Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-23
RECENT REFLECTIONS.
"A man can't put on airs just because he has
the grip,

Never in the wide, wide world;
You cannot make fortune by shooting of
your lip,
Never in the wide, wide world.
Those men who spend their money just to
make show,
Those men who from their sidewalks won't
shovel off the snow,
VIII never to the happy land Of heaven go,
Never in the wide, wide world.
The influenza has got the grippe Oh
T. H. Malott, of the Citizens bank.
"A marriage license was issued to
n. Y. Funston and Nellie L. Robson,
both of Industry.
Judge Peck issued a marriage
license to Gustave Kubach and JOSIE
Graham, both of Chapman.
OF all the sorrows that into our
homes do skip there's none so internally
bad as jokes on the modern la grippe.
The protracted meetings at Detroit
nave been discontinued on account OF
The illness of the pastor Rev. Prowell.
There will be held the quarterly
teachers examination in the central
school building, this city, next Satur-
day.
The farmers alliances of Dickin-
son county will join the petition for an
emergency rate in order to dispose of
the corn crop.
The county normal institute i'll
this county will probably begin June
18th. The corps of instructors has not
been decided upon.
The weather clerk is giving out
snow impartially. The Pacific coast now
has fall of forty inches which has
blockaded everything.
1t is notable that in spite of the
large amount of sickness in the city
the death-rate has been no greater than
usual during the past month.
There are at the REFLECTOR Office
number of sample copies of the To
peka Weekly Capital. Those wishing
to examine this excellent paper can
have a copy by calling.
An interesting feature in connec-
ton with marriage license issued yes
terday was that the prospective bride
was aged SO and the groom Is. She
probably took him to raise.
Why do papers say a couple are
pronounced imam and wife?" Why
not man and woman or husband and
woman? 1t would seem that the mans
relation is changed if the woman's is,
and it should be husband and wife.
The following notables went
through bound to Hays City to attend
a campfire: Ex-Governor Geo. T. An
thony, Col. A. B. Campbell, Hon. A.
R. Green, Hon. J. j. Cox, Hon. James
Hamilton, A. G. Stacy, Capt. Jack
Downing and o. H. Coulter.
"A letter from Mrs. John Curtis
now visiting friends in Ohio, states
that she has met with a sad accident
for one of her age, the result of fall
on slippery walk. Her ankle was
badly sprained and one of the bones
lust above the ankle was fractured.
President G. W. King, of the coun
ty farmers alliance organized a branel
of the alliance at Detroit Monday even
ing, eighteen members being inflated
The increase of membership in the al
lance shows that the farmers are wax
ing up to take action for themselves.
The farmers OF north Dickinson
are anxiously waiting for the Santa F,
cutoff between Junction and Manches
ter. They are not likely to see it thi
year. There is more probability tina
the new line will strike Enterprise an,
so use the Abilene and Mancheste
track.
The sale of the Chapman Courie
as related in a special dispatch to th
REFLECTOR places at the helm of tina
payer NJ. II. Curtis, former proprietc
of the first paper printed in that plac'
the Chapman Star, and well known i
: Dickinson county. Mr.. Engle hf
I made a first-class paper while it b;
been under his management, and ii
Curtis, with his extensive newspap'
}. experience, viii not allow it to retr
: grade.