Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1915, Page 8

This is the unpretentious name given to the magnificant Harbor Point home of Miss Katherine Barker, the $30,000,000 | helress, who Is to become the bride of Mr. Howard H. Spaulding, | Jr., of Chicago on Saturday, July 31. Miss Barker is well known to Omaha soclety, having served as hmlem! maid at the recent wedding of Miss Marie Stewart of Council Bluffs and Donald McFerron. This bride-to-be is immersed in the detall of trousseau just now like all other bride elects, and, uniike others, she has imperative demands made on her time by the interests of the huge estate to which she is #ote heir, Tm are busy days at the “Barker Cottage.” [ THE BEE: 'YOUNG WOMEN Examinations Are Condunoted byi Supervisor English for Play | Supervisors. SOME ARE TO BE NAMED TODAY Twenty-four young women teach- ing games to each other afforded considerable Interest for a group of boys and girls in Hanscom park. Superintendent English of the public recreation department was conduet- | ing examinations of applicants for| positions as play supervisors. The Bee's free milk and ice fund is already working to relieve the wants of the little ones for whom it is intended. Today's list represents contribu- tions in the Loch cafe, in the State bank building. Contributions from 10 cents to $5 | are solicited and will be acknowl- edged in this column. . born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Hay- | b - gy ward of Pittsburgh Tuesday. Mrs. Hay- 3 de Stout, ward was formerly Miss Margaret Busch Ruth McCoy, | ot Omaha. e Fiiggorats, | © s ! arnes, 3 te Dinning, | At the Field Club, : BT fiton, | Mrs. H. A. Cameron entertained four ! r Austin, Suests at luncheon today at the Fileld b Ireno Cuur..' elub, ; Marion Cond. s Wedding presents are pouring in thick and fast at Barker Cottage these days and the bride-to-be is making accommodations for 400 guests, who will come by special trains for Point will be weighed in the balance. Mrs. Donald McFerron, now of Hoopston, Ill., is to be the matron of honor, and eeveral members of the Stewart family will be present. At Happy Hollow Club, Miss Gladys Robertson and Miss Ruth Anderson entertained at lunoheon today at the Happy Hollow club in honor of Miss Clare Paterson of New York. A; of pink snap dragoms and | was used as the table | twenty guests were en- | W, Getten entertained very in- formally today at luncheon at Happy |at dinner Saturday evening at the Coun- Hollow olub.. |try club, Mre. C. W, Ruseell gave a prettily ap- | Mr. Herbert J. Connell will have twon- pointed luncheon today at the Happy olup, _complimentary to her daughters, the Misses Ann and Florence | Mies Ines Bloom will entertain at luncheon Friday at the Happy Hollow club, At Beymour Lake Club. Mrs. C. C. Shimer entertained at bridge luncheon today at Seymour Lake Country club, Four tables of players Wwere entertained. Mrs. W. T. Adiins gave a luhcheon of seven covers today at the SBeymour Lake Country club and Miss ida Kaley had five guests. The Centurion club will give a dinner this evening at Beymour Lake Country club. The dinner will bo served at 10 o'ciock p. m. and will te preceded and followed by dencing: Wedding Announcement. The wedding of Miss Alma Woods of Benson and Mr, Frederick Renze was [ celebrated quietly Wednesday afternoon the event, and the hotels of Harbor at the parsonage of the Sacred Heart church. Rev. P. Judge officiated. Miss | Grace Ollbert of the Methodist hospital and Mrs. Burton Stratt were the only attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Rense will be at home in Omaha after July 15, At the Country Club. Dr. and Mrs. J. K. Summers entertain ty-elght guests at dinner Saturday at | the Country cllub and Mr. C. W. Hamil- | ton will entertain twenty, Stork Special. A son, Thomas R. Hayward 34, was | Bridge Luncheon. ' Mrs, Bdward M. Martin was hostess at a bridge luncheon given yesterday at her home in Falracres. The guests were seated at smull tables and each was deco- rated wtih Killarney roses. Covers were placed for sixteen. In and Out of the Bee Hive. Miss Margaret Gerow of Kearney, who was the guest of Miss George Trimble for meveral weeks, left Tuesday for her home. Personal Mention. Miss Filsle Nelwon of Colon, Neb., is & Kuest at the home of Mrs. James Trim- ble. | groups. These demonstrations were part of the examinations. | “Are wo going to have thess kind of games in the park? asked « little girl, | holding & large doll upside down The little girl went away and returned with other girls and boys. Finally there was