Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30
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The ground hog will cavOrt next
Sunday.
An alliance with 20 members has
organized near Manchester.
"A marriage license was granted
Asa E. Bailey and Miss Francis Reed
both of Solomon.
There has been little the poorest
sidewalk cleaning in Abilene this
month ever known in her history.
There is not an Abilene man
known to be candidate for any Office
il the gift of the people at the present
time.
-Nehamiah Green camp of Sons OF
Veterans, No. l56, was organized al
Solomon City Saturday night, nineteen
members being enrolled.
Mr.. Pease, of Enterprise, has
Contract for putting up $4,000 tons OF
ice for The Rock Island railway COLI
pauy aud has a large force at work.
1t is one Of the unfortunate results
Of tile universal joking about the infu-
suza that sufferers therefrOm do not IT.
ceise the sympathy to which they are
entitled.
An Abilene man who was elected
vice preseut OF a secret society last
Week said it was nothing new-he had
fitted that Office in his OWN family for
several years.
= The ice men are reapIng their har-
Vest as rapidly as possible as few
LII ne days viii probably complete tie
wlnLcr opportunity vi gathering tie
c0ugealed moisture.
-. ). Hodge has traded for a large
4stucE .of general merchandise which
has been at Council Grove. The ma
terlal VIII he shipped here and united
Will .tnaI Of Tisdale u CO.
Solomon Sentinel: A number Of
hJrsrnasI, accompanied by mixed
pack of Jugs, went out south Friday
tor ID rabbit hunt. They bagged about
twenty-five jacks and cOttOn-talls.
:, Three men have taken pains to
SHmc tv this office and find fault with
the paper this week. None OF them
We're subscribers nor ever worked i'll a
Newspaper Office. Advice is cheap.
Another Farmers alliance was.Or-
gained Friday night at the Johnson
scuool house, III WillUwdaIe township,
VITA about twenty members. john
LcAsuIe 10 president aud ID. Stodddrd
secretary.
"A letter received by Col. j. u. Bra
dy IIuul }. ID. Duncan says that he al
rIIEd III LenOXUuIg, KY, Uoo late 10 SEE
his mother alIv-. Sue was buried be-
fuIe ue reached There. Many friends
viii extend sympathy.
We are getting d little weary Of
chrUnlcllng people as Ill aud having
g Luem recover aud be about Tie streets
before .he ink gels dry On the papers.
Rapid recovery is one Of the character
lsucs VI Abilene sicknesseS.
Howard Thompson has heretofore
gum. himself wrestler, but vi
his hay llune a ley evenings agU lie
stopped InLu certain UlliCe where he
challenged l.Ie young proprietor ~
wrestling match. lie Was soon accom
modated and Thereby hangs tale, for
the sequel Ut which look al Howard
face,
Rabbits are being killed by the
= wholesale in all parts of the county.
The heavy soft snow has put the poor
little cottontails at the mercy Of their
enemies and the situation is being
taken advantage of. The rabbits are
said " make good eating and as they
injure the fruit trees badly it is better
that they are put out OF the way.
The assets of Under Sheriff S. j.
Ellison Were considerably diminished
by the loss of one thoroughbred colt
and the LUXURY of another. The horses
were stabbed III Sheriff Nails barn and
it is supposed got loose. One was
found with broken neck and the
other with a broken leg this morning.
-Herington Times: In view of the
hard times it is very strange that wo-
man will burn SIS worth Of coal dur
ing the winter to keep alive fifty cents
worth of Scrsggy geraniums. That is
squestiOn in domestic economy that
mans brain is not capable of grasping.
The women seem to understand it,
though, if one may judge by the regu-
larity with which they keep up the fires.
The cold wave evidently has not
reached Scranton. Pa. A local poet
thus appeals to the signal officer:
'-Oh, send us Blizzard,
A bald-headed blizzard,
business like blizzard,
All wrapped up In snow;
For such blizzard
Would tickle the gizzard
OF Undiscovered pilgrims
Disguised below
Solomon Sentinel: Last night Tbeo.
Fader, brakeman on Solomon Valley
freight, while engaged coupling cars at |