The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1918-03-12
Local and General

A card party was given at the resi-
dence of w. Schultze at Kekaha on
Friday.
The heavy rains of the past few days
has delayed work in the cane fields, to
some extent.
Be sure to pay your income tax. The
government will catch you, if you
don't watch out
Professor McCluskey has moved into
the new cottage just completed in the
Kauai High School grounds.
Kapaa homesteaders are complain
| ing of loose stock breaking down their
| fences and raising Cain generally.
Grove Farm is raising some very
| fine celery. The stores on the Waimea
| side cannot get enough of it.
H. De Fries was in town this week
purchasing supplies. He is construct
ing teachers cottage at Kapaa.
George N. Wilcox went over to visit
old friends in Hilo, last week. Mr.
Wilcox was born in Hilo 7S years ago.
F. Riese, of Honolulu, agent for Lig-
gett & Myers, have been stocking up
the merchants of Kauai.
Very heavy rains have been falling
off and on during the past week in the
LihsIe district, and on Monday, rain
fell almost continuously.
The homesteaders are doing consid-
cradle work at Kalaheo. Mrs. E. A.
Knudsen is taking a lively interest in
the work, and keeps the workers sup
piled with material.
Films by Mary Pickford always at
tract a big audience. The show on
Thursday night had much larger at
tendance than usual. 1t was a clean,
humorous, and attractive film.
A number of Nawiliwili residents
gathered at the residence of Joseph
Lowell on Sunday, where a luau was
given in honor of little Henry Lowell,
whose first birthday occurred on that
date,
Invitations are out for st. Patrick's
Day social to be given by Lihue Union
Church next Friday evening. The af-
fair will take place at the Lihue Social
Hall.
w. H. Rice has decided to send
several head of cattle and fancy bred
swine for exhibition at the Territorial
Fair to be held at Honolulu from June
10th to 18th.
The homesteaders are doing con-
siderable Red Cross work at Kalaheo
Mrs. e. A. Knudsen of Waimea is TAX
ing a lively interest in the work, and
supplies the workers with raw ma
terial.
The heavy rains of the past few
days has delayed work in the cane
the old cane is ripe for the sickle, and
fields, even on the Waimea side, where,
the young cane have had rain enough
for the time being.
A number Of improvements are be-
ing made at Grove Farm. The black
smith shop has been moved into what
was formerly the tool house. The
old blacksmith shop has been torn
away and a store house is being erect
ed on the site.
Fred Dyson of Kekaha expects to
leave for the coast week from Friday,
to work in the shipyards. Mr.. Dyson
says, by the way, that he made no COM
plant to the draft board concerning
the classification given him. He was
allotted to Glass &c.
The Makaweli Store has put in a
stock of millinery, and milady no
longer has to go elsewhere to secure
a hat becoming to her complexion"
Carpenters are now engaged in max
ing show cases and the millinery de-
partment will have a section of its
own.
The Japanese warship TOkiwa was
off the Waimea coast Friday night, and
steamed up and down from Koloa to
Koloa, past Port Allen and out beyond
Waimea, flashing her searchlights all
around. She left at o'clock Satur-
day morning, without landing. Capt.
Morimoto is in command.
Miss Rose Schrepfer, the Rose of
Gilroy, who arrived from the mainland
early in January. to teach in the Koloa
school, is charmed with the climate,
the scenery and the people. She has
exchanged with another teacher, and
is now teaching in Makaweli.
Mrs. Hans Isenberg of Lihue has
donated to the County of Kauai tract
of land situated at Hanalei,to be used
as a park. A deed to the same has
been duly signed and recorded in the
Registry Office in Honolulu. The dona-
tion was accepted, with thanks to the
donor.