The Maui News from Wailuku, Hawaii • Page 10

TEN THE MAUI NEWS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1917. Latest Happenings Over Lahaina Way What The People Of The Old Capital City Have Been Doing-Personal Notes Tlio cnpagcment of Miss Margaret Weber, of i'orllanci, Oregon, to Mr. Cebert Capwell Ihe Lahaina wire-less staff, hap just been announced. Mr. Eniil Hutchinson, of Kaunaka-kai, Molokat, was at Lahaina and Lnhainaluna on Friday of last week.

He was on his way to Honolulu where ho had been called by wireless message informing him of the serious illness of his grand-mother, Mrs. Emma NuUuina. Mr. 'William Kaluaklni. who has been captain of police at Lahaina, for several years, has taken olllce as deputy sheriff, in place of the late Mr.

Lindsey. The Rev. I). K. White, health inspector, went to Honolulu Monday evening, returning home on Wednesday's Mauna Kea.

Mr. and Mrs. Partridge, of Haiku, and Mr. and Mrs. Canelicld, of Kaupa-kalua, were callers at Laliti i.ialuna on Sunday.

The pupils of the Kainehamelia 111 school are giving a Christmas enter, tainment and play on Friday evening of this week, at the Pioneer theatre. Mrs. George Dunn returned home Monday evening after a delightful four week's visit on Hawaii. When she was on the Big Island she spent some time at the Volcano, and visited friends and relatives in Hilo and in the Hamakua district. The Christmas Red Cross membership drive on Maui will begin Dec.

18th, and continue until Dec. 2 4th. Mr. Harold Rice, the chairman of the Maui Committee, with Mrs. Rvce, and the secretary, Mr.

D. C. Lindsay, came over to Lahaina Sunday last to meet with some of the Lahaina people and formulate plans for the Red Cross drive in Lahaina. The meeting was held at Baldwin House and those present besides Mr. and Mrs.

Rice, and Mr. Lindsay were Mr. David Fleming, Mrs. Gossan, Mr. and Mrs.

Decoto, Mr. and Mrs. Keeuey, Mr. and Mrs. Gannon, Mr.

Itrecht and Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald. Mr. W.

L. Decoto was elected captain of the district and hiis lieutenants are: Mr. Brecht Puukolii, Mr. Keeney, Mr. Gannon and Mr.

Masuda, Lahaina; Mr. Hane-berg, Olowalu, and Mr. MacDonald, Lahainaluna. The number of members secured each day will be put on the screen of the Pioneer theatre in the evening. A Successful Fair At Lahaina Saturday The Lahaina Catholic fair on Saturday was a great event in the old town, and the sum of $GG5 was realized from the sales and concert.

The fair opened at 2 p. in the various booths erected on the Catholic school grounds and concluded with an enjoyable concert under the direction Martin Lee and Thomas Hussey, the Puunene band rendering some of their best selections. The sum realized will go to repairing the Church of Our Lady or Victory, which, on the 8th, of September, was sixty years old. Experts declare the building to be a real monument to the workmanship of the time at which it was constructed. Father Bruna Bens feels thankful to all who contributed so liberally to the success of the fair and the cause it represented.

Drayage Co. To Go Out Of Business The Wailuku Construction Drayage will go out of business at the end of December. Manuel Medeiros, will take over the stables, under a lease, and will carry on the business on his own account. Ray B. Rietow, who has been treasurer and manager of the company, will enter the employ of the Kahulul Store at the first of the new year, continuing, however, to make Wailuku his home.

The Wailuku Construction Drayage was organized on January 27, of this year by J. C. Foss, who had a contract in connection with the Olinda reservoir proposition. Mr. Foss failed to complete his contract, and his successors took it over.

The work in connection wilh the reservoir will be completed by December 31. Sale Of Lease On Haiku Water Rights The sale of a 21-year lease to water rights in the Haiku district, in the past held by the East Maui Irrigation was held in Honolulu last Monday. Only one bid was receiived, tha't being by the present holders of the rights, and was for the upset annual rental of $13,500. The lease on these water rights expired some months ago. 8 FOR SALE One Buick Automobile, $450.

See King, Puunene Store. Monthly Sessions Of The Supervisors (Continued from rage One.) others for the use of Lahaina park was deferred for the reason that, the park has not yet been "completed and turned over to the county. Yesterday's Meetings. All members present. School requisitions for material and supplies were referred to the county engineer and for repairs to the overseers of the respective districts.

Mr. Fleming was delegated committee of one to look into hospital matters, doctors, and report later. The county engineer was instructed to make surveys of the following school properties: Keahua. Spreck-elsville. Camp 10 and Puukolii, and also to ascertain the correct boundaries of the Haou school lot.

H. A. Baldwin appeared before the board and requested that the supervisors allow the Kula Sanitarium an amount sufficient to clear off its present indebtedness so as to start anew, financially, at the beginning of the new year. Alter considerable discussion it was decided that the Panv tarium should start a new set of books at the first of January, balances not be shown thereon but to be kept lor the present, in a separate book. The afternoon was given over entirely to the approval of routine bills.

