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jfv ESTABLISHED 1904. VOL. 17. NO. 32. LIHUE,. KAUAI, TERRITORY OF HAWAII, TUESDAY. AUGUST 16, 1921 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.50 PER YEAR 5 CENTS PER COPY BREAKWATER MAY EC The equipment for (lie Nawili will breakwater project wan con Hi'rably increased by the arriv al of the rock cars last week. The light house tender Kukui towed over the barge with the cars aboard from Honolulu. This equipment puts the breakwater force in position to begin acta nl work on the breakwater some time within three weeks and the laying of the first stone will take place very sliortly. It is planned to make the lay ing of the first stone the cause of a big celebration, and as pres ident of the Kauai Chamber of Commerce, Judge Dickey jour neyed to Honolulu to invite Gov ernor Farrington and other tor ritorial officials to attend the celebration. It is hoped that lie will be successful in his mission ar.d that the governor will not be too busy with official busi ness to attend. The breakwater is the result of years of effort on the part of the Chamber of Commerce and individuals on Kauai to obtain a real harbor for this island. With the completion of the pro ject Kauai will have a harbor scf.uid to none in the territory. It is the intention of the Cham ber of Commerce to have the day that the first stone is laid de clared a general holiday over the entire island and make the cele brat ion fitting to the importance of the occasion. It is hoped that all organizations will co-operate with the Chamber of Commerce to put the celebration over in the proper manner. The men in charge of the work at the breakwater have been during their wait for equip ment, digging a quarry so as to have everything ready t be gin work when the equipment, did nrrhe. Several hundred tons of large rock has been quarried and is now waiting for the cars to move. it. While innumerable tons of smaller rocks that are used to fill in between the larger ones is also ready. The arrival of the locomotive crane a few weeks ago has sum plified matters in regard to un loadinc the barges from Honolu lu. With the crane it is a sim plified matter to hoist any piece of machinery up to thirty tons ashore but it required no little engineering skill to unload the crane itself as it was about the first piece of hoisting machin ery to arrive. During their stay in Nawili wili harbor waiting for the barge to be unloaded the Kukui crew was busy marking the new channel with permanent buoys and it now takes on something .l the appearance of a real har bor with the red and -black mark ing buoys in place. , :: REV OKUMURA COMING Itev. T. OUumura, pastor o tho , Makikl Japanese church and prlncl- pal of tho Japanese Christian Board-! ing School, Honolulu, will arrive on j Friday morning. On Sunday, Aug- ( ust 2lst, n picnic In his honor will , bo given at kukuiolono park. All former members of his congregation ar-' Echool aro cordially Invited. I CONCERT AND DANCE -j- KAPAA' V IELEBRATIQN The youi'g people of Kapaa are itself without needed funds. If grant-j giving a concert and danco on Sat-'odi lho i,lcreaso would affect about! ffilfBShUU,oAThrl.tu5h KmLavor telephone., and brings in an ad Society. ,JeJ rovenuo of 3,000 a year. , I Kapaa Notes 10. .1. Mooklnr of the experi inuit station of the Hawaiian Pineapple 1 'ackers' Association aeiompanied by Walter McBryde of Lawni, was here on Monday looking over the Molooa pineap pie fields of the Hawaiian Can neries company. Herman Wolters, manager of tin Makee Sugar Company, left for Honolulu on Saturday, on business. So anxious was he to know the result of the Lihue .Makee game that he left instruc lions to wireless him the result immediately after the game, and (his was done early Sunday mor ning. Kaluna. Kauuwai, son of Rev Kaauwai of the Kapaa Hawaiian church, lias been appointed to the local police force. lohn M. Horner, youngest son of A. Horner Sr.. nresident of the' Hawaiian "Canneries Conip ar.y. is here spending his summer vacation "with his brother, A Horner Jr. John is attending Stanford University at I'alo