The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-16
The holy communion will be celebra

The holy communion will be celebra
ted by the Reform Church, next Sunda,
morning, Oct 10, at 1920 A. NJ. Ais
services on Saturday afternoon at
O'Clock. Preaching by the pastor, Rev
d. B. Shuey. He will also preach OF
Sunday afternoon in Enterprise and il
| the evening in Detroit.
The editor of the Clay Center Times
an excellent young man but as bad {
republican as one can find, says what
would give the Gazette and Chronicle
the Jim jams Mr.. Valentine says
Gov. Click paid us pleasant visit
this morning before the train left which
was to carry him to his next deStina-
ton. Outside of politics he is a splendid
cOnverSatiOnaliSt, well up in the lead
ing events of the day, and las accurate
as book Oh everything pertaining to
Kansas. Few men are more popular
where acquainted than our present
| chief executive.
At the last session of the Board of Su-
pervisors pauper bills, covering the
pleasanteSt and cheapest part of the
year, were granted to the amount
of about 500. The pauper bills of the
county are not less than 81 900 or s., 900
per year, nearly all of which might be
saved if the county had poor house
and farm. The pauperS of the county,
living together on a farm, could be
made almost if not quite self-sustaining.
The $4,000 asked for by the county to
build a poor house and buy poor farm
should be granted by the voters of the
county. 1t would be money in the tax
payers pockets.
Mr.. James NJ. Wishart, travelling
agent of SeatOn & Lee. of Atchison.
arrived in the city to-day. Mr.. Wish
art is master mechanic, a man of bus
mess ability and fine gentleman. If
the city will furnish him with $1,000.
for five years without interest. he will
buy the Abilene Foundry and will at
once go to work to build up an extensive
and paying business. His ability and
energy will be able to do this. and he
should not long remain in the city with
out finding the slight encouragement he
asks for. An extensive foundry and
machine shop would greatly benefit Alb
ilene, and it is not possible that her
business men have lost all of their pride
and enterprise.
Phenomenal stories have been cur
rent in possibly every community in the
land about human endurance, freaks
of nature and the strange animals and
insects which have lived in human sys-
TENS for years. And as strange and
true as any of them is the lizard story
which comes to us from our neighbor-
ing town, Solomon City. Some ten
years ago Mr.. VIM. Sterritt, a young
farmer living north Of Solomon City.
swallowed a live lizard near Hamilton,
Ohio. Drs. Brown and Mallery, of
Hamilton, tried in vain to remove the
reptile from the victims stomach, and
Mr.. Sterritt unwillingly brought it to
Kansas with him. Some two years
ago, DR.. Lewis, Of Solomon City, tried
to rid the man of his troublesome viSi-
tor, but without success. Mr.. Sterritt
was taken suddenly sick on Monday
last, and remarking to his mother that
1.-The live thing in my stomach is COM
ing up" he put his hand in his mouth,
caught hold of something and pulled
when out came black and white liz
Zard fully eight inches long. Mr.. Ster-
rit put the reptile on his arm, when it
started for his mouth, but was caught
and put in alcohol. The lizard, per-
fectly formed, is on exhibition in Solo
mon CITY.