Willie Nott is the proud possessor of one large coconut crab and four hermit crabs, and he is at a loss to know what to do with them.
(Pacific Commercial Advertiser, 7/27/1897, p. 7)
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Number 4670, Page 7. July 27, 1897.
In the evening of this coming Monday, Dr. Buck will appear at the Honokaa CHURCH, and he will speak to those who come on the topic of THE WAY OF LIFE OF THE POLYNESIANS. He is a haole who is working at the MUSEUM OF BISHOP AND THE CHIEFESS PAUAHI.
[Dr. Peter Buck is the renown director of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum from 1936–1951.]
(Hoku o Hawaii, 10/16/1940, p. 1)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXV, Number 25, Aoao 1. Okakoba 16, 1940.
Mrs. Reinhardt
The meeting of the Hawaiian Women’s Association [Hui o na Wahine Hawaii] in the reception room of the Honokaa Union Church [Halepule Uniona] in the afternoon of this coming Thursday, at three o’clock in the evening. Considered will be idea of the members helping to make Sweaters, etc. for the Red Cross [Hui Kea Ulaula]. The Pres. of this Club is Mrs. Camela Keliipio Herman, the sister of Isaaka Keliipio of Hilo. The Secretary is Mrs. Victoria Low Braunn, the Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Low of Pepeekeo. Continue reading
On the morning of this past Monday, July 29, aboard the steamship Mariposa arrived Shirley Temple and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Temple. There were nearly 10,000 citizens of Honolulu who arrived early makai of the pier to see for themselves this famous girl in the movies [? oleana kiionioni]; and she is only 6 years old. She came to Honolulu nei to vacation for 18 days. They are staying at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.
(Hoku o Hawaii, 8/6/1935, p. 2)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Buke XXVII, Helu 7, Aoao 2. Augate 6, 1935.
(Written by Henrietta Laeha)
KAMEHAMEHA Girls’ School, Honolulu—The Upperclassmen Glee Club of the Kamehameha Girls’ School will sing at the KGMB Radio Station, on Sunday, December 22. It will begin at 3:00 p. m. until 3:30 p. m.
The girls singing in this broadcast are from the tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-grades. Because the school will be on vacation on the 20th, the girls who live in Honolulu and who are in the glee club will be singing at the radio station.
The girls in that glee club are: Hazel Chalmers, president; Charlotte Kunane, vice-president; Prances Akana, secretary; Emelia Kaopua, Ellen Miller, Josephine Keanoano, Godfreida Hatori, Frances Jelf, Momi Awana, Pearl Yim, Winona Beamer, Marie Chung-Hoon, Piilani Clark, Laola Hiranaka, Ululani MacDonald, Elvin Lindsey, Ruth Needham, Emily Cobb-Adams, Sedia Jensen, Rose Crabbe, Juanita McKeague, Anna Morris, Ruth Magplong, Juliett Feirreira, Catherine Fitsimmons, Kanian Cox, Mary Tyau, Dorothea Dias, Goldie Keliinoi, Lindley Beddow, Blanche Young, Amy Miller, Mary McNicol, Henrietta Leaha, Mildred Magplong, Alice Goo, Winona Ing, Eleanor Mansfield, Stella Cockett, Josephine Adams, Luana Forsythe, Leah Needham, Pearl Morrison, Ivy Keanoano, Elaine Hamit, Rhoda Anna Holt, Rose Williams, Hannah Ho, Eloise Karratti, Bernice Hunt, Gertrude Miller, Louise Kaiwi, Lehua Carthcart, Marjoire Morris, Iris Johnson.
Miss Laura E. Brown is the director of the glee club, and she is also the piano instructor and the singing teacher.
(Written by Portia Yim)
Going to represent Kamehameha School at the Territory of Hawaii Conference of the National Student Association [? ahahuina Teritori o Hawaii o ka Haumana o ka ahahui Aupuni], are four girls from the girls’ school. This conference was held at Farrington High School from the 22nd to the 24th of November.
Charlotte Anna Morris, Ruth Needham, children class; Ellen Miller, Emelia Kaopua, youths; were the girls who represented the school. The delegates came from many different schools, from Kauai, Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, and Oahu.
