this famous fighting or
ganization. The granting of woman suffrage
in Finland was followed by the elec
tion to the Finnish Parliament in
1907 of 19 women the first woman
to sit in any national legislative
body.
Army and Navy Notes
Lt. Edward G. Hotchkiss, who
has been ill with the influenza, is
now at St. Louis, Mo., having re
ceived his discharge.
Lt. Nathan R. Reasoner has re
ceived his honorable discharge from
the army.
Lt, Edwin Gould, Marine corps
from Quantico, Va., is spending the
holidays with his parents, Mr and
Mrs. H. R. Gould.
Lt. Stowe Sutton returned home
Christmas from Camp Shelby, Miss.,
where he received his discharge.
Lieutenant Sutton enlisted shortly
after America entered the war and
has been in nine different camps
throughout the country acting as ex
pert bayonet instructor.
Dean J. A. Tancock of Trinity
cathedral, who is chaplain with the
Nebraska base hospital unit No. 49,
now in France, expects to leave
France about the middle of Feb
ruary. Lieutenant and Mrs. Edwin Kass
ler, jr., left Monday for Denver to
spend the holidays. Mrs. Kassler
plans to remain in Denver but Lieu
tenant Kassler will return to await
his discharge. '
Lt. Drexel Sibbernsen is now sta
tioned at Coblenz with the army of
occupation.
Col. Thomas Lanphier, who is in
France, recently underwent a seri
ous operation but is improving now.
Lt. W. R. Pollard, formerly sta
tioned at Camp Dodge, has received
his honorable discharge and is vis
iting at the home of his parents.
OUT of chaos comes calm out
of suffering comes submission.
Br.t the home service branch
of the civilian relief have willed
there shall be no great suffering if
it is within their power to alleviate
it in any way. Mrs. C. M. Wilhelm,
chairman, has this to say of their
work:
"Home service starts with the' idea
that inasmuch as a wife or mother
has been called upon to give the
man of the family, she should not
be obliged, in addition, to be de
prived of the ordinary comforts of
life. Mr. W. Frank Persons, na
tional director of civilian relief, laid
out a training course for those who
were willing to undertake this work
Accordingly since November IS,
1917, four courses have been con
ducted, of 20 and 24 h6urs of lec
ture and ISO hours of field work. The
first two classes received field work
under Miss Elsinger and the last
two under Miss Ball. We have been
in touch with 2,700 families and the
service has been varied and inter
esting. Owing to the unavoidable
delay from various causes, in ad
justing allotments and allowances,
many families have been placed on
a weekly pension, until the govern
ment check is received, and that sup
plemented thereafter, if necessary
Next to the need for financial as
sistance is that of medical and sur
gical attention; too great praise can
not be given to the heroic work of
the physicians and surgeons of Oma
ha in behalf of the families of men
in the service. Operations without
number have been performed and
generally the need had been long
standing. No less than ISO confine
ment cases have received the very
best attention and care. Fully 1,200
families have had medical attention,
and the hospitals of Omaha have
trovided rooms ana nurses care at
little or no cost.
"Many families have been moved
on account of bad housing condi
tions, or improper surroundings,
articles of household furniture being
supplied where necessary.
"Attention is given the returned
disabled soldier, especially the tuber
culous man, until he can be placed in
a sanitarium, or at light work. Em
ployment is found for both men and
women. Every day, messages of in
quiry are sent regarding the wound
ed and missing, as well as communi
cations to prison camps and enemy
countries.
"We have found actual want in a
few instances, where families have
not understood the spirit of this
work. The sacrifice of the wives
and mothers in these families is
nothing short of noble, for over and
over they say "he wanted to go,
and I thought I could get along."
"Too much cannot be said for the
noble women who are giving their
time and strength voluntarily to this
work; through heat and cold, sun
shine and storm, they have faith
fully stayed by for a year, and will
continue to the end. They realize
that through contact and environ
ment, many of these returning sol
diers will have acquired new
standards of living; therefore, home
standards must be maintained and
in some cases readjusted in order tc
insure the future happiness of the
families concerned.
Peace does not mean cessation of
the home service; only when every
soldjer resumes his family responsi
bilities will this department cease
from its labors."
