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Mies Elsie Wilcox
While Some One gives
his LIFE what are
YOU giving?
When you buy War
Savings Stamps you
do two things, you
help your country and
yourself. Put your
money in the govern
ment's hands.
think a minute
All of the Red Croto War
Fund (coctfor Wr.r Relief
ESTABLISHED 1904. VOL. 15. NO. 11.
LIHUE, KAUAI, TERRITORY OF HAWAII, TUESDAY. MARCH 18, 1919
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IMHnlis lartu
THE PUU KA PELE
MOUNTAIN PARK
In regard to the Waimea moun
tain park, Mr. Morngne reports
that lie met with very gratifying
success in his recent trip to Hono
lulu. He went before the Board
of Agriculture and Forestry with
the scheme as worked out by the
Chamber of Commerce and Plant
ers' committees, and found them
not only favorable but very en
thusiastic, and ready to lend all
the assistance they could. They
agreed on the metes and bounds
of a tract of JIG acres, as run out
by Mr. Moragne, and recommend
ed to the Governor that this be
withdrawn from the forest reserv
ation and set aside lor. park pur
poses, and then be turned over to
the County of Kauai for Ibis pur
pose, to be administered by the
Hoard of Supervisors.
Governor McCarthy was 'then
interviewed in the matter, and be
also was in hearty accord with"
the scheme.
That everything may be done
regularly and in order, and be
above, adverse criticism, it-will be
necessary to advertise the pro-
posed withdrawal from the Forest
Beservation and set a date of
public hearing of the same, which
will be held in Honolulu on April
2nd.
The Flu And The
Portuguese Societies
0 The standing of the Portuguese
benefit societies, the Lusitann and
the San Antonio, is being threat
ened by the Spanish influenza.
These societies have been conduct
ed on a basis of ordinary mortal
ity and hardly have the reserves
to carry them through a period of
high mortality. These benefit
societies were started years ago
when the immigrants were in the
prime of life, and the death pay
meats were comparatively few.
Now, with the old people passing
away, and. inlluenza taking a large
toll, the resources of the societies
are being severely tried.
The dues are $2.50 a year, and
the death beneiit of $1500, and
$12.00 a week during sickness
and ' it is becoming increasingly
evident that the dues must be in
creased or the benefits reduced.
As there is no large fund out of
which these payments can be
made, so that they really depend
mainly' on dues, the shoe pinches
very quickly in a time of excess
ive mortality.
The societies will probably be
reorganized on regular standard
insurance lines, with dues rated
according to actual risk. At pres
ent the dues are the same for all
without reference to age or phy
sical condition.
To Reinstate Lahaina
C. YV. Carpenter, pathologist of
the l S. Experiment Station in
Honolulu, has discovered what he
.fc: believes to be the cause of the La
haina cane disease, and that he is
on the track of a remedy for the
same. The thorough testing out
of the same, however, will take
some time. Meanwhile he is
keeping the details to'hiniself, in
order that his discovery may not
be filched away from him. If it
turns out to be all that he claims
for it, it will be a very valuable
find for Hawaii..
Local News
Gathered from here and there
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Agustus Knudsen returned to
Kauai by the Kinau this morning.
S. S. Paxson of the board of
health, is down presumably on tin
matters.
S. S. Taylor of the ratten Sta
tionery Company, is down tin a
business trip.
Dr. Branch is installing a tine
modern, up-to-date X-ray outfit in
his dental office for use in his
profession.
Frank Crawford returned this
morning and reports his wife as
lining nicely after her operation
a week or so ago. She will remain
in town two or three weeks longer.
Percy Deverill of the Bank of
Hawaii, Honolulu, is down for a
couple of weeks or so handling the
branch here during the absence of
Mr. Crawford.
A convenient addition has been
made to the Kapaa school kitchen
in the way of a battery of long
tables on the lawn, where the
children may eat their school
lunch in comfort.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Farley went
to town on Saturday where. Mr.
Farley will attend the regular an
nual meeting of the tax collectors
equalization board. They will be
in town ten days or so.
I-. II. Malm, assistant book
keeper of the Lihue Store, return
ed on Friday, having been hon
orably discharged from the serv
ice, lie resumes his position in
the store.
