The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-31


legislature by display OF oratory OF
the floor OF Congress. Everything mus
| be done through the great committees
| He had made many friends at Wash
| ingtori, with the assistance OF whom h'
| thought he could do valuable work a
next session for the Territory If he were
reelected.
Al D, m the audience partook OF
fine iuau provided by the 9th Precinc
Republican Club
At 8 p. m Kuhio and party departed
for Maizena,. where at 7 D. m he spoke
TO goodly number OF the residents Of
that vicinity At II o'clock p. m he
and his two companions embarked II
the Kinau and sailed for HiIo.
Some OF the Republican prophets ara
SAYING that all the Republican candidates
should pull through on Maui with the
possible exception OF one representative
whose. place F. w. Beckley might win
at the polls.
LITERARY SOCIAL.
Last Saturday evening-the 22nd-
the October meeting of the Makawao
Literary Society held at the residence
OF Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Murdoch OF Paia
was a most successful social event, the
attendance being large and the program
most amusing.
The following list of events COM
prised the evenings entertainment:
Vocal Solo. ..........-. Mr.. Ault.
a-Quartet- .-.-- 1880. Boat Song.
by the ~Puunene Quartet COM
posed of Messrs Ault, Tougher,
Thompson and Searby.
3.-Farce-~The Old Maids Conyen-
tiou I"
Piano Duet. From I'll Trovatore"
Misses Sheffield and Agnes Fleming
5--Quartet. .-..-...-. tommy Atkins
sung in costume by the tPuunene
Quartet"
In the farce which was received with
much applause and laughter the 10
the 70 old maids were Misses Snow,
Sheffield. Alexander. Mary E. Fleming,
Agnes Fleming, Belle Dicksy, Eva
Smith, Ethel Smith, Nellie Crook, Irene
Crook, Clara Mosser, Maggie Mosser,
Olive Steele. Heusner, Ernestile Lind
say, Pearl Swan. Katherine Hannestad,
Gladly Sabey, and Rose Peck. Mr.. D.
c. Lindsay took the part OF Professor
Pinkhan, who operated the machine
called the electric transformer that
changed jected-looloing old maids
into young and charming naidens" and
saused cracked and squeaky voices to
sing ike nightingales."
Miss Snow made an admirable pres
ident of the spinster convention and the
following were some of the pleasing
events of the play: piano sots by
Miss Sheffield, a vocal solo by Miss
Heusner, a song by Miss Steele, reel
tation by Miss Sabey. banjo solo by
Miss Ethel Smith, de1sarte posing by
Miss Irene Crook, fancy dancing by
Miss Eva Smith, etc.
Before entering the electric trans
former the costumes of the old maids
were as shabby and antiquated as pos
sible in order by contrast TO present a
charming appearance on their exit from
Prof Pinkharn's wonderful macllirle at
tired in their most fascinating evening
gowns.
That much fun and merrirnent were
the order of the evening goes without
saying. After the program dancing was
INDUCED in for time.
NOTES.
Manager l. Won Tempsky of Halea-
kala Ranch has recently received an
offer of 7 IL cents per pound for his
sisal from Honolulu parties. One
hundred and fifty dollars ton seems
to be good price for this staple
Haleakala Ranch is putting in 25o
acres of sisal or its lower Kula lands
1t has nursery of 10000 young plants
that have witfstood the recent excep-
tionally long drought and are in good
Japan is calling in its reserves. Quite
a number OF Maui Japanese are leaving
Il LII. 1 i. p
steamer summoned by registered letter
10 return to their native country to
fight the Russians Housekeepers are
in constant fear of losing their cooks.
Last Sunday morning at the Paia
Foreign Church an unusually large con-
gregation welcomed Rev. Dr. Beckwith.
1t was his first Sunday in the pulpit
after three months illness
superintendent Filler of TIE Kahului
R. R. Co. has recently imported from
the Coast trackrnobile. 1t resembles
much an automobile as It dashes along
the iron rails.
On Friday Mrs. Lowell of Paia gave
an afternoon tea to the nineteen ladies
who took part in the odd Maids Con-
vention' at the meeting of the local
literary society last Saturday night.
By last weeks Kinau Mr.. and Mrs
Luther Severance of Hilo came to Maui
and are visiting the H. P. Baldwins
Of Puunene. @se.
Miss Belle Dickey of Honolulu came
to Maui by the last Nevadan and is the
guest of Miss E,dith~Aiexander of Paia
]. Vincent is the new postmaster at
Kula.
Mr.. Ashley Of the U. S. nieteorologi-
cal department made a visit to Maui tits
week and interviewed the owners OF the
different rain gauges.
Weather: Cool nights. From I in.
to ? in. of rain fell on Wednesday and
Thursday of this week