Council Defense
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Pollard. They
will leave in about a week for Flor
ida, to remain the rest of the winter.
Thompson Wakeley, who has
been at the naval ensign school, is
spending Christmas leave with his
father. Mr. L. W. Wakeley. ,
Lt. Charles Powell is spending a
10-day leave at his home in Rich
mond Ky.
Robert Buckingham, who has been
at Amherst and the officers' training
ramp at Louisvillie, has returned
for the holidays.
Sergt. Barney Voss, motor in
structor in the air service, is here
from Dorr Field. Arcadia, spending
his Christmas furjough with his
mother, Mrs. A. Vdss.
William Pinault, who has been
doing convoy work on the United
States ship Michigan, spent Christ
mas in Omaha and returned to the
Great Lakes Thursday to await his
discharge.
Raymond J. Mullen, left Saturday
for the Great Lakes Naval training
station after spending a Christmas
furlough with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Mullen.
Capt. Henry Pascale left Satur
day for Houston, Tex., after spend
ing Christmas with his parents, Mt.
and Mrs. Vito Pascale.
At the last meeting of the Douglas
County Council of Defense there
were informal reports from
several chairmen with regard to
present conditions and prob
lems regulating the amount
and kind of york. The con
ditions with regard to the Student
Nurse Reserve remain unchanged.
The chairman. Mrs. C. S. Elgutter,
reports that the government is still
placing young women who have
been accepted for the service. Word
has also been officially received to
the effect that young women who
desire to turn to other lines of work,
may be honorably discharged from
accepting assignment to hospitals.
Miss Blanche Kratochvil, a stu
dent in Mrs. Elgutter's class, has
just been assigned to duty in the
Minneapolis city hospital. Ihis
hospital has 900 beds and the main
building covers one city block. It
also has special buildings devoted to
contagious diseases, tuberculosis,
and maternity cases.
The Douglas county Americaniza
tion committee, Mrs. A. C. Troup,
chairman, has done a very remark
able amount of work during the past
few months, notwithstanding the
prevalence of the flu.
The committee has considered
the plans sent out from Washington,
and those which have been found
successful among women's dubs,
councils of defense and . other or
ganizations in different parts of the
United States.
The committee also reports hav
ing the co-operation of many Omaha
agencies. A glance at the list will
show at once the far-reaching and
painstaking work of the committee,
and the keen interest which the citi
zens of Omaha have already shown
in this work of reconstruction. Per
haps the most vital knowledge that
has so far resulted from all this
study of conditions, is a higher and
more just estimate of all that our
foreign-born citizens have to con
tribute to the general up-building of
our city, and of what they can im
part, as well as what they should
in justice to all receive from those
who have had the easier fortune cf
having descended by one or two
Walk-Over Ed. 5.
Mgr. Men's Dept.
RflEN OF OMAHA
THIS IS MY FMS i OFFER TO YOU
OF HIGH GRADE
tw At mark Rt;u.s. pt. err.
SHOES IN A
i'
Combination Last
YOU CAN SAVE $2 TO $3 A PAIR not only on this season', most fashionable creations,
out also on the more conservative lasts that are always in demand.
$3.95, $5.95, $6.95, $7.95,
$8.95, $9.95
In many lines to select from
Some "Pep" to This Sale
(I'll say there is), for the values we are offering i"
in both men and women's shoes are appreciated '
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Balfour ' " w Full Drets
WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP
317 S. 16th Street (Between Harney and Farnam.) Pre-inventory sale, Come Saturday.
Ex-Empress of Germany
is Seriously 111 at
Danish Capital
Ml "l-f I
ex W
BENSON
A dispatch received from Copen
hagen, quoting the Frankfurter Zci
tung, says the former German Em
press will hardly live to see the New
Year. Her ailment, heart disease, has
grown considerably worse during
the past exciting weeks. Previously
for several months, she has suffered
from the effects of a stroke of apo
plexy. The condition of the former
empress, the newspaper adds, has
had a serious effect on her husband,
who also is seriously ill. It is feared
that his ear trouble will spread to
the brain.
generations after the original "im
migrants" of the family have done
the pioneering.
Signed, MRS. F. H. COLE.
Chairman Publicity.
