The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-18
Hno, June IS.


will open savings department
Maria Brown, daughter of Mr.. Bel
H. Brown, died Sunday afternoon.
Inc benefit gwen at the ArInorv or
Thursday night by the band for Chas
Caceres Melted about 500
The bark Amy Turner arrived at Sar
Francisco on May 30 twenty days from
HHo She will load there for HiIo.
The marriage is announced of DR.
Taylor of Kukaiau and Miss Taylor
The ceremony was performed by Rev
Mr.. Hill.
The railroad employees gave a luau al
Waiakea at the home of Elmer Wilson,
the conductor Of The EiLo-M Mountain
View ran. on Saturday night
The engagement is announced Of Miss
Genevieve VenahIe. formerly of this
city, now at her home in Virginia. To
Dr.. Morton Holiday of Hampton Sid
ney, Va. The wedding viii take place
on July ).
The H:lo 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 DanviIle, Ind.
The men of the road department, 20
in number. gave a Iuau at Cocoanut
Island at two o'clock Monday afternoon
in celebration of the holiday. There
were about $50 of the road employees
and their guests present.
The graduating class of the Hilo
Boarding School consisted of Kiyoharu
Ansai. Jas. K. Mahuakane, Jas. K.
Nation, Nicolau de Souza, Daniel
Thomas, Soichi Yamamoto and special
students Oliver Laau and Daniel J.
PunihaoIe.
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.
L. c. Lyman. principal of the Hilo
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
Deyo. Miss Dillon, Rev. Shields and
family, Miss Potter Miss Guard, Miss
Ellen Lyman. L. c. Lyman, two Miss
Towards, Miss Bessie Beach and Mrs.
A E Grendan
At the instance of Jared G.. Smith Of
the United States Experiment Station
several hundred stumDs 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. It show
ed in the general fund: Balance on
hand May 1, $4264.46; April appropria-
ton, 81. GOO; amount refunded, s.. Dis
bursements: Transfer to road fund,
$4,000 warrants redeemed, $7.4S2.55; bal
ance on hand, $27S6.91. In the road
fund: Balance May l, $44 S02; deposits
to the credit of the different road dis
tricts, $40, 343.S5. Disbursements: War
rants redeemed. $11, 322.75, balance on
hand May 81, s43,S2310.
HAMAKUA COFFEE.
The coffee picking season is just be-
ginning in Hamakua. following the
Kona season by four or five months.
Each district has it's own coffee pick !
ing season, so that with the growth of
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 good
prices that is appearing on the horizon |
good money is likely to be made that |
will give new impetus to the bust
ness; in which case the experience de-
rived from the past few years of coffee !
culture will be valuable.
SOCIAL SETTLEMENT. /
In a recent report made by Miss
Erbeck. regarding the work of the
Waiakea Social Settlement the follow
ing interesting items were given:
Since May 1 there have been four
hundred and twenty-nine cases treated
at the dispensary. a large percentage
being cases of sores. cuts, bruises and
inf1amed eyes. Miss Erbecks house to
house visits have averaged sixteen per
week. The weaving class now num-
bers seventeen and the sewing class
nineteen The average attendance at
the mothers meetings is twenty six.
Thirteen attend the evening singing
class and fourteen the afternoon class
for children. The Sunday school is
very well attended. the average being
The Christian Endeavor
Society has now thirty-seven active
members. and seven associate MEM
oers. The Junior Society numbers
wenty-six.
Miss Erbeck states also that there is
strong desire to obtain better know
edge of English and TO improve along
-arious lines-all of which is certainly
The awakening of desire
or better moral intellectual and phys
cal conditions in that community is
decided step toward better things for
K a ia 1yaa -TTTihIlna /