The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-07
LOCAL BREVITIES.

evening
The Catholic Ladies Aid Society will
meet Friday afternoon at three o'clock
at the Convent.
The Hawaiian band will play this
afternoon at Fort Shafter. There will
be dress parade
There will be installation of officers
IN Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge No. 2,
l. 0. o. F., at 1880 this evening.
Hawaii Chapter No. /, Order of Ka-
nehameha, will meet in Fraternity
hall, Odd Fellows building, at 7:30 this
evening.
A rum distillery will be opened in
Hilo by j. d. Serrao IL Co., within
the next six weeks. The concern will
be run on small scale at first:
The Kilohana Art League will give
a literary entertainment, with the aid
of local authors, this evening. It will
be invitational, and admission will be
by card.
Alexander Hume Ford had a pleas.
ant interview on the Coast lately with
Mrs. Edith Tozier Weatherred who
told him she was organizing an ex-
cursion to Honolulu.
The entries Of the Chicken Show,
which closed last night, show large
number and a better quality of birds
than have ever before been seen here.
The show opens ON the 18th.
The social section of the Men s
League of Central Union church will
meet in the parlor of the church, this
evening at 1880 O'Clock. Subject,
1.-THE Tenements of Honolulu
Marston Cambell has been asked to
extend the government pipe line from
where it now terminates to the All In
Rice Mill, so that the citizens of Aud
Lane may be able to obtain water.
The advertising exhibition has been
postponed. The exhibitors will meet
at the Y. M. G. A. this afternoon at
four O'Clock to decide on the exact
date and other matters. The original
plan has grown and something big will
be the outcome.
Superintendent Of Public Works
Marston Campbell has estimated that
it will cost $4,000 to build manual
training school for the boys in the
Kalihi Home, and to outfit the place
with the necessary tools, he thinks that
the cost will be $4,000.
An afternoon paper says that the
United States may condemn all the
land at Waikiki between Kalia stream
and the creek next to the Moana Hotel
grounds. This will include the Seaside
hotel property. Major Winslow per-
sists in denials of any such plans.
Mr.. r. Rudland Bode will be under
many obligations if all those having
copies of ''The Cradle of Christi will
be good enough to return them either
to the Kilohana Art League, or to r.
O. Box 1872. Rehearsals in connection
with the above work are discontinued.
Captain Max Schlemmer has applied
for new lease for Laysan Island, as
he contemplates many improvements
there in the near future and would
them unless he has the island for a
long term Of years. His present
lease expires in March, 1910.
County Engineer Hugh Howell of
Maui estimates that it will cost $780,
600 to construct the proposed pipe
line in the Kula district. Although
this work would undoubtedly be of
great benefit to the drought sufferers
there, it is doubtful if funds can be
secured to carry it through for some
time.
Tanaka, the japanese driver of hack
No. %, IS reported by police officer
Wright to have driven his vehicle
across the Rapid Transit tracks near
the Oahu railroad depot yesterday
afternoon, Just in time to be struck
by car SO going towards Kalihi. The
rear wheels of the hack We're demol-
ished.
Miss Annie Stone, a graduate of
Kaahumanu school and a niece of Mrs.
Eln1ira Johnson, was buried yesterday
afternoon in Kawaiahao cemetery.
Mrs. johnson wishes to express her
thanks to Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Rider, to
the Kaahumanu graduating class of
1907 and to. the girls Of the Kakaako
Mission, for their kindness in her be-
reavement. Miss Stone was 10 years
old.
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