Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

An increase in pension was granite
Saturday to Amos Scott, of Chapman
The Friz family is badly Athlete
with the measles, every member hein
i'll.
= Gribben & McRae shipped 700 ia
sheep from the Hope yards last Thurs
day to Chicago.
-Beloit lost 800 on its Andrew
Opera Co. entertainments. ABILENE
came out ahead.
There are lots of days when tn,
biggest item going is the one that mus
be kept out of the paper.
1t is reported that work has beer
discontinued on the great improve
ments which were planned at Fl. Riley
Tell a man you are sick and the
chances are nine to one that he viii
say he has not been very well himself
Mrs. Ii. Bowers, of Hope, who was
taken to the insane asylum about one
year ago, has been brought home en-
tirely cured.
The principal in the horrible pa
tricide at Russell has been placed in
Jail and will be tried at the coming
term of court.
The county commissioners find the
county in excellent shape. Their
watchfulness has kept every avenue
well cared for.
POSTMASTER Gorden will set a big
bear trap some day and catch the man
who leaves the north door of The post
Office lobby open,
Mrs. Sarah A Brown, formerly of
this city, will succeed Mrs. Dudley
Haskell as matron of the Haskell In
stitute at Lawrence.
Each of the Hope editors is accus-
ing the other of ''robbing" him. When
a man gets down to robbing an editor
he is in pretty small business.
Lee Faun's Chinese plants are in
bloom in all parts of the city. They
are about the only thing in creation
that can thrive on rocks and water,
Skating is good on the creek and
in places on the river, but the small
boys hardly dare run the risk of taking
a whipping for truancy to enjoy it.
The gas well is down 720 feet and
the drill is now in Soap-stone. There
is remote possibility that a vein ct
Pears soap will be struck in few days.
What promised to be d rich, rare
and racy sensation was spoiled by the
principal in the case decampiug Satur-
day night. Marshal Tanyer feels dis
appointed.
The street cars are well patroniZed
this weather, as they deserve to be.
They are run accurately on time and
are not only great convenience but
decidedly attractive.
There is one merchant in town
who is always ahead of his competitors
in advertising Christmas candies. He
keeps a big sign to the effect that they
are for sale the year round.
"A few men in town are already
grooming themselves for the spring
election. They begin by telling how
quick they would settle this or that
question if they were on the council.
The city schools began 49,. -.
stretch of the vap-
w;,,.--,----- -. this morning and
-. grind out the endless grist of wis
dom until the final pyrotechnic display
of elocution, flowers, essays and sweet
girl graduates in June.
The new Santa Fe agent, J. D.
Sweeney, is here with his family and
will probably occupy the Hazlett resi-
dence on West Second. The gentle
man will be found a welcome addition
to Abilene's list of business men.
Hon. A. r, Green, member of the
state board of railroad commissioners,
and formerly one of the editors of the
Messenger at Minneapolis, is a
candidate for Junior vice CON-
mander at the coming state encamp-
ment G. 4. R.
The friends of Mrs. J. Hendricks
will be panied to learn that the doctors
bave pronounced her ailment to be in
ternal cancer and incurable. She has
been removed to the home of her son
in-law, F. C. Curtis, 305 East NORTH
Fourth street.
Dispatch: The Hope stuccO mills
continue to run daily, and yet cannot
get ahead of their orders. The capaci
ty of the mills was more than doubled
this season, yet they have had to keel
extra help and run steadily to keep TIT
orders anywhere near filed.
They say that the reason ''Stam'
and Col. Barker do not go a-hunting to
gether any more is that the last tim'
they were out the colonel fired at {
bunch of quail, but missed the gam
so far as to fill the hide Of SIAM
horse, Calamity John, full of bird shot
The G. A. 4. boys are looking for