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

i OCAL AND OTHERWlS b.
Christmas!
The Chronicle and Gazette will not be
issued next week.
Masonic banquet at the Henry House
Friday evening.
Miss Mary Wilder is spending the
holidays at her home in Lawrence.
Subscribe for the REFLECTOR and
the New York World. Only 1920 for
one year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Palfrey have taken
rooms at Mr.. Sam COOper's new house
on Buckeye.
The cold of the past few days insures
us a large ice crop, and this luxury will
be cheap next summer.
The ladies of st. Johns Guild real
lied the handsome sum of $50 after
paying expenses of the bazaar.
Sheriff Miller and wife celebrated the
fifteenth anniversary of their marriage
on the 14th inst, by family dinner
Shumway & Rappenecker, leaders
dUU SQudIC ucdl6lO III Il ecu otllu lOuuCS.
Prices the lowest. On Broadway. 1t
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Burton gave
very pleasant evening party to their
numerous friends last Friday evening.
A children's Christmas service at the
Baptist church next Sunday morning
at eleven O'Clock. Sermon by the pastor.
The J. Z. Bonebrake Hardware Co.
will close their place of business on Fri
day, Dec. Goth, for the purpose of tax
ing an invoice.
A new platform to the depot and an
addition to the freight depot are i'm
provements which will soon materialize.
The pastor of the Baptist church will
preach a sermon to the children next
Sunday morning at the usual hour of
service.
Admission for spectators to the mas
Querade dance next Tuesday evening at
the Opera House, adults % cents, chill
dren Is cents.
For Fresh Oysters of excellent quail
ty and pure Eastern Buckwheat Flour,
go to Shumway & Rappenecker's on
Broadway.
A wedding of much interest will be
solemniZed in this city on the Sth Of
January. The bride-elect is popular in
society circles.
Wonder what the Gazette and ChrOn-
icle editors will get in their stockings?
Don't paralyze them by all answering at
once, dirty feet!''
The sunday school of st. Johns Epis-
copal church will have their Christmas
tree on the evening of st. Johns day,
Saturday, December %.
Invitations are out for the twentieth
marriage anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs.
n. Cobb, at their residence on 18th St.,
Monday evening, Dec. 29th.
Buy your Buckwheat and Graham
Flour of Shumway q Rappenecker.
Delivered anywhere in the city, and
prices as low as the lowest. 1t
Mr.. W. 1. Miller and sister arrived
home from Ell PaSO, ILL.,, last week,
whittier they had been called by the
sickness and death of a sister.
New Years day will be observed by
the ladies of Abilene, who will indulge
in that very old and very pleasant So
cial custom of keeping ''Open house"
Mrs. Flack and daughter, of Council
Grove, were guests of Mrs. j. G.. North
craft last Sunday. They visited their
son in Enterprise before going home.
Andrew Yonally, of Lincoln town.
ship, was found to be insane by Pro-
bate Court jury last Monday. He will
be taken to the State Insane Asylum.
The editor of the Gazette is so cute,
and having never cut a cherry tree,
some one ought to send him chrome
of ''milldam" for Christmas present.
Miss Emily Lifts received recently
gift of SIS for the church, from her
former Rector, the Rev. H. L. Jones,
of st. Stephens church, Wilkes-Barre,
Penn.
The mercury in the thermometers was
seven degrees below zero yesterday
morning. Old BoreaS seems determin-
ed to freeze all the Italian softneSs out
of our climate.
The REFLECTOR man returns his ep-
icurean thanks to MeSsrs. Shumway &
Rappenecker for a can of their fresh
oysters. They were large and luscious,
and were highly enjoyed.
The many friends of Miss June Wise
will regret to learn that she is confined
to her home with a threatened attack
Of pneumonia. 1t is sincerely hoped that
she may escape dangerous illness.
While trade is dull and money scarce
In this portion of Kansas, we believe
that the depression is not so great as it
is in the states east of us. Kansas is in
better condition than many of her sister
commonweaitf1s.
That noble utterance of Lincoln's:
"With charity for all with malice toward
none," should find an abiding place in
each and every heart. But the frailty
Of human nature does not warrant us in
believing that it will.