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Miss Helen Warriner.of Madison, Wis.,
and Mrs. Grace Oakley Walab. The
table was beautifully appointed and
decorated with American beauties. The
guests were Mrs. Griffetb, Mrs. Waleh.
Misses Helen Warriner, Blanche Har
greaves, Alice Righter, Messrs. Grainger,
Tukey, Ray tidmistoo, Hugh Edmiston.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Ackerman and Mr
and Mm. Newmack gavo a delightful
card party on Monday at the home of the
former. The house was beautifully dec
orated for this occasion with masses of
sun-flowers During the games of high
five pine apple ice was served, and after
ward elegant luncheon was served in
four courses. The Bret prizes were won
by Mies Bern ice Merrill and Mr. Langs
ford of St. Louis, the second prizes by
Miss Daisy Greenbaum of Burlington,
la., and Mr. Date Herzo;. After the
games the guests indulged in dancing.
Among the guests from out of town were
Mrs. Franck of Philadelphia, Mrs
Langsdorf of St. Louis, Mrs. Allen of
Kansas City, the Misses Greenbaum of
Burlington, la.. Miss Lottie Straua of
of Denver and Miss Harriett Brucka of
New York City.
Married at the residence of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Burks, 1210
Q street, Miss Daisy Paine Burks to
Merritt L. Blackburn. The ceremony
was performed at 8:30 by Rev. A. W
Ayers, pastor of the Congregational
church at Wiener and a brother-in-law
of the bridegroom. He was assisted by
Dr. Halstead of St. Paul's church, the
bride's pastor.
Mrs. J. W. Winger, who has been
spending the month in Chicago and
Indiana, will return the first of next
week.
Mr. Ralph Saxton of Edgar, came to
assist his brothers at the Sigma Chi
party given for the Kappa Kappa
Gamma convention on Monday evening.
Miss Helen Welch spent Wednesday
in Omaha with Miss Ethel Tukey.
Miss Alice Righter is now in Omaha,
She will bring with her on her return
Miss Rhoda Wilkinson of New York,
who went to Paris with Miss Righter a
few years ago.
Mrs. J. W. Mac Donald has issued in
vitations for a lawn party and dance to
be given at her homo on Twenty seventh
and N streets on Monday evening.
Mrs. Fred Hildebrand, who has been
visiting with hei husband in Sioux
Falls, S. D., the past two months, re
turned on Tuesday. She was accom
panied by her daughter Mabel.
Mrs. S. C. Elliott and Miss Stella
Elliott went to Chicago on Wednesday
alter spending three weeks in Lincoln
with friends and relatives.
Miss Hattie Maine is in Fairbury, the
guest of Miss Gertrude Hansen
Miss Nelle Holbrook returned to her
home in Falls City on Friday after
spending convencion week with Mies
Mabel Richards.
Mrs. Putnam and Miss Florence Put
nam have return :d from a trip to the
lakes.
A dancing party will be given by the
Pleasant Home Club at Burlington
Beach on Saturday evening.
Mrs. Paul Holm gave a very pretty -party
for her little daughter; Marie, on
Friday afternoon and evening.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Grainger
on Thursday morning, Sept 1, a son.
Mrs. L. J, Herzog and daughter, Fay
Lorena, left Friday for a visit of several
weeks witn relatives in Omaha.
Mrs. Oakley and Miss Oakley, who
have spent the year in Paris, 6alled on
hte 27th on the steamer Amsterdam
for home.
Miss Anna Wilson gave a "pillow
party" Monday evening for the Q. A.
T. girls at her home, 944 G street. The
members of the society, which is se
cret in its nature were notified) to
meet at the home of Miss Wilson and
come armed with pillows. They came
after the dusk had began to fall, each
with- -r own fcvorite niliow. After
an evening spent most delightfully in
such pleasures as a crowd of happy
girls delight in, each member took her
pillow and retired to spend the night
at Miss Wilson's home. All of the
young- ladies are loud in praise of the
new kind of party which Miss Wilson
has originated.
Mrs. James H. Canfield, wife of
Chancellor Canfield of the state uni
versity of Ohio, who has been visiting
with Mrs. C. E. Bessey for a. week,
went to St. Paul, Minn., on Wednes
day. While in the city Mrs. Canfield
lhas been treated to teas, receptions
and parties continually. Miss Dorothy
Canfield accompanied her mother and
was a delegate to the national conven
tion of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mrs.
