The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1918-02-19
Local and General

mill.
John Edgar, second assistant light
house keeper at Kilauea, was vlsitor
at Lihue Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hustace, of Honolulu
are visiting their son, F. T. Hustace.
of Grove Farm, Lihue.
The tax rate for Honolulu this year
is $1.S3; for Hawaii S1.S6; for Maui,
$1O5; for Kauai, $1.S1.
The Kapaa homesteaders are cut
ting their cane and hauling to, the
McBryde sugar mill
A. Hebard Case has received his ap'
pointment as agent to represent the
federal government on Kauai IN 1000
administration service.
Weinzheimer, who has been having
much pilikia on Maui, was formerly
section boss on the McBryde sugar
plantation on this island.
The grand jury is in session today.
Hofgaard, Company store at Walmea,
was elected foreman, and kale1 Mont
gomery is bailiff.
r. w. Christmas, the artist, is over
at Hanalei bay, sketchnig. He is max
ing his final tour before leaving Tor the
states. He will exhibit few OF his
paintings in Lihue in a few days.
Professor F. T. Dillingham;, OF the
College of Hawaii, was visitor TO LII
hue last week. He came over TO ad'
dress the Mohikana Club, and spoke
on "The principal classes OF FOODS.
Mrs. Dillingham; accompanied MIN.
Bv special arrangement, Rev. Solo
mon X Kaulili will assme the care ol
the Waimea Hawaiian church two
SUNDAYS a month, and portion Of his
weekday time to the interests OF that
church.
Joseph Wyllie is the new chief en-
gineer for the Makaweli sugar mill.
He formerly held a similar position at
Papakeo mill on Hawaii, and prior to
that was chief engineer at sugar mill
in Louisiana.
The Makaweli store has recently
sold $1,000 worth of thrift stamps.
They have interested men in the var
ious camps, also, who are promoting
their sale. Some are buying regular
ly, paying from 81 to IS every month
out of their savings.
Persons having an income OF more
than $4,000 year should make their
returns promptly. A few have neg
lected the matter, and the officials
have considerably extended the time
for which filings may be made TO April
lst. The income tax must be PAID
fore June 1st.
Tie Lihue store returns to the Gus
toner five per cent or all sales mace
for cash, giving sales checks, which
are subsequently redeemed. The man
agement is now inviting customers
to help Uncle Sam by buying thrift
stamps with their cash purchase
checks.
A new unit of the Red Cross has
been organized by the Hawaiian WON
en- of Waimea, to meet regularly at the
lanai of the church and conduce work
along the familiar Red Cross lines.
Thus far some twenty-five women have
taken up the work, and they hope to
increase the membership to sixty.
U. S. Food Administrator J. F.. Child
has authorized the government agent
here. A. Hebard Case, to confscate
rice and other cereals, and offer them
for sale, paying to the owners thereon
the proceeds of the sale, in cases
where there is evidence that such food
products are being boarded in un'
reasonable quantities.
A car driven by some one from Ka-
loa was coasting down the grade be-
low the Lihue store, toward the sugar
mill, last Friday night, and ran into
a team which was coming around a
turn. The horse reared up, and when
he came down, his front feet went
through the glass wind shield. The
car was left by the roadside till late
on Saturday, when it was taken to a
garage for repairs.
The Japanese at Kapaia have form
ed society patterned after the Y. M.
c. A., to a certain extent although 1t
is a Bhuddistic society The members
have been doing considerable work
and are now actively engaged in a
along the line of food conservation,
campaign to buy thrift stamps. Rev.
II. Miyasaki is president of the Y. M.
S. II. A., the Japanese society. He
reports that the Japanese women are
nearly all actively engaged in Red
Cross work. NJ. Kanda is the editor
and proprietor of Japanese paper
devoted to the interests of the society.
The unusually strong kona wind
which prevailed on Sunday caused the
breakers and surf to run high on the
coast at Waimea. The Holekole Maru,
the launch owned by the Hofgaard
Company at Waimea, lifted and drag
ged her anchors, and was driven high
and dry on the beach. She was so
whipped around by the angry waters
that she sprang aleak, and was broken
and injured to such an extent as to be-
come total loss. The engine is being
removed, and ropes and other para
phernalia are being salvaged. The
launch cost something over $500.