Mr. Adam Lindsay is spending
a few weeks on Kauai, mainly at
Kekaha and Lihue visiting friends
and relatives. lie was in charge
of the Ililo branch of Davies &
Company for years, and is now in
business in Oregon.
Mrs. Erie Knudsen was the
motif for several very delightful
dinners and, parties during her
visit to Kauai, among them being
a dinner by Mr. and Mrs. Danford
and a dinner and informal dance
and beach party by Mrs. Guy Kan-
kin.
C. F. White, of E. O. Hall &
Son, visited Kauai merchants
last week. Mr. "White was aceoni
panied by his wife, who will be
remembered by many on Kauai as
Miss Vincent, sister of Harry
Vincent, former wireless operator
'at Lihue.
Mrs. Maud de Brettville Thomp
son, principal of Kalaheo school,
is visiting her home in Lihue dur
ing the enforced vacation caused
by the closing of her school on ac
count of the tin.
Mrs. W. II. Bice, who has
charge of the distribution of eggs
and milk to the tin victims of
Lihue district, says that to date,
over 2,000 eggs have been distrib
uted through her depot. These
eggs are donated by the good peo
pie who have chickens. Some of
them go to the length of sending
in all they raise and go outside
to buy eggs for their own use.
Committee Sees Harbors
Senators Coney and Shingle
arrived by the Kinau as a special
Senatorial committee in connect
ion witli the Xawiliwili and Ka
paa harbor schemes. In company
with a number of other interested
parties they spent the morning at
Xawiliwili and vicinity where
wharf and warehouse sites and
rights of way are required. They
had lunch at the Coney's and then
went over to Kapaa to look over
the harbor site there. They re
turn to town tonight.
The Flu Situation
Is Much
In nearly all sections of the Is
land there is a decided improve
ment -in the llu situation, the
number of cases being much few
er and the type growing milder.
Maliutccli
Here the situation is very much
unproved and the end seems to be
tin sight. There are about 100
cases in the hospital, but very
nild and they are being rapidly
(reduced as only two or three cases
a day come in and a goodly numb
er are released.
It will probably be a matter of
only a few days when there will
be practically none left. There
havojieen in all 40 deaths.
Lihue
At Lihue it still hangs on just
about as reported last week, with
70 cases in the hospital, S2 in the
Armory and 22 in the convales
cent, 174 in all. Very few, if any,
are serious cases. One death, the
The Outdoor Circle for Kauai
Having proved a great success
in Honolulu the Out Door Circle
is now being extended to the
other islands, and Mrs. Erie
Knudsen has been appointed as
organizing head for Kauai.
Mrs. Knudsen, in turn, has ap
pointed leaders for each district
throughout the island, who will
explain the aims and purposes of
the organization, interest others
in the same, and secure members,
on the basis of an annual fee of
$1.00.
The work of the Outdoor Circle
will appeal to every one who
wants to see a luore artistic and
attractive Island, and who enjoys
the iiner tilings of life, as, of
course, we all do.
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The Garden Island, Ford car is
being equipped with a "Master
Starter, that wonderful little ar
rangement that puts the Ford in
the $1,000 class. "Jaek" Berg
strom is the local agent. See him.
It's Dead Easy
By Vuuijhan
I
"It's dead easy" to criticize the
public schools. Xo other institu
tion, except the church, is so ex
posed to attacfc from every quar
ter, as are public schools. Any
body can find something wrong
with the schools. Anybody can
think of some teacher who is"no
good," of some principal who
ought to be "fired," of some school
that is "going to the dogs." Any
body can sit down and convince
you, in five minutes of vitrolic con
versation, that the schools are a
dismal failure, that the teachers
don't earn their pay, and that the
administration is a screaming
farce. Anybody can do this. It
is dead easy.
Constructive suggestions and
helpful advise require real
thought. Optimism requires a
smile and a good heart. Faith in
the schools as the only real sal
vation of democracy demands the
forward look. Ability to see be
yond petty personalities into the
splendid big sweep of events re
quires the upward vision.
We men and women of Hawaii,
of many tongues and races, are
secretly mighty proud of our
school svsteiu. We know that the
Improved
first for Lihue, was reported dur
ing the week in the person of Joe
Freitas of llananiaulu.
