The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-07
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Oahu College library will be closed
for Two weeks from tonight.
Manager Chalmers expects that Wa
imanaIo VIII produce the largest crop
in is history this year.
The St. Louis Alumni double quartet
will sing at St. Augustine church at
Waikiki al mass, Sunday morning, at
Q o'clock.
a well defined rumor has it that
Henry E. Brodek, bookkeeper at Waia-
Iua, VIII be named assistant postmaster
by Postmaster Pratt.
One Of the laborers at Fort Ruger
had mis- arm fractured in a cog wheel
yesterday morning. He was taken to
a hospital for treatment.
The papers allowing a right of way
across the Fort Shafter military reser-
walton for the Rapid Transit company,
have arrived from Washington. All is
now clear Tor the beginning Of con-
struction work.
Kuroiwa, who pleaded guilty in the
Federal Court to the charge of i'm
moral conduct, was given very stiff
sentence by Judge Dole, two years be-
ing the size Of the package handed out
to the japanese.
Ching Kim Hee, the member of the
crew Of The American Hawaiian steam
er Texan who was found to be sailing
around under another man S certificate,
was ordered deported yesterday by Com
missioner Judd.
On the Waikiki road beyond the end
of the carline TO the foot of the hill
new telephone poles are being put up
on the Diamond Head side to get the
wires away from the thick growth of
lawn trees opposite.
. A meeting of the Jewish residents
of Honolulu will be held at the Kapio-
lani Building, room 8, next Sunday at
2:30 D. m, for the purpose of making
arrangements for holding Divine SER
vice during the approaching New Year
holidays.
Captain Myrtle Baker and Lieutenant
Turner of Hilo will conduct services
in the Salvation Army Hall, corner
King and Nuuanu, Saturday evening at
s clock. and Sunday, at II a. NJ. and
s p. m. Friends of the army are cor
daily invited.
Miss Harriet Kaluaikai Makakoa, a
native of Nawaieha, Maui, aged 90,
died at clock, Friday afternoon.
Services will be held at Williams I'm
dertaking parlors at 4:30 this after
noon. The burial will be at Kawaia-
hao cemetery.
It is reported that an agreement has
been reached between Superintendent
of Public Works MarstOn Campbell and
a resident of Kaimuki whereby the lat
ter viii sell to the Territory at nomi-
nal price sufficient land for a public
park in the Kaimuki district.
Paul de Longpfe's handsome porto
lilo OF plates in cOlors showing his paint
ings of roses have been received by
friends he met in Honolulu. The plates
show flowers most beautifully colored.
Copies Of his own musical compositions
also accompanied the rose plates.
Funeral services over the remains of
the late Charles F. Siemsen, a former
resident of Hilo, Hawaii, will be held
at St Andrews Cathedral on Sunday
at $3.50 Q. m. Reverend Canon Simp-
son will officiate. Relatives and friends
| of the family are invited to attend.
Josephine Chamberlain has filed suit
in the Circuit Court for divorce from
| her husband, Frank Ellsworth Cham
berlain. The complaint states that they
were married in. Berkeley in 1895 and
| that he deserted her here in January
1906. He is now living in Berkeley.
! DR.. R. A. NJ. Collins, of Portland
! Ore, was shot and killed by his wife
July a, owing to Jealousy. Their mar
riage occurred in Honolulu whittier DR.
! Collins had come as the woman S at
! tending physician. She was made
jealous by the revelations of fortune
! tellers.
In its account of the arrival of the
| s. S Korea, the Chronicle says: csc
| Tar as sociability aboard ship was con
cerned, the passengers enjoyed them
selves immensely. Numerous entertain
ments were given, and it is said that
! Consul General Wilder was the shining
spirit in these affairs. After leaving
| Honolulu at a gathering in the dining
! hall Wilder made some remarks, the
/ following being credited to him among
other humorous things L know why
| they call Honolulu the Paradise of the
| Pacific. Because it s such a hard place