Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-01-21
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Wilkie, OF Enterprise, were granted a
marriage license.
-Salins is having draymen's war
over changing the dray stand. All
great towns run in the same channels.
-Woodbine is to have a new post
master, W. j, Calender. The dis
patches of this morning announce his
appointment.
Dickinson county normal for 1892
will be conducted by II. n. Gaines, Of
Salina Normal university. JIG. Wine,
now at Lawrence, and d. +. Shirk, of
Dickinson county high school, will
instruct.
MIR. Geo, Scissor, Of Peach Springs,
Arizona, and Miss Sadie $. Gish, Of
Abilene, daughter Of DR.. A. s, Gish,
were married on the 18th inst. at I
o'clock p. m. Mr.. Scissor is an extern
sive stock raiser.
One OF Abilene's warriors offers to
settle the Stevens county troubles. lie
says that II the governor will appoint
him judge OF Botkin's district, he will
guarantee to hold court and try Bren-
nan and Furthermore that he will keep
order in court.
They tell 1t on an Abilene druggist
that he purposely keeps thermometer
registering 10 degrees lower than the
actual temperature hanging outside Of
his store in order that when passers by
look at 1t they will feel the necessity Of
going n and getting something to
warm them up.
The now editor of the Monitor
starts out with despairiDg wall that
the county Is not prosperous and that
everybody is on the verge Of dark
desolatlon. A farmer whose chief
crop for many years has been cookie
burs can hardly be expected to take n
very optimistic view Of things.
The Rock Island passenger depart.
ment has issued neat folder addressed
TO Knights Templars, Ia which Is set
forth the Rock Island facilities for
handling an unlimited number of pas.
sengers and urging that the Knights
Templars make arrangements to go to
the triennial conclave ut Denver, next
August, over the Rock Island.
Mrs Eichol,z, who is well known
in the city and who has been east on
visit, was in the Wabash wreck at
Charlottesville, Ind, being on the
train en- route home. She was not
injured beyond the nervous shock
experienced and assisted In caring for
the wounded. She has arrived home
an dis suffering from nervous prOstra-
ton on account Of her experience.
The City Missions society Is
arranging headquarters upstairs in
the McQuary block ON North Buckeye
where sewing will be done and dis
tributlon Of goods made. systematic
canvass Of town will be made next
week for assistance aud In search of
destitute families, A mass meeting
will be held in the Lutheran church
tomorrow afternoon. Why would II
not be- good plan to have an opera
house entertainment for the benefit of
the society
Dickinson county's superinten-
dent OF schools is getting more blood
thirsty every day. A short time ago he
was advocating jerking little ones out
Of their seats and Uniting them few
cuts with whip several times day. y
Now he wants them to forfeit Their
heads or lives. The following atrociou'
butchery OF the English language IN
his notes in the Monitor Is oul
authority; Eternal vigilance and
rigid discipline is the price of liberty
and capital punishment sometimes
resorted tor
The Hope people are efIectualy
disguised with Supt. Van Dykes
uncalled for abuse Of the schools there
The Dispatch says: at was supposed
that even u nincompoop would know
enough, IL elected to the office Of
county superintenient,to try to elevat,
the schools Of the county instead o
trying to belittle or injure them. Tn,
superintendent can never expect t
compare fayoraoly with Prof. Hall a
an instructor and the less he says III,
better he is of. The people of Hop,
want none of his criticisms"