Koloa
Has about 20 cases in the hos
pital, mostly mild. There have
been live deaths. One of these,
Mrs. Souza, is particularly sad as
she leaves a family of 7 children,
mostly small. She was a sister
of doe. Freitas who died last week
at the Armory in Lihue. Her
husband is also a victim of the
(14 sense, but is recovering.
Kcrr
There are some 50 cases in the
Eleele hospital, mostly mild and
well in hand. There has been one
death.
There has also been one death in
llanapepe, Mrs. Tan Wo.
ftlscirhcrc,
Elsewhere on the island there
nre only a few scattering cases
mostly of the very mild type.
Kapaa Harbor Plans
The proposed development of
the Kapaa harbor as it .now Juts
been decided upon, Mr. Bigelow,
superintendent of public works,
says, contemplates constructing
an entrance channel 150 feet wide
and having a minimum deptli of
25 feet leading into a protected
dredged area of about 500 feet
Wide and 700 feet long.
It is proposed to construct a
wooden deck wharf 50 feet wide
and 150 feet long, approximately
one-half of it to be covered with a
shed. The wharf would be con
nected with the shore by a wooden
deck approach supported by con
crete piles, the approach to be 700
feet long and 14 feet wide and
carrying a narrow gauge railway
track.
The estimated cost of the im
provement is placed by Mr. Bige
low at 182,000.
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Mrs. Hogg is laid up in the bos
pital, a victim to the popular di
sease, the llu. She will be home in
a few days.
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Mao Vuuyhcy
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schdols are "making good." We
know that the schools of Hawaii
have a record which compares
most favorably with that of many
other regions. We are proud of
education in Hawaii, proud of
that finest product of democracy?
the school.
IT'S EASY TO HELP THE
SCHOOLS. They belong to every
one. It's easy to say the kindly
word to the teacher; to lend the
helping baud to the principal. It's
easy to get acquainted with your
local teachers, not as government
employees, but as teal men and
women. Xot as people who have
glaring faults and defects, but as
human folks just like the rest of
us. Get acquainted with your
teachers; remembering that their
main job is not money-getting nor
personal advancement, but the
building of ft better and more
prosperous Hawaii, not for them
selves, but for the boys and girls
of your home community. Pros
perity is built only upon intelli
gence, and intelligence is the busi
ness of tin; schools. In Hawaii,
jhe Land of Aloha, our schools
should be centers of mutual un
derstanding and goodwill.
How the Soldier is
to Get the Bonus
Section 140(5 of the U. S. Bcv
enue Act approped Fein-nary 2t,
101!), authorizes the payment' of
a bonus of $(!0.!I0 to olliccrs, sol
diers, field clerks and nurses of
the army upon honorable dis
charge from active service.
As most of the Kauai soldiers
were discharged before this act
was passed, it is necessary, in
order to get the bonus, for a
Kauai soldier to write a letter to
the Zone Finance oflicer, Lemon
Building, Washington, I). C, en
closing the discharge certificate
and stating his service in the
army, the date of discharge and
his present address.
The Bed Cross secretary at Ho
nolulu has sent to Judge Dickey,
chairman of the Kauai Branch of
the Bed Cross, 500 blank forms
for such letters and the Bed Cross
will ,without charge, help all sold
iers to get their bonus. These
forms are being distributed by
Judge Dickey to A. G. Kaulukou
and Eric A. Knudsen, members of
the Legal Advisory Board, and to
associate members of the Legal
Advisory Board and others who
are Bed Cross workers, and blank
forms and help may be obtained
from any of the following: Ke
kaha, Erie A. Knudsen, F. II.
Aaser; Waimea, -C. B. Hofgaard;
Makaweli, Sinclair. Bobinson, II.
X. Browne; Elotle, Karl Boen-
dahl, McBryde Sugar Company
otllce; Koloa, John Bush, Koloa
Sugar Company oflice; Lihue,
Judge Lyle A. Dickey, A. G. Kau
lukou, Lihue Plantation otllce,
(trove Farm oflice; Kealia, II. T.
Barclay; Kil;.;ea, L. D. Larsen;
Hanalci, William Werner.
