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

Several very interesting engage
ments have been announced this week
OF some Of our tairest bellies who have
been won by the fascination Of brass
buttons
From New York comes the news OF
the betrothal Q: Miss Snid Ad2ltne
Alpers and Lieut.. Van Rensselaer, YES
tai, L. : army. which reached here
b. means Of notes written TO Miss
AIpers many friends. She is the
daughter OF Mr. and Mrs. George
Alpers, WHO own a pretty home in San
Rafael. where Lieut. Nestar also lived
before he took up an army caree-.
Miss Alpers has been abroad for
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.. Nestal 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. Vestal, L. S. A.. who has been
extremely popular in the younger set
in this city. No date has been set
for the marriage. but il will probably
take place before the Christmas hoh-
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 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 a
frequent visitor Her father, who be-
longs to the Engineer Corps, was 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, L. 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 bridegrooms father, at Mare
Island. The wedding was quite sim
pie in all its details and a 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
of Miss Marjorie Josselyn. She will
be there for several months, and is en-
gagged in the interesting, if strenuous,
work of the society known as the Bien
Etre des Blesses. Miss Josselyn Is at
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 of
relief work, the majority in connection
with the organization to which Miss
Josselyn 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
were surprised, indeed, to learn that
this charming young girl, debutante
of two winters ago, had decided to
take I'D the difficult life that relief
work of any sort in France implies at
the present time. She enjoyed her
formal presentation to society in this
city and later went to Philadelphia,
where she has been living with her
mother, Mrs. Charles S. Wheeler. She
has been taking her place in the
gayeties of the debutante element Of