Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-10-22
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The pc opIe lose by financial crises
Their savings vanish in fearful slices;
They lose by compu! cory sacrifices;
They lose by tricks at cards ard dices;
They lose. by the bowl that Oft entices;
They lose many ways; but by latest ad-
vices
They've lost nothing yet by "McKtnle y
high prices"
-[Emporia Republican.
The county commissioners met in
adjourned session today.
-Horsemen are looking forward to
the fall race meeting with interst.
--One more race meeting for Abilene
this season will finish up the tracks
record in good shape.
The brick livery barn on Spruce is
now in charge of George Etherington.
George is good liveryman and will
make a success.
Abilene souvenir spoons are the
latest novelty in the jewelers. windows.
They are as handsome as the city
they commemorate.
George Thisler, father of Otis
Thisler, was unfortunate enough to
fall from hay NOW yesterday sprain-
ing his ankle and otherwise injuring
himself.
VIM. Hershey, living on North
Cedar, thinks he has the champion
pear. 1t weighs 223 ounces and meas
ures one foot in its smallest circum-
ference.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. S. J. Ellison,
a boy. The youngster will be a little
too young to be under sheriff after
election but he will be king of the
sheriff's household.
"A handsome $500 piano from
Broughton Bros. was the birthday
present of Miss Mary Lindow today
from Rudolph Lindow, of Amos, Col.
Miss Mary ought to be happy.
The calamity paper in Labette
county says there are 1900, 900 acres
of land in that county under mort
gage. That is more than twice the
number of acres in the whole county.
The Methodist pulpit was filed
yesterday morning by Chas. Bear. Mr..
Bear and Tom Mcconnell are two
teachers Of the county who will enter
the Methodist ministry in the spring.
Wichita Eagle: OF course ]. R.
Burton will get the best of Peffer in
the JOINT debates. And when he does
he should exhibit it. There is a gen.
eral doubt as to which is the best of
PETER, his wind or his whiskers.
One of the happenings of the week |
was dispute on West Fourth street |
over pail of swill, resulting in an
attempt on the part of a woman to |
horsewhip a surprised and innocent |
neighbor. 1t takes little TO cause a
quarrel.
The farmers of Morris county have
on deposit in the banks of that county
$266, ,OO7.17. The Council Grove Re-
publican says this is S24.1S "per caDi
ter" A local alliance tinancier keeps
bawling that there is only S6.47 "per
cspiter."
james Smith, the alliance candi-
date for sheriff, was the happy father
Of boy last week bat Sherm Ellison,
the republican nominee, has seen him
and done even better, as MI. Ellison's
new boy weighs heaYier of the two.
On the third of November that scrip
ture will be verified which declares,
''The last shall be first and the first
shall be last"
The town is laughing at the News
list of subscribers added to its books
in the past few days" One of the
persons named, S. S. Smith, says he
has been a subscriber nearly two years,
two Others say their names have been
on the list over year. Another is an
exchange copy. Considering the losses
the paper with only 22.new subscribers
in two years iwill soon make a very
corpse,
The shopper of the family is
already aware of the fact that !, butter
S scarce and is worth more money
han ever before at this season. The
who has a contract with
'ome good country butter maker to
leliver her butter at twenty-five cents
J pound the year through, and who
asst summer paid ten and twelve cents
nore a pound for that commodity than
loa did, now hss the best end of the