Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-11

an editorial position on the Swedish
| Post and his fine basso was heard in
the Kountze Memorial choir last
| Sunday.
Miss Lowe has completed an aesthe-
tic looking sachet bag of silver colored
satin, decorated with rushes and lined
and finished with pistachio green.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kountze gave recep-
ton in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Kellar.
e. Rosewater has moved from Har-
| ney street to his new residence on
| Douglas above Seventeenth.
Mr. and Mrs. John Howard have
returned from their wedding tour and
are at home at 124 South Twenty
fourth street
Mrs. Nye received her lady friends
| from to 6 at her room, 624 South
| Twentieth street. She was assisted by
Mesdames Coffman, Peck, Bradford,
Estabrook. Lander, Knight Ijams and
Mccormick.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. B.. Falconer are
mourning the lost Of their infant son.
This Day in History.
1774-Town committee of Ports
mouth, N. H., hearing Of the kings
order prohibiting the expectation Of
gunpowder to America, seized the gar
rison at Fort William and Mary, and
| carried away 100 barrels Of powder.
1777-Washington' army went into
winter quarters at Valley Forge.
18O3--Hector Berlioz, celebrated
composer, born near Lyons, France.
Died in Paris, March 8, 1869.
1839-Members Of the house of rep
resentatives INDUCED for the first time
| in the practice of pairing off,"
1S60-State union convention at
Trenton, N. j.. resolved in favor of
compromise between the northern and
southern states.
y 1s62-First day of the battle of
Fredericksburg.
1S64-Florence was decreed the
capital of Italy until the acquisition
of Rome.
1s6s-iLast of the French troops de-
parted from Rome.
'1s69-The body Of George~H. Pea
body, who died in London, November
4, was placed on board the British
| steamship Monarch, for transporta-
ton to the United States.
1S92-First street railway mail car
in the world put into operation in st.
Louis.
1s94-Benjamin r. Tillman was
elected United States senator from
South Carolina.
The Day We Celebrate.
Guy Liggett. president and manager
of the Pantorium, Is Al years old to-
day. He was born in Conway, Ia,
studied one year at the Iowa state col
lege and came to Omaha in 1898, as
an employe of the Pantorium, buying
half interest IN it during the same
year and a year later assuming the
Calvin C. Valentine, court reporter,
was born December II, 1854, at
Keosauqua, la. He was the first Of
fetal court reporter in Dakota and is
now the pioneer court reporter In Me-
braska.
Leonard C. Kohn, in charge of the
automobile supplies for the Lee Colt
Andreeson company, is celebrating his
thirty-seventh birthday. He was born
in Savannah, Ca, and used to be one
Of the owners Of the Western Auto
Supply company.
| Elizabeth, the exiled queen of the
Belgians, born In Bavaria, forty-one
years ago today.
E. Marvin Underwood, assistant at
torney general, who Is directing the
defense in the suits brought to test
the Adamson law, born in Douglas
county, Georgia, thirty-nine years ago
today.
Most Rev. Henry Moeller Catholic
archbishop of Cincinnati. born in Gin
cinnati, sixty-seven years ago today.
Adolph Alexander Weinman. sculp-
tor, and designer of the new dime just
put into circulation, born in Baden,
Germany, forty-six years ago today.
Frank p. Woods, representative in
congress Of the Tenth Iowa district,
= ~ 10,
forty-eight years ago today.
John F. Moakley, veteran athletic
coach Of Cornell university, born in
Boston, fifty-three years ago today
Frederick Toney, pitcher of the Gin
cinnati National league base ball team,
born at Atlanta, Ca, twenty-seven
years ago today.