Through haste in discharging;
many of the discharge certificates
of Kauai soldiers do not have the
final payment stamp which should
appear in the lower left hand
corner of the front side of the
certificate. If it is neither there
nor on the back, the discharge
certificate must first be sent to
the Quartermaster Hawn. Dept.,
U. S. A., Honolulu, to have same
put on, before it is forwarded to
Washington for the bonus.
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Hawaiian Mills for Philippines
The Catton, Xeill Company of
Honolulu, is coming to be one of
the leading sugar engineering con
cerns in the country. It has re
cently completed and shipped to
the Philippines a complete 500
ton, 12 roller mill for the Isabella
.plantation on the island of Xegros
which is now
there.
being installed
They have now in hand a 1500
ton, 15 roller plant for the Maao
Central Company, of the Philip
pines, which will be by all odds
the largest plant there, and most
modern and complete in every re
spect. This mill will be construct
ed witli a view to enlarging its
capacity to 11000 tons of cane a
day. Both of these Central com
panies will be largely conducted
by George II. Faircliild, formerly
of Kealia. He is president of one
company and vice-president of the
other.
Miss Sidlowski leaves this after
noon for Honolulu where she will
recuperate for a few weeks to re
cover her strength after a siege
of the flu.
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A. W. Bottomley and G. P. Wil
cox of the American Factors, ar
rived by the Kinau this morning
on plantation business, and will
return this afternoon.
JOE FREITAS
PASSES AWAY
We regret to have to chronicle
the deatli of Joe Freitas of liana-
maulii, at the Armory on Wed
nesday morning last. His was a
case that created a good deal of
interest, and awakened much
sympathy, because of the wonder
ful fight that he made for life,
long after it was supposed th-.fl he
had no chance. It was a case of
Spanish influenza of the pneu
monic form.
Born on the Island, he had been
for many years in the employ of
the Lihue Plantation where he
was a valued member of the steam
plow gang. He was fin uncom
monly genial and happy disposi
tion, and a general favorite. He
leaves a wife and live children,
the oldest about eight years old.
The widow is a frail little woman,
S li a delicate stale of health, con
sequent on several operations, and
51 will go hard with the family.
They will be entitled to a $1500
benefit payment from the Portu
guese benefit society, but there
may be difficulty about collecting
'this amount because of the ex
cessivc demands on the society at
this time. It is understood, how
ever, that the plantation will treat
the family liberally, and see that
they do not really suffer.
District Court Notes
In the District Court of Lihue.
Silverio Beocobo, Filipino, charg
ed with larceny in the second de
gree, to-wit: having stolen $21.0-')
and $15.00 from friends and spent
the money in joy riding, pleaded
guilty to both charges and was
given a six months sentence in
jail on each charge.
In the matter of Komolole Ka
paka Scott vs Kealii Makanani
Kaiawe and Kaheana Kaiawe, her
husband, action in Bcplcviu, the
case was heard on the Hi and 11
before Judge Hjorth, S. K. Kaeo,
Esq., appearing for plaintiff and
P. L. Bice, Esq., attorney for de
fendants. The Court gave judge
ment for plaintiff witli order for
restitution of the property in dis
pute, a colt valued at 40. At
torney for defendants noted an
appeal to the Circuit Court.
One Louis, a Filipino from llan
aniaulu, found toting a loaded re
volver, forfeited bail in the sum
of twenty-five dollars and lost his
gun.
Koney Yu, Korean, charged
with driving an automobile for
hire without license was lined ten
dollars and cost of court. Having
no money to pay his fine he was
sent to jail for 111 days.
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.lx h'nttdttvi) l'evisits Kauai
Mrs. Eric Knudsen was an in
eomiif& passenger on the Kinau
Tuesday morning having come
down for a few days ii the Koloa
ranch and beach house, also a day
at "Hoea," where Mrs. Knudsen
wanted to pack some of the furni
ture for their new home, "Boslyn"
on Judd St. Mr. Knudsen having
recently purchased a beautiful
home for his family, while the
children are in school in Hono
lulu. The Ivuudscus are being greatly
missed from Kauai circles as they
kepi open house and their home
was always the motive for 'some
interesting event. We are losing
a good worker, in Mrs. Knudsen,
as she was always into tilings up
to date and Honolulu is indeed
lucky in their new addition.
