The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-06
Miss NJ. J. Hoffman
To Wed Capt. Harms
Single Ring Ceremony VIII Be
SoIemnized This Afternoon At
St. Johns Lutheran Church.

One of the first and loveliest OF
the June weddings will be solemn
lied at st. Johns Lutheran Church
this afternoon, when, at four o'clock,
Miss Martha Joyce Hoffman, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin B. Hoff-
man, Roxbury Station, and Captain
John Edward Harms, son of Rev.
DR.. and Mrs. J. Edward Harms,
this city, are united in marriage,
with the groom's father, Reverend
Harms, and the Rev. Paul Minnich
Robinson, officiating.
The single ring ceremony will be
read before an altar banked with
palms and Spring flowers and light
ed by tall candles.
The bride, who will be given in
marriage by her father, will wear
a white satin gown with net yoke
forming a high neckline, a fitted
bodice, full skirt ending in a
brief train, and long sleeves coming
to a point over her hands. Her
finger-tip veil will fall from a Juliet
cap crusted with seed pearls, and
she will carry a white prayerbook
adorned with gardenias and a
shower of white ribbon.
Mrs. Calvin Hoffman, Jr., as ma
tron of honor, will be gowned in
pale blue nylon in the same style,
with short sleeves, and she will
carry an arm bouquet of mixed
Spring flowers.
The three bridesmaids, Miss Chris
tine Good, of Luray, Va, Miss Elsie
Watts and Miss Shirley Andrews, of
this city, will wear identical frocks
of pink nylon with fitted bodices,
sweetheart necklines and lowered
skirts, faring slightly at the hem
line. All three will carry arm
bouquets of Spring flowers.
White, Kate Greenaway dresses,
fashioned with a short waists, long
skirts and pulled sleeves will be
worn by the two little flower girls,
the Misses Sonya Speck and Vida
Dorsey.
Mr. Samuel Phillips, Jr,, will act
as best man and the ushers will be
the Messrs. Calvin B. Hoffman, Jr.,
Lee Wolfe, Richard Motz and En-
sor Otto.
Before the ceremony, Mr.. Ray
mond Hollinger will sing Because"
and 'The Lords Prayer" and the
bridal party will enter and leave
the church to the strains of the ira
ditional wedding marches, played by
Mr. Chester Harrison, organist, who
will also accompany Mr.. Hollinger.
Following the ceremony Mr.. and
Mrs. Hoffman will receive in honor
of the couple in the Church of the
Brethren auditorium, after which
the happy couple will leave to spend
their honeymoon in Paradise Falls,
Pa.
Miss Hoffman, who was graduated
from Hagerstown High School in
1941, has been with the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company,
where she has been a supervisor for
the past several years.
Captain Harms, who is also a grad
uate of the local high school, attend
ed Gettysburg College and was
graduated with a degree in civil
from Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore. He served
with the Army Engineers during
the war and returned recently from
twenty-seven months in the Pacific
Theatre of Operations.
Following the rehearsal yesterday
evening, Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Hoff-
man, Jr., entertained the bridal
couple at buffet supper at their
home on Dun Irwin Drive.
The bride-to-be was the guest of
honor at dinner party at the Ham
ilton Hotel recently, given by the
and clerks of the c. and
P. Company, and on last Friday
evening Miss Hoffman and Mrs. Amy
Bowman Fuss, recent bride, were
guests at surprise party given by
a group of telephone company en-
ployees at the Bowman home.
DIR. ReinhOld Schairer, director of
the World Education Service COun-