Canfield will probably stop in the city
for a few days on her Teturn to Col
umbus about the middle of the month.
A jolly bicycle ride was given on
Tuesday evening1 by n party of young
people in honor of the Misses Daisy
and Amy Greenbaum of Burlington,
la. Miss Lotta Strauss of Denver and
Miss Harriet Bracks of iew York. The
party rode to Havelock and back and
partook of refreshments upon their
return. The young ladles are visiting
in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Funke returned
last Thursday from Norfolk, O., where
they have been spending the summer
on the Moore homestead. It is more
correct to state that Mr. Funke spent
his summer on the borders of a large
well stocked reservoir, from which lie
wiled hundreds of fish. Miss Funke
returned with her parents, but stop
ped a day or two in Omaha to see the
exposition.
G. W. Botsford, an alumnus of the
state university, of the class of 84,
who has been renewing old acquaint
ances in Nebraska for a few weeks,
returned to the east. On Monday night
he was tenedered a reception at the
home of N. Z. Snell. After visiting'
friends at Arcadia he returned east.
Mr. Botsford is lecturer in Greek and
Roman history, havinb held this posi
tion for several years.
Mrs. DJXMuir gave a luncheon for
Mrs. Brevoort on Wednesday. Her
other guests were mesdames Wright,
Ladd, Burnham, Yates, Buckstaff, W.
C. Wilson. In the afternoon Mrs.
"Ladd read aloud Ruth McEnery Stu
art's account of the Christening of
Sonnj-. i
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Ogden gave a
yard party on Thursday evening in
honor of Mrs. W. H. Brevoort of New
York city, who is visiting Mrs. DJ).
Muir. The guests danced on the lawn
to old fashioned tunes for old time
dances.
Mr. and Mrs. Ackerman and Mr. and
Mrs. Newmark entertained at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ackerman on
'J street Monday evening in honor of
the Misses Greenbaum of Burlington,
Miss Lotta Strauss of Denver and Miss
Harriet Bracks of New York.
William Donahue, O. W. Webster,
and George Dayton are in Long Pine
hunting prairie chickens. They, ex
pect to be home tomorrow.
Prof. T. Lyttleton Lyon of the state
university, returned on Wednesday
from hi9 vacation in Pittsburg, and
other summer resorts.
J. H. Humphe of the .uincoln Trac
tion company has returned from a
week's vacation spent in the Black
Hills.
Mrs. McKillip of Seward, who has
been spending the summer in Denver
with relatives, has just returned to her
home.
Southampton, Mass., came to the
front among summer resorts with a
rash last week, through the fete cliam
petre given on Saturday afternoon and
evening on the lawns of the house of
Mr. James Breese, for the benefit of
the Southampton Red Cross auxiliary
This affair, which was given under
the personal supervsion of Mr. Breese,
aided by Mr. William Chase and one
or two of his artist friends, was the
most original, as it was certainly the
most artistic, affar of the kind ever
given in this country and it is a pity
that it could not have been witnessed
by a larger audience than that which
Southampton furnished. The wretched
train service of the Long Island Rail
road prevented many people from the
Hamntans and all along the line of
the road from Babylon to Montaauk
from attending and returning in time
for dinner, or even next day's break
fast. As it was, however, it is prob
able that the entertainment realized
upwards of $3,000, which will be ex
pended in equipping cots for use at
Camp Wicoft". The weather was per
fect, and the scene on the 'lawn at
afternoon was most picturesque and
entertaining. On a large platform in
the middle of the lawn there were a
series of dances by the children of
the summer residents and by the
young girls and matrons, all of whom
wore effective and beautiful costumes.
Southampton's bevy of young married
beauties, headed by Mrs. Holbrook
Curti?, Mrs. William Manice and Mrs.
Albert Stevens, all took part in this
dance. Their costumes, which were
specially designed for the affair, were
white pique and mull, with very short
skirts, black stockings and pumps,
and on their very high coiffures they
wore dainty little straw baskets, filled
in each case wita different flowers.
The lawn of "The Orchard,? as Mr.
