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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1897)
THE COURIER. eroned by Mr. and Airs. onas. Burr, faces, names and in. idents that is most He participants were the Misses Jes- pleasing in tho '-first citizen- Perhaps gieLacsing. Blanche Hargreaves, Em- his habitual gentleness and consider na Outcalt, Margone Winger, Addie ation have lwn cultivated bv the care Whiting, Miss Clio, of Chicago Bess which Mrs. McKinley has rehired from Barker of Portland, Oregon, Houlz, him for years. It is id that at the state VaneU and Macfarland. Messrs Bart- dinners Mrs. McKinlev will not give up Jett. Barber, Korsmeyer, George and her place to any one else but presides in Harry Shedd, Wiggenhorn, Sawyer, Mc- spits of her liability t be seized with Crtery, Manley and Westerman. an epileptic attack. With the shauow Mrs. Ina Taber (barn Dillon,) whose of this dread upon him and with his 63t voice was once familiar to Lincoln pi'es constantly returning to the face of audiences, is now residing in Boston, the poor mistress of the White House. Mr.anl Mrs. Taber have many friend 4 in the president does not neglect attention Lincoln. Several have visited them in to those who sit next to him. He is an Boston where they a'e very pleasantly excellent listener, and a good raconteur, located. Mrs. Tdber writes that she has though he makes no pretensions to after at. last found a teacher with a perfect dinnerfame. His replies show that he method in Olivieri the teacher of Jean deReszke with whom ehe has bjen studying. Some of Mrs. Taber's pupils went to Olivieri and he was so pleased is at'enfve even though he is on the alert for that moment when the mistress of the feast must leave it. Under these circumstances the presid-nt's deport with the instruction they had had that iient is admirah'e, and he is fast mak ing friends, as Mrs. Cleveland did, bo cause he possesses a rare sweetness and grace of character. C. Bruce Smith, formerly the baritone at the First Congregational church, is said to be a teacher of singing in the when he was taken ill he sent some of his pupils to Mrs. Taber. Unfortunately the great singing master has bean ill for many months with a cancer in his mouth which will probably be fatal. Mr. and Mrs. Huffman also live in Boston. Miss Harriett is in Snith's Chicago Conservatory of Music at Chi college and is a pretty and charming cao. girl. On Monday Mrs. Ackerman gave a Fma'l card party in compliment to Miss Fanny Ehrman of St. Joseph, who is visiting Mrs. M. Oppenheimor. They played high five. Mis3 Aline Friend won the first prize, a silver bat brush. will give a evening in com pi i- Mr. and Mrs. Leonard large party this ment to the young lady. Miss Miller of Beardstown, 111., who is visiting them. The handsome house will be h'He 1 with tbettower of Lincoln To Miss Willough- b 's always correct music they will dance, .The consolation prize was a dainty old The wid6 porcheg wi be fi,fe(, w.;th the china shoe full of sweet peas. The guests were: Misses Aline and Pauline Fiiend, Bertha Seligsohn, Cora Schles inger, Sallie Bcrkson, Ehrman, Mrs. Xewmark and Mrs. Chas. Mayer. Mrs. Carl Funke entertained the fol lowing guests in honor of Mrs. Boebmer on Thursday afternoon: Mesdames I. M. Raymond, A. S. Raymond, L. C. Richards, McFarlnnd, Burnham, R. H. Oakley, C. C. Burr, Phillips, Henry Lewis, Boebmer, Coates, Ogden, Out calt, Katnerine Funke, Hudson lm boff, Ed. Holmes, J. E. Houtz. S. E. Moore, Miss Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Boeb mer were members of the small class that was the nucleus of the club which became the Patriarchs. Thi3 class the first year was taught by Prof. Mahler, the second year by Mis& Hawkins, now Mrs. Frank Smith. It was Mrs. Funke's very clever idea to invite the charter members of the Patriarchs to meet and greet Mrs. Boehmer, who was one of the first. The ladie3 told old stories and re vived old memories in delightful remin iscence the whole afternoon. Mrs. Coates gave a ploisant aftomoon party in honor of Mrs. F. A. Boehmer, her guest, on Tuesday. Those invited were: Mesdames Lewis, Richards, Mc