Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-10
Vbe AefettOr.
THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1890.
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

RECENT REFLECTIONS.
Some dust-some dirt-much noise and
grumbling-
Sweet girls in pink with bresths like
clover;
Some talk-a dance-a storm clouds rum
bling,
Ten dollars Ione.-the Fourth is over.
Solomon wants a miller.
The circulation of the fly paper in
cresses daily.
Lodge work languisheS on account
of the hot nights.
The speeches have all been laid
away until next year.
Faces ford, weather tcrrid, dust
supernstuFally hoFFid.
-Breathes there a man with soul SO
dead he does not wish July had fled?
HOY stale, ast and unpra6table is
the sound of frecracker on July 5th.
The Hope fair will be the most
successful fair meeting in central Kan
sas this year.
--Orrin Blesh, of Hope, has taken 2
position in the grocery store of his
uncle, D. S. Clarke.
A revival party has erected a tent
and will bold meetings at the corner
of north Fifth and Buckeye.
Mrs. Emma J. LamoD and her two
children died June 26th at the ranch of
E. Mccullough, south of Solomon.
AT least forty kinds of cholera
cures can be found in any well-regu-
lated drug store at this season of the
year,
In the vicinity of Navarro last
week six head of horses were killed by
eyerheating while at work. Hope
Dispatch,
The wheat on the farm of Mrs.
John Dewar yielded over so bushels,
weighing 6S pounds. McMaster Bros.
ield averages nearly 40 bushels.
Harry Barnes has poem on 'Ma-
pie Worms" in the Lawrence Tribune.
When a man can find food for poesy in
worms he has gifted Imagination.
"A ten-pound boy was added to the
family Of J. W. Brennaman on South
-Four th street Friday. The Fourth
was pretty we'll celebrated after all.
1.-THE corn of Willowdale township
is not hurt hit" said John Blagg to-
day. "Of course it needs rain nd will
soon be injured, but up to date it is al
right"
The Candy factory people who hat
a store at the corner of Buckeye anC
Third have gone to greener pastures
leaving number of gOod-sized debt
behind.
The State Swine Breeders assOci
alton meeting the last of this month i
being arranged for by John Blagg AM
F. V. Close, who have been so instru
mental in securing the meeting TO
Abilene.
The SaliRa Republican of Tuesda
was dated "July 129." Salina does no
seem content with initiating her popu
lation figures but must attempt
expand the number of days in th
month also.
Sheriff Mackey has sold half il
terest in his livery stable to Hem
Staatz, a prominent farm and horS
man of Dickinson county. The gentl
men will keep an open market for goo
horses.-[J. c. Union.
Harry Phelps, a former employe
has purchased a half interest in Il
Hope Herald and Geo. Burroughs, Il
former editor, has left him in char
and gone to Kentucky and Texas
look for more lucrative job.
The board of examiners are bust
engaged looking over the 1O7 sets
papers handed in by the applicants f
certificates. Supt. Ford says t
grades are fairly high and that cert
Gates will be issued about Saturday.
The annual school meeting will
held Thursday, July 81, 1890. 1t
the duty Of district clerks to p'
notices Of said meeting in three pub
places of the district at least ten ds
before the time fixed for the meetil
Paul & Jacobs have just finish
q 1O0-barrel tank for Henry Green,
Industry. The firm has acquired
wide reputation for doing excell'
work in tank making as well as
all other kinds of wood work. tt
work stands the test every time.