The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-25

The leap year masquerade at the OPP
era House next Tuesday evening vii
indeed be a grand affair.
Shumway & Rappenecker are havin!
a good trade in feed and produce. Give
them a call, on Broadway. 1t
The close out of carpets at Sewell'!
runs right through the Holiday season
They will always be glad to show Gus
toners the wonderful bargains the!
have to offer. 2-N
Notwithstanding the dull times {
large number of our patrons are drop
ping in to see us with hard silver TO
the REFLECTOR. And we appreciate
the calls, too. The REFLECTOR reflects
for all. Only $3.50 per year.
The matrimonial market is dull. The
Christmas season is upon us, but Judge
Culbertson has no call for marriage Ii
cenSeS. He issued one on Monday, tx
Thomas J. Lynn and Geneva Hazel, OF
northwest Dickinson.
The business men of New York
! through the leading papers of that city.
express the opinion that the depression
in all classes of business will soon give
way to better times. This hopeful feel
ing in the metropolis of the country is
very gratifying, indeed.
Mrs. Simon Rothschild will leave
next Sunday for Pittsburg and Phila-
delphia, Penn, where she will visit heI
old home friends and relatives. She
will be absent from Abilene about ten
weeks, and some time in February ST.
mon will join her in Philadelphia.
This is a season of sweet charity. In
the midst of your plenty and light
hearted happiness, give thought to
the less fortunate. Seek out the de-
serving poor and let your substantial
blessings fall upon them as gently and
refreshingly as the dew upon the flower.
J. II. Phipps, one of the staunch
democrats Of Noble township, took adj
vantage of our World clubbing offer
last week. The REFLECTOR and n. 7.
World, the leading democratic paper of
the country, for 1920 per year. This
offer is made to new subscribers and
those who pay in advance.
Charlie Thrasher came down last
Monday and ordered the REFLECTOR
sent to brother in Iowa for one year.
1t was the best Christmas present he
could have given him. Don't you think
so? And there is plenty of time for
others to follow Mr.. Thrasher's eX-
ample.
The masquerade ball, to be given by
the young ladies of Abilene in Bone
brakes Opera House, on Tuesday even
ing, Dec. 80, promises to be the lead
ing social event Of the winter. The
''merrie maSquers" will belong to our
best people, and the body of the Opera
House will be thrown open to specta-
tors.
Rev. J. R. Cooper has recently as
sumed the paStOrate Of the PreSbyte-
rian church at Solomon. He is an able
divine and the REFLECTOR, besides
having the pleasure of welcoming him
and his eStimable wife to Dickinson
county and her good people, is proud of
the invitation to make him weekly
visits. Mr.. Cooper comes from Illinois
and is very favorably impressed with
Kansas.
Mr.. a. Henquenet, our pioneer dem
ocrat, has gone to Michigan on his an
nual visit to his family. We hope he
will not be gone long, as the railroad
will be completed in short time, and
then New Hope will need his presence
at the time of the boom. Mr.. Ii. says
he will be back in a couple of months
with a new lot of emigrantS, who are
willing to cast their lots with us in the
Golden Belt of KanSaS.-HOpe Herald.
The Junior of the REFLECTOR was
married last week, and the kind words
and congratulations from his journals
tic friends, East and West, are duly ap-
preciated. But then, the boys of the
press are good fellows at all times, and
when one of them gets married it is ten
to one that he deserves to be cOngratu-
lated Ministers and editors always
marry the best women in the world.
Our esteemed contemporary of En-
terprise, the -MOnOpOliSt, makes
mistake when it says that the debt of
Dickinson county is So, ZOO. The TO-
tai bonded Indebtedness of the county
amounts to but SD 900, and the recent
~ voted poor house and farm bonds of
$4,000 are included in this amount.
Dickinson county is in a remarkably
good financial condition.
Judge CuIbertson married a couple
from western county last week. They
had been married some ten years before
by a justice, but question about
property rights revealed the fact that
the justice was not qualified and that
the first ceremony was not legally
binding. So they came to Judge Cul
bertson and were tied as tightly as law
could tie them. The Judge would not
reveal the names of the parties.
For honor and fairness in journalism
the REFLECTOR is willing to compare
issue with issue with the Gazette. We
plead no baby act, we have no ones par
don to beg and we have not in the past
nor shall we in the future consult our
contemporary in any particular as to
how we should conduct our paper. We
have received its public abuse and pri-
vate business malice as matter of
course. We shall endeavor to put up
with it in the future. And we are will
ling to compare the two papers for hon
esty, justice, decency and fairness at
any time and before any audience.
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