Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
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20 week.
nn' Squire A. NJ German is reported
Isl as so far recovered as to be able to take
oin out door exercise.
pre- Cooper & White shipped three cars
,O!H of fine cattle to Kansas City last night
:. and J. J. Cooper one car.
II Only one paper in Dickinson
:. county has an editor degraded enough
i 5dFi to carry whisky ads for Kansas City
,o-s saloons.
No. No "A dozen or more high five clubs are
=. in full blast in The city, and The fasci-
rs. nation of being set back is enjoyed III
. all parts of town.
: ingalls, is going to explain" to
: the Kansas farmers how he looks at
the present situation. Everybody has
n to explain to the farmers nowadays.
TT The county farmers alliance met
this afternoon in Smiths hall There
com was a good attendance and consider
this able organization business was trans
un acted.
~ Harrington celebrated Washing
Wa toms birthday anniversary and the pa
pers down there pronounce the exer-
nily cises among the Guys finest entertain
the ments.
'oI' About the most discOuraging thing
rt-D extant is to take tender care Of stray
'n Cling troupe of house plaptS until the
Sha first of March and then have them all
frozen by cold snap.
Sha The Farmrrs' alliance recently
lisp shipped Car load of salt into Solomon,
win it being laid down for 10 cents bar
ne. rel, AS Solomon has the facilities for
nth making first-class salt at home her
m, manufacturers of that article must tie
W rather slow.
Of The University Kansan, bright
nor college paper published by the students
-st of the K. S. L., has for one OF its bust
a ness managers all Abilene boy, Paul
for Merrill. Excellent reports of Nh Ms
the scholarship are given by the faculty of
FL the University.
), South Dickinson is also shipping
a horses eastward. The Dispatch says:
fir ALFRED Pray returned this morning
i'll from his trip east, where he had been
al with car of horses. He made this
hat Office pleasant call and said hi would
% AZ soon start east again with another car.
wit W.B. Peters. one of Hopes most
~ affable business men, was in the city
ter this morning. Mr.. Peters sold his
vi large hardware establishment at Hop"
ste to Kansas City parties yesterday, a fact
NJ which is TO be regretted, as lie has been
neal one of the substantial merchants of the
ers, county.
leat -Abilene's popular auctiOneer, Geo.
ce,s A. Niles, cried the Griffin sale nine
S miles from Wakefield yesterday. al
ms though the day was bitterly cold the
tbt goods sold well, the proceeds of the
DID sale amounting to rS2 900. George
nor is making successful auctioneer and
ne his services are in demand in all parts
IN of the county.
,ne Solomon evidently is having an ex-
Of perience with croakers. The Sentinel
RAJ saws: "a few parties in town who
;ed will have nothing to do with any enter
lie; prise. and frown upon it if they can
, ps not run it, do more injury than can
TO, easily be calculated. Any town would
ms be far better off with their room than
IL their presence"
Harrington Times: We know of
~ county official at Abilene who struck
ar, Kansas without dollar when he was
q Z seventeen years old, and, although he
is not vet forty, he has paid nearly
twenty thousand dollars on notes that
. he has signed with others as surety,
and is still able to pay his bills and lay
up a few hundred each year. Guess
lis who it is, and see if you can hit the
Tel NaiII on the head the first time.
a. An Emporia lady, says the Law
Al renee Record, wearing $500 seal skin
cloak entered dry goods store there
20 the other day and bought thirty-five
cent shirt 1or ner DuSOanu- wen, NhdG
'o' of it? Should her husband have en-
'V tered the store in a thirty-five cent
Ia shirt and bought her $500 seal skin
-ef cloak? Or should she have entered in
60 a thirty-five cent cloak and bought him
De a $500 shirt? Or should she have en-
tered in thirty-fve cent sh--, put,
II really, the combinations are intermin-
20 able.
n Let us have that mail route from
w Abilene to Industry. 1t is absolutely
necessary, and as we We're promised
u better facilities for transportation of
mails, those necessary should come
p first, and this route is one which would
have been convenient some time ago,