Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-06-12
Vbe Reaettor.
THURSDAY, JUNE II, 1890.
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Twas only Jacqueminot rose
That che wore on her snowy breast;
Yet, no other person knows
Twas only a Jacqueminot rose
This shy little maiden chose
AS token Of love confessed
Twas only a JacqucminOt rose
That she wore on her snowy breast.
-[Roscidus.
"A wildcat was killed in Enterprise
this week.
The best looking wheat in Dickin-
son county is in the vicinity of Wood
bine.
Harrington claims to have less
empty houses and stores than ever
before.
The alliance store is prospecting out
is not causing the merchants any IN
easiness.
Enterprise will soon have a crack
base ball club. Abilene is ready for
fracas any time.
The city marshal of Harrington and
prospective candidate for sheriff, Frank
Grass, was married last week.
"A number of the young people at
tending the normal institute have
rented rooms and are boarding them
selves.
-Heriagton is to have Sunday band
concerts in the fine park adjoining that
city. What WILL the church people say
about it?
Travel is lighter since the rates
were restored to the old figure. There
is a general impression that another
cut will soon take place.
The Concordia gun club holds its
first annual tournament June 24-26.
A number of Abilene sportsmen are
considering the possibility of attend
ing.
Fourth of July's approach does not
arouse much enthusiasm in Dickinson
county. No big celebrations are yet
booked. Let's ali stay home and enjoy
the day for once.
DIR. Frank Billings, of Chicago, a
high authority on diseases of swine,
will lecture on that subject before the
meeting of the State Swine Breeders
association here in July.
Colonel Barker feels quite aged
since the News gravely announced that
himself and wife had celebrated their
"fiftieth'' wedding anniversary. They
must have been married at rather
tender age.
"A letter from w. B. Smith, for
merly of this city, now of Rochester,
n. Y, states that he has succeeded in
saving off one of his fingers and that
Mrs. S. has fallen downstairs, break
ing her ankle.
Hope is receiving a great deal of
glory in the papers of northwest Kan
sas on account of the serenade rendered
the editorial excursion, three weeks
ago. Editors always enjoy hearing
the band play.
The police judge of Harrington per-
formed marriage ceremony last week
and the parties interested are worried
by the insinuations of their friends
that the marriage is not legal. The
law, however, says ''every judge" has
the right to join people in wedlock.
Judge Peck left Monday for a months
visit with friends in Illinois, where he
will enjoy, after many years, view of
the scenes of youth. The judge has
made ample arrangements for the
accommodation of all who may desire
to be united in the bonds of matIimony
and guarantees that they will be cared
for with neatness and dispatch.
"A magnificent example of the
power of public sentiment has been the
routing of the original package house
from Abilene. While legal restrictions
might not have closed it, public senti-
ment did, and, universally despised and
hated, the managers could not stand it.
The opinion of community is all-pOw-
erful and none can hold against its
influence.
The Parsons fair grounds are about
to be sold to party who proposes to
establish there the largest horse breed
ing farm in Kansas. Abilene offers
much better inducements than Parsons
ever had in this direction and some day
viii lead the state with big horse farms
1t is in the raising of horses and cattle
that Kansas is to find her truest and
surest source of revenue.