Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-21
Reflector Supplement.
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

-IreaSurer-elecC NIXON cdnnOG lake
his Office until next October; this seems
long wait between-events.
Junction City and Salina are still
playing lawn tennis. Some people
never know when summer is over.
An elaborate program for the
Thanksgiving fiag-raising exercises is
being prepared by the city schools.
The firemen say the tickets for the
Thanksgiving ball and supper are go
ing rapidly and huge time is in pros
pect.
Christmas entertainments already
occupy the attention of the little folks
and Sunday school attendance will now
increase.
The REFLECTOR Office has some
new Autograph type that is warranted
to make the handsOmest letter heads i'll
the city.
"A Salina man will build $4,000
opera house ''if the people will put up
10000" Salina will use her present
barn for while yet.
District court took final adjourn
nent this afternoon and Judge NicbOl-
son left for his home, Council Grove;
on the afternoon Rock Island.
THE ears of corn in this county are
so immense this year that only the
strongest armed farmers are able t.
husk them for any length of time.
Will the REFLECTOR please give
the people rest on that ''Off year" bust
ness?- News. We will as soon as
we can get over thinking how Offal ii
was
1t is reported that c. A. Stannard,
well-known here, was married Tuesday
night to Miss Clara JOry, Of Hope, at
Ottawa. The REFLECTOR cOngratu-
lates.
,-Qn,il and prairie chicken hunting
is quite an attraction for Abilene
sports. They find the hunting" con-
sderabiy more numerous than tht
game, however.
Who shall The News thank for
turkey for our Thanksgiving Ginnrl?
- The News. That is too dusty be-
sides being u.grammatical. Get oul
and rustic for your grub like the rest of
us.
The sage of the Lexington Times
thus remarks: ELECTION is over and
now let Us get down to business again.
Let us work together to build up our
town and county and to make business
livlier than it has ever been before"
The tax-rolls for 1889 are now in
Uh5 hands Of the county treasurer and
taxes are payable up to Dec. Goth. In
order to avoid the rush noticeable
about that date many farmers are show
ing their good judgment by paying
their taxes now
The driving park matinees be-
come more and more interesting. Next
years race meetings will attract wider
attention than ever. Much of this
years success has been due to tie
earnest work of three or four gentle
men like Sterl, Martin, Cowles, Ball,
COsad and others who have kept up the
interest in the racing.
Two colored men, drivers of coal
wagons in Topeka, each held a twen-
tleth of ticket 90, which drew $500, 900
in the Louisiana State Lottery Tues
day. The ticket entities each man to
sl5, 900. kilograms from New Orleans
confirmed the statement that SO drew
the capital prize. The tickets have
been forwarded for collection by a local
bank.
james Martin, who ran freight
on this line last winter and spring, had
the misfortune to lose one of his limbs,
recently by falling from a moving
train Manchester Sun. Martin will
be remembered by many Abileneites as
one of The most genial and accommo-
dating conductors the Santa Fe ever
had and his misfortune will he sincere
ly regretted.
This is critical period in the his
tory Of most Kansas cities. The de-
preston in business and the hard times
have passed and the state is starting on
the up grade. The cities that show
push and enterprise will reap the bene-
fit of the new prosperity. The people
of Abilene will make a mistake if they
adopt any close-fsted, behind-the-
times tactics and do not run the City
on a broad, liberal basis that will at
tract go-aheaG business men.