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The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
Waimea Relaxes High
Brow Standards

Waimea Literary society cut loose
from literature and philosophy on
Saturday evening at Hoea, the home
of the e. A. Knudsens, and enjoyed
to the full one of the most original
and unique evenings that commune
ty has known
The first number was a beautiful
tableau in black entitled Spring
Races, dog team and BICYCLE =
with the Knudsen and Danford chill
dren in the running, a very striking
and charming picture.
Following this there were chill
dren's Greek dances, in appropriate
costume, in which sixteen of the
children of the dancing class gave
an exhibition of their skill, and did
it awfully well. The beautiful sur
roundings,- it was on the Hoea
lawn-with the fine trees overhead
and the swimming pool rejecting
the dancing figures and the colored
lights made a most charming picture
that called forth much enthusiastic
applause. Mrs. Knudsen and her sis
ter Miss L'Orange deserve much
credit for this exhibition, which was
practically impromptu.
Later ladies minstrel show was
given, in which most Of the teach
ers from Kekaha to Makaweli, some
Is or 16 in number, took part. Mr..
Horner of Kapaa served as pianist
and director, with his usual felicity.
Many of the local hits were capital
and elected storms of applause.
The success of the whole affair
was great surprise to most people,
who didn't dream that so much
talent was hiden away in the COM
munity.
Delicious refreshments followed.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
Sinclair Robinson to Wed

Oakland, May 18-Although no
formal announcement has been
made, friends of Miss Ethel Glade
learned this week that the beautiful
society girl is engaged to Sinclair
Robinson of Hawaii.
Miss Glade, with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick w. Glade,
formerly lived in Honolulu, and
the Glade and Robinson families are
intimate friends. For the past few
years the Glades have been living
in Piedmont, where Miss Glade is a
favorite among the younger set.
Miss Glade is stunning girl of
the blonde type and has a charm
ing personality. She is an accom-
plished pianist and has studied mu-
sic abroad. Robinson is a son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey Robinson, who
have extensive interests in the Ha-
waiian Islands, and graduate of
Harvard. He is at present in the
East and is coming here to claim
his bride early in August. The fu-
ture home of the, couple will be in
the Islands.-S. F. Chronicle.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29

The property damage has been
enormous, but no estimates can be
made until it is definitely establish
ed whether the crops throughout
the sections hardest hit are irretriev-
ably damaged or not.
Everywhere through the tornado
belt the wires are down and COM
munication is interrupted This has
led to fears that the death roll may
be considerably higher than the
totals announced last night.
Fires in some places have added
to the accumulated horrors of the
Pay and wounded men and women
have had to be hurried from their
first temporary shelters to escape
death from the flames.
The worst damage is in Coles
County, about hundred and eighty
miles south of this city. Here the
town of Mattoon was struck with,
the full violence of the blast and
within a few seconds half the pros
porous little city was in wreckage,
the entire business district being
wiped out. Houses were tossed about
and smashed to pieces. their flying
timbers striking down fleeing occu-
pants. Brick blocks were sent crash
ing, killing many of the occupants
and iniurying others. Vehicles were
caught up by the tornado and roll
ed for blocks.
A complete toll of the dead can
not be had until the wreckage is
cleared away, which work is now in
progress, but it is estimated that at
least one hundred were instantly
killed when the tornado burst upon
the city. There are at least twenty
five hundred persons injured, many
of them fatally.
The tornado rendered two thou
sand persons homeless. Houses des-
troyed are estimated at five hundred.
Then came fire, which broke out
in the wreckage, and there were
desperate efforts to extinguish it
before it might spread and cremate
the bodies pinned under the ruins
of their homes or bring a frightful
death to the trapped wounded. The
efforts ofthe fire fighters were crown
ed with early success and the fire
was soon brought under control.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
The Flags Of the Allies

