Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-14

The problem OF raising money is con-
fronting several Of the local organizations
Of women that have pledged their as
~sistance in entertaining the convention Of
the National Women's Christian Temper
ance union next October. While the bur
den will by no means fall entirely upon
the women, they will have a substantial
part of it to provide. and as this will be a
matter of several thousand dollars. organ
ization Of the financial plan is an i'm
portant preliminary. The Omaha Women's
Christian Temperance union has a regular
income from the noon lunch which it
serves at the high school and the Omaha
Woman's club also has funds. Frances
Willard Women's Christian Temperance
union has no regular income aside from
its dues, and today and Friday Is holding
a fair on the third floor of the Paxton
block in the rooms formerly occupied by
the Young women's Christian association.
The entertainment Of the 600 or 700 dele
gates expected will be the most serious
question, as this must be provided by the
homes of the city. The Omaha woman's
club has assumed responsibility for the
social affairs to be given for the visiting
women, but with ample funds and com
mittees organized for such functions this
will entail no anxiety.
nv ~ 6utltkN u the OniIeO
States Daughters of 1912, State OF Ne
braska, held Its last meeting for the sum-
mer Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Frank Crawford, sos South Twenty-seventh
street, Mrs. Herbert e. Gates, president.
presiding. The regular executive routine
work was transacted and after the re-
ports of the state officers were read the
board presented five applicants for adnis-
sion. the following women were elected:
Mrs. Daniel H. Miller, Kearney; Mrs.
Verdette NJ. Scofield, Seward: Mrs. Mahlon
A. Nye. Kearney: Miss Rothery, Omaha;
Mrs. Frank H. Garvin. Omaha. Mrs.
Charles Dorsey Armstrong acted as chair
man for the musical and literary program
which followed. Several instrumental Sc
lections were given by Miss Nancy Bat
tin and vocal selections by Miss Lam
caster. A paper entitled 'Battlefields that
l Have Visited" loaned by the historian
Of the Michigan state society and read by
Mrs. Andrew X. Gault, was Of interest.
1t was written by Mrs. Jane NJ. Kinney of
Port Huron and had been first read in
Detroit at one of the state society meet
ings. Refreshments were served and the
members enjoyed a social afternoon.
Mrs. Scott Durand has been appointed
one of the lecturers at the Maryland Agri-
cultural college. She has been prominent
In Maryland for several years as a social
leader, a farmer and the owner and man.
ager OF a large dairy. In accepting the
appointment she declared that there were
a number of reforms which she wished to
bring to the attention of the farmers and
dairymen of her state. and she knew Of
no better way OF doing it than lecturing
10 them or their children. Mrs. Scott is
well known to club women.
Miss Helen v. Boswell OF New York will
not visit Omaha this week, as had been
expected by local club women. Owing to
an accident she will be unable to come
west at all and will send a substitute TO
the Iowa biennial. 1t was Miss Bosweu
whom the government sent to Panama two
years ago to organize the women there into
clubs with a view to bringing about some
contentment among the antilles of men
employed on the canal and through the
clubs to work out many other problems in
cidental to the social life of the isthmus.
The Canal Zone Federation OF Women's
Clubs was the result and 1t has fulfilled
the most sanguine expectations of its pro-
moters. 2
Miss Boswell is now chairman of the in
dustrial committee, of the General Fedora
ton Of Women's Clubs, and in that office
is one OF the most conspicuous club women
Of the country.