The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-02
LOCAL BR6VITIES.


two weeks vacation.
Yesterdays heavy rain removed any
imminent danger of a water famine.
Miss Bacon. physical training in
structor, is contemplating a trip to the
Coast.
Ninety-nine deaths were reported to
the Board of Health during the month
Of September
superintendent of Public instruction
A. T. Atkinson will take a vacation of
ten days in the country.
The dedication of the new building
of Oahu College will take place Fri
day afternoon on the campus.
Mr.. Richards Ivers and his bride
have returned from their honeymoon
trip TO the other side of Oahu.
Telephone wires were badly crossed
last night, and general telephone COM
munication was out of the question.
DR.. Winslow, government physician
Of Koolau has rendered his resigna-
ton. He is at present i'll at his home
in Kahuku.
DR.. +. L. Hutchinson, the dentist,
leaves next week for a professional
tour to Lihue, Kauai. He expects to
pc away a week.
H. A. Bigelow and Ralph Yardley left
Yesterday on the steamer hinau for
Maui, where they will ascend Hale
akala They will return next Saturday.
A reception and social for Mr.. and
Mrs. Kincaid will be given in the Cen
trail Union Church on Thursday even
ing, October 3. A cordial invitation to
all.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be
H., dow = he
residence of Mrs. ]. NJ. Whitney, Puma
hou.
The parlors of Central Union Church
will be thrown wide open tomorrow
evening when a reception and social
will be rendered Rev and Mrs. w NJ.
Kincaid.
Augustus Paul, the workman who
had a severe fall from the Young
building, is getting along nicely at the
Queens Hospital. If no complications
arise he should rapidly recover.
Taxes are beginning to come in, in
greater amount than is usual October
LIST. Quite a few persons are paying
their income tax, though not as many
as are liquidating for the general tax.
United States Attorney Bairds con-
dition has become so serious as to
necessitate another visit to the Coast.
He will leave on the Mariposa tomor-
row, in the hope of improving his
health.
Veterans of the civil war are re-
quested to call and sign the petition
to the President of the United States,
now in the hands of Comrade DietZ,
Fort street, near Hotel street, Homo
lulu.
Sealed tenders will be received up to
noon tomorrow for the construction OF
one and nine-tenths miles of railway
track on King street, for the Hawaii
an Rapid Transit and Land Company
lines.
Miss Carrie Castle, who has recently
returned from Maui where she spent
several weeks in the mountains, viii
resume her Sunday afternoon must
Gales next Sunday at the Castle home
! IN Manoa, Punahou.
Toma Abe, the well known Japanese
police officer, captured a runaway yes
terday morning on Bethel street. The
horse, which belonged the w. E. Row
| ell, had been left in front of the post
office without being = 7perly hitched.
| The Fire Commission S heard Chi
neSe claimants all d 3 yesterday.
There was but one unusuaf incident,
a Chinese artist who had twenty-four
paintings which he valued at $50, al
together He mOdestly admitted, how
ever, that the paintings had a market
value of SO apiece.
The wet weather of last night played
havoc with the arrangements for the
| ball to have been given last night at
Murphy Hall by Murphy Club No. 1,
/ for very few people came. The ener-
/ getic committee had provided plenty
! of ice cream, cake, sherbet and cigars,
! but there were none to partake of
them outside a few of the best of the
, well wishers of the club.
| The absence of the officers of Camp
I Mckinley from the memorial services
/ on Saturday at the Kawaiahao Church
! is accounted for by the fact that the
! ceremonies at Camp Mckinley took
place at the same hour. The order of
/ the Sc rotary of War required that
/ they occur at 10 a. m. on the day after
! the receipt of the order, which was
| by the Friday mail
! The work of the Free Kindergarten
and Children's Aid Association of Ho-
nolulu viii 'be reviewed at the annual
meeting, to be held Friday morning,
at 10 o'clock, in the Young Mems
Christian Association hall Papers and
reports will be presented, and it is
/ desired that all interested in the well
| fare of the children of Honolulu be
present at that time,