1t was an interesting display of
flags at the church on Sunday;
American, English, French. Rus
sian, japanese, Belgian, Italian, ,and
Rumanian. Probably never before
have these flags been seen together
on these Islands, and some of them
are as unfamiliar to the ordinary
public as the proverbial angels visits.
1t may be well for us to know what
they look like; French-from the
pole out,-blue, white, red, vertical
stripes. Russian, white ground,
with blue diagonal cross, Belgian,
black, yellow, red, vertical stripes.
Italian green, yellow. red, verti-
cal stripes, with white cross on red
escutcheon in white field of the
stripe. Rumanian black, yellow,
red, vertical stripes.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
kauai BOYS At
SCHOOL: DINNER

Over 70 of the Kauai older boys
who are attending Honolulu schools
had their second annual get-to-geth-
er dinner at the Honolulu Y. M. G.
A. last Friday night. Mr.. Frank
G. Atherton, president of the Terri
torial Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation committee; DR.. r. d. Will
liams, president of Mid Pacific In
stitute; l.. R. Killam, and Charles
F. Loomis were the speakers. The
dinner was enlivened by the yells
and school songs from the Mills,
Kamehameha, Mckinley High and
Punahou boys.
Mr.. Atherton emphasized the fact
that opportunity brings with it obli-
CATION and that service should be
the key note of the student class.
DR.. Williams followed his talk with
his popular entertainment of slight
of-hand and magic. Mr.. Loomis
told the boys of the back-to-the
farm movement and urged the boys
to put in their summer vacation
hoeing on Kauai. He also showed
pictures of the different clubs that
the Y. M. c. A. is working with on
Kauai. Mr.. Killam is. secretary
of the Territorial Y. M. C. A. COM
mittee and acted as toast master.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
Anthrax Appears
In Honolulu

Kauai's invidious distinction as
the home of the anthrax plague, is
now a libel of the past, since Homo
lulu is in the lists with an inhiction
of the same.
The dread disease appeared at
Moiliili, in the outskirts of Homo
lulu. few days ago, and up to
date there have been % deaths,
mostly milch cows, all belonging to
one herd,-the only one thus far
infected.
Prompt measures were imme-
diately taken, both as to quaran-
timing and incubation, left over
serum being available from Hama
lei, so that is the situation is now
well in hand.
The infection is supposed to have
come, in feed, from Sacramento,
where it seems the disease is preva.
lent.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
A Childrens Service

There were special childrens day
and patriotic services at the Lihue
Union church on Sunday, that were
well attended and heartily enjoyed.
The first section was flag-rais-
ing service on the lawn, the raising
of the national ensign, with appro-
pirate salutation by the children,
and then similar raising of the
flags of the Allies. seven in number.
each flag being borne out by two
small children, and bent onto the
halyards in due order, while the
rest saluted the same.
Within the church there was an
interesting aud impressive service
consisting of recitations, scriptural
and otherwise, largely in part, and
largely patriotic. Those by the lit
tie children, as always, were de-
lightfully naive and graceful. The
choir did itself ample credit in the
rendering of two or three patriotic
anthems, and Mrs. Sheldon sang a
fine patriotic solo.
By special request, Mr.. Lydgate
told the story of THE Man without
a Country, obviously with good eff
feet, as many tear-stained faces
showed.
The service closed with THE Star
Spangled Banner" the congrega-
ton joining heartily IN the chorus.
The decorations, large American
and Hawaiian flags gracefully drap-
ed, were both effective and appro-
pirate, and were artistically rein
forced by large punches of dark red
imperial lilies.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29

The workers up to midnight had
recovered forty-two bodies from the
wreckage.
Information has reached here
that the important town of Charles.
town, also in Coles County, was
likewise hit by the tornado that
destroyed Nation. These reports
come to the head offices of the rail
roads, but they have not been con-
firmed, so badly disarranged is the
telegraphic service. The railroad
reports vary widely, some stating
that thirtv-five persons in Charles
town have been killed. Other re-
ports range from this up to a death
of two hundred and fifty persons,
with thousands of injured.
Throughout the day reports of
vagrant tornadoes have come in,
from places two and three hundred
miles apart, all indicating that the
usual spring tornadoes have come
earlier than usual. Many towns
and hamlets have reported death
and damage.
The first report came from the
town of Westervelt, in Shelby Coun.
ty, some twenty miles south oi
Mattoon. Here five were killed and
twenty-one injured by the storm,
Three of the injured are dying.
Then the village of Manhattan
was heard from, more than hun,
dred miles to the north and within
thirty miles of the outskirts Of
Chicago. Manhattan is in Will
County. Here there is one dead and
six injured.
At Elwood, close to Manhattan
much property damage was done
but no one was killed. The casualty
list includes only four injured.
At Modestos in Macoupin County,
inEast Illinois, more than a hundred
miles east of Mattoon, there is one
dead and nine others are probably
fatally injured, together with many
less seriously hurt
AT Pearl, in Pike County, neal
Modesto, there are five injured, one
of whom will die.
Throughout the State there have
been numerous fatalities from tor.
nadoes at isolated farm houses.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
Flags to Order