There was no session this morning. ALL DOING WELL Some of the Red Cross workers of Wailuku feel that an injustice has been done them in certain comments of another Maui paper, and one of them says: "Even if Wailuku is not heading the list in Red Cross accomplishments, certainly good work is being done and those who are handling the problem should be taken into consideration, and when the importance of Red Cross work is more fully recognized, not only in Vnlulcu but all over the county, there will be a more general response." Plantation DECAUSE of ihe heavy type of work, the steady pull, pull, pull, hour after hour, that an engine of a tractor has to accomplish, an unusually large quantity is required. For economy's sake this lubricant must be one of high quality and com paratively low And that is the qualification of Sea Lion Motor Oi! This oil, the product of one of the large oil manufacturers is a special combination to meet the special requirements of tractor lubrication. In fact it is made up to the specifications of the Holt Tractor Manufacturers, for use in their own as well as other tractors. Special tractor type 70c a gal.

FOR OTHER USES: Medium, per gal. 55c. Heavy, per gal. 60c. IN BARRELS ONLY.

Special Island Agents: Moir Garage, Paia Auto Accessory Shop, or any garage on the Island. But insist upon "Sea Personal Mention a Mrs. H. B. Penhallow is visiting in Honolulu.

Judge C. C. Conradt and wire, of Ptikoo. Molokal, are visiting Mr. and Mrs.

Enos Vincent, of Wailuku. Dr. A. P. Hoeffer, of Honolulu, is in Lahaina at present and will be in Wailuku about the first of the month.

A meeting of the commissioners of education has been called for Monday at Honolulu, so Commissioner Lindsay will go over tomorrow night. Lieutenants Frank Lufkin and Ralph B. Walker, two of Maui's new officers in Ihe United States army, left by the Mauna Kea Friday night to joi.n their commands on Oahu. Captain George B. Leavitt, manager of the Kauai Railway Company, paid a flying visit to Kahului and Wailuku on Saturday.

He had been to the coast and was on his way home. James Hood, bookkeeper for the Howell Engineering has accepted a position with the llonolua Ranch, lie leaves Wailuku Monday to lake up his new duties. Capl. "Tim" Kelleher, of the 32nd. U.

S. Infantry, who had been visiting Lieut, and Mrs. W. II. Young, at haina, lei't Saturday night for Hilo and the Volcano.

It is related on the best of authority that his trunk went with him. The many friends of Mrs. II. K. Duncan will be pleased to learn of Ihe speedy recovery of her mother who has been seriously ill in Honolulu.

Mrs. Duncan is expected to return to Kahului on to-night's Clau-dine. Mr. Howard Waight left for the coast on the China on the 6th. He was in charge or the extensive alterations on the Dr.

W. D. Baldwin home at Haiku for the Spalding Construction Co. He will go east and spend the winter in Florida. For cost.

moot Steinhauser, HONOLULU, T. H. Pertinent Paragraphs Clarence Baldwin has been elected captain of the Punahou football team. The public schools of Maul are closing today for the holidays. John Robello was fined $10 in the Wailuku police court on Monday for profanity.

A Chinaman named Ah Vim, arrested for having opium in possession, was fined $100 in Judge McKay's court yesterday. On Sunday the feast of the Immaculate Conception will be observed at the Keahua Catholic church. There will be a big fair, with music by the Puunene band, and mot'on picture at evening. Saturday morning at 9:30 there will be a free demonstration of war-roods conducted by Mrs. Worth Aiken with Miss Miller's assistance.

It. will be given at the kindergarten room in Wailuku. Keawe Kawa pleaded guilty in the Wailuku police court yesterday for beating Jhie wife. Inasmuch as it was a miuoK assault, which had been rorgiven, the man was let olT wilh a reprimand. Judge Kemp Here On A Land Case Hon.

Samuel D. Kemp, second judge ol the first circuit court, came over from Honolulu Wednesday night, to hear a disputed land case, involving a strip of about twelve acres at one side of the holding of Frank G. Cor-rea, in Kula. Correa owned this land originally, but some years ago set it off with a fence, for some reason of his own. Kapiiaho, Sarah Keawe and Apo Liilii laid claim to the strip, giving Correa's old fence as proof that he (Correa) did not own it.

Judge Kemp thought differently, UDP1 ITT Serviceditorial FIGURE THE COST Plantation book-keepers have the costs of business in the various departments of their concerns all down in black and white. This crop costs so much to plant, so much to harvest, so much to grind. The profit is known. We wonder sometimes if they are as keen on keeping the costs of the general overhead: The motor expense, for instance. We would like to go into that phase with the proper executive of every plantation, either by personal letter or by call.

We specialize in Tires and Accessories for commercial motor cars and gas engines. Notes Of The Schools The term examinations for the grammar grades Grades VI, VII, and VIII were held on December 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13. These examinations are to test the pupils on the work of the term as outlined in the Course of Study, but Rre not for promotion. The subjects were as follows: History stories, history, spelling, composition and literature, language, grammar, arthmetic, hygiene and sanitation, geography. The grades obtained by the pupils are sent in to the Department.