Breese calls his place, was surrounded
with booths, some of which were de
signed and executed by Mr. Chase. In
one, which was a copy of an old
Southampton windmill, Mrs. E. W. Cul
ver and her sister, Miss Clarke, who
were both gowned in Dutch, peasant
costumes, sold old Dutch silver, pot
tery and copper utensils. The Moor
ish coffee bazaar, where Mrs. Henry
May, of Washington, Mrs. Charles
Brown and Mrs. Frederic Coudert, Jr.,
disposed of coffee and cigarettes, was
the center of attraction for the men
present, as the ladies looked remark
ably effective and piquante in their
Turkish robes. All the pretty young
girls, including Miss Fifi Potter, Miss
Soley and others, were costumed as
Geisha girls and occupied an imitation
Japanese tea house, where they song"
songs from "The Gesha"at intervals
There was a Santiago postoffice, pre
sided over by Miss Post and Miss
Serena Townsend, gowned as Red
Cross nurses, where letters in English
and Spanish to and from all parts of
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philipipnes
were received and delivered. Some of
these letters were exceptionably clever
and produced much laughter. I hear,
the most entertaining' novelty of the
of the afternoon was the watermelon
and amusing young woman, Miss Zella
Milhau, with two friends, Mrs. Brum
bach and Mrs. Brown, costumed as
darky wenches, with faces blacked,
sang plantation songs and received
money for guesses on the weight of a
small tethered pig and on the number
of seeds contained in watermelons,
which they disposed of later. There
was an atmosplieru of informality ami
genuine amusement about the whole
affair which made it unique in its way,
ami it far surpassed in originality the
Newport Gray Crag's affair.
The evening performance which was
given in a large tent in the rear of Mr.
Breese's house, was as clever in Its
way as was that of the afternoon. The
stage was artistically arranged against
the back of the house, which was hung
with tapestries, and the performance
was under the direction of Mr. John
P. Nicholas. It began at 9 and lasted
until 11. The audience sat at small
tables and the tent was arranged to
resemble a roof garden. A numebr of
New York professionels, including
Ernest Hogan and his troubadour,
Mile. Proto, M. Jess Dandy, Josef
Cawthorne, Max Unger ami Eleanore
Falk appeared, and there was, of
course, the usual address by Judge
Howland, without which no entertain
ment at Southampton is considered
complete. Following the vaudeville
show came a supper and a dance in t
Mr. Breese's studio, which forms the
left wing of his house. The summer
residents of Southampton had been
working for two weeks past to make
this entertainment a success, but all
united in the expression of the opin
ion that a large part of the credit, if
not all the credit for its success, was
due to Mr. Breese, who gave not only
his house and grounds, but has time
and abilities to planning and carrying
out the affair.
Southampton, from its proximity to
camp Wickoff at Mori tank Point, has
been greately stirred of late by the
condition of affairs at the camp, and
there are few of its summer residents
who are not doing something' to re
lieve the suffering of the returned
soldiers at Montauk. Mr. and Mrs.
Frederic II Betts and others have or
ganized a daily milk route and have
collected sufficient subscribtions to
forward hundreds of quarts of milk a
day from Southampton to the camp.
Newport is not much further by water
from Monauk than is Southampton by
land, but I haven't heard of any move
ment among the Newport summer res
idents to extend any aid to the suffer
ing soldiers at Camp Wikoff. Here is
a suggestion for Colonel and Mrs.
Astor. A swift steam yacht, or even
Nourmahal, could make the distance
between Newport and Montauk in
three hours, and Rhode Island is fam
ous for its green vegetables, its pot
atoes and its milk, butter and eggs.
Town Topics.
Died, at his home in this city, 1G45 M
street, of consumption, on Thursday,
September 1, John Gilmore Phillips.
John Phillips was one of the most sweet
est tempered and intelligent young men
in the west. He was assistant ticket
agent at the Burlington ticket office and
there are very fw living here who have
not grateful memories of the dear boy
in the ticket office who explained routes
and quoted prices with quick compre
hension and a patience that never failed.
He was born in Cadiz. O., in 1870, and a
year after he was born his parents moved
to Lincoln, where he has lived ever
since, except for the last year that he
has spent in New Mexico in search of
health.
Died, in Burlington, la., on Wednes
day, Augst 21, Mrs. Newmark, the
mother of Mr. A. Newmark of this
city.
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