Thro jgh the efforts of Mr. Fran
cis A. Brogan, 55 men employed in
the U. P. shops have elected to
study English in the night school,
A night school will be held Mon
day at Cass school, this being ac
complished through the efforts of
the Americanization committee of
the social service committee of
Episcopal churches. All those who
live in the Cass school district are
eligible to attend.
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Mr. William Burnell of the nay
spent Christmas day at his home
while on his few days' furlough.
Messrs. William Bowes and Ear'
Byars spent Christmas day at home.
The former received his discharge
from overseas army and the latter
from the United States army.
Mrs. N. J. Nelson of Cheyenne,
Wyo., has been visiting Mrs. S. A.
Davis. Mrs. Nelson was formerly
Miss Mattie Nevius of Benson.
Dr. B. W. Hall is spending some
time recuperating in the country
since his third attack of "flu."
Miss Laura Nelson of Benson and
Mr. Minard Olson of Omaha were
married last week. The young peo
ple will reside in Omaha.
Short Christmas day programs
were held Sunday morning at all the
churches.
Mr- J. E. Tine left Tuesday for
the southern part of Missouri to
spend Christmas with relatives.
Harry Oleson of the marines
spent Christmas with his parents
having a short furlough.
Mr. C S. Moulthrop received the
announcement of the marriage of his
sister, Miss Jessie Moulthrop. for
merly a resident here, to Mr. S. G.
Gillespie. They will reside in New
Milford, Pa.
Mrs. A. Schade entertained at a
Christmas dinner in honor of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Kahn of Gilmore
City, la.
The R- N. A. lodge elected the
following officers for the coming
year: Mesdames Viola Frost, Abbie
Werli, Mary Tarker, Iner Beasley,
Florence Cross, Catherine Brum
field. Edna Johnson, Bessie Ellis, S
Kohlert, Emma Alford.
The Baptist Sunday school had a
treat Sunday morning, with a tree,
instead of the Christmas eve pro
gram to have been given Tuesday
evening. " . ,
The Kings Heralds will be given
the Christmas tree party, Tuesday
afternoon at the Methodist church,
which was postponed till the re
opening of schools.
Mr. J. McDonald of North Sixty
third street arrived home from
Washington, D. C, where he has
been doing government work for
the past six months.
Miss Gladys Whitescell is slowly
recovering from pneumonia at a
local hospital.
Rev. G. Janssen is quarantined at"
his home with four members of his
family, sick with the flu.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Smith, and a , son to
-ir. ana Airs, ueorge sioney miring
the past week-
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Piano Announcemen
New 1918 Styles
Steinway Grands
and Uprights at
Prices That
Cannot Be
Duplicated After
January 1
The Reason
We are advised by Steinway ft Sons of New York, that owing
to the United States Excise Tax Law about to be enacted, the
prices of Steinway Pianos will advance January 1. So, If you
are thinking of purchasing a Steinway, the world's best piano,
at the old prices, here is your opportunity to save money. Malte :
your selection at once and we will hold the instrument for future
delivery if desired.
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Steinway Grands, $935 "d Ip
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Year-End Clearance of
ade-in-Omaha FU
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RS
'JpO RAISE money to pay for heavy purchases ( of
raw furs for next season's manufacture, we
offer our remaining show room stocks at
Notable Reductions
The selling price is marked plainly on every
garment. The old price tags have not been removed
or changed.
The quality and workmanship of our furs are
unquestioned; the prices for clearance are very low.
So here is the season's big opportunity. A few
prices:
Hudson Seal Coats J Off
Hudson Seal Coatees J Off
Hudson Seal Coatees, Kolinsky Collar. Season's
price $150. Sale $ 1 1 2 50
Caracul Coatee, Chinchilla Squirrel Collar.
Season's price $150. Sale $ J 1 Q 00
Gray Squirrel Stole and Belt. 1A ((
Season's price $140. Sale price. V 1 AU,W
Natural Murkrat Stole. Season's &Cn fill
price $67.50. Sale price PJU.UU
Brown Coney Coatee. Season's AM C flO
price $60.00. Sale price VtO.VKJ
Black Pony Sport Coats. Season's d AO Cft
price $55.00. Sale price P,iJU
National Fur & Tanning Co.
"From Trapper to Wearer."
1921-29 South 13th Street ' Phone Tyler 120.