Al to California, but could not re sist the temptation to enjoy the climate and scenery of Jlie Para dise of the Pacific at least once a vear. The Inter-fsland S. S. Kinau was at Kealia lauding on Tues day loading sugar from the Ma kce Sugar Company and a few eases of canned pineapples from the Hawaiian Canneries Com pany. According to John Rapo za. wharfinger at Kealia for the past twenty years, this is the first time the Kinau has been to Kealia landing since she was built. Mifcs Klizabeth Akana, steno graphcr in the office of Jas F. Morgan & Company of Honolulu s here vacationing as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel 1'. llano She expects to return to Ilonolu in in about two weeks. Miss Carlotle Awai and Frank ki of Honolulu are spending 1lu summer vacation here as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scharsch Sr. They expect to be here for about a month. The Makees nearly lost their eioud baseman last week and therefore hangs a tale. "Flat" Ahana, with his flivver which he chooses to call a roadster, was r')'wi towards Koloa on Sainr lav from Iluleia at a fair rate )f speed when one of his tires bh v. out. The car skidded and overturned with the top smash ed, but "Flat" got off without a scratch, and just to show that the spill had no effect on his tatting eye, he managed to se- :uro fifty per cent of the Makee's otal strikeouts on Sunday, al though lie is but 11 per cent of tl c feain. :: KAUAI TELEPHONE CO. ASKS HIGHER RATES The- Kauai Telephone Company has filed an application with the Pub lic Utilities Commission for portnis- Ion to increase its rates. The c6m- pany explains that it has not been able to pay dividends and cannot obtain additional capital unless Its mini nnwflP la Innrpncoil ,,, blI,inpa, telanhone's nro to )my business teiepnones aro to bo affected by the advance, if it is granted. The present rates aro ?r f0i in(,lvlllai phones, and $3 for ... . ... , cclnin -classes of quantity service, The company seeks to incroaso tho fir.it to ?G and the second to $4. Tin Win- 1090 tltn nnnintinv ovnlnlna ... . ujiiiiicauuii, fj.i,uuu wiia spurn i-i iiiiiMuvuiiiuiiia. urn it now mum NEW WORKER COMING IN SEPT. Miss Edith Hansen, of Upland, California, is to arrive on Kauai the first of September to carry on and develop tho Y. W. C. A. work that Is started here. Miss Hanson comes well qualified for the work as she is a graduate of tho University of California whero she took special courses in this type of welfare work. She has spent much of tho time studying conditions similar to those found on Kauai and has charge of extensive y. w. C. A. programs Miss Hansen will do a great deal of her work'wlth the young women of the various plantation camps. She has had charge of country girls' work in California, and will doubt leVy bo able to put many of the ideas into successful operation hero. Miss Hansen will be accompanied to Honolulu and Kauai by her father .i prominent San Francisco business man. Mr. Hansen will spend some time taking In the sights of tho Garden Island.. MISS BISSINGER TAKES UP NEW MISSION WORK Alisn Carolino Dissinger Is to leave Kauai the first week in September. After two years successful work on till- island, Miss Bisslnger is to re turn to the International Institute of the Y. W. C. A. where sho will hve complete charge of all work involving the Pillplnoes. Miss Bisslnger spent ten years n various kinds of missionary work in the Philippine islands. While there she learned to speak, road and write (ho language. Sho understands tho Filipinoes and their customs. Th.Ui makes her almost invaluable for the new work that sho is take up. The Y. W. C. A. Americanization wirk on thh island has been under Miss Bissinger's guidance for tho past two yor.r.1. In this timo sho has done a groat deal of quiet, ef fect ive work. Sho has also done much towards teaching various Ori ental women better methods of household management. The class es she has conducted have invari ably held a large bunch ,of interest ed women and girls. Kauai is sorry to loso Miss Bis- sieger but it greatly appreciates tho two jears of conscientious