The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| DR.. z. 5. Goodhue of kona arrived
on the Mauna Loa.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Case have re-
| turned TO Waikiki.
| Two troops of the Third Cavalry at
tended the football game in body.
| Seven hundred troops. using ten cars,
visited the zoo and Manoa valley yes
terday.
| Last performance of For Her Chill
dren's Sake this evening at the Or
pheum.
The regular meeting of the Board OF
| immigration will take place at $50 this
morning.
Mrs. J. E. Higgins, who has under
gone an operation for appendicitis. is
improving rapidly.
| Five persons were confirmed at st.
Bishop Restarick.
Miss Daisy Smith has been chosen
| secretary of the Board of Education to
| succeed Dr. Rodgers.
The Railways of the Judiciary Build
| ing are being scraped preparatory to re-
| painting and recalcinining.
A new three-story business structure
is to be built on the Kukui street ex-
tension by a Chinese society.
Hawaiian Lodge meets this evening.
Installation of officers and all men,
bers are requested to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Jones announce
the engagement of their daughter Ma
lani to Mr.. Ralph S. Lyon.
The Honolulu Aerie No. 140, Order of
Eagles. will hold their regular meeting
this evening in K. of P. hall.
Mrs. s. H. Mallory and daughter and
Mrs. D. j. Thayer of Iowa are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Chamberlain.
Mrs. w. A. Conner, wife of Capt.
dredging, departed yesterday for the
volcano trip.
Col. Dorst of the Third Cavalry has
had quite a record. He was all through
the Indian campaigns, eliminating in
the capture of Geronimo.
The Kamehameha Alumni Associa-
ton will give a dance on the evening
of December 80 at the Kamehameha
Association hall, Fort street.
Mr.. Jennings and daughter, Miss
Katherine Jennings, of Portland, Ore.
departed yesterday on the Kinau for
the volcano, to remain ten days.
A dance was given on Christmas night
at the Moana Hotel in honor of the
army and navy officers in port. A jolly
time was had by a very large crowd of
strangers and townsfolk as well.
The Moana hotel gave a beautiful
dinner CbricfponC MO fn,-
which was supplied by the hotels ma
tive musicians and by the Third Caval-
ry band. The Colonel of the Third was
one of the dinner guests
John F. Baker, the statuesque Hawai-
ian who posed for the Kamehameha
statue, and who returned from main
land trip in the Manchuria, departed
for Hilo yesterday on the Kinau. He
has bought some interests at Goldfields.
A four-course dinner was served
Christmas night at st. Elizabeths
House, Palama, the guests being the
members of the night school. The din
ner was given by Rev. Mr.. Potwine and
Deaconess Sands, assisted by the teach
ers.
At the meeting of Lodge LIE Progress,
held on Christmas Day, formal action
was taken for the surrender of its char
ter from France. The banquet next
Friday night will be the last in which
LIE Progress will participate under that
name.
Deputy Attorney General Prosser,
Olaf Sorenson and superintendent Bah
bitt go to Waialua today to settle up
land matters, re the transfer of old
school premises to the Bishop Estate
in exchange for land now used as
school site.
Commander Pond. in comand of the
naval transport Lawton. called on Gov
ernor Carter yesterday afternoon, but
was unable to see him, owing to the
executive being in close consultation
with committee at the time. An
army officer met the same fate.
The Kauai people desired Hon. D P.
r. Isenberg to represent that island
in the Washington delegation. Mr. Isen-
berg could not accept, and an effort
is now being made to reach Eric Knud-
sen, Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives of Hawaii. Mr.. Knudsen is
now in the East.