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43Mrs. E. W. Peattie, Dr. F. H. Krueger Are Speakers, Omaha Woman's Club Mrs. Elia W. Peattie of Tyron, N. C., a charter member of the Omaha Woman's club, now dramatist, novelist, and literary critic of much ability, and Dr. Frederick K. Krueger, of the University of Omaha, divided honors Monday afternoon at the open day meeting of the Omaha Woman's club at Burgess-Nash auditorium. Mrs. Peattie, who came to Omaha to speak last Friday at the Fontenelle hotel under auspices of the Omaha Woman's Press club, read several of her poems Monday afternoon, including "January Jasmine"; "Wood Smoke"; a tribute to Sidney Lanier, entitled "Lanier in the Valley"; "Brides of Tryon," being a reference to the dogwood blossoms in spring; "Hills Round My Valley," and "In the Cool of the Day." Mrs. Peattie made a very strong appeal to Omaha and Nebraska club women not to permit the defeat of the bill pending in the state legislature providing $26, 360 for traveling libraries. "This defeat would deprive three-fourths of the reading public of Nebraska of good and suitable reading matter. Such action would be reactionary, and should not be permitter," Mrs. Peattie declared. Dr. Krueger, speaking under the direction of the Political and Social Science department of the club, reviewed the history of Europeans immigration to America, and the baneful influence of southern and eastern European immigrants. He explained | 43Mrs. E. W. Peattie, Dr. F. H. Krueger Are Speakers, Omaha Woman's Club Mrs. Elia W. Peattie of Tyron, N. C., a charter member of the Omaha Woman's club, now dramatist, novelist, and literary critic of much ability, and Dr. Frederick K. Krueger, of the University of Omaha, divided honors Monday afternoon at the open day meeting of the Omaha Woman's club at Burgess-Nash auditorium. Mrs. Peattie, who came to Omaha to speak last Friday at the Fontenelle hotel under auspices of the Omaha Woman's Press club, read several of her poems Monday afternoon, including "January Jasmine"; "Wood Smoke"; a tribute to Sidney Lanier, entitled |