Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05
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The grounGhOg saw his shadow,
And went back in his hole.
Preparefor six weeks winter,
And a laundering bill for coal.
IEmporia Republican.
Smallpox is reported in south
eastern Kansas.
The Knights of Pythias of Chap
man have a new building just COM
pleted.
There is no more interesting news
from Topeka since the senatorial cleo
ton is over.
Although it is nearly Valentines
day few of the gaudy love-tokens are
seen in the stores.
District Clerk Russell and County
Attorney CranstOn are doing their first
court work in their new positions.
Bill Eicholtz paid seven dollars for
a handsome Indian bow and lot of
arrows when be was down in the Terri
tory.
County Clerk Bert acted as inter
prefer in the Russian insanity case and
is highly complimented on his ability
to master the lingo.
The mellow voice of Henry Schra-
der, of Enterprise, was calculating
lightning arithmetic to a good-sized
crowd on the streets this afternoon.
If you look for ''letter that never
eame'' a good way to get it is to write
to Abilene, Texas, and have it forward
ed. Dozens of pieces of mail go aStray
between this city and our namesake in
the Lone Star state every month.
Manhattan Republic: Supt. Van
Dyke, of Dickinson county, has re-
duced the standard for third grade
certificates from go to 40 per cent.
The change has justly aroused much
Indignation. Better raise educational
standards than lower them.
Young Kansas farmers are sending
back to Indiana for wives, according to
the dispatches. They are making a
mistake. There are no girls in the
world as nice as Kansas girls and the
kind of farmers alliance we want is to
have the Kansas farmer boys marry
them.
Manchester Sun: Tie REFLEC-
TOR says that a number of alliance
men of the county are already at work
preparing to bounce the republican
nostmasters when John Davis takes
his seat as congressman. 1t is funny
we dare say that these same mer
were great advocates in the theory that
the Office should seek the man at the
late election.
"A Burgin (Ky.l woman went to
sleep before a fire while reading q
newspaper recently. The newspaper
caught fire, ignited her clothes and
she was burned to death, No one
should, however, on account of this
unhappy event think of stopping his Oh
her newspaper, provided it is one like
the REFLECTOR, lively enough to KEEP
him or her awake.
Judge Nicholson seems none the
worse for the political whirlwind
through which the state has been ant
opened court with his usual prompt
ness and watched the lawyers with al
eagle eye. The judge really has {
tondness for Dickinson county, though
he won't admit it, and we would no
be surprised to see him make A JilenC
bis home one of these days.
A western Nebraska farmer having
no corn to feed them, loaded up a wa
gon-box full Of shoats and took them Il
Broken Bow to sell. No one would
takes them, and he turned them loose
The marshal told him he would ares
him unless he took them out of town
He then drove home, and was going t
kill them, when some one told hin
that be might be arrested for cruelty
to animals. He hardly knows what Il
do. a
20 AFbe BARRIERS of Topeka tried t.
: stepsthe Copeland hotel barber from
working on Sunday but the cour
decided against them. The Topek;
lawyers, according to the Evening
Democrat, are of the opinion, sinct
looking up the question, that all shops
can safely keep open on Sunday, on thu
common law principle that it is Lawful
te hire anyone.to do any work that i
would be necessary to do yourself, ant
that shaving Is necessary.