The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22
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painted.
We are glad to see Sam Cooper Of
the streets again after a brief but Sc
we're illness.
The REFLECTOR supplement con
tains interesting reading matter as vel
as advertisements.
Miss Rose Rowland returned from
her visit to her home i'll Thayer last
Saturday afternoon.
Isaac Gibbs sold last week 80 head OF
steers in Enterprise which melted the
handsome sum of 81, 200.
J. Ii. Updegraff has one of the best
BARRIERS in the city. The artist halls
from Springfield, Mo.
Detroit is called Detroit again, and
all day trains now stop at that plucky
village. All hail to Detroit. y bus
line connects Enterprise with Detroit.
Messrs. Michael Hogan and Patrick
Seaman, two of Chapman's respected
citizens. and Mat. BOland, of Terri,
Texas, called on the REFLECTOR last
Monday.
NJ. y. Finley's popular grocery store
has been greatly improved i'll looks by
the painters brush. lie has also just
added a beautiful show case and $500
pound safe.
We understand that the party of
MennOniteS that arrived in Abilene last
week lave purchased the west half of
Cranes ranch and will divide it up into
small farms.
ID. ID. IIOrnaday. wife and children.
left yesterday for visit to their In
diana home. Our genial and popular
county superintendent will be gone
about two weeks. and we wish him a
pleasant visit.
l. b. Ogden, genial young man of
South Dickinson, was in to see the RE-
FLECTOR last Friday. The paper will
hereafter visit him weekly.
Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily"
will appear in Topeka Oh the evening of
the 29th instant. The visiting states
men from Dickinson county who may
be in the city at that time will take
due notice OF this fact.
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Emma Harrington by number of her
young friends Tuesday evening in hon
or of her 10Th birthday anniversary.
The evening was spent in highly en-
jOyable manner to all.
Remember the Episcopal social at the
hotel de McCOllom, next Tuesday even
ing. The proceeds will go to help pay
a church debt. \ good time may be
expected and all should go.
The commissioners have had the
court house yard plOwed and sOwed to
corn, and this fall it will be seeded to
blue grass. In few years Dickinson
county will, have fine court yard us
well as large and handsome court
house. And it should have.
The first page of this week s REFLEC-
TOR is ably and interestingly edited by
the Berry Bros. Mercantile company.
Read their illustrated editorial on the
Mccormack Binder and Hodge Header
It's Il very Siberian day when this en-
terprising firm fails to head the process
sion.
Thos. Gilmore is lying in Jail because
he drew a revolver on and threatened
to kill one Christian Shtoader, in Ban
ner township. Justice Green bound
Gilmore over to the next term of the
district court i'll the sum of 800, and
his failure to give surety brought him
to Jail.
Judge Nicholson arrived i'll the city
last Sunday and on Monday morning
district court was convened. At home
and in Ottawa and Davis, the Judge
has been highly complimented on his
prompt methods of doing business. The
Dickinson county docket is light and
will not consume more than twOiweeks.
1t is Geo. Westinghouse lot, and we
suppose he has right to put it to any
legitimate use, but if he had asked our
advice we should have decided, gently
but firmly. that he had no right, from
an aesthetic point of view, to put that
frame building at the corner of Spruce
and Second streets. That's all.
ROhrer's ''twin relics" painted and
striped to resemble brick buildings and
displaying the interesting legend, 1.-The
new block cigar store will ornament
the town and make the average Abilene
lite proud and naughty. How could you
do it George Washington Columbus?
Miss Emma Rhodes, who for the past
two months has been visiting her broth
ers south of town, left for her home in
StofferstOwn, Penn. on last Thursday.
Miss Rhodes appears highly pleased
with Dickinson county and made many
friends during her short stay here.
Charles and Mike Swigart, John BOst-
wick and j. S. Ford, all four of them
Jolly good boys of Newbern township.
left Tuesday morning in comfortably
equipped spring wagon on pleasure
and prospecting trip to south Kansas
and the Indian territory. They will be
gone all summer, and the REFLECTOR
man would like to enjoy with them the
delights of such a trip. But they will
hardly run across a finer country than
Dickinson county.
The democratic county convention
which assembled last Saturday was
well attended, considering the busy sea-
son and the bad weather. The interest
manifested was decidedly encouraging,
and the harmony was rather above the
Dickinson county average. The dele
gates elected to the Topeka cOnven-
ton are representative men and solid.
intelligent democrats. They are as
follows: o. f. Serl. Solomon City:
4. J. Markley. Newbern: Simon Roth
schild. Abilene J. y. TiltOn, Detroit
John Erwin, Chapman, and John ~
Hafner. Enterprise. The Alternates
are c. Pontius, Solomon City; c. n
Coggeshall, Garfield: c. W. Liggett
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