quite a gathering of youngsters. | The Recreation board Friday afternoon | will pass upon the appointment of some | of these applicants, who will begin their| work next Monday morning "“These supervisors will direct the chil-| dren in their play activities and will | teach them new and interesting games. | The youngsters will be divided into It the older folke want to play, | they will be cared for, too,” explained | Mr. English. The examinations held by the play superintendent included written state- monts on the theory of play 8. R. Rushis toBe Suggested for the Pederil_J udgeship Friends of Bylvester R. Rush, wpecial agent of the Department of Justice, are planning to present his name as a possi- ble successor of W. H. Munger, federal Judge, who is to retire October 1. Mr. Rush has been for some time past active In government work, having rep- recented the government in many impor- tant cases, among them being the case against the real estate firms who sold sections of the Kvergiades, in Florida, to gullible buyers. He s now engaged In government work in Californta, where he will remain for some time. The appointment of district judge is for Iife, and the position pays a salary of $6,000 & year. State Suffragists to Talk Convention The state board of the Nebraska Suf- frage assoclation will hold an all-day Session today at the Young Women's Christian assoclation. The date and Mr. and Mrs. John Madden and ohil- dren will leave August § for Lake Ocagua, N. Y, for the remainder of the summer, OBJECTS 10 MAN'S - RULE; ASKS DIVORGR lq& the modern view of equality of ‘women, married to a man who de- f;; e Al I i g 3 g "3 i i ;iil PIGNIG AT LOUIS NASH HOME Four Hundred snd Fitty Employes of Burgess-Nash Store to Have Big Outing, STORE WILL CLOSE EARLY e ‘The second annual pienic glven by the Burgess-Nash company will be held at Nushwood, the country home of Louls C. Vi Oalhoun, next Tussday after- 450 employes of the company o guests, and everything pos- son. Th will be th The day of the picenlo the Burgess-Nash stores will close at 4 o'clock in the after- noon. Immediately the employes and traln over the road will be provided. The run in twenty min- plontckers will go they will own every. the farm until § o'clock In the ‘whe! will break up party will re- 5 IEE‘_ connected with H i 5! 43 two 4 15z : if 3285 !§§=, E=8a etiEdsgait ¢ i ! i place, together with other plans for the state convention, to be held in the fall, will be the principal matter of business This will be the last board meeting be- fore the convention. ‘The constitution committes will meet with the state board this time to discuss revision of the constitution. Mre. H. H. Wheeler, Mrs. W. Bl Bark- ley, Mra T. J. Doyle and Mrs. Herbert Avery of Lincoln will come down to at- tend the meeting. Local members of the board and constitution committes are Mrs. Draper Smith, state president; Miss Dajsy Doane, Mrs. George Copper of South Omaha and Mrs. G. W, Covell, ——— Johnson is Now Entirel_y_ldentified announces, “Mr. Johngon wishes to speak with you over the wire,” or “Mr, John- son wishes to see you,” those statements mean nothing. They must be amplified. Yesterday morning the clerk entered the inner office and proclaimed that a man named Johnson was on the wire. Mr, Jardine was busy at the time on impor- tant matters. “Which Johnson is it?* he asked. After a pause the clerk returned and informed, “He says it is the Johnson you used to play poker with." v “Put him up, T must talk to that man,” was the reply. DR. CLARK SAYS MILLER PARK LINKS WILL REMAIN Z D. Clark, member of the Recreation board, upon his return from Clear Lake stated that residents near Miller park need not fear lest the links will be abolished. ¢ “1 belleve the boulevard intersections in this park create an unsafe situation, but I feel sure conditions may be remedied without taking out the links,'" sald Mr. Clark. \ Hawallan instrument, which is the By Mr. D. E. Hawaiian Instrument wn—m—m&m,;-bl&". All Guitar and Mandolin Fans are invited to hear this new FIRST OMAHA DEMONSTRATION at A. HOSPE'S, 1513 Douglas Street | i { i royepeyeyorars 1 £332833333833338 WASHES WINDOWS ON WAY, MoKenney, Globe Trotter, Bwpli Over in Omaha and Puts In a Few Days at Work. I8 OUT SEEING THE WORLD Found! One globetrotter, who is a working man instead of a moocher. ! L. E. McKenney has trotted the globe | for twenty years, has washed 150,000 win- dows, has chucked a little money inte each and every one of dozens of postal savings banks from coast to coast, and { has money in the home bank in Boston. | | McKenney is