Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-29
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RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Slight change of time in the Santa
Fe.
The poor old Monitor will publish
the commissioners proceedings about
July.
Soldier stock is falling in Kansas,
judging from the alliances course at
Topeka.
1.-THE Splendid Spur" is the title
Of a magnificent new story soon to
commence in the REFLECTOR.
Ed Howe: When a mans head
tells him a thing is true and his heart
says it isn't, which is he to believe?
The Shockey hardware stock is being
put in position in the Bonebrake block,
the goods having arrived from Hope.
The streets of Abilene have never
been so little looked after as at present.
What do we have city officials for any
how?
Frank Opdycke, one of Herring
toms finest young men, died Tuesday
morning. His decease was much re-
GREETED.
The Council Grove Guard calls ].
r. Burton ''the handsomest lawyer in
Abilene" We hope Stambaugh won't
get mad.
The Kansas City correspondent of
the Abilene National bank Is now the
Merchants National, one of the
: strongest banking houses in the west.
Somebody has discovered that
there is one thing a woman can do
that man can't; she can smile her
sweetest and talk her brightest with a
pin sticking her.
One of the things that tend to
shorten life, next to unloaded reYOlvers
and the present Indian policy, is the
woman who will not keep to the right
on muddy crossings.
Seven inch ice, clear and fine, is
reported as being plenty at Woodbine.
H. w. Pease, of Enterprise, will put
up lot of it for the Abilene market.
There is little hope of ice in most
sections.
In the district court proceedings
in Geary county we notice this item:
Estate VS.. Sven Johnson, acquitted at
request of the COURT The court ap-
pears to have taken considerable in
terest in the case.
City Clerk Smith reports that reg
istrations are being made slowly. And
yet in about two months we will be in
the midst of red-hot municipal cam
paign and somebody will be kicking be-
cause they are not listed.
The Salina News is beefng because
certain papers have announced that the
meeting of the mayors of cities of the
second class is to be held in Abilene
instead of 6alina TX. G. Star.
And Abilene is beeing because Sa-
lima hasn't our mayor for keeps.
Letters from Aberdeen, Wash,
announce the birth of a daughter to
Mr.. and Mrs. Hairy a. Hayes on the
22nd inst. The REFLECTOR extends
congratulations and suggests that she
be called Jenness Miller.
Much sympathy is extended to Mr..
and Mrs. Wade a. Smith, of Industry,
in the loss of their infant twin daugh-
tiers born Dec, Is, 1890. Mary Agnes
died Jan. sth and Hattie Alice, Jan.
leth and they were laid side by side in
the little prairie cemetery.
The interest of the poultry show
to be hsld here on Feb. 9Th and 18th is
in the hands of such men as c. G.
HaFk, ]. L. Morley, P. Maier, C. A.
and 81. ]. Hodge, V. B. Cosad and
others which viii insure the success of
the exhibition.
One Of the questions in arithmetic
submitted to the Sth grade of the city
schools in examination this week was:
IF 500 cats catch 600 rats in three hun
dred minutes how many cats viii it
take to catch 100 rats in 100 minutesP"
Dollars to cookies you can't solve it
off-hand.
"A Dickinson county paper pub
fishes the advertisement of the Police
Gazette and says "No saloon keeper
can afford to be without it." In ad-
dition to the sale of the paper adver-
tised being prohibited by state statutes
the taste exhibited in extending the
infamous sheets influence is not COM
mendable.