Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-08-28
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Everybody praises the glorious
rain.
Peaches are in the market at SO
cents peck.
Born, to MI. and Mrs. j. A.
Graves, daughter.
The grape harvest is nearly over
but plums are on hand.
The Hope Dispatch will run a
daily next week during the fair.
Harrington is planning to have a
driving park with half mile track.
The splendid rain of Saturday gave
the farmers renewed cheer and courage.
"A number of Abilene citizens and
firms will have exhibits at the Hope
fair.
There are now but few districts in
the county in which teachers have not
been hired.
The visiting pilgrims to the old
homes in the east are one by one re-
turning as fail approaches.
The Chapman Courier is without
an editors name at the head of its col
umns, N. Il. Curtis having left it tenn
pOrarily and perhaps permanently.
Hope Dispatch: J. w. Higgins,
the gentlemanly foreman of our city
= sheep ranch, returned last Friday from
Mexico. He has 10000 sheep on the
way here.
-Supt. Ford is busily engaged on his
annual report. The clerks reports are
not yet all in but they have been more
prompt than ever before owing to Mr..
Ford's excellent superintendent.
The REFLECTOR Office has several
hundred old exchanges put up in bun
dies of so for sale at ten cents bundle.
There is not only much good reading
in them but they are handy for shelf
covering etc.
S. II. Palmer, the alliance nominee
for representative, is out in card say
ing that he will positively not accept
the nomination, giving as a reason his
delicate health which will prevent his
making an active canvass.
Enterprise independents: Christ
Merilatt just east of town finished
threshing yesterday. He threshed out
a little over 5000 bushels of wheat,
500 bushels of rye and 1000 bushels of
oats and thinks perhaps be will be able
to get through the winter even if his
corn is almost failure.
Gypsum Advocate: A. N. Jack
one mile south of this city had yield
of 40 bushels per acre Of the Russian
variety of wheat. John Mason on the
Fessler farm had As bushels of the
same variety. This wheat is what
might be termed 8 semi-soft wheat
but is classed with the hard.
The News rotten attacks on Judge
Peck disturb nobody. They are too
evidently prompted by disappointment
in not being able to manipulate him t
their own service. Judge Peck is {
republican from the ground up ant
has no patience with such a bourbon
southern-sympathizing democratic out
fit as that of the News. Hence TIT
abuse piled upon him. Coming from
that source it is the highest cOmpli
ment he could have.
The harmony and enthusiasm motto
able at the republican convention Sat
urday, the opening gun of the ia
campaign, speak, volumes for tn
hearty confidence felt in the grand oil
party of progress by the citizens c
Dickinson county. The intelligen
farmers of Dickinson county are not t
be led off. after strange union labC
and democratic gods, when the
have the control of an organization s
powerful as the nation and as widel
spread. They know that it is throug
the republican party that in the futul
as in the past all advances in nation
al and state polity must come and to
they continue their allegiance.