The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-19

poor little ones. Several have given
substantial donations and have express
ed their willingness to do anything to
make the tree a reality.
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Miss Margaret Giddings of Denver,
Colorado and Miss Mary A. Headden
of Fort Collins, Colorado, are register
ed at the Young.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Alfred Magoon gave
, farewell dinner on Thursday evening
! in compliment to Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Whiting who left in the Lurline
for the mainland. After dinner the
guests devoted the evening to a social
game of cards.
/ The ladies of the army and navy
/ contingent and scores of members of
! the social set, will hear with deep
regret, of the continued illness of Mrs.
/ Ray, wife of Mai Beecher B. Ray, and
of her immediate departure for the
mainland in search of health. It has
not as yet been decided whether Mrs
Ray will remain on the Coast or will
be taken East.
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Mr. and Mrs. Carl Holloway gave a
farewell dinner on Monday evening to
Doctor and Mrs. Putnam, prior to their
departure for Kauai where they will
make their future home.
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Mrs. Harry Turner of Los Angeles
will be the complimented guest tomor-
row evening at a cotillion given by
Judge and Mrs. Sidney NJ. Ballou. The
guest of honor and Walter Dillingham;
viii lead the German.
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The dance given at the Young on
Tuesday evening in honor of Col Frank
West and the officers of the Second
Cavalry who were in port on the trans
port Logan, bound for the Philippines,
was one of the most brilliant of the
season. Most of the local army and
navy officers and their wives attended,
and many merry little dinners were Civ
en- prior to the dance. During the even.
ing the Second Cavalry band played.
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Mrs. Jack Dowse+t entertained with
luncheon on Wednesday in honor of
Miss Elsa Sehaefer who is one of the
charming January brides-elect.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Berg are now
occupying their new home in Manoa
Valley, where Mrs Berg will be at home
to her friends on the first and third
Mondays of each month.
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Mr.. and Mrs. William Rawlins were
the host and hostess on Tuesday even
ing at daintily appointed dinner to a
eoterie of friends.
Ex-Gov and Mrs. George R. Carter,
accompanied by their two daughters,
will depart on the Tenyo Maru on the
| fourth of January for a tour of the
world. Mr.. and Mrs. Gerrit Wilder will
accompany them as far as Cairo and
will spend the winter there.
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| Preceding the dance at the Young on
! Tuesday evening Colonel Schuyler was
! the host at a little dinner party at
which the guests were Major and Mrs.
Foster and Captain and Mrs. Sturges.
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| Music-lovers are looking forward
with great deal of pleasure to the
! concert to be given by the Kilohana
, Art League at Bishop Hall on Tuesday
evening, December %.
The musical circle of the league is
noted for the excellence of its enter
+ tainments, and the December program
promises an entertainment equal to any
that have been given in the past.
Mrs. Henry Bicknell, the chairman
of the musical circle. has arranged for
a Schubert evening. and has gathered
some of the best talent of the city to-
gether to represent the works of this
master.
The program will commence with a
short sketch of the composer s life, and
a synopsis of the numbers that are
to be presented by Mrs. Frank Ather-
ton.
Miss Wickstrum and Miss Sheffield
will each render selections from his
piano compositions, while Mrs Allan
White has kindly consented to sing
Schubert's ''Gretchen Am Spinrad .
and Z" Erlkoenig' which are recognized
as two Of the most dramatic of his
songs.
The second half of the program will
not consist of Schubert s works. but a