The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-08
.NFW HIGHWAY PROPOSED
On ISLAND Of HAWAII
To Connect EliIo and Kailua-Lyman Lease
Legsl-.-Ag ricuItural Enterprise 80 Other
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suit. out of a family of fourteen chill
dren there survive him, together with
his wife, Mrs. John Bohnenberg, Mrs.
iJ. r. Collins, Mrs. Herman Ludloff, and
seven boys, Otto, William, Charles,
Thomas John, David and George Rein
hardt The funeral, which was largely
Iattended, took place sunday afternoon
from HALL Church.
GOOD ADVICE.
KAUMANA, July 22,-Mr. Editor
Please allow me space in your valuable
I paper to call the attention of the Hilo
Board of Trade TO the problem of grow.
ing all the forage required in Hilo and
| vicinity. 1 have on exhibition at the
Board of Trade rooms two kinds of for.
age plants, either of which will yield
enormous quantities of the sweetest and
best food per acre that I have ever seen.
They can be cut several times per year.
/ I have demonstrated the possibility TO
grow them here. Many thousands of
dollars are sent out of Hilo each year
for hay that comes to this market. Now,
all Of the money that is sent up to the
coast for hay may just as well be kept al
home, and it is fact that has grown
hoary with age that it is the money
! community prosperous Keep the hay
money at home. That will be one very
| great step toward local progress. I will
gladly give any information desired.
JIM MORRIS.
TO RAISE COCOA.
Hilo is soon to have cacao planta-
ton. j. E. Higgins, of the U. S. Expert
mental Station, has been in Hilo for the
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| whereby extensive experiments are to
| be made in the cultivation of cacao.
| from which is obtained commercial cho-
| colate of cocoa. The experiment will be
cooperative. The trustees of the Hilo
| Boarding School have placed at the dis
posal of Mr.. Higgins plot of four acres
of land in the rear of that sinstitution,
which will be irnmediatel planted with
cacao trees. The Hilo Board of Trade,
ever alive to encourage growing indus
tries. have generously offered to pillow
and prepare the ground and the Board
ing School have agreed that the stu
dents will look after the cultivat ton of
the plants. Only one acre will be plant
ed at this time. The plants are expect
ed to arrive by the next Kinau, which
under the supervision of Expert Higgins,
will be set out without delay. AS the
cacao requires certain degree of shade
special variety of bananas will be
utilized for this purpose and expert
ments in banana culture carried on at
the same time. The mercantile cacao is
very profitable crop obtaining from
twenty to twenty-four cents per pound
and yielding five pounds or more of
fruit to the tree. Matured trees bear
annually and require little attention if
properly started.
US-RIVENBURG.
A very quiet little wedding took place !
last night at s o'clock at the home of i
Mr.. and Mrs. John McTaggart, at Wal |
akea. when W. T. McManus and Mrs. |
NJ. A. Rivenburg, of San Diego, Cal. |
We're united in marriage. Only the
brides daughter. Mrs. Irving Downing
of Honolulu, and the immediate friends
of the couple, were present. The Nc
Taggart parlors We're lastly decorated
with a profusion of ferns and plants /
with white ribbons festooned from the t
center of the ceiling, under which Rev. |
C. W. Hill performed the marriage cere- !
mony. Hawaiian quintet+e furnished
music during the supper which was
served later.
Mr.. and Mrs. McManus will spend a
rev weeks at the volcano House. after !
which they will reside at their cottage
on Pleasant street. Mrs. Rivenburg
has spent the past three years with her I
daughter in Honolulu, but met Mr. Me-
Manus on a recent visit to Hilo about
three months ago.
ITEMS
DR.. Holland shipped "a punches of ba-
nanas to A: c. McKenney at San Fran
cisco the June Enterprise that
brought s111.65 gross returns. Being on
the ground Mr.. McKenney had an 90
portunity to dispose of the fruit to good
advantage as the net returns We're far
in excess of anything heretofore receiv-
ed by DR.. Holland.
NJ. V. Holmes, the Honokaa merchant
who has taken trip to the Coast on
account of his health, writes from San
Diego, Cal, that he is rapidly improv-
ing.
Prof. NJ. NJ. Scott, principal of the
Honolulu High School, accompanied by
Mrs. Scott, has been renewing old ac-
quaintances in Hilo and returns to his
home by today's steamer.
William T. and r. E. Balding go to
Honolulu today to meet their sister.
Mrs. E. n. Lewis, wife of Captain Lew
is, U. S. Army, who passes through Ho-
nolulu on the transport Logan en- route