The main reason for this meeting was to think over the problems that come before the school.
This coming year, the meeting will be held on Hawaii.
The girls who went to the meeting last year were Patricia Federcell, Alama Ayers, Louise Federcell and Marjorie Morris.
(Written by Clinton Bye)
Ainsley Mahikoa, who graduated with the class of 1930 from Kamehameha School for Boys, is at University of Southern California.
He is there studying the social sciences [? ouli] and that includes the study of different peoples and their knowledge. He is also working on “The teachings of Jesus pertaining to life” of which he related that he gained a lot. He also said that there is a lot in his reading pertaining to his line of work. His studies are related to his work at the Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Mahikoa is living with eight other boys who went there together from Hawaii. They sit together at one table to discuss their studies as if they were living at home.
According to his explanation, that Mr. Mahikoa has gained a lot of knowledge of other peoples at that University. In his letter, he said that one night, there was a Japanese, Chinese, American, Italian, Czechoslovakian, sitting around his table with him, a Hawaiian.
There were three boys from USC who were in an automobile accident who live with him in the same dorm along with Ainsley, and one of them lost his life.
Mr. Mahikoa is a counsellor for the boys at the Central Y.M.C.A. and it is said that the boys who were in that accident were ones who liked to have fun, and because Mahikoa was used to the ways of boys, he was the only one that could talk to them without being talked back to.
[I was assuming that all of the news written in by Kamehameha students of that time would be done in English, but happily it was not so!]
(Hoku o Hawaii, 12/11/1940, p. 3)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXV, Number 33, Aoao 3. Dekemaba 11, 1940.
By John Desha
KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOL. May 22 (Special)—Four seniors from the Big Island were graduated on May 30. They were Frances Nohoikaiu, Odetta Needham, George Mills, and Nephi Needham.
All of these students have attained a standard of which they can be proud.
George Mills and Nephi Needham have taken up at Kamehameha the agriculture course.
Frances Nohoikaiu and Odetta Needham have taken the general course at Kamehameha school for Girls.
Calvin Christ, also of Hawaii, is graduating this year. Calvin is in his high-eleventh year but is graduating with six other high-eleventh students. He has taken up the electrical course at Kamehameha and is planning to return to Hawaii where he intends to work.
KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS, May 26 (Special) — Memorial services were held for Bernice Pauahi Bishop by the Kamehameha Schools at Mauna Ala cemetery at Nuuanu on Friday, May 24.
While the school band played “Hawaii”, the students marched in and formed in a semicircles before the grave of Mrs. Bishop. The program ran in the following order:
“He Inoa No Pauahi” — Led by Daniel Hano.
“Pauahi O Kalani” — Led by Bernice Campbell.
“Boys’s School Pledge” — Led by Richard Hart.
“Pauahi Ke Alii” — Led by Amy Miller.
“Girls’ School Pledge” — Led by Florence Spencer.
“Decorating the Grave” — By the various class presidents.
“Only Remembered” — Led by Bernhardt Alama.
“Girls’ School Call” — Led by Josephine Keanoano.
A number of townspeople were present, including graduates and parents.
By D. Akaka.
KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS. May 22 (Special). Keanohou Ludloff of Hilo was recently elected to the post of treasurer for the coming year of the Hi Y Warriors club.
The other officers who were also elected are Robert Gomard, president, John Saber [?], vice-president, and Arthur Doo, secretary.
The present officers of the Hi Y club are James G???, president, Reuben Anderson, vice-president, John Desha, secretary, and Robert Fountain, treasurer.
“Ka oki ana o ka piko o Hale Lama” was the first sentence of a Hawaiian chant that was chanted by Kahuna pule Kahului Anderson and was interpreted by Moki Burrows, wearing malos, as “The cutting of the piko o Hale Lama” which is the ceremonial dedication of Hale Lama. A brief history of Hale Lama was presented by Louis Agard. the paina was followed by a program of dances and songs. “Aloha oe,” which was sung by the boys conducted the ritual ceremony. This ceremony marked the completion of a grass hut, constructed by students at Kamehameha schools.