work she has given it. :: HARDING BLAMES TAXES FOR WORLD CHAOS President Herding has said ;i little r-tece that is going to make him Oio most popular man in Americi. Ho said that the world will never have peace until taxes aro conquered. What applies to tho world will ap ply on a smaller scale to every in dividual , in the territory, too. According to an Associated Press bulletin sont from Washington, Au gust 12: , The official invitations to the zreat powers to attend tho confer ence on international disarmament and far eastern questions to be held i). Washington on November 11th (Armistice Day) were dispatched by tho State Department late yesterday afternoon. The invitation defined tho con ceptions of tho United States a3 to the principles involved to tho fol- owing extent: That thero is no hope of peaco and stability among nations until Armaments and taxes aro reduced; that such reduction is possible snly if troubler.oino Internationa! ques- lonf. are solved by commo:-. con sent and that fr.r 'eastern ai d Pa cific problems occupy a place of unquestioned Importance." That there is no intention on tho part of tho United States to dictato tfi scone it is suggested th.-.t the conference should touch matters which hr.ve been and nro" of inter national concern. That naval nrmanients might well bo considered first, although thero should bo no barrier to tho consider-' tion of all armaments. Tho State Department refused to intorprot tho language of tho invi tation, but it !s assumed that "havo been" includes tho question of Yap. Whether Japan's accoptanco will re Iterate her unwillingness to discuss what sho considers "acuomplished facts" la a subject for conjecture. E Tho body of A. J. Janson, first as : Istnut engineer of tho S. S. Griffco who was drowned at Ahukini Sunday light when ho fell from tho pier and struck his head on a rock, was not recovered until Wednesday morn ing. Search had been made for It ail along the Ahukini beach, some of the bay was dragged with nets ami divers attempted to locate It near the place where it was last seen. But no traco of it could be seen and It was given up. Tho body was first discovered by a small boy. It was floating near tho thore directly in front Mr. Mit chell's house. It was recovered and buried in tho Lihue cemetery. This, is tho second accident of this kind at Ahukini. Nearly 20 years ago a sailor tripped and fell from tho same pier. As ho fell hb struck his head on tho side of tho Kinau that was tho fastened to the wharf. His body was washed out to Bea and never recovered. TEN OKE MAKERS SAID "GOOD MORNING, JUDGE" Federal prohibition ngents, Herb ert, Wells and Ah Fat, have been playing hayoc with Kauai's oko mak ers lately. They havo arrested ten distillers and have all the rest of them laying mighty low. It is rumor ed that the price has risen from two dollars to four dollars and n inlf during tho week and that it is hard to get at that. Kanalel has the distinction of sup- pcrtlng seventy percent of the boot legs caught. Seven of the ten hall from Kauai's most renowned beauty spot, one conies from Anaholr., one f.'om Koloa and ono from Kalaheo. All ten of tho miscreants were brought before Aiie Lihue court and faced before Judge Hjorth who was silling on Judge Achl's customary sofi chair. The Judge looked them ove:, grunted a little at the "Good morning, Judge," and broko the news to them that ho would accept $250 e,ich in place of their presence at the Hotel Malina. All camo forth vith the necessary ball with tho ex ception of two Japanese who aro now in jail. It is probable that all will be sent to Honolulu for trial. if these men aro sent to Honolulu and it tlfey got the stiff scntenco that, it is reported that tho Korean who was caught at KKauea last week got, wo can soon bo washing our foot in spirits on this island. Ti.p Korean in question had 1C gal- Ions of oko in his car. Ho was sell ing it at $2 a bottle. That figures up to a most neat sum of $12S. rite law Is that a vehiclo that is used for tho transportation of booze shall bo confiscated and sold. The owner may buy 'It back if ho hap pens to havo more money