Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-19
SOCIETY
WON RX RRASS BUTTONS

SPVefal very !nlSicobAHS ~4AS~S~
ments have been announced this week
OF some OF our fairest bellies VINO have
been won by the fascination OF brass
buttons.
Prom New York comes the news OF
the betrothaI OF Miss Snld Adellne
Alpers and Lieut.. Van Rensselaer, YES
tai, L. s army. which reached here
by means Of notes written To MISS
Alpers many friends. She is the
daughter OF MIR. and Mrs. George
Alpers. WHO own pretty home in San
Rafael, where Lieut. Vestar also lived
before he took up an army career.
Miss AIpers has been abroad TOT
the past few years studying art, and
she left San Rafael several months
ago for New York. where she has
been pursuing her studies.
Lieut.. NestaI is the son Of Major
and Mrs. Solomon Nestal, who since
the former retired from active army
service have been living in San Ra-
fael. He is a brother OF Captain Ma
rion P. Nestal. L. S. A, who has been
extremely popular in the younger set
in this city. No date has been set
for the marriage. but it will probably
take place before the Christmas hOll-
day.
And from Honolulu comes the news
Of the approaching marriage OF Cap
tain Chris Burlingame and Miss Kath-
crime Raymond. Captain Burlingame
was stationed at Fort Winsfield Scott
for a couple of years prior to his de-
parture for Honolulu, and he was ex'
ceedingly popular in both army and
civilian circles.
Miss Raymond, who is a great belle
in Honolulu. is the daughter OF Col.
and Mrs Robert R. Raymond Of the
army, and she has many friends in
this city, where she has been quite
frequent visitor Her father, who be-
longs to the Engineer Corps. vas sta
toned in Los Angeles before he went
to the islands. The marriage OF Miss
Raymond and Captain Burlingame is
to take place early in January.
And in Mare Island last week Miss
Mary Agnes Yerkes of Oak Park, ILL.,.
became the bride of Lieut.. Archibald
Offley, U. S. navy. The charming bride
and her mother arrived here the day
before the wedding and were guests
at the home of Captain Cleveland Off
| ley, the bridegroom's father, at Mare
Island. The wedding was quite sim
ple in all its details and small re-
ception followed the ceremony at the
| Offley home.
Miss Margaret Offley, the bride
groom's sister, was the maid Of honor,
and Surgeon Barlow, u S. N, acted
as best man. The bride and groom
will make their future home at Mare
Island, where Lieut.. Offley is execu'
tive officer of the seamen's training
camp.-(From the San Francisco, Cal.
Wasp
SAN FRANCISCO GIRL REACHES
FRANCE
A cable to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Josselyn received early in the week
announced the safe arrival in France
If Miss Marjorie Josselyn. She VIII
be there for several months, and is en-
gaged in the interesting, If strenuous
n work of the society 'known'as the B1en
Etre des Blesses. Miss Josselyn is al
present at the headquarters in Paris
and will probably be engaged IN WORK
there for some time to come.
Sailing with Miss Josselyn were a
number of other Californians, all OF
whom went abroad in the interest oil
relief work, the majority in connection
with the organization to which Miss
JosseIyn is devoting her energies. Mrs
C. Frederick Kohl, Mrs. Richard Ham
mond, Mrs. Lorenzo Avenali, Miss
lydia Hopkins and Miss Hannah Ho
bart we're among those who sailed.
Miss Hobart's friends in this city
we're surprised, indeed, to learn thai
this charming young girl, debutante
of two winters ago, had decided tt
take ND the difficult life that relie
work of any sort in France implies a
the present time. She enjoyed heI
formal presentation to society in this
city and later went to Philadelphia
where she has been living with hel
mother, Mrs. Charles s. Wheeler. She
has been taking her place in thu
eayeties of the debutante element o.
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