Invited guests were as follows: Mrs. Lahilahi Webb, Mrs. Mary Pukui, Mrs. Keith Jones, Mrs. Margaret Bardwell, Miss Maude K. Scheiffer, Mrs. Antoinette Faahong, Dr. and Mrs. Homer F. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Rankin, Mr. and Mrs. L??? G. Hudson, Miss Juliana Jones, Miss Pat Namaka Wiggin, Mr. William Jones and Mr. Jack Q. Haydgen. Sponsoring the paina were the 24? members of the Hui Kumulipo and 41? members of the Hui Oiwi which were successfully advised by Miss Mabel Catlin and Mr. Donald Mitchell a total of about 100 persons attended the ceremony.
[If only papers like Hoku o Hawaii were rescanned as clearly as possible, maybe more information would be available from articles like these. Information can only be appreciated if it is legible! It is however awesome that you can actually make out that attending the opening ceremony for Hale Lama were people like Lahilahi Webb, Mary Kawena Pukui, and Pat Namaka (Wiggin) Bacon!
Oooh, and D. Akaka? Senator Daniel Akaka, class of ’42?
Once again, i am sorry if some of the names i typed are incorrect!]
(Hoku o Hawaii, 6/5/1940, p. 4)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXV, Number 6, Aoao 4. Iune 5, 1940.
Aloha nui kakou, readers of the Hoku o Hawaii and my fellow news writers from Maui, Kauai, the two Kona [North and South], and the Children of Kamehameha Schools.
I’ve read the news you all have written filling the columns of our Hoku o Hawaii. All that you all have written to fill our newspaper have been fine. That is the way we should do it. Should I be put aside, I will support those who KOKUA. Should you not have material, I will give aid here. If we all are without, our children from the Kamehameha School will give support, along with that good friend, Simeona Nawaa. Do send more news from the capitol. We give appreciation for your choice news.
Your news writer has returned from her wandering in Honolulu. Honolulu is great, along with all the great many things God has created, as well as all that man is carrying out. Where it is hot, that is what I don’t like, the air of Honolulu. We in the countryside are better off. With this cool air which you and I breathe; there is life there within.
With the recent start of Honokaa School this year, there has been seen a severe drop in the number of children. Like this:
| 1940–41 | 1941–42 | |
| Elem. | 480 | 446 |
| Intermed. | 262 | 281 |
| High School | 200 | 209 |
| ——— | ——— | |
| 942 | 936 |
These past days, the number of children attending school has rebounded.
Four new teachers came to Honokaa School this year, their names being:
Mrs. Spaulding, librarian for the school; taking the place of Mrs. Grant who left.
Mr. Lim, fitness teacher and baseball.
Mrs. Lim, science and math teacher.
Mr. Moon, Farming and Agriculture and Animal husbandry teacher.
The Hawaiian Women’s meeting was held in the hall of the Union Church several Thursdays ago. The officers were selected; Mrs. Hattie Reinhardt as president. She refused. Reselected was Mrs. Camella Herman as president; Mrs. Reinhardt as vice president; Mrs. Vikie Braun as secretary; Mrs. Vic Burke as treasurer; and Rev. A. Poepoe as adviser.
Four members joined. They being Mrs. Piilani Needham, Mrs. Mary Bell, Mrs. Nellie Kamaka and Mrs. Dorothy Poepoe.
The Haole Women’s Board of Hamakua held their meeting last Thursday in the lobby of the Honokaa Library. Mr. Olsen paid a visit, from the Kilauea Park, and he talked on the subject of the birds of the Volcanic Crater, while showing pictures of the birds.
On the Wednesday of last week, in the evening, the teachers and parents held their meeting and introduced themselves. In the introduction by the President, Mr. Poepoe, pertaining to his thoughts on parents at home, was the idea that they should not be lax in the children’s studies, and that they should let them always go to school. If the child is sick, that is a proper reason for the parents to keep the child at home. After the meeting, the parents were fed a snack.
