Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-05-21
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

-SF. ana MIS-. y. holman, OF En-
terprise, rejoice over the arrival of a
daughter.
Hope has three photograph gal
leries and there is no excuse for the
people not having plenty of pictures.
Fred Boneman whose difficulties
attracted so much attention last term
of court was arrested and fined for
drunkenness in Hope this week.
"A telegram received today an
nounced the death of Charlie, the two
year old son of Chas. Matteson at Man
chester. The funeral will be held
tomorrow,
1t will be only few weeks before
harvest will open and then when you
see a man loafng and claiming he
can't get work you will know he is a
rail spelled backward.
e. Z. Butcher, the Solomon City
union labor talker, will go to New
Hampshire to instruct the natives.
New Hampshire will have Dickinson
county's sincere sympathy.
The county commissioners were in
session this afternoon. Willowdale
township was allowed SS5 to assist it in
building bridges and Grant was author
lied to build low water bridge over
Mud creek.
- The State Sunday School assOcia-
ton elected as president Pew. F. NJ.
Porch of Topeka, formerly of Abilene.
All a man needs is to be connected
in some manner with Abilene and he
will get to the front.
The REFLECTOR was the only
paper in the county that published de-
tailed report of the cornty Sunday
School convention. But then the Re-
FLECToR is the only paper that gives all
the news of the county.
The use of sling shots by the small
boys of the city is becoming of too
frequent occurrence. 1t is against the
law to have or use one and the dan
gerous playthings would better De
suppressed by the boys parents or
trouble will ensue.
1t is rumored that the vigilance
committee will clean out the Chroni-
Gle Office if it runs that old deaths
head monument again as a Memorial
day feature. 1t has been doing service
for several years now in that paper
and its continuance is more creditable
to the editors persistency than his
originality.
Hope Dispatch: The mill sub
scription list is nearly completed. Only
a few more subscribers are necessary
to ensure a mill in running order for
the coming harvest. A good many of
our citizens in this part of the county
ought to come forward at once and as
sist in an enterprise that is bound to
be of much benefit to them in the
future.
-Campbell's Electioneer trotted q
quarter of mile to road cart in 25t
seconds, at Waldo Park last week, in
the presence of number of visitors.
This was the first time he had been
moved fast this season and was there
fore a great performance. Dick Tilden
is very guarded in expressing what he
expects of his horses on the track, but
it is an open secret that he is working
with all confidence to put Electioneer
in shape to take very fast record this
season. Electioneer will probably be
in Abilene next September.
The Lawrence Record has the fol-
lowing about a new book to be issued
by a formerly of Dickinson county
gentleman, Wilson Sterling: 1.-The
book to be issued in connection with
the Quarter Centennial celebration of
the opening of the university of Kan
sas will contain first the address OF
President Angel, of Michigan univer.
sity, to be delivered at commencement;
second, chapter of university remin-
iscences by Prof. D. H. Robinson;
third, chapter on student life in the
university, touching journalism, ath-
letics, fraternities, ETC., by Prof. A. G..
Garfield; fourth, a history of the
library by Miss c. NJ. Watson; fifth,
a general historical sketch of the
growth of the institution from ITS in
ception to the present by Prof. Wilson
Sterling"