The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-05
LOCAL BREvITIES.

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Territorial Offices win be closed.
Mrs Montrose Graham has return
ed from the Coast much improved in
health
This afternoon the band viii PLAY
at the baseball games on the league
grounds
There viii be a meeting Of the
Board of Education next Monday a.
terAoon at $3.50 o'cloek.
Naturalized citizens must present
their citizenship papers when applying
for registration as voters.
Deputy United States District Attor-
ney W. T, Rawlins yesterday cele-
brated his thirtieth birthday.
On and after Saturday, September 5
the \. S. Sachs Dry Goods Co. viii
close On Saturdays at 6 p m.
Miss Kate Kelley has eabled that
she viii leave San Francisco for Ho-
nolulu on the Alameda today.
Miss Helen SHELLEY, who was a Wis
itor in Honolulu year ago, recently
returned and is being entertained BY a
large circle of friends.
Covers win be laid for twenty-six
guests tonight at dinner to be
given in honor of Admirals Swim
burne and Sebree by Hon. Alexander
Young.
Legislation in the interest of better
live stock transportation in the Islands
is proposed. The Board of Agriculture
and Forestry have given considerable
n Il p h.
Contractor Whitehouse has made a
series of photographs of the work
done at the Nuuanu dam, thus making
a complete pictorial record of the prog
Tess and character of the work.
Yesterday was the sixty-fourth birth
day anniversary of B. F. Dillingham;.
He is at present on the Coast. IT was
also the nineteenth anniversary of the
running of the first train on the Oahu
Railway.
4 burglar entered the store of Wall,
Nichols Co, Fort and Merchant streets,
Thursday night, but so far as can be
determined all he got was a bicycle
belonging to S. Gum, one of the en-
ployes of the store.
The partnership heretofore existing
between D, j. Styne and J. T. Stack
er, under the firm name of The Hawaii
Publicity CO., has been dissolved. Mr..
Styne will continue the business under
the same company name.
General Calvin Dewitt, whose death
was announced by cable day or two
ago, was father-in-law of Dr. Blan-
chard, who was on duty at Camp Nc
Kinley. and he lived here during a
part of DR.. Blanchard IS service here,
leaving about a year ago.
The Home Rulers yesterday present.
ed petition to Judge Dole askins,
to excuse Charles K. Motley, president
of the Home Rule party, from further
service as juror in the United States
District Court. in order that he might
attend the various county conventions
of the party.
A report received from the Hawai-
ian Agricultural Company plantation
announces that a quarter of an inch
of rain fell there last Sunday. This
region has suffered considerably from
drought this season, though the drought
was broken about two weeks ago by a
rain.
Superintendent of Public Works
Marston Campbell has recommended
that the Bungalow on the Capitol
grounds be torn down. The building
is more than thirty years old, decayed
and in bad repair. 1t is now used as
Headquarters for the National Guard
and also as a storeroom for field pieces
and other arms and aceoutrements.
F. Kicks has been appointed in
structor of civil engineering in the
HAWAII College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts. He has been an engineer
in the Department of Public Works
under Superintendent Marston Camp
bell. He is a graduate of German
university and served three years in
the Engineer Corps of the German
Army. He is now in charge of a party
of prospective students surveying the
grounds, of the new institution.
Arrangements for the Odd Fellows
entertainment of their brethren of the
fleet tonight at Odd Fellows Hall are
complete. The entertainment is an
nounced to begin at 1880 o'clock.
Three floors will be used. The upper
floor will be used for dancing, the next
floor below viii be used for cards and
and the floor below that
for children s entertainment. By Ad-
miral Swinburne s orders, special leave
will be granted all Odd Fellows in the
Aaa+ m Attend the affair