The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-06-19

Kamehameha Day was universally |
observed In Hio.
On July first the First Bank, Hilo
viii opei, a savings department
Maria Brown, daughter of Mr.. Ben
H. Brown, died Sunday afternoon.
The beneht given at the Armory on
Thursday night by the band for Chas.
Caceres netted about $50.
The bark Amy Turner arrived at San
Francisco on May 80, twenty days from
Hilo. She will load there for Hilo
The marriage is announced of DR..
Taylor of Kukalau and Miss Taylor.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Mr.. Hill.
The railroad employees gave a luau at
Waiakea at the home of Elmer Wilson,
the conductor of the Hilo-Mountain
View run, on Saturday night.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Genevieve Venable. formerly OF this
city, now at her home in Virginia, to
DR.. Morton Holiday of Hampton-Sid-
ney Va. The wedding will take place
on July g.
The Hilo Mercantile Co is building a
two-stOry lumber shed on the Mooheau
Park side of its warehouse between
Front street and the railroad switch.
II is 40x190 feet in dimensions and Is
strongly framed.
Joe de Frietas. formerly employed by
Davies & Co. for nine years left by
the steamer American for Philadelphia.
shipping as assistant steward. He goes
to attend school and expects to enter
a college at Danville, Ind.
The men of the road department, 70
in number, gave a luau at Cocoanut
Island at two o'clock Monday afternoon
in celebration of the holiday. There
were about 100 of the road employees
and their guests present.
| The graduating class of the Hilo
Boarding School consisted of Kiyoharu
Ansai, Jas. X Mahuakane, Jas. X.
Mettoon, Nicolau de SouZa. Daniel
Thomas, Soichi Yamamoto, and special
students Oliver Laau and Daniel J..
/ Punihaole.
No steps have as yet been taken to-
ward providing patriotic exercises for
the Fourth of July. Capt Fetter pro-
poses at least to have the national sa-
lutte of twenty-one guns fired in front
of the Armory at noon and to have
some music by the band.
Boarding School, and Miss Lyman and
Miss Potter of the same school, and
Miss Deyo of the Union school, will
leave by the first trip of the Hilonian
for San Francisco to spend their twelve
weeks vacation in California.
The following passengers are booked
for San Francisco by the steamer Hilo-
nian: Mrs. Richards and family, Miss
| ~
family. Miss Potter, Miss Guard, Miss
Ellen Lyman, L. C. Lyman, two Miss
Howards, Miss Bessie Beach and Mrs
A. e. Grendall
At the instance of Jared G. Smith of
the United States Experiment Station
several hundred stumps of Bluefields
bananas We're distributed to growers
This week in Hilo. The bananas were
!, grown here as an experiment and seem
to have turned out most successfully
The Bluefields banana is held by ex-
perts to be much more profitable than
, the ordinary variety.
COUNTY FUNDS.
The report of County Treasurer La
lakea for May was received at last
meeting of the Supervisors. 1t show
ed in the general fund: Balance or
hand May 1. $4264.46; April appropria.
ton, $11, ,C0O amount refunded, $5. Dis
, bursements: Transfer to road fund
$4,000, warrants redeemed, $7,4S2.55; bal.
ance on hand, s27S6.91. In the road
fund.- Balance May l. s44 S02; deposits
| to the credit of the different road dis
tricts $lO,343.S5. Disbursements: War,
rants redeemed. s11,322.75, balance or
hand May 81, si3S23.10
HAMAKUA COFFEE.
The coffee picking season is just be-
ginning in Hamakua, following the
Kona season by four or five months
| Each district has its own coffee pick
: ing season. so that with the growth O
| the industry coffee pickers could follow
). the picking season around and find EN-
- ployment most of the time. The COFFEE
industry is developing in the islands
and with the arrival of the era of gooC
d.. prices that is appearing on the horizon
- good money is likely to be made tina
will give a new impetus to the bust
ness: in which case the experience de
y rived from the past few years of coffe
culture will be valuable.
WAIAKEA SOCIAL SETTLEMENT
. In a recent report made by Mis-
Erbeck, regarding the work of tn
, Waiakea Social Settlement the follow
- ing interesting items We're given:
= Since May l there have been fou
y, hundred and twenty-nine cases treate
- at the dispensary, a large percentag
- being cases of sores. cuts, bruises an
- inflamed eyes. Miss Erbeck's house {
house visits have averaged sixteen pc
week The weaving class now mum
bers seventeen and the sewing Gas
y nineteen. The average attendance
T.. the mothers meetings Is twenty si'
Thirteen attend the evening singin
class and fourteen the afternoon elias
for children. The Sunday school
81, very well attended, the average bein
" seventy-two. The Christian Endeav'
Society has now thirty-seven actiN
~ members, and seven associate men
hers. The Junior Society numbe
twenty-six.
Miss Erbeck states also that there
he strong desire 10 obtain better know
ng ledge o. English and 10 improve aloI