The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-06

The next meeting Of the Board of
Supervisors viii be held on Tuesday
evening.
But one death has occurred among
the people taken TO the quarantine sta
ton on account OF diphtheria or scar
let fever.
The advertising bills alone for the
month OF January contracted for in
the name of the City and County of
Honolulu amounted to nearly 5000.
II the Buford arrives in time there
viii be Constabulary Band matinee.
Tickets already sold viii be exchanged
Tor matinee tickets or money refunded.
The next meeting of the Buckeye
Club will be held at the Castle Home,
Manoa Valley, Tuesday evening. Ali
members and Ohioans are requested to
attend.
The transport Buford. with the Con-
stabulary Band on board, has been
delayed by the storms at sea. She
Will probably arrive in the harbor this
morning.
The irrepressihle Mrs. Gertz has pc
titioned Mayor Fern to cleanse, the
records of the Bureau of Convevances
Of certain illegal, false and fraudu-
lent entries. -
Some fine new pictures of things Ha-
waiian aSorn this month 8 Paradise,
which is certainly magazine of prog
ress. In table of contents the Para
disc is also excellent.
Persons wishing to donate to the
rummage sale to be held by the Lei
Aloha Chapter, Eastern Star, kindly
ring Mrs. W. Hebron on Telephone
1907, or call at 1876 Lunalilo street.
Isaac W. Shelby of Colorado Springs
writes that there are three families in
his town who wish to take up home
steads in Hawaii if the conditions are
right. They are in search of a eli
mate less arctic than Colorado.
The exchange tickets for the "Alice
in Wonderland tableaux on Feb. 18th
are now on sale. They are in the hands
of the young people taking in the per-
Torrance and also Of ladies interested
in the success of the entertainment.
According to a wireless received
from Pahala Yesterday, an inch and a
quarter of rain has fallen there and
the mountains are covered with snow.
This means a break in the drought of
the past eighteen months.
T. E. Wider general secretary of
the Chicago Association of Commerce,
writes: 1.-The opening of Pearl Har-
Dor will be big event for the Is
lands. | am in hopes that it may be
my privilege to be there at that time
or before.''
c. W. Renear is at work on a large
algaroba mill, on the lines of the small
working model invented by him for
the grinding of the gummy bean, the
success of which has been pronounced.
1t is understood that Mr.. Renear has
received many inquiries concerning his
| mill from all points in the Islands and
will very shortly have number of
small mills on the market.
W. N Howes, editor Of the Califor-
| MIA Magazine, in writing to H. P.
Wood of the Promotion Committee for
an article on Hawaii, compliments the
promotion secretary on the work he s
| doing here. He writes: 81 wish to
say that I want to compliment you on
the splendid results you have secured
for Hawaii, and believe that that
Territory is much more in the public
mind than it was before you came to
Hawaii from San Diego
John D. Miles of Lawrence, Kan
sas, has written to the Promotion Com
mittee for information about Hawai-
ian agricultural lands, desiring to in
vest here and make his home IN Ha-
wall. Mrs Miles was formerly IN
charge of the Calcutta Girls School, a
missionary Institution, while Mr.. Miles
| has been government agent at the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe agencies IN
Indian Territory, having been the
agent who put through the treaty with
| the Indians for eleven million acres OF
what is now Oklahoma land. Both
wish TO come to warm climate. Gen
eral Pratt has referred the writer to
the Hawaiian committee.