The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-20
LOCAL BREVITIES

The band viii play at the departure
Of the steamer Hilonian this morning
The Honolulu Library will be closed
until Saturday, to permit of aitera
tions.
Honolulu Temple No. /. Pythian Sis
tiers, viii meet in K. of P. Hall thi:
evening at 7:30.
Excelsior Lodge No. 1, 1. o. o. F.
will meet in Odd Fellows Hall thi.
evening at 100
Ladies Auxiliary, A o. H. Divi
sion No. J., will meet in c. B. U. Hal
this evening at O'Clock.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Murray and
relatives wish 10 thank all those who
sympathized with them in their be-
reavement.
All Rebekahs are requested to meet
at Central Union church this afternoon
at 2:45 to attend the memorial services
of Miss Alice NJ. Felker.
The, w. c. T. q. will meet this aft
ernoon in Central Union church al
$50. All interested are cordially in
vited to attend the meeting.
The funeral Of Miss Alice NJ. Felker
takes place at 3 clock this afternoon
from Central Union church Flowers
may be sent to the church before that
time.
There will be special meeting OF
Oceanic Lodge No. 81, F. e. A. NJ.
tonight at the usual time at the
Masonic Temple. Work in the second
degree.
According to the local steamship
bookings, there will be great amount
of travel to the Northwest and the
Coast during the Alaska Yukon Pacific
Exposition.
Judge Sanford B. Dole will celebrate
his sixty fifth birthday next Thursday
Mayor Fern has instructed the Hawai-
ian band to serenade the Judge at his
home on that day.
During the fifteen days ending April
Is, the number of deaths from con-
tagious diseases in the district of Ho
nolulu We're four, three from tubercu-
losis sand one from typhoid fever.
An orchid of unusual beauty of col
oring is in the window of the Me
Inerny Shoe Store on Fort street II
is from the Tenney private green
house, and is of the Cottelya gegas
variety.
Bids for the construction of George
Ashley's new home in Kaimuki were
opened yesterday, the highest bid be
ing 1889 and the lowest being $2479
The latter bid was by the River Mil
company.
James F. Morgan, president of the
Chamber of Commerce. received the
following cablegram from Secretary
Mcclellan at Washington yesterday:
"Senate pineapple situation more en-
couraging.
Speaker H L. Holstein of the House
of Representative yesterday received
wireless news of the serious illness OF
his eighteen year-old son. The Speaker
will probably leave for Hawaii on the
Mauna Kea today
Work will begin shortly on the en-
tire re-planking of Haekfeld wharf
which has been in miserable condition
of late. The planking had become sc
worn and rotten that it was not I'm
common for horses to break through.
A meeting of the Manoa Improve
ment Club will be held at the residence
of Fred L. Waldron on Thursday even
ing, at 1880 o'clock. Business of al
important nature viii be brought W
and full attendance of club member
is requested.
"Hawaiian Numerals, an interest
ing history of the postal department
of the Hawaiian Islands from the is
sues of missionary stamps to the dis
continuance of the locally printed type
set stamps in 1866, has been issued b.
Henry j. Croker of San Francisco.
Tomorrow the annual meeting of tn
Mutual Telephone company viii be he'll
and officers for the coming year elect
ed An executive committee has beel
chosen by the Mutual and Wireless com
panies to formulate ways and means TO
amalgamating the two concerns.
W. F. Erving and F. w. WashburI
had narrow escape from death yester
day morning when the automobile i
which they were riding plunged from
the Pail road. They sent to town 70
assistance, Tom Quinn going up an
pulling the wrecked auto out with hi