The beautiful display Of the flags
of the Allies at the church on Sun
day in connection with the flag
raising ceremony deserves a word Of
comment in SO loyal community
as this. The flags were made to
order ON the spur of the moment
for the special occasion. 1t was
found to be impossible to get such
aags short OF San Francisco or New
York; whereupoa Mrs. Broadbent
came to the rescue with ready wit
and deft fingers, and 10! in a few
days the flags were made, French,
Russian, Belgian, Italian. japanese
and Rumanian. Although we are
a cosmopolitan community, this
was doubtless the first time that
most of us have seen several of
these flags; doubtless also it will
not be the last.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
Anxious First Aiders

A meeting of the First Aid Class
on Friday afternoon was devoted to
a general review of the course, pre-
paratory to the examination, which
will be given by DR.. Kuhns, of Kea-
LA, next Friday, and which in the
meantime hangs like a Damocles
sword over the most OF the class;
quite unnecessarily we believe, as
every one of them will pass with
flying colors.
At the close of the meeting the
President, Mrs. w. Ii. Grote, pre-
sented DIR. Putnam with a valuable
alligator-skin travelling bag, in re-
cognition of his services to the class,
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
The Koloa Cantata

The good people of Koloa are
working hard on the Snow White
cantata for production the second
of June at the Koloa Hall. There
are daily rehearsals and the affair
is rapidly assuming the proportions
OF fine finish. There are bated
breath whisperings among the chill
dren concerning costumes of Won
drous beauty and strange accessories
of the stage and all Koloa is on the
tip toe of expectation.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
To the Public

When sending communications,
orders for subscriptions, advertise
ments, job work, etc. to this Office,
please address envelope to The Gar
den Island Publishing Co., Ltd, or
The Editor, Garden Island Pub,
Co. Ltd DO not address orders to
individuals, as the person to whom
the envelope is addressed may be
thereby causing a delay in
getting communication or orders in
the office.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
Birth Certificates Important

Hon, Wade Warren Thayer, ex-
secretary of the Territory. was in
Lihue for a few days last week
closing up the registration of Orien-
tai birth certificates of his term of
office. There were, we understand,
some 30 or 40 cases to which he de-
voted his attention. These birth
certificates are important, since
they are the necessary basis of fu-
ture citizenship.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
Local and Personal Notes

