The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-29
LOCAL BREVITIES

The Girls Guild Of st. Elizabeth S
church will hold an ice cream festival
at st. Elizabeth s House. Palama, from
seven 10 nine this evening. Ice cream
and cake, fifteen cents.
Harry Denison, superintendent of the
Oahu hallway Company's wharves. said
yesterday that about 10000 bags of
sugar had been loaded in record time
lnto the steamers Texan and Lurline.
A crop of over $4,000 tons of sugar
VIII come from the Hawaiian CONNER
clal plantation this year, according to
statement made by Frank Baldwin
yesterday. Everything is in good shape
on the big estate.
The annual meeting of the Daughters
of Hawaii will be held this afternoon
at the residence of Mrs Bathsheba AL
len at p. IN. ALL members are urged
to be present, as business of Importance
will be transacted.
The contract for the extension of the
Honolulu sewer system from King
street mauka on Pua lane has been
awarded to the Honolulu Construction
and Draying Company. The work has
already been started
Superintendent Rabbit is planning
to ask the County for money to secure
many things needed for the Oahu
school system. Among the things are
building repairs, new teachers cot
tages, and school desks.
A silver fern dish was presented to
retiring superintendent W. F. Lehigh
of the Mutual Telephone Co., by the
employees of the company yesterday,
Wire Chief Congdon making the pre-
sentation speech. Lehigh will leave for
the mainland on the Lurline today.
L. G. Kellogg yesterday stated that
| the Consolidated Pineapple Company
had sold all the pines on hand, and that
| he understood that there were not more
! than $4,000 cases left on the islands at
| present. The advertising campaign on
| the mainland has done wonders for the
industry.
Visalia Delta.-A deed conveying the
| 1929. acres of the Wallace ranch near
Lemon Cove to Samuel Parker and John
T. Baker, prominent Hawaiian capital
! lists was filed in the Recorders Office
yesterday Mention of this deal was
made in the Delta over a week ago.
! The purchase price is said to have been
between $150,000 and 100000.
Raymond NJ Baker, who is now con-
| fined in the local Jail on a charge of
bigamy, yesterday made statement
to the effect that he was anxious to
assist the authorities in every way pos
sible in looking up his past history
so that he could finish his term quick
ly aud atone for the wrong he has done
Eva Wallace, whom he still processes
to love.
Judge Andrade. in dismissing ease
yesterday against Chinaman for as
sault and battery on some little girls
of Gus Cordes, took occasion to criticize
the manner in which the complaint was
drawn. He said it was loosely pui
together and he said he was getting
sick and tired of a repetition of clumsy
complaints, and inquired if there WASH 7
some one who could draw the com
plants properly in the police station
offices9
Preparatory to their coming annua
sale Of muumuus, as per advertisement
the members of the Ahahui Iolani ns
Wahine Hawaii are notified that the
last sewing meeting will take place
this afternoon at the usual hour al
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.