The new teachers' cottage at Camp 1 is about finished and will be ready for occupancy about the first of the year. It replaces the one lost by fire last month. All principals are required this month to make out the regular term report giving the attendance, absence, nationalty, age, grade, and Industrial report for all pupils. The Japanese cruiser "Tokiwa," was inspected by practically all the Japanese school children Wednesday and Thursday. It was an interesting excursion for the children and one to be long remembered.

Schools closed at noon yesterday for the Christmas vacation. It closed the first term's w-ork of fourteen weeks. They will reopen January 2nd. Few changes are anticipated in the teaching force for the new year. A small number of pupils have left but a few will be ready to start school next term.

however, and decided the case in favor of Correa. Vincent and Case appeared for Correa, and E. R. Bevins for the territory, the county and the adverse claimants. Judge Kemp is spending today seeing the sights of Maui and will return to the cUy tonight.

He brought over his clerk and stenographer. Ltd. cation IP Life And Work Of Miss Clara Barton Rev. Mr. Dodge addressed his congregation at the Wailuku church Sunday night on the above subject.

In view of its tiimeliness the sermon la being reproduced. Unfortunately, owing to lack of space, only a part can be presented today, the second section being left over to next issue. Mr. Dodge said: Clara Barton was born on Christmas day, 1821, in the town of Oxford Massachusetts. She was the youngest of a family of five children and the others were so much her seniors that she said of her childhood "I had no playmates, but in effect six fathers and mothers." She a bright sunny child, learning to ride horseback and enjoy nil kinds of boyish spoils at an early age.

As she developed, however, she became excessively sens'tive to suffering, and at the same time extremely shy. This characteristic was not helped by an incident that happened at about thip lime. Clara Barton's brother fell one day from a barn roof and received serious wounds. ClaraTielped with the nursing until she so attached herself to her brother that he would not let her go from his sight during the whole period of his illness. Thi6 close confinement lasted for two years during which time the girl forgot completely herself and her health.

For some years following this incident she was in miserable health, and so near melancholi that, her parents and friends were distressed to know what to do to rouse her from herself. One day a Psychologist visited the Barton home and Clara's mother asked him what might, be done. His reply was, "Give her a school to teach." Clara overheard this conversation and readily agreed to undertake the new work. Such an engrossing occupation was just what was needed and immediately she began to improve. Eighteen happy years of teaching followed, and during this time Bhe "locked herself into" the hearts of all the boys and girls whom she taught.

Her last two years of teaching were spent in New Jersey where she threw her whole effort into creating public opinion in favor of supporting the compulsory school law, then so miserably enforced in that state. Here she was principal of the school where she taught, but, public prejudice was still strong against the idea oi a lady principal in the public schools that she was obliged to resign. Feeling the need of rest Miss Barton went to Washington for the winter. Here in the year following she accepted a position that was to lead, though she never guessed it at the time, to the life work which later became her great contribution to her country, and the world. She became a government clerk in the Patent office at Washington.

This was the first instance of a lady holding a clerkship in government employ. Miss Barton became, during the five years in Washington expert copyist of original prints, patent abridgements, and caveats, and with one brief exception she remained there, until the Civil war broke out. When the blow that had so long been expected in Washington actually fell and Sumpter was fired upon. Miss Barton's sacrifice for her Country egan. She said of herself at this time, that beyond recall she presented herself, she knew not then just how, a living sacrifice upon her country's altar.

Death seemed to her the probable cost but she was determined to suffer it. Later, when an attack on Washington seemed a certainly she said "If it must be, let it come, and when there is no longer a soldier's arm to raise the Stars and Stripes above our Capitol, may God give strength to mine. A little later when the attack actually cause near, Clara Barton was easily the leader in all the work of bandaging, feeding and encouraging. She had begun the work that was to occupy her mind and heart and hands for the rest of her life. "Henceforth she was a new creature, for she felt she had attached her energies to a coming cause.

From this time, there followed one on another, opportunities for sacrifice and growth, such as never ended. In November 1861 occurred the death of Clara Barton's father, and his parting words to her, "Go if it is your duty to go, I know soldiers and they will respect you and your errand." This permission was all for which she had been waiting; she went at once to the battle front arriving for the first time on the day after he battle of Cedar Mountain, and attending to the needs of the wounded and dying there. In answer to criticism she wrote "If you chance to feel that the positions I occupied were rough and unseemly for a woman I can only reply that they were rough and unseemly for men, but under it all lay the life of the Nation." After this Miss Barton went regularly into the battle fields of the Civil war, and as men in authority saw the good she was doing, they granted her more and more of the equipment that she needed. She was in the march through Georgia, and present through the winter campaign before Fredrickburg. After the Emancipation Proclamation on to the very end of the war she was there, and more too, for her mission was not ended with the surrender of the South; hers was to heal up the broken hearts as well as the broken bones, and now for four years she joined in the long seach for missing men.

It became apparent by 1S69 that Miss Barton must face a prolonged rest. Following the doctor's orders, she set out for Europe and untimate-ly Geneva, where she planned to put in three years of solid rest. It was during this stay in Switzerland that (Concluded in next issue.).