Tomorrow will be decoration Day.
Gather up your flowers and dec
crate the graves of your beloved
dead.
Mrs. Kings Historical Society
"reminiscences, now running in this
paper are mighty good reading
don't fail to read them.
Mrs. G. A. Rice went to town by
the Kinau on Saturday to meet her
daughters who ale returning from
School at the Coast by the Wilhel-
nina on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fernandez of mov-
ing picture fame, who have both of
them been in the hospital for some
days are progressing nicely and
will soon be out.
The Lihue Hawaiian Sunday
school were guests of the Union
Sunday school at the flag raising on
Sunday. They added much to the
interest of the occasion.
Honolulu advices quote Mortimer
Lydgate as President elect of his
class at Punahou for the coming
year; also he will be chairman from
his class of the school council for
the year
Mr.. John Waterhouse, of the firm
of Alexander and Baldwin was on
the island last week making his
regular round Of the A. and B. in
terests. He reports them as being
in very satisfactory condition.
Col. and Mrs. G.. P. Wilcox and
family went to town by the Mauna
Loa on Tuesday. They were to
have gone by the Kinau on Saturday
but their little girl Alice wouldn't
miss the childrens services on Sun
day in which she participated.
The frankness of children is re-
freshing, in the midst of a world of
conventions. One OF the smallest,
as well rs one of the best, of the per-
formers in the Sunday service, on
being assured that he had done
splendidly replied; Il know it,"
Why notl
Rev. Akaiko Akana of Honolulu,
C.. E. President for Hawaii, has
been spending few days in Lihue
I'm the interest of the local societies,
and the Hawaiian church here. He
preached a strong sermon Sunday
morning on the Resurrection. In
the evening he visited the Kapaa
church where he conducted a very
acceptable evening service.
Miss Roselle Faast, whom many
of us remember very pleasantly as
popular teacher in the Lihue public
school few years ago, and who has
since been connected, in the same
capacity, with Kawaiahao, has been
Tor the last year or more recuperat-
ing in Pasadena. She is now quite
herself again, and is returning this
Fall to her position at Kawaiahao,
where she has been greatly missed.
The modest Sunday school hall
for which the good people of Koloa
are working so hard is really very
much needed, that the small chill
dren may have their exercises by
themselves, instead of in the pande-
monlun of the general school. The
hall will also be a god-send for So
cial affairs that are somewhat out
OF place in the church. 1t is worthy
cause and the Koloa people seldom
trouble their neighbors for help.
Hear their cry when they say come
over and help us Saturday evening!
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
A Beautiful Year Book

We are in receipt of the year
book of the Honolulu Military Aca-
danny for 1917; a beautifully illus
trated book of some 40 pages that
does credit to all concerned. We
Judge that every student of the In
stitution, as well as the faculty
figure in its pages in artistic illus
tration; and bonny set of kids"
they are; We mean the boys not the
faculty. If the Honolulu Military
Academy ranks with its year book
it is all right!
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29

The march OF progress still con-
tinues at Koloa. A new general
store, though of modest proportions,
has sprung up on Church street, if
that is its name; and the concrete
foundations of a commodious new
garage for DR.. Waterhouse are in
evidence. The store counts on catch
ing the passing trade of the school
going to and from school.
Expensive dress goods will not be
carried.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
FOLLOW STORM IN ILLINOIS
Whole lawns Levelled to the Ground
and Thousands Of People Made
Homeless.

Chicago May 27More than thousand people have been killed
during the hours throughout Illinois the result of
series oadoes that have struck here and there with
The number injured great that the and
of the towns devastated utterly unable cope with the de-
upon them all available medical
assistance possible beug rushed into the stricken districts
nearby cities.
Many thousands of people r. homeless.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29

The communication, in another
column, from P. B. P. is along the
right line and is especially
timely and appropriate. 1t COM
mends that practical kind of
patriotism that must stand behind
and give significance to any other
kind if we are to be really patriotic,
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29

Mr.. G. T. Gregg, head bookkeep-
er for the Hawaiian Sugar Co. leaves
for the Coast today. He will go to
Palo Alto where his family are,
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
Red Cross Meeting

AT a business meeting of the Red
Cross organization held May %, the
work which has been done was dis
cussed. The treasurer reported that
S450.75 has been collected by sub
scription. This money has been
spent in buying materials to make
and fill comfort bags for the soldiers.
Two hundred bags of khaki have
been made by the ladies of Lihue.
One hundred more bags are well
started and will probably be finish
ed by Thursday of this week.
The president asked the secretary
to read several letters from the Ha-
waiian Allied War Relief Committee
urging Kauai to form a unit of this
larger organization so that all the
relief work in the Islands in the
line of hospital supplies, etc. may
be under the direction of one head,
thus concentrating and strengthen
ing the work. Hawaii and Maui
have already formed units of the
committee. After discussion it was
decided not to act upon this matter
until more definite information has
been received in regard to the work
of this committee and the relation
of each unit to it
Will all of the ladies interested in
Red Cross work, come to the lanai
shed at the Union church on Thurs
day from nine until twelve, and
from three until five and bring their
scissors, thimbles and any scraps of
material, whether woolen or cotton,
that they have. This material will
be cut up and used to fill small pill
lows for the wounded.
DIR, Judd, who has just returned
from the front, recommends the
making and sending of these pillows,
which are greatly needed.
The making Of bandages, kits and
pillows will b e continued every
Thursday until farther notice,
By Authority.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29
Cuardsmen Receive Paw