to pay for it than anyone olso will give. Other wise ho loses it. Our friend Kim is a psychologist. He told tho judge a hard-luck story. He dwelt long and lovingly on the fact that his family needed him, that tho friend whoso car ho bor rowed for tho transportation of tho oko needed the Ltzzio and on tho fact that he Intended to bo good in tho future. Tho judge bit, wo hear. $50 with tho car returned to tho owner is tho amount that it is reported was assessed from Kim. :: MASONIC CLUB FOR THE GARDEN ISLE Tho Kauai Masonic Club was for mally organized last night. There are AD charter members and quite a manner of other Masons' on tho Is land who will doubtless come in lat- The meeting was held in tho Dis trict Court room. In tho short busi ness meeting officers were elected and committees to draw up the con stitution and by-laws. It was decided to hold quarterly meetings. Tho following officers were oiect- ed: (. B. Hofgaard President. J II. Cohen Vice President. C L. Lane Secretary. A. Monefogllo Treasurer. CANE FIRE CAUSES DAMAGE A cane flro that burned off about five acres caused qulto a b't of ox cltement in Lihue last Saturday af ternoon. Tho tiro occurred in the field directly across from Mr. Mol er's homo and for n timo threatened to jump into tho Grove Farm fields luarby. Fortunately tho laborers vcre just about through work and they rushed to tho flro and In a short timo had it' under control. If the firo had stnrted an hour later it might have caused considerable damage, as it would havo taken 3jmo timo to gather as largo a force hr thr ono that was obtained from the mill workers. 00 REG Hi Personals Mrs. Lucy Wright, of -Walmea, re turned from Honolulu today. Mrs. John Mldklff and babv Mnr 'l.a, of Lihue, are back from a thret weeks vacation in Honolulu. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Moler of Li- huo. returned f'om Honolulu last Frt day morning. Manuel Rocha, salesman for.Dav I'm o., arrived tins morning on thb Kinau. C. A. Bancott, mnnairor of Nawlll will Garage, returned from a shorl mifcfnpss trip to Honolulu this morn ing. Mrs. A. S. Baker and daughter Htith, of Honolulu, nro visiting the H. D. Sloggetts, of Grovo Farm for :i couple of weeks. Miss Bernlce E. L. Hundley, sup ervlsing principal of tho Kauai gov ernment schools went to Honolulu last Tuesday and expects to remain in tho city ten days, attending the clo.,e of tho summer school and ses sions of the Pan-Pacific educational conference. Mrs. W. H. Barrlnger, wife of tho county engineer of Hllo, with her son. and Mrs. Olney, of Honolulu, aip spending several weeks on Kauai with Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Har dy of Walmea. MIes Jennie Johnson, matron of tho Lihuo Japanese dromltory, went to Honolulu Saturday, called by the serious illness of her sister. Mrs. Johanna Brash, who has been spending the past week on Kauai, returned to Honolulu on Saturday evening. Superintendent A. E. Arledge of tho Honolulu light houso service hnr been on Kauai for a week in specting tho llgthouses of this is land. He returned to Honolulu on So I unlay. , George J. Sopcr, brother of Tho mas Soper of tho Lihua Store, was married in Hllo last week, to Miss Minnla Duart. Mr. Soper has spent the past four years in the United St:tos navy and 'was only recently discharged. Mrs. Isabelle Hogg and two child ren. Robert and Isabelle, left last Saturday for trip to tho Coast. Francis Wlddifleld, section luna of Kilauen plantation was an incoming passenger on the Kinau this morn ing. Sid Spltrer, ono of the oldest trav eling men, who have been making Kauai for many years past, arrived .on tho early morning Kinau. Miss Dorothy Jottman, daughter of H. Jottman, section luna of Lihue plantation, .returned from a visit to Honolulu. H. R. Marshall, and C. D. Pratt members of the Yale championship swimming team aro on Kauai for ? brief visit with Mr. Pratt's brother at Kllauea. Mi-, and Mrs. K. C. Hopper and daughter Thelma Ieavo on tho Wll holmina tomorrow for a two months vacation on tho Coast. Thelma is going to enter Mills Collego at Ber keley. Miss Dora Broadbent returned from a two