Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-12-11
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Hog buyers at Hope pay $3.50 and
lose money at that.
The cold snap has settled the Hes
sian fly for this year.
The chair at Upshaw's was voted
to Mrs. S. J. Ellison, she receiving 121
votes.
Justin Mccarthy Will honor the
cause of Ireland; not dishonor it as did
Parnell.
The stores are brilliant with holt
day goods and the newspapers with hoI-
iday ads.
Why does not the Monitor hire 4
printer and pressman? Also an editor
and proof reader?
The Enterprise Journal says that
the college will re- open as soon as the
building is completed.
Plenty OF shows booked for the
next month Abilene is coming To the
front again as show town.
The first thing young man does
after getting engaged is to have his life
insured, says an Abilene insurance
agent.
John A. Flack has bought a half
interest in Eyth's drug store Enter
prise and the firm will be Eyth &
Flack.
The Enterprise school board has
retained Miss Mary Kane, of this city,
as one of the regular teachers i'll the
Enterprise schools.
An old woman who wears socks
over her shoes and smokes a cOb-pipe
in the shelter of store doorway comes
to town once in a while.
The Monitor says that the Dickin-
son county alliance demanded of "H
G. Hardness" that he vote against
ingalls,. Who is II. c. Hardness?
Governor Humphrey yesterday is
sued proclamation calling an election
Dec. 80, in the Thirty-secOnd senatorial
district, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of the late Senator Swearin-
gen, of Concordia.
If you do not receive your DAILY
REFLECTOR regularly or if it is not
put on the porch properly, place box
for the reception Of the paper and in
form this office if the paper is not put
therein.
-Bion S. Hutchins, of the Clay Gen.
ter Dispatch, is making an effort to
secure the appointment as chief of the
bureau of promotion and publicity
the advertising bureau-of the worlds
fair.
An Abilene woman who became
much interested in the Adventlsts'
meetings last summer is now in a
southern Kansas town partially in
sane. Her malady was brought on by
the excitement of the meetings.
Enterprise Journal: Samuel Holds
worth of this place, has bought the
Holland creamery and will take the
management of it some time this
month. This creamery has heretofore
been leased by the Enterprise Cream
cry company.
The offer of some Kansas City men
to give the Cherokees 20 million dollars
for the strip will cause a sensation in
the Territory. 1t will effectu3lly end
any hope of opening the land to settle
ment aud will be great speculation
for the cattle men.
The superintendent of schools of
Manhattan was arrested this week and
tried before jury for whipping boy.
The jury decided that the boy needed
1t and acquitted the superintendent.
TheNboy made mistake in not getting
a jury of boys to decide the matter.
"A paper that comes to us from the
county outside Of Abilene contains
scarcely displayed advertisement ex-
cept those of Abilene merchants which
are generous, Is it any wonder that
the local merchants of the place COM
plain that the people of the town ''go to
Abilene to trade?"
Hope Herald: The ABILENE
REFLECTOR says the county alliance
was In session Saturday and discussed
the question of dropping the Monitor
as the official organ, because of its sig
nal failure as a news gatberer.
The Monitor, we might add, lacks a
great deal OF being goo paper.