Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-13
CLOTHIERS ARE
GUESTS OF men
OF APPAREL CLUB
Banquet at FontenelIe At
tended by Large Number;
Pierce Man Elected PreSi-
dent Of Organization.

1t was an enthusiastic company
that attended the banquet and vaude-
willie entertainment given by the
Mems Apparel club for the members
Of the Nebraska Retail Clothiers'
association at the Fontenelle hotel
last night Three hundred members
of the association and club were
present Irrepressible Mike Kelly,
in charge of entertainments, showed
he was we'll fitted for the position
which he had been chosen. Mr..
Kelly is first vice president and act
ing secretary treasurer of the club.
He halls from Chicago and has made
the entertainment Of men has hobby.
A saucy song by saucier cabaret
singer was the opening.
O'Hara Makes Speech.
Sergeant O'Hara, Canadian war
hero who saw three and half years
OF active fighting, followed with
recital of incidents. which befell
him while in the service He also
showed talent in singing war songs.
Sergeant O'Hara was wounded five
times. In the Ypres engagement
only S8 Canadians out of $4,000 re-
manned uninjured according to the
veteran. In the fighting about Vimy
ridge the Canadians suffered $4,000
casualties while the Germans suffer-
ed a loss of over 100000 through
casualties. He corroborated state
ments of German atrocities, stating
that he himself carried wounds in
flicted by Hun welding a saw
tooth bayonet
Miss Charlotte Hunter gave clever
recitations and also sang and gave a
piano number. Mr.. La PIANO and
Professor Workman aided materially
in their parts.
Composed of Statesmen.
The Nebraska Apparel club is
composed entirely of statesmen. It'll
has been in existence but one year
and this is its second convention.
One hundred statesmen compose its
membership. The purpose is to adj
vance good feeling between retailers
and statesmen of mems wearing APP
parel. Entertaining the retailers is
the principal function.
Bert Griffith of Lincoln is presi-
dent while NJ. ]. Kelley of Chicago is
first vice president and Edward L.
Green of Cleveland, o., second vice
president.
M. Lower of Iowa. organizer OF
the first apparel club and ex-presi-
dent of the Iowa Apparel club, is in'I
this city aiding in the entertainment
of the retailers.
Durfee is President.
Much Of the important business Of ,
the Nebraska Retail Clothiers' asso-
citation was transacted yesterday. |
Election of officers took place and |
two of the important speakers were
heard.
Schuyler M. Durfee of Pierce, |
Neb., present vice president, was
elected president the coming year.
A. wv. Sturn of Grand Island was
chosen vice president and E. Z. |
Smith was reRppointed secretary
treasurer. The directors for 1919 |
we're F. H. Barclay of Pawnee City |
for the first distict, Olive Olson Of |
Newman Grove for the third district |
and A. Galusha of McCook. for the
fifth district. The men were recon-
nended for these respective Offices
and we're chosen unanimously. The,
election took place in the afternoon.
G. Pryor Irwin, retail CONNER
,ialist of the Stockdale organization
md noted economist spoke on stock
records and perpetual. inventories.
He emphasized the importance of
bookkeeping and known mar
gins of profit.
Some of the serious problems con-