weeks' vacation In Honolulu. She was accompanied by Missos Ca therine, Laura and Hester Pratt who will be hor houso guests for some time. S. S. KINAU MADE FIRST TRIP TO KEALIA TUESDAY The Inter-Island Steamship Kinau made its first appearance at Kealia on Tuesday of last week. All the years that the old faithful has been coming up here, sho has never tak en a bag of sugar from tho Makee Sugar Company before. It was an accident that she was thr-re this time. When sho got thru unloading her freight at Nawillwill she was in an" all dressed up and nr. place to go" predicament. She didn't, havo any business on the Wal moa sido of the island at that timo. Sho couldn't get in at Akuhinl be cause the S. S. Griffco was already there. She was needed at Kealia tho' and so sho went. When tho old boat showed up thero she was greeted by a mighty blast from tho mill's whistles. The Greet ing was so long and so loud that ovnrybody went running around ask ing, "Where's tho cano firo?" Five thousand bags of sugar wore loaded at Kealia. Manager Wolters took Cnptain Gregory around, show ing him the plantation. By tho time the boat was loaded and tho planta tion Inspected it was after five o' clock, That accounted for tho lato appearance tho Kinau made into Nawillwill that night. WIRELESS STATION FINE CONDITION 1!. L. Cooke, superintendent of (he Mutual Wireless system, relumed to Honolulu on Friday on the Clandine, after personally supervising the work of replac ing -he guying cables, and paint ing the mast at the Lihuo station. The station buildings have been painted and-the general appear- nue of the station is greatly improved over that of a year a go, -vhen the station was return ed from the hands of the navy. It may seem strange to most of us to have the "Boss" at the top of an ISO foot mast but Mr. Cooke is quite as much at home there as on the giound. in fact he is quite fam ous for his hair-trigger stunts on the (iOO foot towers of the nivval station at I 'earl Harbor, ii.d he says. "When you've done t yourself you know its done to your liking." Since taking charge of the Mu mil circuit Mr. Cooke has inau- -rated a remote control system n Honolulu whereby the traffic s handled direct from the Hono lulu office, thus saving half the hlic of handling, and cutting the bailees of errors to a minimum. When the wireless telephones ire installed the islands can toast a communication system second to none in the world. In iiu-L regards accuracy ami spied, the system sit present, can not be bettered, and the carry ing of the human voice over miles of ocean will be the finish ing touch (of a wonderful accom plishment. :: s-O.V.s.' OF REST ' TO EXTERTAIN ..t -, The Sons of Uest are to hold their second annual luau at the K Hale Hooiuaa Kealia Satur day. August L'Olh. It is expect ed that there will be an usual number of sick friends that will need the attention or many lov ing husbauds and it is not at all surprising if there will lie an unusual amount of work to be done at the office it night. Perhaps some husband will siuiug a new alibi'. Anyway all llu.sc that can manage it will be among those present when the roll is called. The committee has arranged ;. complete new program with some of the best numbers of last year's show retained. It is pos itiuly announced that James Corstophine will render his fam ous "Going to Hamburg Show." This number almost caused n riot at the last luau and is ex pected to stop the show once more. The big committee has obtain ed the biggest pig in the Kawni- ban district and he will be cooked under the expert super vision of Judge J. von lOkekela assisted by Fire Chief Iiolte. The Judge was the official in charge of the pig at the last luau and epicures present voted it ope of the- best cooked pigs in the his tory of Kauai. REV. ARAI ON KAUAI Itev. Seklzen Aral, Sodo priest of Japan, who has boon touring tho is lands of Hawaii and Maul, arrived last Friday morning to tnko in tho sights of tho Garden Island. Whllo here ho will spend a great deal of time lecturing to his countrymon. Ho expects to leavo for Honolulu in a lew days, going from thore to tho mainland.