Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-24
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son last week.
The Benson schools we're closed last Fri
day for days holiday.
Services will he held at the usual hours
I'm all the churches today.
Mrs r. +. Hoffman has returned from a
visit with her sister I'm Lincoln
Mrs. Henry Baker returned home Satur-
day from n visit In Cedar Creek.
Mrs Henry Gravert of Missouri Valley
was visitor In Benson last week.
Degree of Honor lodge will hold its reg
ular meeting next Wednesday evening.
Gym boys were pleasantly entertained
at the Morton house last Thursday evening
Mr. and Mrs. @. r. Williams have gone
TO Atchison for ten days visit with their
son.
Mrs John speede went to Papillion last
Wednesday to attend the funeral OF a
friend.
Eagles lodge Of Benson give a masque
ball at odd Fellows hall next Saturday
evening.
Members of the Junior league were enter
tanned at the home Of H. ]. Grove Saturday
afternoon.
Prof Ferris visited the Benson schools
last week, he was at one time principal OF
our schools.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henningan entertained at
a dinner party last week in honor Of Miss
Mary Cotter.
Mrs. r. f. Young entertained at dinner
last Sunday Mrs. Wlthrow and Mrs. Muir
ray of Omaha
Mr.. Thomas Weston of North Dakota
the last week.
Mrs. Livingstone and Miss Belle Craw-
ford of Portland, Ore, are guests at the
Mrs. F. E. Young went to Omaha last
| Thursday to attend the West Farnam
Kepsington club.
Theodore Williams has gone to Little
Rock, Ark, where he will visit with his
| daughter, Stella.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Speedie Of Gretna
| visited at the home OF their son in Benson
| during the last week.
Mrs. o. E. snowden has returned from
| Tyndall S. D., where she was called by the
sickness of her mother.
! Methodist Ladies' Aid society met last
Thursday afternoon at the parsonage. The
| time was spent in sewing.
| Mr. and Mrs. c. f. Martin entertained
number of their friends and Ieighbors at
their home last Wednesday.
A number of the young people of Benson
| formed "a theater party last Thursday even
! ing and attended in Omaha.
Mrs. George Batty left for Denver last
Sunday, where she will join her husband
| in that city, their future home.
Mrs. Thompson, Main street entertained
the b. l.. s. club at her home last week.
| Mrs, began entertains next week.
| p. p. Bosworth has resigned his position
as clerk in the Grove-Wharton company,
| where he has been the past year.
| Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hull entertained
/ at dinner last week for Omaha friends.
| Covers were laid for about eight guests.
Miss Anna Vobril has returned to her
| nome In Omaha AFTER a TWO Weeks stay
with her aunt, Mrs. Powers Of Benson.
The Junior league and their patrons were
addressed by Mrs. b. F. Shrimpton of Ere
mont at last Sunday afternoons session.
| Women of the Lutheran church will have
| a sale at Miss Nisson's store next Saturday.
where home baked articles may be obtained.
! Charles Tracy returned home, from
I Bloomington ILL.,, where he was called by
the sickness and death of his grandfather.
| Travel was delayed for sometime last
| Sunday by the breakdown OF one OF the
cars bound for Omaha. near the Country
| club.
| About twenty-five friends of Miss Gull
| bertson surprised her at the Speedie home
last Friday evening. pleasant time was
| had.
Benson Eagles have appointed COM
mittee who will make plans for the cree
ton Of their new building in the near fu-
| ture.
| The town marshal had a little trouble
| last Thursday night with couple of young
mon at the pool room which ended In an
| arrest.
! A number of the friends Of Mrs. A. NJ.
| Tolman surprised her last Wednesday and
helped her celebrate her 10th birthday an
| niversary.
| An address on Latin America was given
| at the Odd Fellows hall last Thursday
| afternoon under the auspices of the Pres
! byterian church.
| Last Sunday afternoon, 1t being foreign
mission day, the Lutherans observed the
occasion with an appropriate program fol-
lowing the Sunday school session.
| Mr.. ana MIS-. CndTies 1TdCy NaiiASN
| sixty of the young friends of their son.
| Donald, last Friday at a Washington party,
everything appropriate for the occasion be-
ing carried out.
The mayor ordered the Benson saloons
| closed last Sunday at noon, and hereafter
| they will stay closed on Sunday. as the
| traffic from other places coming here was
| too much for the citizens.
Lutherans of Benson are preparing TO
build their new church, work to commence
| in March. The Ladies' Aid society will
meet with Mrs. Charles johnson next
Wednesday afternoon.
| Captain John Woods, whose funeral SER
vices were held at his late home in Omaha
last Friday well known In Benson,
having once owned and lived in the Chris
Hansen house on Evans avenue
Mrs. B. F. Shrimpton of Fremont Mrs.
d. Whistler of Council BLUFFS, Mrs. ]. N.
Dennis and son of Omaha and A. H.
Kutzner of Chicago were guests at the
Whistler home during the past week.
A record of the official acts of the First
Presbyterian church of Benson was filed
in the county court in order TO be prop
erly organized. The trustees elected were
Frank A. Saunders, DR.. II. f. Mccoy and
Ward Walsh. all of Benson church.
Miss May McClelland of Omaha enter
tanned last Thursday evening at a pre-
nuptial event, before her departure for
| Sterling, Colo, the home OF her aunt where
on March 2 she will be married TO Frank
| l.. Keller of Denver, formerly of Benson,
where he is we'll known. Some of the Ben
son young people went to Omaha to at
tend the social event