Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-02-20
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to have gone to the bottom of the sea
Over 8 900 dozen of eggs were col
lected and shipped last Saturday by the
Abilene merchants.
Grand Master G.. c. Kenyon went
to Salina to preside over the meeting
of the Masonic state lodge meeting.
Hope Dispatch: Tuesdays RE
FLECToR contained a neat little write
up of Hope and its leading business
men.
The divisions of the U. P. gives
the Western Union a through line tt
Ellis instead of Brookville as hereto
fore.
Isn't it about time Abilene held 8
state convention of some kind? What's
the matter with another capital reno
val gathering?
There is a fight among our dry
goods firms in regard to prices. Watch
the REFLECToR's advertising columns
and you will be rewarded.
There are one or two struggling
stores in town the existence of which
is scarcely known because the pro.
prietors are afraid to spend a cent in
advertising,
The REFLECTOR is obliged to issue
supplement almost every week in
order to accommodate its advertising
patronage and give all the current hap
penings. Merit tells.
The old Union Labor Banner print.
ing material, which has been white
elephant on R. n. Smiths hands for a
long time, is being Overhauled today by
an Out-Of-town newspaper man who
thinks of purchasing it.
"A prominent resident of Holland
township made the assertion in the
court house today that the four south
west townships of Dickinson county
furnish less than One-ninth the legal
contests that any other four townships
can show.
The matter of the Harrington
mules, in regard to whose death Co
Atty. Biting was summoned, has
been cleared up. They had strayed
from their owners premises and were
shot by neighbor and the owner
wants legal redress.
The Chronicle was two days late
III issuing this week, usually it is but
one and a half. Why dilapidated
hand-bill like tue Chronicle, containing
no news later than the Mexican war
should drag over it's publication day is
one of the mysteries never yet solved.
The local postofice force has a new
attache in the person of W. s. Decker,
the republican war-horSe Of Willow
dale, who has taken the position of
sub-delivery clerk. w. S. will make d
first-cldss servant of Uncle Sam and
will see that everything is done in
ship-shape style.
The Chronicle reports as present at
the Omaha meeting: &c. G. Sterl di-
rector, II. NJ. Shipe and r. b. Claiborne,
delegates, Abilene" Talk about gail!
Claiborne was never mentioned as a
delegate, did not go as delegate, but
put himself in on his own responsibility.
Abilene has not sunk SO low that she
honors men of his stamp.
The Chapman Alliance and Oak
Hill Alliance have completed their
elevator at Oak Hill, and are now ship
ping corn. The success of this enter
prise is largely due to the untiring en-
srgy and perseverance of Mr.. James
Nail. The building holds about 5000
bushels of corn, and the shipping ca
oacity will be four cars per day.-[Mil-
,onvale Review.
Chapman Courier: The Dickinson
county alliance has an incorporated ex-
;hange, capital twenty thousand dol
ars, with headquarters at Abilene and
las been doing business for over four
weeks, laying down car loads of coal,
alt, flour, etc., for all the subordinate
.Iliances who order through it, and is
low taking orders for all kinds of farm |
machinery, binding Irvine, etc.
English "as she is writ" in Enter
rise may be seen in the last sentence
f the following from the Independent:
Some of our business men undertook
o have some fun last Friday afternoon
t the expense of the editor and Mr..
'uhrer, by locking the trap door to the
pera house while we were on top of
be building. There labor, however,
Tas lost, as the prisoners walk down
Tithout no trouble"
Manchester Sun: Wehad the pleas
re of visit from Supt. Ford last
'eek, to our town and also our school.
lie had quite an adventure the day be-
)re. He was visiting a school north
{ Abilene and had his little boy along.