80 Years AgoFrom the Aug. 17, 1920 issue
SOCIALLY – Let no one imagine that we are in the social doldrums in these
midsummer days. Almost every day produces its events—sometimes more than one.
The other day local hostesses found it impossible to make up their circles of
guests to their satisfaction because there were three social events for that
particular afternoon, and the circles cut more or less deeply into one
another.
Little Lillian Jamieson celebrated her sixth birthday with a very
happy little girls’ party at the Grote’s Waipouli beach. It is a delightful
place for an affair of that kind and it goes without saying that they had a
delightful time. There were six little girls and each received a dainty little
bean bag by way of favor. With these they played the familiar bean bag game for
a prize, which Alice Scott secured. Delicious refreshments were served.
The
Christian families of Lihue and McBryde had a delightful picnic outing at
Hanamaulu beach on Sunday. The fatted calf—in the shape of a luau’d pit—was
provided for the occasion and added no little to the satisfaction of the day.
Following the lunch most of them made a visit to the stranded aeroplane over
beyond the new dairy.
CLOSE CALL – One of the De Havaland army land
planes, under command of Lieut. W. L. Scott, out scouting for signs of the
Annie E. last Friday, when fifteen miles off Kaua’i, broke a connecting rod,
which fortunately did not immediately put the engine out of commission, but
allowed the plane to reach Kauai before stalling.
Lieut. Scott had reached
Kauai and was fifteen miles on his return journey when he noticed smoke issuing
from the engine. Realizing that something was wrong he turned and headed back
for Kauai, expecting the machine to go down at any moment. Just as he got over
the sandy flat below Hanamaulu, the rod crashed through the engine, wrecking it
completely. A good landing was made, however, and no damage was done to the
machine or its occupants.
ESTEEMED GUEST – Jonah Kumalae, and his
family to the number of nine, including his wife and children arrived by the
Kinau this morning. Kumalae is a Hawaiian of more than ordinary ability, energy
and enterprise. He has built up a big business in the manufacture of ukuleles
largely for the foreign trade.
His latest interest and activity centers in
the poi business in which he ways there will be a great scarcity. He is
scouring the Islands for taro, but with only moderate success..
1920 PRICES
– For the information of housekeepers the following are some of the prices
quoted by the Territorial market.
Eggs: 85 cents; butter 65 cents; beets 4
cents; carrots 3 cents; cabbage 7 cents; pines 4 cents; tomatoes 15 cents;
Irish potatoes 6 cents; sweet potatoes 2 1/2 cents; peanuts 10
cents.
POPULATION IN 1920 – Hawaii 64,895; Maui 36,080; O’ahu 123,496;
Kaua’i 29,247; Molokai 1,784; Lanai 185; Kahoolawe 3; Ni’ihau 191.
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CHALLENGE – Sporting Editor Garden Island: I hereby challenge Willie Puali,
jujitsu wrestler of the Hanama’ulu road department to a finish wrestling match
for a purse of $250, winner taking all. The said match to take place at the Tip
Top theatre sometime during September. Yours truly, Louis Rego.
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Years Ago
GREATEST SHOW – Eddie Fernandez, Hawai’i’s great showman,
arrived in San Francisco recently according to word received by local Legion
officials, and is now engaged in getting together the greatest wild west show
ever to cross the Pacific Ocean, which will be enjoyed by Kauai residents at
Lihue during November.
The show Fernandez will bring to Kaua’i will include
several world famous bucking horses and local buckaroos are making preparations
to be ready to try their hands at riding these Mainland outlaws, since the
Legion has ruled that they will be given a chance to prove their ability in the
saddle against the mainland professional bucking horse riders.
“I plant to
bring a troupe of Navajo Indians —bucks, squaws and papooses — to Maui for
this year’s fair, said Fernandez his letter to the Legion. Kauai kiddies will
get as big a kick out of the Indians as they did of last year’s circus.
The
troupe of Australian whip-crackers will be an interesting feature at the show.
This company of artists performed during the 1933 world’s fair at Chicago and
have been vaudeville headliners throughout the mainland during the summer.
Perhaps the largest single feature of this year’s show will be Eddie Fernandez’
“Human cannon ball,” the man who is shot hundreds of feet into the air from a
real honest-to-goodness cannon and lands safely (sometimes) in a strong net
constructed of one-inch rope.
NO SHOWS – The Lawa’i Japanese won their
scheduled game against the Lawa’i Giants last Sunday afternoon on default when
the Giants failed to who up. The Giants were crippled up as some of their
players sustained injuries during the week. The holy ghost celebration made
matters worse for many of their players stayed out too late during the
celebration and failed to whop up at starting time.
GOOD CATCH –
Approximately ten baskets of good sized akules were caught at a hukilau by
Oliver Robinson of Waimea on Tuesday morning. This is the first time that such
a good haul has been made for the last couple of months.
39 Years
Ago
From the Aug. 23, 1961 issue
FAIR FUN – New and entertaining
features are being added to the program of the Kaua’i Young Farmers Fair, which
will be held at the Hanapepe park the first three days of September.
Two of
these events, with Herbert Miyahara serving as chairman, will be the egg eating
contest and banana eating contest, both for children. The contests are designed
to discover which youngster – can eat more hard boiled eggs and more bananas at
one seating.
BUILDING THE HARBOR – The two breakwaters which are the
first phase of the Port Allen small board harbor is about half pau, according
to Robert Hirashima, inspector for the state department of
transportation…About 640 feet of the breakwater has been built up to three
feet above mean low water. The contractor is building a road out to the end of
the breakwater and will start laying heavy cap rock back from the seaward end
when the breakwater base and road are complete. The completion date is late
November. The contractor is slightly behind schedule but is currently making
good time.
DOG-GONE – Frank Correa, the County pound man, is still
experiencing good dog catching. Within the period of less than a month, he
reported catching dogs at better than two per day. Since starting his job and
up to August 15th, Mr. Correa reported having caught a total of 342
dogs.
Some of the supervisors expressed a fear that, at this rate, Mr.
Correa may be running out of stray dogs to round up. According to Mr. Correa,
that day is still a long distance off.
NEW BOTTLE, OLD LABEL –
Carling Black Label Beer has launched a special sales and advertising program
to introduce its new compact packaging, according to Tiny Lauwa, Carling
representative in Hawai’i.
Carling’s new ‘Handy-Bottle’; which will contain
the same quantity of beer as before will be offered at a new lower price, Mr.
Lauwa said.
