The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-08
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Holiday Paradise of the Pacific on
today.
The band win try to play at the de
| parture Of the steamer Makura.
Jurors in Judge Robinson's court are
| required 10 be in attendance this morn.
| ing.
;. II. R. Fursay has declared his in
tention of becoming an American cit
, izen.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Holmes will 20
abroad this winter for a stay of several
months.
Court Canoes, No. S11O, A. 0. F., viii
meet IN San Antonio hall this Tuesday
evening at 7:3O.
Many men applied at the office of
the Depot Quartermaster yesterday for
work on the new cavalry cantonment
William Kent, formerly of Chicago,
now of California, viii be the guest of
the Commercial Club at luncheon to-
day.
The Latter Day Saints church will
give a benefit concert and dance at X.
Of P. Hall Saturday, December Il, at
$50 p nj.
a block of a thousand shares of
Oahu Sugar Company stock was report
ed sold on the Stock Exchange yester
day at $27.75.
There will be a meeting of the Re-
publican County Committee this even
ing at eight clock in the offices of
A. F. Judd, Judd building.
The Republicans of Lihue held luau
and dance a week ago. There were
eight hundred present. Five bullocks
were consumed in the feast.
Excelsior Lodge, No. /, 1. o. o. F.,
will meet in Odd Fellows hall at 7:30I
this evening for work in first degree
All members are requested to be pres
ent.
The exhibition at the Kilohana Art
League will remain open for four days
longer. The exhibition is now open
from a. m. to 5 p. m. and from 1880
?. m. to 9 p. m.
The second annual meeting of the
Hawaiian Bee-Keepers Association will
be held tomorrow afternoon in the
rooms of the Commercial Club, begin |
ming at 0 clock.
John Mott, the King street mer-
chant, celebrated his seventy seventh |
anniversary yesterday. He |
came TO these Islands from New York |
January S, 1854.
Professor ]. W. Gilmore, president of |
the College of Hawaii, will address the
Commercial Club next Friday noon, De
,ember II, 1908. on "The College of |
Hawaii, It's Plans and Outlook. -
The Male lima Glee Club viii give
/ grand concert and dance at San An
oniO hall on December II, beginning
n 5 ?. m. This club is famous for its
inc glees and string music The affair
will no doubt be well patronized.
J. G. Serrao, near Hilo, finds profit
n grapes and citrus fruits. He has
we acres of vineyard producing two
nd a half tons per acre, and many
earring orange and lemon trees. He in
ends adding to the area of both vine
ard and orchard each year.
Albert P. Taylor of the Advertiser
orce had fibrous tumor removed from
is scalp yesterday, DR.. Cooper per-
orming the operation. 1t was the re-
ult of blow from the butt of a mus
et received during the Cuban war and
f late has been troublesome. The
umor had reached the bone and was
preading. Mr.. Taylor is at his home
n Manoa.
John RoOmanis, night manager of
he Union Grill, who was injured sew
raj months ago at the Volcano House
Y the bursting of a soda water bottle,
aturned from the Coast yesterday. He
-ent to San Francisco for the purpose
+ having his eyes treated, and returns
cry much improved in health
DR.. and Mrs. Humphris leave for
.ngland via the Orient on the Mongo | ,
a this morning.
This city has been honored by the t
rand Rapids Street Railway Company c
T Rrand Rapids, Michigan, in a novel
tanner. One of its finest trolley cars q
as been named the Honolulu The :
ar IS used entirely for private pur- !
oSes, both for the use of the manage 9
ent and for visiting parties from other +
ties It is a typical out-of-door sum =
Ter car, with open sides and supplied o
18th the best reed furniture The sum
er character of the ear probably sug
asted the name " Honolulu In the q
inter time large glass windows are
ut in, converting it into an ideal OBJ
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