The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-22
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| O. r. & L. Co. stock went up SIS
to $3.50 yesterday
Typhoid fever is reported as preva
/ lent in Waipio valley, Hawaii
J. Lightfoot has applied for member
, ship in the Hawaiian Bar Associate
| Excelsior Lodge No 1, 1. o. o. F.
meets this evening at Odd Fellows
Hall.
Honokaa mill is being improved and
its capacity will be increased to rs tons
of sugar a day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ena departed or
the Siberia last evening for Japan to
spend a few weeks.
Court Canoes No $40. A. o. F.,
meets this evening at San Antonio
Hall, Vineyard street.
w. L. Howard leaves today in the
kinau for Hawaii to spend a couple
of weeks at the Volcano.
Judge Dole did not come into town
yesterday owing to the illness of Mrs.
Dole at their Diamond Head residence.
There will be a special meeting of
Pacific Lodge tonight at the Masonic
Temple. Work in the second degree
Lieut.. Behr, A. c., U. S. A, who was
at one time stationed at Camp McKin-
ley, has been ordered to Fortress
Monroe.
Geo. P. Thielen has received a cable
gram from San Francisco quoting
Hawaiian Commercial at $87 and Hon.
okaa. at SIT.
l.. G. Martin was a through passen-
ger on the Siberia en- route to Shang-
hal He is to look after conduits for
cable ends at Shanghai and Manila
Ralph Turner, who underwent an OPP
Grafton about a month ago, had to un-
Queens hospital, where he is now
staying.
Mr.. Lee Pat, son of Mr.. Yuen Chung,
the wealthy sugar planter of Pahala,
Hawaii, departed last evening on the
Siberia for China, where he will remain
for about a year.
j. S. Brown, brother of '"Tientsin''
Brown, the mammoth gambler, is a
passenger to Shanghai by the Siberia.
He goes to assume the management Of
the Alhambra, Shanghai's palace of
pleasure
An alarm was turned in yesterday
afternoon from Beretania and Punch
bowl streets for a small fire in the
house of John Mitchell. Aloha Lane. A
small boy upset charcoal iron with
much smoke resulting, but no damage.
L. o. Kellogg, standing six feet five
and one-half inches in his stocking
feet, was a through passenger on the
Siberia yesterday. Mr.. Kellogg is a
one-time partner in business with Will
F. Fisher in San Francisco, under the
firm name of Tevis & Fisher.
Superintendent Pratt of the Rapid
Transit Company gave a farewell
party last evening at his Emma street
residence in honor of Mr. Nicholson,
the retiring assistant superintendent,
Victoria, en- route to Washington. |
About forty guests We're present.
There will be q full chorus and prin- |
cipal rehearsal for the "Serenade'' to- |
night in the Makai ball room of the !
Young Hotel. Manager Gray kindly |
offered the use of that part of the |
hotel to the Healani Boat Club for |
their rehearsals and big attendance
Is solicited for the rehearsal tonight. |
Ladies wishing to aid the Kona Or |
phanage in the way of a little sewing |
are requested to call at Mrs. Hopper's, |
at the corner of Keeaumoku and Dom |
mis- streets. The Orphanage is in need |
of more plain garments for the use of |
the children, and any assistance
given at this time will be much appre- |
ciated.
Among the through passengers on
the steamship Siberia yesterday was
Miss Maud H. Miller of Chicago, a |
pretty bride-t o-be, who is travelling to
Manila to become the wife of Colonel
Wallace Taylor, Z. S. A. This officer
almost lost his life a year ago in a
fight with Jo1o natives. The romance
dates back to the school days of both.
Notaries William Savidge and Frank
F. Ferna ndez yesterday charged r. r. |
note teller of Bishop & Co 8
bank, with unprofessional conduct in
that he tried to convince all the banks
customers that he was in charge of all
notarial business for the bank. Attor- |
ney General Andrews held that Reed |
ford's conduct did not make him liable |
to have his license suspended.