The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-16

Olud Is lidNlnp SOlllc lllOIt VI llS lON-
ely weather and everyone except few
klondikers are happy.
Mrs. Higgins paid visit to Hilo, as
did number of others, last week.
They all remark chow hot Hilo is ana
how lovely it is to get back to Olaa."
Mrs. Omsted paid the Volcano a Wis
it last week and while there was
nothing but smoke to see in the crater
she expressed herself as well repaid
for her trip as there were many things
of interest outside of the crater to
see.
The Peck family enjoy trip to Hi
10 every week and the young people
of Olaa spend many pleasant evening
at their residence. The Pecks are ideai
entertainers. Long may they stay in
Gus midst, is the wish of all.
Mr.. Reinhardt is having a dry house
erected and is putting in brick oven
to dry his coffee. AS in the handling
of coffee trees so in the drying, each
one has brilliant idea of his own.
Mr.. Cannery planted an oil can of
hog potatoes and dug several bags of
good potatoes. which he sold for S1.25
each at his door. Mr.. Cannery also
harvested several bushels of corn off
a small patch of ground about 100
feet square.
Otto Reinhardt has delivered sever
al of his coffee pulpers in the district
within the past week.
Mr.. Furneau is making coffee every
day now and has a Reinhardt pulper,
which he says pulps bag of berries
in eighteen minutes. Mr.. Furneau
has an interesting place as many of
his trees have as much as five pounds
on them and it is their maiden crop.
Olaa has had a number of IIiloites
staying here enjoying the pleasant
showers. Among the number that the
writer saw were Mesdames Siclles,
Under, Omsted and Greta. All OF
whom are loud in their praises of Olaa
and the sociable people living there.
Mr.. Zimmerman is building "a dry
house 20X20 and will soon be in condl-
ton to handle the large crop that is
coming off. Mr.. Zimmerman is well
pleased with the outlook for coffee
this season. His trees will average at
a conservative estimate one and one
half pounds to the tree.
Mr.. Stewart, who has been spending
a few months with Mr.. Hall received
a severe injury while walking through
the plantation one night, running
foul of pillow handle, thereby ruptur-
ing himself.
y thing for the Government to talk.
hold of is the determination of the
minah as it is destroying "A lot of cof-
fee in its green state, taking it~ soon
after it forms. Coffee planters at the
next meeting should take the matter.
up and offer bounty of few cents
per head and the Japs will soon ex.
terminate them. 1t will cost five cents
for every one killed by white labor,
and the alps will kill them for hall
that sum.
Captain Ella Peterson of the Saliva
ton Army, llilo, held the second
meeting in Olaa and number of peo-
pie turned out to hear about salvation.
The army has three recruits among
the coffee planters-Otto Reinhardt,
James Hiten and II. r. Handy.
y trip through Olaa coffee fields is
one of the things that tourists do now.
y short time ago Il number of tour
lists visited the X. c. Company's plan.
tation and carried off number of
views of coffee in its different stages.
They came in reform suits so they
could tramp right through wherever
the manager led them. Asked IA num-
Der of interesting questions and took
number of notes about cost of clear
ing, planting, up<eep, etc. If the cof-
fee planters had an organized plan of
entertaining tourists and showing
them over the coffee fields Olaa would
soon come to the front as an ideal
country.