Connell, Pound, Welch, Holmes, Beeson, Oreene, Lippincott, Funke, Ogden, Boehmer, Imhoff, Bailey, I. M. Raymond, A. S. Raymond, Tilton, Ladd, R. E. Moore, S.E. Moore, Leonard, Phillips, tore, Thompson, Mohrenstecher, L. C. Moore, C. L. Burr, Brown, MacFarland, Outcalt, Hargreaves, Houtz, Eddy, Arm strong, Hargreaves, Dawes, Miss Miller, a guest of Mrs. Leonard, Mrs. McEwon. Mi33 Harris. When Mr. C. E. Magoon was in Wash 'Djton a few weeks ago ho met Presi dent McKinloy, who, when he knew where his new acquaintance hailed 'rom. expressed his appreciation of a "inner tendered him on a pre-nomina- white summer gowns and inky Mack suits, out under tin stars, the velvet lawn, for th time being, will be a 6tage for the following dra-uatis personae The gueits were: Misses Mae Burr, Grace Oakley, F. Farwell, Alice Rigbter, Olive Latta. Dennett, of Omaha. Mane Hooper. Hollowbush, Lucie Gnllith, Mae Trent Us, Mabel Miller, May Moore, Sadie Bauin. Stella Curtis, Eliza Miller, Emma Outcalt, Messrs. and Mesdames C. L. Burr, J. Dorgan. G. Woods. F. Houtz, R. Curtice, Ljw Marshall. Messrs. R y Welch. Guy Hurlbut, John Farwell. B.Joyce, G. Bartlett, J. Lot t ridge, Stebbins. F. Covdery. C. Magoon, F. C. Zehrung, W. Vate. II. Vatee. J. Mallalieu, C. V.Smith. .Mr. and Mis. F. W. Rrown gave a porch party last night in compliment to Miss Dennett of Omaha, Mrs. Brown's ster, and Miss Smith, guests of a week' tion visit to T.inln l.v .h commercial The coterie, the members 01 ciub. The president said: "I have al- almost as well acquaint d as regretied having to leave that and siSt?rs. were presn : Mss C.race uer, but engagements in another city Oakley. Mae Hurr Mae Moo. u to bo kept' TI, presidents quick Hurlbut. Joe Mallal.e u etc etc until Election of an incident which, con tbebstreacl.es twenty and Lincoln s Bering the number of complimentary iuvenile limit is reached, banquets tendered him, was unimport. fc; test mr nt, shows his tact and kin Jness. His . mwts the y daily with readings. ial success in Washington is equal to Sp;rituai advice given. Also """, Mrs. Cleveland's. He has a memory for Wednesday evenings. Room 43, Halter Bit. LADIES Til AT OLD FUR GARMENT is worth almost as much today as tho day you bought it; but you don't know it. An long as the hair is on the skin it id GOOD. Moth eaten or worm pots can bo taken out without even showing a seam. Tho only question 19 what can be done with it? Its out of stylo and worn. Maybo it needs a new lining, or should be stylishly trimmed. That old coat would make a beautiful cape, and capes are just the thing this season. There's that old fur garment you haven't worn for years, becaus:) it is all "fagjed out." Why. that wid make a beautiful collarette; just the thing for fall and spring weir. Then just look at that garment. It is entirely "gono up," the hair stands tho wrong wav on it. and it is worn and matto 1. "Its no earthly use." Well, it does look bid. but by the process of glazing the fur is brought out and cleaned and then, when remodeled, it is like now. During July and August This voir we will mako a specialty of Alterations and Repairs. Our system of measurement is such we can tit you as well by mail as by personal moasurenicnt. We have a large stock of new furs, all our own make, at very low price. Write to us. F.i.VOiLKER, Practical Furrier Cor. 12th & N Sts., Lincoln, Nebraska This afternoon from 4 to C Mrs. John B. Wright gives an afternoon tea to Halsey and Willard Yates. Miss Mario Hooper entertained a small company Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Soba Case and Mr. Wall of Fairbault, Minn. Miss Hooper's guests were: Messrs. and Mesdames I ew Marshall, A. F. Walsh. Misses Burr. Hollowbush, Miller, Case, Hoop3r, Ketchum. Meters. Hurlbut, Knox, Wall, Cowdrey. Mis Louiso Pounl's tennis victory in Chicago gives her a national reputation and is very gratifying to her family and friends here. Miss Cowes, the young lady whom she defeated, is a social fav orite on the North side and an heiress to many dollars. Of course the sympathy of the spectators was with Mis3 Cowes and the disappointment was great when she lost. Vet in