Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-08-14
MISSOURI PACIFICAAT HERlNGTON.
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

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is at the driving park.
John T. Sewell living south of the
river is reported i'll with consumption.
The store of Crosby & Co. at Hope
was burglarized the first of the week.
The death of Sterling Springer,
son of II. Springer, Dillon, is reported.
The Central Kansas District Med
ical society meets in Salina on the 2lst
inst.
Innocent inquiries for the "Kreu-
tier Sonata" are reported by the book
stores.
The farmers are commencing to say
that they will have good deal of corn
after all.
Work has been commenced on
painting the cut stone and woodwork
of the court house.
The goods IN the I. E. Sewell store
are being packed preparatory to ship
ment to Washington state.
-Thirty-five or forty horses are ex-
pected to arrive at the driving park in
the next two or three days.
-Herington Times: The Harrington
creamery is doing a good business, not
withstanding the prOtracted dry spell.
? Enterprise Independent: Terra
pin lake, east of the city, is said to be
drying up and thousands of fish are dy-
ing.
The chimney on the house of j. d.
Haskell south of town was split from
top to bottom last night by lightning.
No one in the house was injured.
-Herington Times: Jas. McNaspy
planted several acres of corn week
ago as an experiment. 1t will make
good feed, even if it fails to make corn
The two-year old child of J. F.
Swanson, Herington, was killed by the
cars Tuesday evening. The little fell
low being unmatched wandered on the
track.
Que of the duties of the electric
light men each morning is to empty the
arc light burners of the millers and va
riuus bugs which have been singed
into innocuous desuetude by the light
the evening before. Something like
a peck is gathered each night by the
light at Broadway and Third.
The REFLECTOR makes itself redi-
culous again last Saturday over miss
spelt word in the Independent last
week Enterprise Independent.
The above item taken verbatim ct
literatim ct spell-at'em from the In
dependent shows much improvement.
Hough now only misspells two words
in three lines. The citizens of Enter
prise ought to lake up a penny SUBJ
scription and send him to night school,
The REFLECTOR says several per-
sons in Abilene saw beautiful moon
light rainbow the other night. That
was indeed a strange phenomenon, but
if that town is infested with o. p
houses it can be easily accounted for
-[Council Grove Republican.
The drowsy people of Cornell Grove
who 20 to roost just before sunset ant
so miss all the lunar rainbows and
other celestial sights are evidently jeal
Gus.
Hope Dispatch: a petition wa
circulated the first of the week asking
for the dismissal from the court of TIT
case commonly referred to as the priz
fight at Hope. Nearly every one signe'
it. Hope has had enough free adveI
Using out of a little sparring match
and bigger lies could not have crep
into the newspapers than have bee
credited to that affair. 1t is hoped tn
matter will be dropped and nothin
more be heard of the little amusemen
known abroad as the Hope prize fight
Now comes the saddest time c
year when mothers watch and quaE
with fear, by little cots, and cribs an
beds, wherein lie Johnnys, Bills an
Neds. The darlings have been indi
Greet and tackled food unfit to ca
All! Burn away ye midnight lamp
Light up the scenel Shine on IL
crampsl Then when the day begins
dawn, and mothers sleep all white ar
wan, forth go the scamps, forgettir
pain, to tackle unripe fruitagain. Con
drop the sympathetic tearl This is Il
saddest time of year.