The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-15

took place at the Maui home OF the
| brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H P.
! Baldwin. The house was beautifully
i decorat ted and the most perfect APP
/ pointments and arrangements were in
| evidence. The number of guests was
very large. Many went from Kauai
and Oahu. relatives and friends. Both
are old missionary families, the Bald
wins having been identified with mis-
siouary work on Maui from very
early period. The Rices were origin
ally on Oahu but went to Kauai many
years ago.
The ceremony was performed by the
venera BILE Rev. E. q. Beckwith. The
bride and groom stood under the same
golden bell under which the brides
grandparents. Father and Mother
Alexander, had stood at their golden
wedding. The maid of honor was Miss
Nora Sturgeon. The matron of honor
was Mrs. j. P. Cooke. The little Miss
Emily Cooke of Honolulu and the little
Miss Lois Murdoch of Paia, were the
flower girls. The best man was the
groom's brother, Hon. Chas. Rice. The
bride was given away by her father.
Following the wedding there was a
banquet at which several hundred
guests sat down. J. P. Cooke was the
toast master. Later there was dane
ing. The presents TO the young couple
We're many and costly. They left by
the China Friday for the Coast where
the honeymoon viii be spent.
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Judge and Mrs r. D. silliman sailed
for the Coast by the China Friday.
They have been here about three
months.
Goodwin's Weekly of Salt Lake, in
its society columns, says:
An old-time Fort Douglas and Salt
Lake reunion was unexpectedly held
at Honolulu on November IS and IA,
when the transport Buford and Thorn
as met in port, the first from San
Francisco and the other from Manila.
On the Buford were Captain and Mrs.
Guy G. Palmer accompanied by their
two childen; Miss Campbell formerly
one of the faculty of Rowland Hall,
and Captain and Mrs Baldwin. Re-
turning to the command of Fort SHAFT
ter, Honolulu, from his fifteen-n1ile
horseback ride at the Presidio, was
Major Dunning. On the transport
Thomas, Major Lassiter put in an APP
pearance. With Mrs. Randolph for-
merly Margaret Thompson of Douglas),
now of Fort Shafter, the old and al
ways popular Salt Lake army post was
well represented. There was a dance
at the Seaside Hotel, where the trans
port folk danced beneath the hau trees.
BY special request the Hawaiian quin-
tet club played 'Aloha oe'' for Mrs.
Palmer.
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Mrs William G. TWINS bridge party
at her San Francisco home November
20, is described as the leading social
function of that week in san Francisco
by all the society writer's of the Golden
Gate city. All of the daily papers and
the weeklies which give space to So
ciaI affairs describe it at length. Miss
Hyde-Smith and Miss Helene Irwin
are also mentioned conspicuously in
the society columns of the Coast pa
pers Mrs E. B. Mechanism and Miss
Justine Mechanism also come in for
prominent mention.
The Chronicle says of Mrs. TWINS
bridge party:
Mrs William G. Irwin extended her
hospitality yesterday afternoon to fifty
friends with an exceedingly enjoyable
bridge party. After cards, tea was
served, a few extra guests coming in
at that hour. Mrs. irwin was, as ever.
a cordial and gracious hostess and the
afternoon was one greatly enjoyed.
Mrs TWINS guests were Mrs. ASH
ton Potter. Miss Bertha Smith. Miss
Cora Smedberg, Miss Alice Hager.
Mrs. Eugene Murphy. Mrs. w. H. Tay-
lor, Mrs. Fred Kohl, Miss Carolan,
Mrs. Augustus Taylor, Mrs. Laurance
Scott. Mrs. Fred McNear, Mrs. r. P.
schwerin. Mrs. George Lent. Mrs.
Mountford Wilson. Mrs. r.. Woods.
Mrs. Edwin Dimond, Mrs. Norman
McLaren, Mrs. Robert Nutta11, Mrs.
Timothy Hopkins. Mrs. Philip Lans-
dale, Mrs. James Keeny. Mrs. James
Robinson, Mrs. Alexander Garceau,
Mrs. Joseph Grant, Mrs. Crockett, Mrs.
w. NJ. Marshall, Mrs Walter Martin,
Mrs. Charles NJ Josselyn, Mrs. J. A
Folger Mrs. Henry Scott, Mrs. Robert
Oxnard, Miss McKfnstry. Mrs. Alex
ander, Miss Houghton, Mrs. Richard
Bayne, Mrs. James Potter Langhorne,
Mrs. Hyde~Smith, Mrs. Bowie-Dietrick
Mrs. Sallie Stetson Winslow and Mrs
Tubbs.
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The Call says: In town, a fair num-
Der of social affairs have punctuated
the week, among them Mrs. William
TWINS large bridge party Friday af-
ternoon and Mrs. Hyde Smiths card
party and tea Saturday
The Newsletter says: On Friday,
Mrs. William Irwin entertained at the
most elaborate bridge party of the sea-
son. The Irwin house is so admirably