Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-10
MAUI notes

The gymnasium committee OF the
Alexander House Gymnasium has ne
cided upon the nineteenth Of tins
month for the opening dance OF the
fall and winter season. The dances
at the gymnasium have been most
popular in the past, and it is expected
that this one will be one of tn" best
ever given. The price will be outy st
cents for the gentlemen. Ladie:; will
De admitted without charge.
The Improvements in the road be
tween Waikiki and Lahaina are max
ing this highway much more accept
able to travellers. Hugh Howell has
the contract and Frank SOmmerfeid is
the foreman on the job. The sharp
turns just beyond McGregOr's Land
ing, on the way to Lahaina, are being
taken out, the gulches filled up, with
the result that soon there will be 4
line piece OF straight road where for.
merly there were six or seven very
abrupt turns and an exceedingly mar
row wagon track. The other bad cor
ners toward Lahaina have been some
what rounded off, with the result that
Of these turns now. The expectations
OF the Maui public are that in com
paratively short time the road from
Lahaina to Paia will be all macadam
and one of the best roads in Hawaii.
There are unusual possibilities for
scenic beauty along this road, and
Maui hopes to have it an attraction
to travellers.
Miss Sue Starkweather will be one
of the teachers in the Wailuku Union
Sunday school from the middle of this
month. She is an excellent kindergar-
ten teacher. and the Sunday school is
fOrtuante to have her on its roll Of
teachers. Mrs. o. J. Whitehead is the
superintendent. She has had years of
training for this work and is highly
successful teacher. Miss Caroline
experience, is enrolled among the
teaching force of the school this fall.
Miss Clara Townsend of the Baldwin
House, Lahaina, was a Wailuku visitor
over Sunday. She was a guest of the
Alexander House ladies'
The ladies of the Women's Guild of
the Church of the Good Shepherd will
hold their annual bazaar on the 18th
of November at the Alexander House
Gymnasium. This affair that the
ladies of the Wailuku Episcopal church
give is always a great event on Maui.
People attend from all over the is
land. Large sums of money are al
ways raised, which are devoted to the
work of the church.
Miss Louise Pratt, who was so seri-
ously hurt last week while going to
Keahua to her work in the public
school, is somewhat improved. She
completely regained consciousness on
Sunday, but was not allowed to hold
conversation with anyone because of
her weak condition. On Monday she
began to get her strength back, and
he Improvement has been steady
throughout today. The fear that her
friends had concerning her permanent
recovery is now past. There seem to
be no very serious injuries.
The improvements on the premises
of the Waikiki school yard have been
far greater than were anticipated
when the work was first begun. The
grade is now pretty we'll established,
and it corresponds with the grade that
Supervisor w. F. Pogue established
for his own residence lot. This same
grade the Union church adopted. Last
week Dan H. Case finished grading his
land to conform, and now the school
premises are we'll under way of be-
ing completed, SO that the whole will
be a remarkably beautiful stretch of
excellent lawn. There is hardly a
piece in the whole of Hawaii covering
four separate lots that for extent and
beauty can be found to equal this
stretch in Wailuku. This single i'm
prOvement did much to win for Wal
luku the name it has Of being one of
the prettiest towns in the Territory.
Public spirit and working together
will still further enhance the beauty