Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-10
Official Paper Of County and City.
RECENT REFLECTIONS.


IT'S well to be honest and true;
'Tis well to pay up the last years bill,
Before you begin with the new.
HThe county officers elect will
assume their duties on Jan. 14th.
gAbout s75 was cleared for thepo
by the entertainment Thursday night.
It viii be carefully expended.
~The awnings in front of Nc
Fadden's and Morse's have been re-
moved. Let the good work go on.
@E. T. Ellison is building large
crib near the Rock Island yards for the
purpose of storing and shipping corn.
gThe Probate Judge this afternoon
issued marriage license to Aaron j.
Maust, of Hope, and Lizzie L. Book,
of Woodbine.
@M. Nicolay, OF this place, recent
ly won prize of $50 for sending the
largest list of new subscribers to the
Christian Standard.
TRemember that the time for
shooting quail has expired. The first
man that violates the law should be
made an example of.
gJ. C. SINNERS was elected last
night chief of the Abilene Fire Depart
ment to fill vacancy caused by the
resignation of W. L. Allison.
HProfs. Cook, of Solomon, and
Jswett, of Abilene, will assist Supt.
Ford during the coming year in exam
lining teachers who apply for certifi-
Gates.
ISA delicate operation for the re-
moval of a tumor was performed upon
May Sanders, waiter in the Midland.
yesterday by Drs. lakewood, Steel
smith, Brooks and McMahan.
@MARRIED:-Att the home Of the
bride in Flora township, Jan. 1st, 1889,
Miss Mary VickerS and. Mr.. James
Knott. The REFLECTOR takes pleas
ure in extending congratulations.
@The REFLECTOR is enjoying a
genuine boom in the influx of new sub
scribers. 1t does not take people long
to find out where to get their reliable
news and genuine Republican doctrine
Bg Miss Lizzie Anderson will this
week resign her school in district 81
and take position in her fathers office
when he assumes the duties of district
clerk next Tuesday. Miss Nettie
Whitney has been engaged to fill Miss
Anderson's present place.
9The forty members of the "Des-
trick Skewle' troupe, accompanied by
number of others went to Harrington
over the Rock Island last evening, re-
turning on especial" at midnight.
They report crowded house and a
royal good time at the metropolis of
Southeast Dickinson.
gAn Abilene Office holder threatens
to sue the REFLECTOR for libel. That
is encouraging. Our address is POI
Broadway, upstairs. REFLECTOR
stock will rise 100 per cent in less than
ten minutes after the papers are served.
A libel suit is all that is necessary to
make a paper famous. Now is the
time to subscribe.
B9 Experiments at the Manhattan
State farm have discovered that the use
of salt on wheatfelds will greatly in-
crease the yield. It is also announced
that salt will kill potato bugs. These
experiments should better be pushed
theoretically. Kansas is apt to find 50
many uses for salt that salt well on
every mans farm will be indispensable.
Kansas isn't the State to have a good
thing without getting all that can be
gotten out of it.
% William iP. Higginbotham, the
noted banker of Manhattan, has as
signed to Samuel Kimble, Sr. His
liabilities are $1O7, 900, and his assets,
which consist largely of real estate and
live stock, 5000, 900. The largest cred
'itors are the National Bank of. Com
merce of Kansas City. for $3s, 900, and
Samuel Kimble, ST., the assignee, for
$4,000. The Blue Valley bank was
the first in Manhattan, being estab-
lished in 1S53.-[Ex.
B9The farmers who supplied the
Fort Scott sugar works with cane this
year cleared $1S per acre over and
above all expenses of cultivation and
delivery, allowing good wages for
everything done, and two dollars per
acre rent, says the Stockton Record.
Where the farmer does all the work
himself, and owns his land, he will
realize $50 per acre on the basis Of this
years figures. Dickinson county can
well afford to experiment along this
line, for there seems to be both money
and certainty in it. Sugar plants and
creameries are all the rage just now in
the Sunflower State. The latter have
been proved to be very successful here
and we can now try the former.
Card of Thanks.
we hereby tender our hearty and