Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-30
ENTERTAINMENT FOR EDITORS
Second Number Of Ak-Sar- Ben Editor
Tells of Program.
MANY NEWSPAPER MEN TO COME
Various Forms of Entertainment
Have Been Planned for visitors
ana Their wivea-south
Omaha Takes n Hand.

Tho second number OF the Ak-sar- Ben
Editor published by the Nebraska Press
association in the interest OF its annual
meeting, is off the press. containing
world of breezy stuff Of interest through
out The ate. The leading article tells Of
ne annual meeting in brief as follows:
Newspaper publishers OF Nebraska and
their wives and daughters will be guests
OF the Commercial club OF omaha for their
annual dinner Tuesday evening. June g.
the second day of their convention in
h dinner will he served at o'clock in
the evening, following an automobile ride
IL two hours about the city.
This was decided by the executive COM
mtitee of the Commercial club at It's meet
ing April IS. and the invitation has been
accepted for the Nebraska Press assOcta-
ton by the executive committee of the or
ganization.
The dinner will be notable affair a.
there Will he large attendance OF both
men and women at the convention Up 10
the time Of this paper going to press, 2O7
Nebraska newspaper publishers have de-
nniely promised to attend the convention
in Omaha, and these will be accompanied
by l5i women. Other acceptances are COM
ing In on every mail. The dinner will prob
ably be served for at least 400 guests and
about 800 Omaha business men and their
wives and daughters II has not been
definitely determined where the dinner will
b. serN ed u Il VIII likely le at one OF the
omaha 20 intry clubs, where a delightful
evening can be spent almost in the open
dlI. IL VIII ne IOtlOWe0 Dy 4 udnCG
Detailed arrangements for the dinner VIII
be made by the entertainment committee
Of the Commercial club. This committee
has served many notable dinners, among
them those to President Taft, the late II.
III. Hartman the imperial japanese com
mercial commissioners, the Nebraska con-
Bressional delegation, to James j. Hill,
builder OF the Great Northern railroad, and
recently to 1000 Nebraska travelling men.
Dinners served by this committee take
place with the most brilliant social affairs
held In the west and nothing like them Ii
ever given in Nebraska. The entertain
ment In honor OF Colonel Roosevelt given
by the Commercial club Of Omaha last
year Will be completely over-shadowed by
the dinner being arranged for the news
paper publishers and practically everything
served will be grown or made In Nebraska.
There are five other entertainment stunts,
but each one has been arranged In such a
way as not to interfere with the regular
program. When II is a luncheon, IL Is
given at lunch time; when II Is dinner, II
= Ia given when the days work Is over The
editors viii be permitted to dine Win the sL
day, but otter that there will be no private
meals; II will be luncheon with the entire
party and dinner with the entire party
somewhere on all three days OF the meet
ing
Another dinner, which will be rival for
that of the Commercial club of Omaha,
win be served at the Exchange hotel in
South Omaha at noon Tuesday-the same
being the birthday Of &c. Buchngham, gen
eral manager OF the Union STOCK Yards
company. This dinner will be with the
compliments Of the Union Stock Yards
company. the South Omaha Live Stock
) exchange and the South Omaha CONNER
[. cial club. 1t will be preceded by an ex-
cursion through the yards and packing
houses. which are so clean that the women
can wear white messaine dresses The
afternoon session will be held In the
the auditorium of the Exchange building
thus dividing the company of the news
paper men with South Omaha, as Doc
Tanner Is vice president of the association
and one of those responsible for bringing
the Press association to Omaha and South
Omaha.
Another entertainment which will go q
long ways toward making the visit tc
Omaha worth while will be the luncheon
given the editors and their friends Wednes.
day noon. June 7, by the printing material
. houses OF Omaha This will be one OF the
real entertainments OF the meeting.
As has been announced the American
Press association gives a luncheon Monday
noon for the women OF the party at the
Hotel Loyal, the American Press associa
ton being the first TO volunteer an enter
e lainment for the editors or their wives and
the committee finally assigned them e
care for the women of the party.