true sportsman fashion the cheered Miss Pound acd presented her the priz9 racket and silver cup gracefully. Mr. Louis Storrs of Denver, is visiting friends in the city. Mr. Storra was a social favorite when he was an under graduate at the university. He is now geologist for the Northern Pacific in a state where geological products are of tho rirst importance. His visit doos not creato the excitement it would have occasioned among society girls two years ago, because he is now married. Dr. Sheldon E. Cook is in Toronto, Canada, where, it is said, he will bo mar ried. This may be jus newspaper gos sip: anyway it lacks confirmation. Mr. and Mrs. CM. Leighton gave a pretty lawn party ou Wednesday even ing at their home, 1701 R streot. Tne B. Bs will give a card party at Mr. and Mra. Schlesingers. corner K and lG:h streots on Monday evening. Mis3 Clara Wal h has been appointed art instructor at tho Wesleyan. It is considered a strong appointment as Miss Walsh comes back from the east wiih prizes and scholarships and commenda tions enough to place her in the front rank r Western artists. In McClure'.t Mwjitzine for Sept em ber. William Allen Whit-, whoso story of "The King of Bovville"' has been read with delight the country over, will re late "An Episode of the Swimming-hole at Boyville," wherein "Peggy" Penning ton and his devoted subjects furthur re veal themselves. DRAMATIC NOTES. Tho greatest photographic feat of the piesent century was unquestionably that performed by Mr. Enoch Rector at tho ring-side at Carson City on the 17th of March last, when he took a complete sot of pictures of tho Corbott Fitzsim mons contest. These pictures were taken on a film special y prepared wh'ch measure?, now that the pictures are complete, nearly two miles and one third in length, and there are one hun dred and forty three thousand and seven separate and distinct photographs, which show each and every detail of the contest, no matter how minute. After having secured the pictures. Mr. Rector proceeded to invent a machine which is called the voriscope. an intricate, deli cate pieco of machinery which is used to throw the pictures of tho contest up on tho screen. Mr. Dan A. Stuart is the president of tho veriscopo company, wh'ch carries not only the machine, but the only genuine p:ctures of this great athletic contest which are now before the public. Thus far these pictures have only been shown in threu of the great cities of the country New York, Boston and Chicago. Three weeks ago the pictures were given their tirst ex hibition at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, and since that time, despite the fact that there have been two daily ex hibitions, the theatre is crowded at each performance and even now the seats are being secured at the box office five weeks in advance. Mr. Duncan B. Harrison, manager of the Veriscope in Chicago, has secured the rights for ths west and will exhibit these pictures in the various cities throughout the country. It is a most interesting and entertainicg exhibition, for the contest is seen exactly as it really happened in the ring at Carson City, the figures moving about precisely as they did on that momentous occasion. In tho theatres of the three cities where the pictures are now running, it has been especially noticeable that the audiences have been made up largely of the better class of theator goers, and that at each performance there are many ladies, fully one-thiid of the entire audience, occupy ing the f eats. The veriscop and pic tures, which form by long odds tho most reirarkable entertainment ever given, will be seen at the Funke in September. The veriscope and the pictures make a complete evening's entertainment, run ning two hours and ten minutes. Edwin Milton Hoyle has be6n piid the unusi1.1I compliment of having bis play "Capt. Impudence" published as a story. A well known publishing house of New York City announces that they have bought the right and that the book will appear on the newsjtands in September. Wilt's Grocery. Always priced. 1253-J230O street. the lowest Call at 1 40 south Uth,and get the best meal in the city. Al. Walker, prop. faL