Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

TONSEKVh lON Is tne principal
1 topic of conversation anon
~ club women following the i'm
portant congress of last week,
With the appointment of supplement-
ary members of the state committee,
to be headed by Mrs. A. E. Davisson Of
Lincoln, definite work along these
lines will begin. Otherwise Red
Cross work and a good deal for the
National League for Woman Service
are given the right-of-way by the
closing season OF other women's Or
ganization. As it is, almost every
club meeting which dots the calendar
is final one to name officers for next
year.
The Scottish Rite Woman's club
will hold one of the largest events
of the week Saturday afternoon at
the cathedral, reception for the
newly-elected grand officers of the
Eastern Siar-Mrs. A. c. Simpson,
Miss Rose Owens, Miss Maude Smith
and Mr.. J. E. Bednar. Out-of-town
guests wifi be Prof. and Mrs. G. E.
Condra and Prof. and Mrs. George R.
Chapburn of the state university. A
short program, in charge of the Of
ficers, will be given. :.
All members of Vesta, Maple Leaf,
Fontenelle, Narcissus of Benson. and
Adah of South Side, chapters of the
Eastern Star, are invited.
The Mothers club Of Saratoga
school will meet Friday at $3.50 p. m.
in the school auditorium. Mr.. S. w.
Bason of Fort school will speak on
the work Of the boys, Miss Eta
Pickering, Young Women's Christian
association secretary, will talk on
preparedness, and Miss Irma Gross
Of the domestic science department OF
the Central High school on Economy
in the Home"
The annual meeting and election OF
officers of Major Isaac Sadler
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, will be held Saturday at
2;3O at the public library.
The final meeting OF the Business
Women's club for this year will be
held at the Young Womens Christian
association Tuesday evening at 7
o'clock. Miss Anna Stevens and Miss
Eyalyn Bohannon will lead an art
program on Corot. Miss Edna Wilson
will give current events.
Officers of the Episcopal Women's
auxiliaries in Nebraska elected Tues
day at the conference at the Jacobs
Memorial hall are Mrs. T. H. Tracy,
president; Mrs. Alfred Blondell. vice
president-at-large, Nebraska City;
Mrs. ]. B. Jones, secretary; Miss Jes-
sic Royce, treasurer of the united Of
fering; Mrs. Oscar Williams, educa-
tional secretary; Mrs. William H.
Jones, custodian of the mission boxes.
and Miss Anna Sprague, president OF
the Junior auxiliary; Miss Alice Fry
vice president, and Miss Carolyn
Barkalow, treasurer.
Election of officers for the Benson
Woman's club was not held last week
because of the food conservation con-
gress. 1t will take place Thursday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Benson
city hall.
Mrs. E. A. Nelson will be hostess
for the Belles-Lettres Literary club
Tuesday afternoon at 2. THE Marble
Faun,' by Hawthorne, will be dis.
cussed by the club after an hour of
current topics.
Mrs. P. T. Barber was reelected
president OF the West Omaha Moth
crs' Culture club at a meeting Fri
day at the home OF Mrs. G. A. Rob-
erts. Mrs. r. Z. Winkleman is vice
president and Mrs. A. F. Tyler, sec
retary-treasurer. Two delegates were
named to attend the university can
ming school to be brought to Omaha
the second week in June in further
ance of work started by the Conser-
vation congress.
John A. Rine will talk on "Citizen-
ship" Mrs. Blanche McKelvy, on
parliamentary Law" and Mrs. Har-
riet MacMurphy will give demon-
stration of cereals at the Woman
Voters Conservation league meet
ing Wednesday at 2:30 o'clock, at the
home of the president, Mrs. F. J.
Birss, 1908 Lincoln boulevard.
A special meeting Of the Associa-
ton of Collegiate Alumnae will be
held Wednesday, June 6, at 4 o'clock
at the Fontenelle to transact impor-
tant business with regatd to a play
to be given in the fall, as recommend
ed by the executive committee at a
meeting Friday.
The Colonial Danes will meet
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Walter 7. Page to consider the
matter of the Field Ambulance Serv-
ice film, which the society is bringing
here June 9.
All officers of the Wyche Story
Tellers' league were reelected Thurs
day. Miss Edna Durland is president;
Miss Agnes McElroy, secretary-treas-
urer, and Misses Mary Krebs, Eliza
Gibbs and Marie Berry, the governing
board. Next year the Wyche league
will meet but once a month, on the
second Thursday.
Patriotism was the keynote OF the