Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-01
FLAG SUPREME AT
ROTARY FUNCTION
Patriotic Flavor to ALI That's
Doing at Annual Dinner
Dance.
MANY PRIZES ARE GIVEN

American flags and patriotic favors
galore served to make the FREEDOM.
mating note in the largest and most
brilliant social function in the history
OF the Rotary club of Omaha, when
members and their women and friends
to the number of more than 800 as.
sembled at the Hotel Fontenelle Tues.
day evening for the third annual birth.
day party and dinner-dance.
AS the crash of the last one-step
reverberated across the big Lall room
on the mezzanine floor shortly after
midnight the formal affair was entered
on the wheel of local Rotary as the
most successful by far in the annals
OF the organization in Omaha.
Two ball rooms were thrown to-
gether, with forty tables, each seating
eight guests, arranged about three
sides. A moaning saxaphone, changing
cymbals, orchestra and a bevy of pro-
tessional cabaret entertainers held
forth on stage at the end of the
ball room.
Flags the Emblems.
Each guest was presented with a
miniature American flag, the women
also finding corsages of violets at
their plate covers. American flags
and Rotary emblems were draped in
profusion about the ball room. Dane
ing interspersed the dinner courses,
following which was the distribution
OF more than fifty practical prizes by
various Rotarians. The latter part Of
the evening was devoted to dancing.
Before taking their seats at the be-
ginning of the dinner the guests sang
America" TN the Rotary" COM
posed by Harry Lauder, who is a
Rotarian, was also sung by the assem-
blage.
The prize distribution was replete
with laughs, thrills and surprises.
Present for Mary Ellen.
Mrs. w. A. Rourke, wife of "Pa"
Rourke of base ball fame, was given
a S. bill donated by Tom S. Kelly.
Immediately Mrs. Rourke announced
that it would be expended for gift
for Baby Mary Ellen Rourke.
An honest-to-goodness pink, squeal-
ing, squirming pig went to Mrs. Harry
Weller. Gaily bedecked with ribbons,
the small representative of the porcine
stock tribe was carried from the stage
in Mrs. Weller's arms, while the
guests roared with laughter. A. c.
Buchanan donated the little porker.
Today is the sixth wedding anniver-
sary of Mrs. Sam Rees-and she re-
ceived fruit cake, donated by ]. w.
WEIGH.
The fates were obviously working
right in some cases, for Mrs. Al Scott
now has ffty-gallon can of gasoline,
the donation Of L. V. Nicholas. Mrs.
Scott's husband signed a check for
new motor car last week. -
New Base Ball Fan.
Many of the guests were pulling"
for the base ball season pass donated
by "Pa" Rourke. Mrs. Charles GRAFT
ton, however, who seldom, if ever, at
tends performances of the national
game, marched OFT with the highly
priced piece of pasteboard.
Fifty-four prizes in all were donated
by different Rotarians.
The program committee which had
charge of the general arrangements
was composed of A. S. Borglum,
chairman; John L. McCague, jr.;
Harry A. Koch, DR.. H. L. Akin, J.
w. WEIGH, Ray Kingsley and Joy
Sutphen.
Others who had been bus for
weeks on the plans for the seasons
social event in Rotary and who divid-
ed their time last evening between
dancing and seeing that the rest of
the guests had a good time were DR..
E. c. Henry, president of the club;
Dan A. Johnson, secretary, and Miss
Alma Pearson, assistant secretary.