Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-22


a las County woman's Christian
"a Temperance union convention,
which will be held at Elk
&&S City. Tuesday, August 81, are
49, being completed by tns
president, Mrs. w. G. whitmore of Val
ley. who has Just returned from Cali
fornia trip. In her absence Mrs. c. J.
Roberts president of the Frances Willard
union. was in charge.
About 100 women are expected to attend
the meeting which will be held in the
church at Elk City. The program has
not been completed but it is planned
that Mrs. d. c. John will present the
topic soft Drinks and Mrs. James A.
Dalzell, Temperance and Missions" In
the evening there will be a gold medal
contest for musical and declamatory num-
bers.
Delegates to the meeting will leave
Omaha about o'clock the morning of
the convention and will go by train to
Washington, from whence automobiles
will carry them to Elk City.
The annual meeting Of the Frances
Willard woman's Christian Temperance
union will be held Wednesday morning
at IL o'clock at Hanscom park. Reports
of all departmental work and election of
officers will be the principal items of in
terest and the business meeting will be
followed by a social hour. This union
will send over thirty representatives to
the Douglas County Woman's Christian
Temperance union meeting at Elk City,
August 81. Mrs. G. J. Roberts, the presi-
dent, has been in charge of the program
for the county meeting.
Miss Bess Dumont, president of the AS
ISOLATION of Collegiate Alumnae. is ex-
pected home this week from Sturgeon
Bay. Wis. where she spent her vacation.
With the return of the president, plans
for the winters work will be resumed.
If the weather is favorable, the sum-
mer camp of the Social Settlement at
Waterloo will be continued until Sep
TENDER 1. II not, this weekend will
bring its discontinuance for the year.
Twenty-seven vacationers were housed
last week-a mother and her four children, /
factory girls and children, included. Miss
Jessie Powell Arnold. head resident of
the Social Settlement, is in charge.
The U. S. Grant -woman's Relief Corps
will give its August kensington Tues
day afternoon at o'clock at the resi-
dence of Mrs. John Stern, 29O6 Saratoga
street.
The Omaha North Side circle of the
Child Conservation league will hold its
annual picnic at Miller Park Thursday.
The affair was planned for last week,
but was postponed on account OF the
rain. Luncheon will be served at one
large table at noon. Mrs. James p.
Sheeran is in charge OF the arrangements. |
Regular meetings of the mothers circle |
will be resumed the early part of Sep
TENDER.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of Benson met at the home of Mrs. |
E. j. Whistler Wednesday afternoon The
delegates chosen for the fall convention |
were Mesdames P. A. LeBge and r. S. |
Beasley; alternates, Mrs. p. ]. Whistler |
and r Divilbis. After the business ses-
sion there was a social hour.
The B. l. s. club of Benson had n |
social meeting Thursday afternoon at the |
home of Mrs. Vincent Kenny of Benson
hurst. Those receiving prizes in car. !
playing were Mrs. II. Knudsen, who won |
first prize; Mrs. Harry Post and Mrs |
]. ]. Tritz. About forty-five guests were |
present Mrs. Harry Post will be the
next hostess.
The Omaha Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union will meet Wednesday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock at the Young MEMS
Christian association. Reports of the de-
partmental work of the last year will |
be heard and department superintendent |
named for next year. Delegates to the |
county convention will also be named.
Initiative petitions for the Nebraska
dry campaign are in the hands of the !
president. Mrs. n. ]. McKitrick, but it .
IS thought their circulation will be held |
up until after the Billy Sunday meetings. |
Scores OF women voters will participate
in an overland trip by automobile and |
horseback from the Panama Pacific ex-
position to Washington. d. c.. leaving |
San Francisco September II, If plans OF
tho Congressional union carry. The !
women Will form parade which will be
the concluding feature of a congress OF
women voters. OF which Mrs. o. II. p.
Belmont OF New York Is chairman.
Three months will be required to make
the trip. Addresses will be delivered at
many places along the line OF march and
a series Of suffrage demonstrations with
a pageant and a mass-meeting will be
held at Washington. according TO the
plans.
Y. W. G. 4. Notes.
Summer Hill farm will be open one
week longer, until August 80. This gives