The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-19
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
Paragraphs That Give Condensed
News of the Day.

Eva Plantation CO. has declared a
dividend of per cent payable on Nov
ember 3d.
Order your Thanksgiving poultry
from the Metropolitan Meat Co. Ltd,
phone As.
Leave orders now at Henry May &
Co.'S for green Christmas trees.
Phone 20.
Sage goose and onions" is the sign
from the Metropolitan Meat Co. for
Thanksgiving. Order your poultry
there.
Bishop Trust Co. have money to
loan at the current rate of interest on
listed collateral or productive real es-
tate.
La Grippe is painful and annoying.
of Hobron's anti-grippe tablets, sold
by Benson, Smith & Co. Ltd.
Superintendent of Public Works
Marston Campbell has been instructed
to prepare complete plans for build
ings for the College of Hawaii, to be
submitted to the Legislature.
The marriage is announced of Miss
Bernice Bishop Aldrich and Mr.. Rich
ard Stafford Bosworth, at the residence
of the brides aunt, Mrs. Dunning, in
Oakland, California, November 4, 1908.
F. Singer, proprietor of the old-es-
tablished Singer bakery that stopped
business last week, left in the Ala
media for the Coast. He attributed the
failure of the bakery to Orinetal COM
petition.
The wireless telegraph, the greatest
invention of the age is at the SER
vice of anyone for inter-island or
steamer communication. Prompt SER
vice and low rates.
James McGregor, who gained wealth
in the famous Ontario mine at Park
City, Utah, arrived in the Manchuria
Monday and left the next day for the
! Volcano He will continue his trip
to Japan next week.
Your are cordially invited to visit the
Wall, Nichols Co., Ltd, store, corner
Fort and Merchant streets, Saturday
afternoon and evening, November 81.
Big holiday line on display.
Watch for Sachs specials. Each one
of them will be a real money saver.
The first one will be White NainsoolS
this Saturday, ~ yards pieces, $2.75
quality at $1.9O piece.
Owing to the continued dry weather
Superintendent Little of the Water
Works has issued notice, published
in The Star today, stopping use of
water for irrigation, in certain dis
tricts, till further notice.
We are pleased to announce to our
numerous customers and the general
public, that we have secured the SER
vices of Madame Josephine who now
has complete management of our mil
linery department. All orders will re-
ceive our prompt and careful atten-
ton and at lowest possible prices.
Your patronage solicited. Isoshima,
King street.
| Mrs. M. L. Simpson, who has many
friends here and on Maui, arrived by
the Manchuria and is visiting Mrs.
Dickey on Nuuanu avenue. She has
been away from the islands thirteen
years In former years she taught
school at Hamakuapoko and Haiku.
Her husband, G.. E. Simpson, will be
remembered as the station agent at
Paia. He died in Alaska last winter.
Plans for the complete remodeling
of the Judiciary building have been
submitted to the heads of the depart
ments and the Judges of the Supreme
and Circuit Court by Superintendent
of Public Works Campbell The cost
of the improvements will run so high
in producing a fireproof building, that
it seems doubtful if anything will be
done by the coming Legislature, on
account of the lack of funds.
A decision in favor of Frank Har-
vey, in the habeas corpus suit brought
against him by Mercedes Briggs, the
woman who wished to obtain the GUS
tody of the child she deserted at it's
birth seven years ago, was given by
Judge De Bolt yesterday afternoon.
The evidence showed that the woman
was not fit to have the custody of the
girl, while Harvey and his daughter
had done as much for the child as
they could have done for one of their
own family.
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