The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-10

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w. Jhamandas, a native Of India,
yesterday filed his declaration Of inten.
tion TO become citizen Of the United
States. {F - :.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle L. Copeland Of
1865 Parker Street, Manoa, welcomed
the arrival Of a daughter Wednesday
morning.
The treasurer 81 the public health
committee reports a balance to the
credit Of the tonnage tar fund on June
30 Of sse,4s5.s3. -. ) ~
Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Bailey, who have
been spending n lengthy Vacation on
the mainland, are expected to return
by the Manoa next week.
Thomas Saffery, charged with imper.
sonating federal officer yesterday was
bound over for trial under $2500 bail
by United States Commissioner Curry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred l.. waldron, now
on the mainland, will shortly begin n
tour Of the Pacific Coast States, accord.
ing to word received from them last
week.
The thirty.six lucky ones who drew
one OF the Kapaa homestead lots at the
drawings last Tuesday, will leave here
for Kauai to see their property next
Wednesday.
Paving Of Smith Street was com.
pleted yesterday by the Lord. Young
engineering Company under the front.
age tax plan. The same company is
now laying a squeeze coat on Lusitana
Street. rS..
Deputy Sheriff Julius Aseh will sub
init a request for four thousand auto.
mobile numbers and six hundred motor.
cycle numbers TO the next meeting of
the board of supervisors. They are for
next year. .t.... Il
Mrs. Nina L. d. Fraser, principal of
Kaiulani school, the largest public in.
stitution in the city, has been appointed
by Supt. Henry w. Kinney as a mem.
Der of the board of examiners of the
department Of public instruction.
Lieut.-Col. Richmond McA. Schofeld,
qoartermaster corps, in charge of army
construction work on Oahu, has been
named to succeed Col. james B. Hous.
ton, department quartermaster, ordered
yesterday afternoon to the mainland.
The first Island boy to register in
Philadelphia under the selective draft
is Peter Mitchell, Jr., son of Leonard |
Mitchell of this city. Young Mitchell
says in letter to his father, "I am
willing to fight for the flag which is |
flying over this country"
By failing to appear for trial in pc. |
lice court yesterday morning, James F. |
Williams, charged with assaulting |
Harry Sims of Heinie's Tavern, for. |
feited a bond of twenty. five dollars. II |
was said that he struck Officer J. B. |
Kramer also. p. ago, ..~
A. L. Larimer, 8. w. Robley, L. R.
Killam, +. J. DeClercq and F. 4. Stat
ford have been elected honorary mem.
bers of the Chinese Young People g
Oratorieal Association. These men
have greatly assisted the organization
along educational lines.
Richard Quinn and Prof. Arthur R.
Keller, College of Hawaii, and Harold |
H. Yost, former manager of the Mills
School Farm, have been notified that
the war department has commissioned |
them in the reserve. Quinn is q major |
of engineers, Keller is a captain of en-
gineers and Yost is a lieutenant of in |
fantry. .'....
Brig. Gen. Henry C. Hodges has re.
ceived his orders to report for duty as |
commander Of the troops quartered at |
the Preside, San Francisco. He prob. |
ably will leave on the Sheridan late
this month, together with some forty !
or fifty officers now under orders to |
proceed to the mainland for duty. Gen
eral Hodges came here as colonel, com.
handing the First Infantry. r "~ |
The members of the Association of |
the Sacred Heart of Jesus tender their |
thanks to those whose support contrib |
uted to the success of the benefit for |
the Kalihi Orphanage. The officers of |
the association, who also took charge Of |
the benefit fair, are Mrs. Lily Guerrero,
Mrs. Amoe Chuck Hoy, Mrs. j. Z. Shaw,
Miss NJ. NJ. KamOani, Miss M. Makina |
lopa, Mrs. Kahoano and Mrs. Apemoku.
In reconstrueting the Royal Hawaiian
Hotel, which will soon be known as the /
Army and Navy Y. NJ. G. A. quarters
for one thousand men will be provided.
The long lanais on both floors facing |
the court, will be converted into dor
mitories for men who happen to be
caught in town for the night. These
beds are in the open air and it is said
that not more than thirty.fve cents a
night will be charged for them.
Dwellers in that little pocket Of Wal
kiki blocked off from the outer world
by the barbed wire barriers of the De
Russy military reservation will be glad
to know that the city water depart.
ment is trying to have a six inch main
laid along Ena Road. At present the
supply is inadequate both for fire pro
lection and the domestic supply. A
request from the department TO the su-
pervisors for $4,000 with which to make
the change was referred last night to
committee for report and recommends.
tion. ..... T.. d.