KAMUELA:—Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smart returned along with their baby boy. The first child is Anthony, the second is Gilliard, named for the grandfather who has gone to the other world. They are living at their home in Puuopelu, at the previous residence of Hanai and Keoni Paka [Hannah and John Parker]. This coming Thursday, the second baby will be baptized at the church where Richard and his first child were baptized. After the baptism of the youngest child, everyone will return to eat at Barabara hall, with Mr. Hartwell Carter and the workers of Parker Ranch and their families.
KAWAIHAE:—The new homes of William Akau and his younger brother, Solomon Akau, have been completed. They are beautiful houses, and it is a sign of progress for Kawaihae. Now who else?
This past sabbath, Mr. William Kalaiwaa and Mrs. Kalaiwaa and David Manuia went to Kalahikiola in North Kohala. Mr. Kalaiwaa is the head Kahu of the Sunday Schools of two Kohala [North Kohala and South Kohala] and Hamakua.
On that day, they were holding the Sunday School Hoike at Kalahikiola. Pastor Likikini presides as kahu of the Church. Everything that took place was fine. After the hoike was through, Pastor Likikini took Mr. and Mrs. Kalaiwaa and Manuia back to Kawaihae.
Drenching raindrops fell at Kawaihae these past days. The kamaaina of this area were glad to receive rain. They hope the rain will fall again so that the soil remains damp, for they have planted much sweet potato.
We saw in the English newspaper of Honolulu that Judge Thomas Haae grew weary of this life at the Queen’s Hospital in Honolulu last week. We have great aloha and regret for Thomas Haae. We met up with him in Honolulu in June during the [church] Island-wide Convention, and it was not known that he was in weak condition.
We will no longer meet at the Church, Sunday School, and C. E. events.
To the widow, Mrs. Thomas Haae, to you goes our aloha, and let your thoughts be lightened. The path that he has taken is the same path that we shall take on our last days. ALOHA.
[Mrs. Reinhardt was the news correspondent for Hamakua and Kohala to the newspaper Hoku o Hawaii.]
(Hoku o Hawaii, 10/15/1941, p. 1)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXVI, Number 25, Page 1. Okatoba 15, 1941.
INTRODUCTION
We, the managers of the newspaper Hoku o Hawaii, are blessed through receiving some news items from the Homestead lands of Molokai, the land which the Alii Kuhio put much effort into for the Hawaiians. This is received through the correspondence of the mother, Mrs. Ruby Apiki Bright.
Lot 2, Hoolehua
Sept. 5, 1839
To my dear patient Hoku:
Here is some baggage for the deck of our pride, should it be kindly allowed some free space. On this past 26th of August, the Catholics of Kaunakakai held a silver jubilee in commemoration of the building of their church, St. Sophia, and there was a fair, and the activities that day went well. They gave the name of that well-to-do mother of the Island of Hina [Molokai] to their church, that being Mrs. Sophie Judd Cooke—the open-hearted mother who spread forth her helping hands for its furnishing and building in the year 1914.
The Calvinists held a Bazaar for their benefit, selling all sorts of things on this past 2nd of this month. Everything was lovely.
……..
[Ruby Apiki Bright started her regular column reporting on news from Molokai on this day, September, 20, 1939, in Hoku o Hawaii. I hope some day soon, these papers will be rescanned again clearly so they are easily read!]
(Hoku o Hawaii, 9/20/1939, p. 1)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXIV, Number 21, Page 1. Sepatemaba 20, 1939.
Sweet Emalia, that is Emalia Kaihumua, is now in the insane asylum [halemai pupule].
[After finding this abrupt notice, one would assume that now that Emalia was admitted into the insane asylum, other than escape, there would only be one way out…]
(Makaainana, 4/5/1897, p. 8)
Ka Makaainana, Buke VII—-Ano Hou, Helu 14, Aoao 8. Aperila 5, 1897.
The health of the Hon. S. L. Desha, Sr. is greatly improving these days; that is what was reported to this Office.
(Hoku o Hawaii, 2/14/1933, p. 3)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Buke XXVI, Helu 37, Aoao 3. Feberuari 14, 1933.
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