Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-15
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SOCIETY
Army and Navy Notes


eign service. They will spend sew
eral days at the Blackstone hotel,
Chicago, and are expected here
about Sunday.
Brandon Howell, who has been in
an aviation camp at Dallas, Tex,
has been very i'll with the influenza
but is now improving. Mrs. S. E.
Howell and Miss Lois Howell are
with him now.
Ensign Temple McFayden and Ca
Diet GRAFT McFayden have been dis
charged and have returned home.
1t. Arthur Scribner has been dis
charged and is home from Camp
Jackson, Columbia, S. c.
Mrs. Matt FINLEY of Council Bluffs
has received cable from her hus-
band, Colonel FINLEY, saying that he
was well. This is the first word
that has been received from Colonel
FINLEY since the armistice was
signed. Colonel FINLEY has twice
been decorated by the French gov
eminent.
Y 1t. Percy Hall passed through
Omaha on Sunday on his way from
Camp Pike to Portland, Me-, where
he will be stationed for the present.
NJ. A. Hall has one son lieutenant
Nh the British army and the other in
the American army.
1t. Eugene Neville, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Neville, has been dis
charged from service and returned
last week from Camp Taylor, Louis
vile, KY, where he was stationed.
Lieutenant Neville will return to
Yale after the first of the year.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Messmore
have returned from Camp Pike, Ar
kansas, with their son, Mr.. F. w.
Mcssmore, who has been ill with in
tluenza and pneumonia. Mr.. Mess
more was finishing his couEse in the
infantry officers training school, and
he will resume his, law practice in
Beatrice.
1t. James F. Purney arrived over
seas last month. Mrs. Purney will
return after the holidays to be with
her parents. Dr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Mason, until Lieutenant Purney's
return.
1t. Charles Carr Ringwalt. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Ringwalt,
came Wednesday from an eastern
coast artillery camp. Lieutenant
Ringwalt was six months in the am
bulance service abroad before war
was declared, but will return to
Princeton after the first of the year.
1t Frank Selby returned home
Friday from Louisville, KY, where
he recently receivedshis commission.
He was accompanied by his brother,
Ii. Wayne Selby, who has been in
the quartermaster corps at Cleve-
land. O., and has just received his
discharge.
1t. Morton Wakeley is in New
York awaiting his discharge and ex-
poets to spend Christmas here.
1t. Robert Stout will be home
next week from Louisville, KY, to
spend the holidays with his father,
Mr.. John F. Sout, and sister, Miss
Gertrude.
Colonel H. B. Hersey is now at
the army balloon school at Bor-
deaux.
1t. Nathan Reasoner has been re-
lieved from the First Flying Cadet
company and detailed as assistant
to the officer in charge of recruits
at Fort Crook.
1t. Alfred Willard. jr, who has
been abroad for over a year, has |
landed in New York.
1t. Richard Ware Hall is now at |
Bordeaux France.
Robert Edwards, who has been
training for naval station at Seattle, |
Wash, has been discharged and re-
turned home Thursday.
1t. H. H. Fish, jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. HI. H. Fish, landed in New
York Tuesday after seeing over
year of active service in France and
Italy.
1t. Theodore E. Nelson, assistant
adjutant of Fort Omaha, took an
aeroplane flight last Saturday with
Lieutenant Simmons, aviator at Fort
Crook, encireling the city twice and
flying over Fort Omaha at an alti-
tude Of $500 feet
1t. Yale Holland, 1t. Frank Selby
and 1t. Herbert Connell. who have
been at the officers training school
at Louisville, Ky, remained to COM
plete the course, taking their COM
missions in the field artillery officers
reserve corps.
Mr.. ]. Emerson Goodrich, jr., ex-
poets to receive his honorable dis
charge early this week from Camp
Meade, Nd, where he has been in
training. Mrs. Goodrich, who has
been in Washington, D. C., since
Thanksgiving will join Mr.. Goodrich
going from there to New York City,
returning to Omaha for Christmas.
Winter Dancing Club Plans.
A Christmas dance will be given
by the Winter Dancing club Decem-
Der ~, formally opening the club. as
many OF the members will be in the