washing windows in Omaha | today. He is on his way to San Frane | | claco to mee’ the fair. | ““There,” sald McKenney, when he had | finished washing three windows in the | office of Dr. Harry A. Foster, “I have | | made my expenses for all day, and I still | | have part of the forenoon and all the | | afternoon ahead of me..” | “You don't mean that you live on 15 cents & day?’ was asked | “No, but this is not the first office I have worked in this morning.” At work McKenney is a marvel of spead and agility. Four feet and eleven | inches tall, apider-ltke in build, he popped | the windows up, crawled out on the ledge, | clung to & nall or tack, polished the wine | dows and when he had occasion to use | !both hands to change position he | slammed his mop rag into his teeth and went about his business. “You never use the strap and belt to | secure yourself in climbing out on the ledge, do you? he was asked. “Not unleas I get over five stories high. I don't mind falling a mere five storles. I had many a spill on the bufld- ings In New York." Don't Sell Post Cards. “Do I sell post cards? 1 should say not. I work for my lving, and I am seeing | the whole world. When 1 go in to eat I flip out the coin, and they all treat me right, “Post cards? Say, men, I sold a book | on the road once and carried post card Pletures of myself. I asked an old Dutch- | man In Pennsylvania to buy one. He said 'Vat de devil I vant dat for' when he looked at my mug. I looked in the glass | &nd then at the ploture, and I concluded | the old man had sized the situation up right, What the devil would anybody ‘want my pleture for? So I have worked & day or two In a town ever since and never carried pictures. Today 1 make a doliar or two over expenses and tomor- row morning I'll be on the hike toward Denver.” In winter McKenney hikes into a big city, washes windows and tends furnaces for & few days, establishes headquarters in a little room, installs a telephone and #0on has two dosen furnaces to tend and & score or more of rooms to sweep and dust every morning. “I oleaned up §L800 that way in two Years once when I stuck two years in Chicago stralght,” he sald. ““Then I went on the hike again, for I don't like to “Married? 1 should say mot. No trou- bles at all. Goodbye." MRS. CRUMPACKER IS Now ORGANIZING THE ANTIS Mre. J. W. Crumpacker, who repre- sented the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in Nebraska during the suffrage campaign last fall, is or- #anising anti-sutfragists at Atlantic City this summer, aocording to word received by Omaha friends. Mrs. Crumpacker was in charge of anti-suffrage headquarters in the Bee building and organized many socleties opposed to suffrage throughout the state. RINSES EASILY talk of the musical public, Langlands IMANY OFFENDERS " PACE POLICE JUDGE Some Grow Facetious and Are Sent to Jail for Various Peri- ods of Time. FULL ON ICE CREAM SODA | Rum or other alcobolic beverages, when taken iuternally in coplous quantities, has & tendency, according to sclentists and {Dr. C. B. Foltz, to intoxicate. . Judge | Britt waa firmly convinced of this dis- |covery when twenty-two followers of the | |demon were 16a bofore him. Here are & |few harrowing details brought about by | the sinful not hoeding B. Sunday’'s calls- | thenie gospel gyrations. H. Devis of Des Moines crept weakly to the bar of justice and awalted his turn. “Ah been awful sick lately Jedge, and In powahful pooh spirits,” Powerfu] poor spirts is right days,” quoth the maglstrate. Next camo Julius 8. Cooper of the South Side, who was still decidedly cheer- tul “Say, Ten Tulius, haven't you got anything vouchsafed H.| to do but smoot the can? | prosecutor. morning, If you'll turn me loose,” re- plied Cooper. | “What kind of work,” Interrogated Judge Britt “Why, filing the holes T shot in the can* hilariously replied Jultus. After many others had passed, ¥, Q Brown tripped lightly before the magis- trate. “Why, gvodness graclous judge, never in all my life touched anything stronger than Peruna,”” burbled Z. Q. |had just consumed two chocolate ice cream sodas when the big burly brute arrested me.” | Britt through his mustache, and hastily | Gropping a paperweight while he ciutched | on his hand, discharged Brownle and hastened from the room to &et an ice cream soda himeelf. CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES FROM THE HEAT David C. Collins, aged 73 years, con- | federate veteran, died Wednesday even- | ing at his home, 2622 Chlcago street, of heart fallure brought on by the heat. 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