The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-23
LOCAL BREVITIES

Stanley Stephenson is perfecting de-
signs for fleet decorations.
William Mckinley Lodge No. s, K.
Of P, will meet this evening at 7:30 in
K. of P. Hall.
The band will play this afternoon at
the baseball games. The Sunday con-
cert will be al Aala Park.
L. K. Kentwell, formerly of Homo
lulu, was recently chosen secretary Of
the Chinese Young Mems Club in New
York.
1t is reported that Hutchinson Sugar
Plantation Company may open an Of
flee in Honolulu for the transfer of its
stock.
The hours for irrigation are between
and p. m, according to a notice
published today by Superintendent
Little of the Water Works.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Wells of Wal
luku, with their daughter, returned by
the Manchuria yesterday from an ex-
tended visit in the Far East
There will be a meeting of the fleet
transportation committee at the office
of Jas. F. Morgan today at u noon
1t is expected that all subcommittee
will report.
NJ. Sheba of the Hawaii Shinpo does
not favor special efforts to get the
japanese as a race to come to Homo
lulu on a particular day during the
time the feet is here.
The Board of Health pathological
laboratory, sometimes called the
morgue, is being renovated and i'm
proved. 1t is frame structure near
the Board of Health building.
The Home Rulers propose to have a
public meeting at Aala Park this even
ing at 100 o'clock. D. Kalauokalani,
Sr., Swill preside. The speakers will be
]. NJ. Poepoe, Hon. H. NJ. Kaniho and
perhaps Charles K. Motley.
A japanese woman arrested by Dep
uty United States Marshal Holt was
brought before United states Commits
sioner Hatch yesterday afternoon.
charged with violation of the Edmunds
Act. The hearing was continued until
Tuesday afternoon.
Henry Lewis. in cranking his auto
mobile yesterday, forgot to retard his
spark, and as a result the crank flew
back and broke his arm between the
wrist and elbow. This is said to be
the fourth accident of the kind that
has occurred in Honolulu.
A fibrous tumor weighing a little
over three pounds was taken from a
patient at the Queens Hospital on
Thursday, Drs. Judd, Waterhouse,
Hodgins, Osborne and Humphris and
the two house physicians taking part
in the surgical operation.
A deed was filed for record yester-
day by which Abigail K. Campbell
Parker and her husband. Samuel Par
ker, convey to Hale Aloha church,
Lahaina. a site for a parsonage and a
children.s playground as a memorial
to the late James Campbell.
w. G. Smith, License Inspector for
the County of Kauai. sailed by the
Manchuria yesterday afternoon. He
goes to the mainland for his health
The Board of License Commissioners
of Kauai have appointed j. H. Coney
to succeed him as License Inspector
Miss Fanny Nordmeyer of Kauai,
who is employed as a nurse, is re-
ported to have been held up about 9:15
o'clock in the evening on Friday, May
s, at the corner of King and Kapiolani
streets, while waiting for a car, and
robbed of her handbag containing five
dollars.
Geo. w. De Long Post No As, G. A.
r., and Theodore Roosevelt Camp No.
1, United Spanish War Veterans, will
attend services at the First Methodist
Episcopal church tomorrow evening, in
keeping with the time-honored Gus
tom Rev. David w Crane will preach
the memorial sermon.
J. d. Schuyler, the dam expert
brought here by the last Legislature
TO investigate the Nuuanu DAM was
a through passenger by the Manchu-
ria yesterday. While his vessel was in
port he and his wife were the guests
of superintendent of Public Works
Marston Campbell. Mr.. Campbell and
Mr. Schuyler are old friends.
DR.. Rice, who was the companion of
Prot Hiram Bingham of Harvard in
some explorations of South America,
but who went further on alone and
was lost sight of for months in a
region of hostile Indians. has been
heard from at Manaos, on the upper
Amazon. DR.. Rice went south from
Venezuela, accompanied by Prof.
Bingham.