The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1918-03-05
Local and General

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The north-easter which prevailed last
Friday seemed very much like winter.
Nawiliwili Garage made delivery of
1918 Chevrolet Eight to DR.. Branch
last week.
Kalei Montgomery has been sick
abed, but is up and around again. You
can't keep good man down.
Nawiliwili Garage received a 1918
Hupmobile from the coast last week.
This is the first 1918 Hup to come to
the territory.
Mrs. William Bacle, who has for
many years ben a resident of Koloa,
died there last Saturday of pneumo.
MIA.
Artist Christmas is now in Waimea,
sketching in the Waimea canyon, and
painting some Of the grander scenes
for which that locality is famous.
Most every island Of the group has
gone wet" since the storm. Jupi-
ter Pluvius will go on a spree, once in
while.
Publicity concerning the National
Guard must henceforth come from the
military censor of the Hawaiian depart.
ment, Major H. c. Merriam, U S. A.
DR.. A. X. Hanchett, a brother of
Deputy Crowell was also called DR..
Hanchett, by the way, is a graduate of
the Harvard Medical School, in Bos-
ton.
There is in the Court House a
sandal wood chest in which docu-
ments were formerly stored 1t is
nearly seventy years old, but is still
in good condition.
Representative Harrison and Humph-
ries of Mississippi and Houston of Tex
as, are urging the President to appoint
Edward NJ. Watson, the Honolulu at,
torney, as Governor of Hawaii.
Notwithstanding that plowing by the
use of two stationary engines and a
cable was one of the earliest meth
DDS, it is still in use on the West Side
to some extent. The tendency now
is all toward the use of caterpillar
tractors.
Deputy Sheriff w. O. Crowell, of
Waimea, has been confined to his
bed a week or so with an attack of
pneumonia. He has been under the
care of Drs. Waterhouse and Tuttle,
and is now on the road to recovery.
Raymond c. Brown, p. o. Box 242,
Honolulu, wants the address of every
poultry raiser on Kauai. He is offer
ing prizes for the best exhibit of poul-
try at the coming Territorial Fair to
be held in Honolulu from June 10 to
Is.
Fred Dyson of Kauai appealed from
the decision of the Kauai board of
registration, to the district board. The
local board voted that his claim of
2 C be disallowed. The district board
found that he was a skilled farm labor
er, and that sustained his claim.
Some of the merchants are eXpe-
riencing great difficulty in securing
cereals in amounts which will ena-
BILE them to sell in the proportions
demanded by the Food Commissioner
1t is often impossible to procure the
necessary supplies. mo have got, how
can do?"
c. F. Smith and Eric Rasmussen
the two young Norweigans mentioned
recently as having arrived on Kauai
have Caught on" Mr.. Smith is EN-
ployed as a typewriter at the store
of Hofgaard & Co., at Waimea, and
Mr.. Rasmussen has accepted employ
ment as a luna for the Hawaiian Sugar
Company.
Mr.. Dawson recently visited the Hal.
ku plantation, on Maui. He declared
upon his return to Honolulu that he
had not yet made an offer for that
plantation, but that he had looked over
the field there. He added that he
might be able to say more within a
few days or week. He expects to re
main on the islands about two weeks
Spitz has the agency for various
makes of autos, and has recently taker
the agency for the new Chevrolet
eight, car that enjoys a great reputa
ton in the East. 1t is high-class ma
chine, both in appearance and action
and looks like a twenty-five hundred
dollar car. 1t is selling for $500, how
ever, and looks like it was richly wortl
the money.
Several parties went to Koloa Sun
day to see the Spouting Horn, but i
wasn't working On Saturday th'
waves dashed high on this side, bu
the weather was comparatively calm
on the Koloa side. On Sunday whale
of some proportions was plowing thrt
| the water about a thousand feet of
shore in the vicinity of the Spoutinl