Omaha daily bee., 1892-01-10
AMONG R SOCIETIES.

state Convention of Turner's ut Plattsmouth
-Doings of the Local Organizations.
Umaha's five delegates TO the state conven
ton Of German turner's to be held today
at Plattsmouth left yesterday afternoon for
that place. About a dozen other turner's OF
this city accompanied the delegates. Upon
their arrival at Plattsmouth a reception and
ball was rendered the visiting turner's, and
this morning the delegates Will go INTO
convention to elect officers nud transact the
business pertaining TO the state convention.
Lincoln and Sioux CITY are the two citic5
that will contest for the next annual con-
vention.
Omaha are: Theodore Becker. IL. Holfmeis-
ter, Fredcrick Fruchauff, G.. BIattert and II.
Schuright. The TWO alternates are X,
Ito enzweig and II. RohlT.
Other visiting Delegates are from Ne
brdska CITY, Lincoln, Fremont, West
Point and Sioux City. The meeting will
open at 10 o'clock in the morning at the
Plattsmouth Turner hall. The naming of
date aud location Of the next state tourna-
ment. and the election of officers of the
Re2irk for the ensuing year will be a lively
contest. the convention will choose a dele
gate to the national convention of the
Turner'S, to belj at Washington, DC. IN the
latter part of next MAY.
The date for celebrating the twenty-ifth
anniversary of the Omaha Turnverein at
Germania hall has been changed from Tues
DAY, January 26, TO Saturday, the 23d. The
change was made to the latter part OF the
week in order that the celebration would not
interfere with other business of the members
OF the ASSOCIATION. Great preparations are
being made oy the committee on arrange
ments to make IL a brilliant affair. A novel
feature of the entertainment will be the ap-
pearance of the young ladies' class IN a
cries OF Calisthenics and gymnastics Prof..
r.. Watzenhorn, their instructor, is hard at
work to make this a success.
Tho Omaha Manncrchor and the Turner
Quartetto club have consolidated ard are
now exercising their vocal qualities under
the able leadership OF Mr.. Henry Haubens.
Rehearsals are had every Friday evening at
ermaniR hall. -
The Scheutzenverein club had a living ses-
sion last Wednesday night at its annual
meeting. The German marksmen met at
Germania hall for the purpose of holding an
annual meeting and eleciing officers for the
ensuing year. The question of when the
year began came up. The club was organ
lied in the month OF August. and for that
reason some members maintained that Off
GERS shofld be elected in that month instead
of at the beginning of the calendar year.
This caused n dissension among the Nom
bers, but after Judge Sten bcrg made II strong
legal talk to the CLUB it was decided to retain
the old officers, who were temporarily elected
last October, to remain in office until Janu-
ary. There were and are now officers as fol-
lows: William Mack, president; Herman
Bush, vice presidents; William krug, treas
urer; William Butts, corresponding secre-
tary CLouis Heimrod resigned); Charles
HERBERT, financial secretary; f. A. Fuller,
captain and Henry Russer second captain.
Medals for the best marksmen were also
awarded. Fred A.. Fuller was awarded the
first class medal, as he had a fraction over a
score of seventy-eight as an average years
shooting. Fred Schroeder got the second
class medal, ami Charles Goetch was given
the third class.
The regular weekly FRIDAY afternoon
shoots have been abandoned, but they Will
probably be resumed III February.
The annual meeting of the German club
was held Wednesday night and elected the
following directors Frank j. Lange, Arthur
Smith, Charles Herbertz, Charles f.. Bur-
meister, Fred Metz, ir., William Krug, Gus
Hahn, julius Peycke, and Oscar Pundt. The
new directory will meet Wednesday night
for the purpose of appointing officers OF the
club.
The Omaha Plattdeutscherverein, one of
the strongest German societies in the city,
celebrated its eighth anniversary last
Wednesday, night at Germania hall. The at
tendance, like all the festivals of the Piatt-
deutscherverein, was very large. The
Plattdeutsche Gesangssecuon, under the
leadership of Prof. Dworzak, sang a few
songs very creditable. The president of the
society, Herr Fritz Stacker, made a speech,
in which he said that the membership was
over 300, and that the treasurer had about
$1,000 in his possession belonging to the
society. The arrangements committee COM
Kietz, did everything to make the evening a
pleasant one. The Plattdeutscherverein
contemplates building a hail for itself in the
near future.