The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-04
is the time for buyers.


The lumbermen have cut the weeds
down about their big piles of lumber
and made things look a little more at
tractive.
There is but one peacock in town and
he is without tail.
\ fine ice cream parlOT is now opened
OH the north side at the bakery. Mrs.
Levi viii know how TO set out the very
best.
The skating rink fever has subsidized
lately. Whether it is the weather or
hard times that causes this, one can
only guess.
There is an extra lot of ice on hand
this season, but the lovers of mint jul
lepS and long punches have to content
themselves with lemonade. The res
taurantS that furnish fresh buttermilk
Will have a good run of custom.
\ patent churn took the cakes"
here this week.
Some of the hogs running at large
are shortly to cause their owners trouble
unless taken care of.
Two car loads of hogs were shipped
this week.
An effort has been made to keep the
weeds down on the vacant lots. and
about town generally, but in some in
stances this effort has been avery sickly
one.
There are two large hardware and i'm
plement stores and three drug stores in
our town.
Snyder & Sons, Yerkes s. Co., Russell
81 Fancher and Whitehair Bros. are
constantly getting new goods as if we
had no hard times.
Mrs. J. c. Sparks has one of the most
elegant millinery establishments in this
part of the state.
Decoration day was observed in Chap
man. The brass band. followed by
well filled carriages and mounted men,
repaired from the town to the cemetery,
where an Grafton was pronounced by
the Rev. Herr. Flowers were scattered
and planted in honor of the dead soldier
heroes.
The sidewalk on the south side of
town extends past James Green's funi-
ture ware room and to the skating rink.
p. DOnnelly at his boot and shoe
shop, Just west of Whitehair'S store,
mends all kinds of rubber boots in a
skillful manner and the work done by
him is warranted to be what he recon-
mends. In these muddy, wet days it
will pay to make note of this.
Mr.. Hollinger is having some fine
work done on his residence eight miles
south of town, and NJ. 2. SanbOrn, our
well known contractor and builder, is
doing it.
A sudden fire broke out in Nall |
Bros. steam elevator at about II o'clock |
asst Monday night. 1t was first dis |
covered by Robert Moore, who was at |
IOag's livery stable. and who promptly |
gave the alarm. The fire was under |
such Roadway that no effort could pre-
vail against it, and the prOprietOrs and |
crowd which soon gathered, cOntented
themselves in saving other property. |
Jimmy Sheeran got out all of Mr.. |
Naill'S books but their letter volumes
md the NALL Bros. say they saved only
/ few trifling things, aside from them,
bout their office. The steam elevator
vas worth $1,000 and insured for $4,000
MY. There were over 1000 bushels of
ntCtl III UllG DlIlS, Ulllo Noto IIISuIcu lOl |
$500. The loss will fall heavily on the
men who have heretofore
un this establishment and it is hoped
hey will rebuild. The large stores of
russell e Fancher and Snyder, on the
south and North respectively, were in
.reat danger. If the wind had been
rom the north the first would have
Had those interested not have
sed hundreds of buckets of water,
,nyder's store would have caught, and
hen the fire would have swept large
art of the North side of town. The
ailway wind mill succumbed at last to
he flames and the top fell with crash.
timbers and piles of the saved
nd damaged wheat, now mark the site
f Chapman's first elevator.