Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-08-16
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Old papers for sale al TINS once'
cents per hundred, put up in pacl
ages Of so.
A big line Of school shoes at III
Racket.
b. +. Nihart, who conducted |
the Dickinson county normal, ha
secured a position in the Kansa
Wesleyan university at Salina.
Mrs. Penwell, mother of John Pen
well, died at the residence of her so
near Manchester Friday aged 81
Interment in lliff cemetery Saturday
Extra heavy riveted overalls b
cents pair at The Racket.
G. G. Anderson has moved to tn
Walnut Grove stock farm Of which h
will have charge for the Traveller
Insurance Co. He will make an ex
cellent superintendent.
R. b. Jacobs will take no NOR
jobs to pack windmills. His finger
caught while at work on one thi
mording he thought his end was conn
until two men rescued him.
States, slate pencils and slate clean
ers at The Racket.
Fred Johntz while shooting birds
with a % target rifle this morning
accidentally shot himself in the foot
The wound was painful but not ser
ious. DR.. Steelsmith cut the bulle
out.
1t is said that Mr.. Overmeyer's re
marks when he heard Of the brother
in-law conventions doings would
have done credit to the most sui
phurous part Of Supt. Gaines
vocabulary.
Pens and pencils at The Racke
cheap.
will Long has been experiment
ing for sometime to produce luminou
paint for signs etc. He thinks he ha
struck it and will soon have it thor
oughly tested. 1t will be bonanz'
il entirely successful.
Calvin +. Schnee has brough
suit against his wife, Ida, for divorce
on ground Of abandonment. The,
were married in Doniphan county II
1889 and he claims she deserted hin
in the fall Of 1892.
Good cedar pencils at The Racket
cents dozen.
Divine worship will be held ii
the Lutheran church next Sabbath
Rev. c. 5. Ernsberger Of Osborn
Ohio, preaching both morning an
evening. Rev. Ernsbcrger is candi
date for the pulpit and comes highl
recommended.
The largest 5 and 10 cent tablets a
The Racket you ever saw.
The annual meeting Of the W. {
7. U. of Dickinson county will b
held August 80, commencing at 9'S
a. m. in the college building at Enter
prise. Reports of the years work
election of officers and papers upol
department work will be the orde
of the meeting.
Fred Biehlcr, Of Herington, ha
taken this paper several years an
now has sent it back srefuscd' an
skipped the country. 1t is that kin
of business that shows up a man
meanness so that it can never be fol
gotten. The community to whic
Biehler has gone has our sympathy
The Racket is the place to bu
school supplies.
There is some hope yet. h
Makins has kept diary for man
years and in looking over it he find
that in 1874 no rain fell here frol
May 2 to July 80 and then there wa
but a slight shower. No raj
to amount to anything fell unit
Sept. / and then it rained three day
steady.
The delivery horse Of the Smitl
McCord store ran away down Ceda
this morning and crashed into a POI
near Toms & Rockafellar's. III
little son OF M. A. Shane was drivln
and luckily escaped without scratcl
being thrown from the seat to I'll
sidewalk when the wagon strucI
Damages were slight.
Four tine pitchforks 43 cents at II
Racket,
Speaking Of prompt insuran'
payments, the A. 0. U. W. com
pretty near filling the bill. For i
stance Silas Chambers, living north
Solomon, died July 16, the result of
kick by a horse, and August 7 his wi
had $1,000 in cash. He joined II
order in 1889 and his insurance HI
not cost him more than $75.
Knee pants 80, SS, 4S and AZ cen
at The Racket.