Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-10-01
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Postmaster Gorden is inspecting
the county postofices. He reports
them as in exceptionally good shape.
-Herington's fair will be held next
week.
The fremen will have their 18th
Gnnusl ball on Thanksgiving eve.
The Union Pacific hotel porch is
receiving a much needed repairing.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Van
DOren. Wednesday morning, a nine
sound girl.
IS. S. Orner rolled lucious water
Rslon into this Office and made the
members of the force happy.
Complaint is made by farmers
coming to town that the flooring of
Baker bridge is in bad condition,
Being dangerous for teams. 1t shOnld
b repaired at once.
There is going to te more fun in
Kansas to the square inch this winter
SAan for many years. The people all
feel jolly and parties, dances, wedding
feasts and debating societies will
R0urish.
Hope Herald: Judge James
Humphrey, Of Junction City, candidate
sH the nOn-partisan ticket for judge of
this district, was fair visitor Thurs
Gay, He is fine looking and intelli-
gent man and made many new friends
10 his brief stay here.
j. c. Bender is astonishing the
Seys with stories Of a big coal find that
he claims to have made within a few
miles of town. He says there is a six
foot vein of coal oVerlaid with a rich
deposit of ochre and that in short
Time he will have the biggest kind of a
sensation for the newspapers.
Mr.. 7. Little of this city was one
Of the claimseekers in last weeks
Oklahoma rush and secured a fine
dam with 100 acres of fine bottom
lsad, so acres of timber and a spring.
TO get it he rode II miles in so minutes
but feels repaid in securing what he
thinks is one of the best claims in the
territory.
If the Kansas City Times shows a
great Improvement in its treatment of
Kansas fairs it may be attributed to
the fact that Mr.. Park S. Warren, of
Solomon City, is on the editorial staff.
he entered Oh his duties last week and
the Times may congratulate itself that
u has the services of one of the best
political writers Of Kansas.
The ABILENE REFLECTOR asks a
very pointed question. If the banks
borrow money from the government
at per cent, as peoples party orators
Gllege, why do farmers want to borrow
government money at 2 per cent?
Why don't they start banks and get 1t
At the bank rates?-[ Emporia Repub-
Iican.
Manchester Sun: That democrat
ie-alliance paper called the Dickinson
County News ridicules James Frey
because he is of German descent. We
always thought it was considered an |
honor to be a German, as there is GER
taialy no nation in the world that
stands higher than Germany. =
The News shows its smallness when it
stopped to ridicule Frey because be is
. foreigner, German. The support of |
the News is no credit to any party.
The appintment of ]. R. Burton of |
Abilene as World s fair commissioner
from Kansas TO succeed R. R. Price,
ct Hutchinson, resigned, does credit to
Gov. Humphrey and will give general
satisfaction. Mr.. Burton possesses an
energy which is equal to the removal
sf mountains and he is willing to work
night and day foE anything that is
likely to benefit Kansas. He is
persuasive talker and is by all odds the
best dressed man in Kansas, There is
3 theory that a man who makes a spec
ialt5 Of good clothes never succeeds in
any other direction, but Mr.. Burton
has succeeded in effectually stamping
The life out of that superstition.-
Kansas City Star