The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-17
LOCAL BREvITIES.

The band win play this afternoon at
the baseball games.
William Mckinley Lodge No. s. X.
OF p, viii meet at 1880 this evening in
K. Of P. Hall
Col. Sam Norris. the proprietor of
kahuku ranch, is in town looking re-
markably well.
There will be a special meeting OF
Hawaiian Lodge this Saturday even
ing at 1880. Work in third degree.
Kahuku may have had a cloudburst
yesterday, as a telephone message in
the evening said there was a flood
there
Rain in the mountains has raised the
Wahiawa dam nearly to the p>.int of
overflow, anording d lake nearly eight
miles long.
There viii be meeting of the Royal
School Alumni Monday evening at $780,
There VIII be lecture after the bust
ness meeting.
4 live wire fell from Rapid Transit
Co. pole on King street, near Bethel,
yesterday afternoon and delayed traffic
Tor several minutes.
Mrs. Joseph Martinez, a young SPAN
ish woman who arrived with the last
party of immigrants, died at the Hilo
hospital Monday afternoon.
In honor of the Lucky Seven" the
Royal Hawaiian Glee Club will give a
dance at K. of P Hall on Friday even
ing, August 80. Tickets so cents. .
A telephone wire fouled the trolley
wire on King near Bethel street yes
terday afternoon at ESQ o'clock and
Car 45 from Kalihi was slightly burn
ed by contact with the end. No one
was hurt.
NJ. H. Kennedy, of Shanghai. one of
the through passengers of the S. S.
Persia, is classmate of w. W. Thay-
er and a close personal friend of A L.
C. Atkinson. He spent last night
ashore as a guest of Mr. Thayer.
The Hawaiian entertainment on the
boards for tonight at the Opera House
has been indefinitely postponed on ac-
count of the numerous other enter
tainments which take place this even
ing. The date of the show will be an
nounced later.
The handsomely-en copy of
the resolution of the Bar Association
presented to Chief Justice Frear prior
to his resignation from the Supreme
Court bench was the work of Viggo
Jacobsen. The resolution was par
ticularly nice bit of the engrosser's and
draftsman's art.
Mr. H. C. McKeever, who arrived on
the Manchuria to succeed Mr.. Ed
wards as pastor of the Christian
church, will occupy the pulpit on Sun
day both morning and evening. AS
this will be Mr. McKeever's first APP
pearance among US, all are cordially
invited to hear him.
Ripe pineapples from Wahiawa are
still coming into the city cannery at
the rate of fifty to seventy-fige TONS
a day. though the climax was passed
when the railroad branch brought DOWN
twenty cars in one day. of neariy ten
tons each. This does not count those
used in the two canneries at Wahiawa.
Japanese workmen tearing down
frame building on Hotel street, near
Spitzer's shop, dropped plank within
a few inches of the heads of two men
walking on the pavement yesterday
morning. The men narrowly escaped
serious injury. The japanese were
warned to be less careless.
William Bright, a newsboy, found
handsome gold seal ring at the FOOT
of the gangway of the transport Logan
on Tuesday and is anxious to locate
its owner. 1t was thought 1t belonged
to an army officer aboard the trans
port Chief Taylor has the ring in his
possession on behalf of young Bright
Everyone in Honolulu knows the old
Hawaiian who rides through town
nearly every day with a little dog
perched on the horse behind his saddle,
and everyone will regret to learn that
the little dog has gone the way of all
flesh, having made his last circus ride
for the qualification of all the tourists
and most of the citizens.