The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-14

Rev. Mrs. ). NJ. Barnes. OF Junction
City, spent Sunday and Monday with
Major S. N. Wise.
ThOs. Kirby's new house is looming
upwards. 1t will be, when finished,
one of the largest, best built and hand
soonest houses in the city.
Geo. c. Kenyon, John Johntz, Henry
Lifts. w. B. Giles and Geo. Hubbard
left Monday night for Atchison, where
they Will attend a Grand Encampment
of Knight Templars.
Mrs Thos. Kirby and daughter, Miss
Gertie, left last Saturday for visit to
their old home in Johnstown, Penn.
They were accompanied as far as Kan
Sas City by Mr.. Kirby.
Does the new temperance law pro-
hibit? The LeavenwOrth Standard
says. George Eddy, the druggist, re-
ceived car load of half pint, pint and
quart TASKS this morning"
Mac II. Jolly, the good looking and
efficient clerk at Bishop 81 Co. S, left
Tuesday evening for Lamartine, Ohio,
where he has secured a lucrative posi-
ton. His many friends here will wish
! him good luck.
The stone cutters in front of Kelley's,
! the Abilene Bank and Hazlett's are a
| great improvement. The streets will
never be properly or satisfactorily
drained until the stone gutter is known
throughout the city.
J. N. Brenizer is closing out his en-
tire stock Of dry goods, notions and
gents furnishing goods at cost. He
will not carry on that branch OF the
business in his new store. Now is the
time to secure bargains.
VIM. Myers has moved his cigar fac
! tory from the cellar under Kirby's bank
to his own building on Third, between
| Spruce and Buckeye. Mr.. Myers is
making a No. l cigar and finds a ready
market. Success to him.
Deputy County Treasurer NJ. V. Brill
| hart will take advantage of the eXcur-
! sion to Mexico. Penn, which leaves on
! Sunday, and will visit his old home in
| Pennsylvania. The short vacation
will brace him up for the tax rush.
Prof. HalSey c. Ives, distinguished
artist of st. Louis, was the guest of his
| friend, Geo. w. Carpenter, last week.
! Prof. Ives knew Abilene when it con-
sisted Of only two houses. He has large
mOnied interests in the county now.
\ man in Enterprise the other day
called at one of the drug stores and
signed a blank for whisky in which he
stated that it was to be used for medic
inal purposes, as he was going to give
it to sick pigs. Whisky for pigs? Did
you ever?
J. J. Mccall, of Sherman, was in
town last Monday. He says that he
was engaged in no row, as stated in
the Gazette. In company with B. W.
McCOsh he called on the REFLECTOR
and Mr. McCOsh paid his subscription
and took with him one of our premium
maps.
Gail Hamilton is to have an article
| in the June number Of the North Amer
ican Rer9e,C on Prohibition in Politics.
written i'll her most cauStic vein. \
literary critic who has read it says that
! he inferS that Gail has not the most eX-
allied admiration for the cold water bolt
| of the last election.
Scintillations from the pens of the
''best and brightest" journalists in the
city. now engaged on a daily:
Keep the early potatoes well cultivated, and
| on first appearance OF 1.-THE bug apply Paris
| green.
A baIky horse amused a large crowd of specta-
rI,f -f,npr I'm Il no
Squire Z. Barber felt well enough
last Monday to drop down into the RE-
FLECTOR Sanctum and make us pleas
ant visit. He is receiving electric treat
ment for his paralysis, and the Re-
FLECTOR trusts that the genial Old
Squire may be benefited thereby. Be
fore he left he paid for the four copies
of the REFLECTOR he has been taking
since the paper started.
As before stated in these columns.
county clerks are not clerks of court
of record in pension cases. County
Clerk Warning is in receipt of the fol-
lowing bearing directly upon this point:
Richard WarinC, ESQ, Abilene, Kan.
! DEAR SIR-COunty Clerks are not clerks of a
court of record within the law of Congress in rela-
ton TO the taking of proof in pension cases. Such
proof should be made before the Clerk of the
| District Court. Very respectfully,
$. B. BRADFORD, Atty Gen.
Many ladies admire gray hair-On
some other person. But few care to
try its effect on their own charms. Nor
need they, since Ayers Hair Vigor
prevents the hair from turning gray,
and restores gray hair to its original
color. 1t cleanseS the scalp, prevents
the formation of dandruff, and wonder
fully stimulates the growth of the hair.
Clay Center and Junction City no
longer presume to be rivals of Abilene.
They content themselves with making
faces at each other and asking queriOuS-
ly how it came that they are so far be-
hind. The poor old towns are yet live
" enough, however, to fight for the
privilege of being second to Abilene,
considering that an honor.
The editor of the local paper who
urges upon the community the practice
of patrOnizing home institution and
merchants so long as equaled SatiSfac-
ton can be given, feels very much fiat
tered when he drops into his home stores
and sees piles of printed stationery pro-
cured from foreign establiShmentS-a
class of printing that is not as good,
but fully as high priced when the ex-
press is added) as the home printer
would ever think of asking.-Er.