The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-28
LOCAL BREVITIES
Billiken has arrived.

bi4lIhen mas arrived
Honolulu Lodge. No. 616, will meet
IN Elks building at 7:30 this evening.
The Hawaiian band gave concert at
the Moana Hotel last evening which
was very pleasing to number of
maihini guests.
J. A. Balch. manager of the local
Wireless Company, and his bride, are
expected to return to the Islands on
the Hilonian on June 9.
The Royal School alumni viii hold
special meeting next Thursday, June
3, at the A Patria Society hall, corner
Emma and Vineyard streets.
On account of the fact that the late
Legislature knocked ont the appropria-
ton for the mosquito campaign, the
Board of Health is doing nothing in
this work.
David Noah, who is alleged to have
worked a slick game on the planters in
punching laborers' pay tickets, had his
case continued in the police court yes
terday until June B.
The Royal School alumni will again
this year, on June 10, give another So
.cial hop at the knights of Pythias
hail. Besides the dance, refreshments
viii be served free during the even
ing.
Pat Walsh, the young man who has
a serious charge entered againsl him,
appeared in police court yesterday
morning. Through Frank Thompson,
his attorney, his case was set over I'M
til June /.
superintendent of Public Instruction
Babbitt has announced that Memorial
Day, next Monday, may be observed as
a school holiday. Memorial Day really
falls on Sunday, but services will be
held the following day.
Geo. B. Mcclellan has written to the
Honolulu Merchants Association re-
garding the Federal building here, stat
ing that he has taken the matter up
with the Secretary of the Treasury and
hopes that early action will be had
on it.
The Union Feed Company has been
granted permission to use county
roller in the transportation of the big
lotion boiler which is to be installed
in the Ahuimanu canning factory. The
boiler will be sent to Kahana on the
railroad and hauled from there by the
traction engine.
Monsignor Charles Russell Chase will
address the local lodge of Elks and
their invited guests on Friday night
at their clubrooms on the subject of
Americanism, and from present APP
pearances he will find himself in the
midst of quite a gathering of the
antlered herd.
There will be a special meeting of
Pacific Lodge, No. S22, A. F. and A. NJ,
at o'clock this evening in Masonic
Temple. Members of Hawaiian and
Oceanic Lodges and all sojourning
brethren are cordially invited to be
present, as there will be work in the
second degree.
Willie Crawford, who was suspended
from the County Attorneys office the
other day for grating, applied for a
butchers license yesterday and an
nounced that he was going to Maui to
go into business. He says, however,
that he will remain here until the Gin
vestigation'' of his connection with
the opium cases is concluded
Preparatory to their coming annual
sale or muumuus, as per advertisement,
the members of the Ahahui Iolani ma
Wahine Hawaii are notified that the
last sewing meeting will take place to-
morrow afternoon at the usual hour at
the residence of Mrs. Henry Smith,
Fort street. Members having articles
ready to be checked and priced are re-
quested to bring the same to the meet
ing. Afternoon tea to follow after the
meeting.
C. P. Morse, local agent for the Amer
ican-Hawaiian Steamship Company, was
| reported as having been killed in an
automobile accident here last evening.
On telephoning to his home the cause
| Of the rumor was learned. Mr.. Morse
| received a letter from friend in San
Francisco stating that short time ago
he was Mortified to read in one of the
San Francisco papers of the death of
Morse in an automobile accident there.
It developed that another man of the
same initials and name was the victim.
There were several telephoned inquiries
regarding Mr.. Morse at this office last
evening He begs to announce that the
rumor of his death was greatly exag-
gerated.