The members of Co. "B" 4th
Regt. who were detailed to guard
the wireless station for five days
last month, received their pay at
Lihue armory Thursday evening.
Each enlisted man on the guard
drew $500 per day of twenty-four
hours. This is the first pay to be
received by any part of the 4th
Regiment since its organization.
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-05-29

s. NJ. Walter, representing the
Upiohn Co., medicinal purveyors,
of San Francisco, made a business
tour of the island last week.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-05
APPLY Lime TO
SOUR SOILS
Easy Way to Find Out Whether
the Soil on Your Farm
Needs Lime
TRY OUT A SMALL PATCF
II the Soil Needs Lime, Then Lime
Must Be Applied or the Farmer
Loses Money on Every Crop Grown
Leaumes Need Sweet Soil.

If you want to find out whether lime
is of use to the soil on your farm try
this: put some on clover or alfalfa
match. Use two tons of ground lime
stone rock to the acre just a few
weeks before seeding the clover or the
alfalfa. Watch the crop for the an
swer.
If the growth of the clover or alfalfa
is stimulated and heavier cutting Sc
cured the land probably needs lime.
Even if the lime should improve only
the clover crop directly, the soil would
be improved and the subsequent crops
made better. But most other crops will
be improved directly, also.
All legumes contain considerable
lime, and the clovers and alfalfa, In
particular, require a neutral or aka
line soil for the best development OF
the bacteria which assist the plant in
securing nitrogen from the air.
1t is possible that poor success with
red clover or alfalfa may be due to
other causes as we'll as to lack OF lime.
Such failures which can not be ex'
planned on the ground of unfavorable
season, lack of the proper plant food
and crop rotation, or poor water-hold'
ing capacity of the soil, clearly indi'
cate that the soil is acid.
The presence of red sorrel in a clio
yer field is another indication that the
soil has an acid tendency. Lining
however. will not necessarily exter
inmate sorrel if there is poor stand
of clover. The absence of sorrel on
most lined lands shows that the extra
growth of clover, due to the lining
has crowded out the sorrel,
The litmus method OF testing soils
for acidity is fairly reliable Acid
turns blue litmus paper red, Place 6
piece of litmus paper between two
shallow sheets of filter paper. Breal
open a moist clod of earth and place
the paper between and press the pieces
of the clod together. After a few min
utes examine the litmus paper. If Il
has turned pink or red, the soil is acid
if the paper remains blush, the soil II
neutral. Care should be taken II
handling litmus paper Take hold o
the end OF the strip of litmus papel
with dry hands
Litmus paper and filter paper may b.
| obtained from most any drug store
]. c. McAmis, Soil Specialist, Division
of Extension, University of Tennessee
Knoxville.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-05
WHY DO YOU KEEP C0WS7
Pertinent Questions Asked Farmers
BY State Livestock Specialist.

The dairyman keeps cows to con-
vert the cheap roughage of his farm
into milk and butter to sell, and into
manure to keep up the fertility Of his
land.
The beefman keeps cows to convert
the cheap roughage of his farm into
calves to sell, and into manure to keep
up the fertility Of his land.
The dairyman should keep cows,
such as Holsteins, Jerseys, etc, that
are efficient producers of dairy
products.
The beefman should keep cows, such
as Shorthorns, Herefords. Angus, etc,
that produce good calves.
The dairyman should breed his cows
to a dairy-bred bull The beefman
should breed his cows to beef-bred
bull.
Purebred bulls should always be
used. High-grade cows are as econOm-
ical producers Of milk or beef as pure
breds.
A uurebred bull will increase the
value OF the calf crop $40 per calf.
or $500 per year. for herd Of 80 cows.
R NJ. Murphy, Livestock Specialist.
division or Extension. University or
Tennessee, Knoxville.