The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-02
EARLY DAYS
IN HAWAII
Paper Read at Meeting
of Woman's Board
of Missions.

| The praise and thanks offering meet
was held yesterday afternoon in the
/ Board room OF the Central Union
church, at which a paper of more than
usual interest was read by Mrs. Rich
| ing absent through illness.
The paper, one of "reminiscences, was
made up of extracts from the letters
AMI journals of Rev. Amos S. Cooke
and his wife, Mrs. Juliette Cooke, who
came to Hawaii as missionaries in
1887. To this couple devolved the work
of experimenting the education of the
young chiefs at the founding of the
first Royal school, in which the youths
of the court were under the full charge
of the teachers. OF the early appear
ance of Honolulu. the trials and dis
couragements of the first years OF the
mission, the discomforts experienced
and the overcoming of all the impede
ments in the way of their work were
given in the day by day accounts writ
ten at the time.
A beautiful tribute to the memory of
Miss Anetta A Palmer, a missionary to
the Micronesians, who died recently at
her post of duty, was given by Mrs.
Whitney, personal friend. Miss
Palmer was for eight years serving as
the representative of the Woman's
Board in the foreign mission field, the
first missionary whom the Board could /
call it's $ very own" She came to Ho-
nolulu in 1884, endorsed by the Amer
lean Board, and was sent on to her /
field among the Micronesian women |
for whom she worked. Following the !
occupation of the islands by the Span |
iards and the coming of soldiers, priests |
and native nuns, she was the only |
American woman on the islands, stick |
ing to her post through much hardship |
and danger.
For years she had suffered from heart
trouble and her death, particulars of |
which have not yet reached here, are
supposed to be due to the disastrous
storms and tidal waves which have
recently swept that part of the world.
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Whitney was asked to prepare me-
mortal for Miss Palmer to appear in the
annual report of the Board.
The president reported that owing to
the arrival a day ahead of schedule of
the Doric, the expected attendance at
the meeting of the president of the
Woman's Board of Missions of the In
terror, Mrs. Moses Smith, and of the
other members who have been making
4 tour of inspection in the Orient, had
been prevented. 1t was found impossi-
Die for these ladies to remain over, as
they could get no assurance that they
could secure accommodation on the
They report, however that
hey found much for encouragement on
heir trip and nothing to show that
heir work was not successful.
A special thanks offering collection
amounting to STA was taken uD.
A number of new committees were
I amed by the president, as follows:
Appropriation committee for 1906:
Mrs. Dillingham;, chairman; Mrs. w. L.
Moore, Mrs. 2. G. Jones, Mrs. S. NJ.
Damon, Mrs. c. NJ. Cooke and Mrs. j.
B. Atherton.
Annual Luncheon committee: Mrs
Andrew Fuller, chairman, with power
o choose her own aids.
Luncheon Reception committee: Miss
Margaret Hopper, chairman; Mrs. w.
Thompson, Mrs. E. w. Thwing, Mrs.
:. w. Peterson and Mrs. J. NJ. Whit
ley.
Membership committee: Mrs. d. l..
Mrs. TheO. Richards, Mrs
". A. Bowen. Miss Hopper and Mrs.
". L. Frear.
A.