The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1918-01-29
HAPPENINGS IN KOLOA, HOMESTEAD,
PORT ALLEN, MAKAWEuI, WA|MEA

month. During the month of Decem-
ber the business totalled the unex-
ampled sum of $4,000 There are
very few cities on the mainland of
ten times the size of Koloa trans
acting such a tremendous postotIiCe
business. The remarkable increase
is very largely due to the increased
wages which the laborers have been
making on the plantations as result
OF the share. or bonus system. re-
Gently put in operation. The Jap
anese, it is said are very liberal con
tributOrs to the support Of their less
fortunate relatives in the home land
A. Jacobs, manager Of the Kauai
Trading Company, at Koloa, has re-
Gently doubled the capacity Of the
store, and added a sky light. Trade
has increased to such an extent as to
demand the improvements noted. The
company also carries on lumber
yard garage, and other side lines
Mr.. Jacobs has been in the general
merchandise business since he was a
mere youth. He had chargee Of a
store in the Fiji Islands for twenty
years, and was in charge of the ship
ping and customs service. He came
to Kauai several months ago, and has
made many improvements.
Mr.. JACOBS is a British subject, and
is strongly pro-all.e. He has thirty
two relatives in the war, or did have
lost their lives at the front, one of
them having been a brother of Mrs.
Jacobs
The British have a regular line of
steamers running between Fiji and
India, and Mr.. Jacobs was enabled to
secure some very rare specimens of
Benares ware, and India brass ware,
some of which is very artistic indeed.
1t is all hand work, engraved with the
peculiar style of Indian art craft
He has a large assortment of this
work, which is now very scarce, and
in fact, unprocurablc at any price
Mrs. Jacobs has some cloisOnne ware,
which is the real old, genuine art
ware, which is now so rare, and of
which one finds many limitations.
Mrs. Jacobs is greatly Interested in
Red Cross work, and is teaching
of t,1gs
of the little folks can be seen at al
most any hour of the day, knitting
away industriOusly for those who are
lighting at the front that America may
continue to be the land of the free.
Elinor True a winsome maid who
has studied Delsarte movements and
the poetry of motion, has been pleas
ing the patrons of the Alexander
Young Hotel roof garden in Honolulu
for several months past. She has a
friend CSh-h-h, we don't dare tell his
name) who induced her to visit Kauai
and she will be the guest of Mrs l..
A. Knudsen Miss True will trip the
lShI ldhIaSIIC " hppI dlt music
somewhere along about February 5th
or 9Th. She will appear at Waimea
Hall, and once at Mrs Knudsen's.
Miss True was pupil Of Ruth St
Denis, who has an international repu-
tation as translator OF beautiful
motions and attractive poses. Her
dances are all OF the classic variety
She will not lack for an audience. Z.
But ElinOr. How could you pass
Lihue? There are plenty of chemists,
and agricultural experts, and attor-
neys, and newspaper men, and--well,
quite a number of people-here who-
would give d pretty penny to see you
brushing the early dows from some
of the pretty flowerembowcrcd lawns
beneath the cocoa groves and royal
palms of Lihue by tie sea to tho
pretty pleadings of a steel guitar