Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-02-07
WANTED.
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
As I Was Just About to Say

As I Was Just About to Say
Charlie Estes and Frank Van Dorer
had rather delicate job in delivering
an express package yesterday forenoon
For further particulars ask Hois.
Pitching quits may be good exercise
but doesn'tit look rather gray to see
a crowd of men in the streets of a city
like Abilene engaged in that sport?
Abilene has thus far missed its usual
winter ire. l hope there will be nc
need of adding a supplement to this
item, for fires are not fashionable this
year.
l wonder if any more awnings are to
be taken down before spring opens.
Abilene has the making of real city if
a few little countrified things like the
awnings can be done away with.
hope the Driving Park Association
will receive sufficient encouragement
to warrant it in giving us some more
good races next summer. Few people
realize the amount of advertising our
fine track gives the city.
1t is remarkable how the church at
tendance of Abilene holds up. All the
largest sanctuaries in the city are
crowded from chancel to entry each
Sabbath. 1t certainly speaks well for
the religious sentiment of the COM
munity.
There are some people who are mean
enough to cut from papers clippings
that they think will apply to somebody
and send them anonymously. Their
amount of business is evidently as
small as their stock of brains to allow
of their fooliiig away time on such low
down vulgarity.
l cannot help noticing those sign
posts at the intersection of Broadway
and Third streets. On the top of each
is a representation of a human hand.
One is pointing upward and the other
down AS the latter points to a barber
shop and the other to a real estate
office and as cleanliness is supposed to
be nearer to Goodness than anything
else. the significance of the pointing
fingers seem somewhat mixed.
There is a good deal of truth in the
following from an eastern exchange:
The prosperity of town is gagged not
by the worth of its inhabitants, but by
the unanimity with which they pull to-
gether when any important undertake
ing is to be accomplished. A man with
S., 900 at his command and a love for
his town in his heart. can do more for
the building up and improving of it
than the millionaire who locks up his
capital and snaps his fingers at home
progress.
was sorry that the Pottery Works
project did not receive enough encour-
agement to warrant Mr.. Hart in carry
ing it on. A small bonus would have
put the establishment on a paying basis
and then it would have run itself.
There was one thing that commended
it particularly sent goods out of
the city and brought in money. The
material was all here in the vicinity
and we were actually selling the dirt
and clay of the vicinity at crockery-
ware prices. 1 hope something will be
done in the spring toward starting up
the works.
I'd give quarter to know:
What the district court will do in the
Jones Freeland case.
Who will occupy the Lew Brady
Wellington store.
How long it will be before all the
Abilene merchants advertise.
The number of citizens now kicking
because the city council don't pay off
the national debt out of their own
pockets.
Who will be the next mayor.