The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1918-09-17
Local News
Gathered from here and there

Word has just been received that
Lieut.. Philip l.. Rice was to-day pro-
NOTED to captancy.
e. c. Roberts has been quite seri-
ously i'll for the past two weeks. He
was taken to the hospital last Satur-
day.
Mildred Hogg has entered Mills Col
lege, Oakland, Cal, where she took a
high stand for scholarship in the en-.
trance examinations. She stood a.
mong the first five of ninety contest
ants.
Under date of August 31st, Governor
Mccarthy has reappointed Judge ]. L..
Hjorth of the Lihue District Court, for
another two years.
George Hogg is at the Seattle Naval
Training station, and Alexander Hogg
has entered Corvallis Military school
They are all making good.
There will be no eigth grade in the
Lihue High School this year. There
will be a combination eighth grade in
the Lihue public school
The Kauai Fruit & Land Company
have just about closed their canning
season, with an output of 10000
cases. This is their record pack.
An Industrious tractor is busily en-
gagged day by day plowing up a con-
siderable tract to the east of the road
in the Gap prospective to crop of
cane.
Kauai is being represented in the
Pan-Pacific convention in Honolulu by
Mr.. Eric Knudsen, who will speak on
Kauai and her Chamber of Com
merce."
Board Of Health President S. s.
| Paxson, recently returned to Honolulu
from Kauai, reports that conditions
here were deplorable and tuberculosis
spreading.
The County Treasurer has received
| fifty more drivers badges, numbering
| from $50 to 400. All those desiring
badges will please apply at the Treas
urer's Office.
f. Wolf superintendent of the Kaua:
Fruit & Land Company cannery at
Laval, departed Saturday for Homo
lulu and the volcano. He Will be gone
| two weeks.
There will be no eighth grade this
year in the Lihue High School. The
lack will be met by an eighth grade in
the Lihue Public School, which will
serve both institutions.
The overcrowded condition of the
Mahelona Hospital at Kapaa, and the
increasing demands on it's capacity
and service will probably result in
some additions to its force and equip
ment.
Mrs. Alfred Yap, who has been
spending some weeks on Kauai, re-
turned to town last Saturday. Mrs.
Yap was formerly Miss Aloiau of Ka-
paia, where. she was most deservedly
popular.
Lieut. A. McBoyle came over from
Honolulu last Tuesday and returned
Saturday. He successfully passed the
examinations recently held at Scho-
field Barracks and will be attached to
Co. B., 1st Regiment.
There are seven new teachers in the
Koloa public schools from San Jo,c,
viz: the Misses Neff, Guishard, Lam
bert, Johnson, Armstrong and Dorsey.
They will add very materially to the
social interest of Koloa.
The death of Dr. T. Mitamura in
Honolulu is reported. DR.. Mitamura
was for many years government and
| plantation doctor at Kilauea, and will
be we'll remembered by old residents.
A message received by Judge Lyle
A. Dickey yesterday brought the sad
news of the death, by scalding, of his
nephew, Herbert A. Dickey, of Pied
mont, California. He was the son of
| C. w. Dickey, and was born in Homo
lulu. He was nineteen years of age
and was a student at the University
Of California, and was preparing to go
into training for the aviation service.
The Lihue Public School teachers,
at least those who have not homes of
their own, have combined to form a
club have secured competent help.
and will live on the fat of the land,
! free from the exacting and exhausting
cares of housekeeping
Miss Katherine Mcintyre is back
again from her vacation visit to her
home in Southern California. She
will hold a responsible position in the
Lihue Public School.