Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-08-15
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The Hope and Chapman ball teams
played at Chapman today.
Some people think the Upshaw
block is improved by the taking off Of
the third story.
The new Knox stiff hat just re.
ceived at Bearce's.
C. +. Worley will move his fam
lily to Topeka Sept. /. Rev. 5. Pal
mer will occupy his house.
Jonas Kishpaugh, who lives on
Cases farm, is on the sick list being
down with nervous prostration.
y. X. Burton will deliver the
principal address at Topeka's Labor
day celebration. 1t won't hurt his
senatorial boom any
The Grace Reformed church Is
being relitted. The pulpit platform
has been enlarged and the walls will
be papered next week.
An Ellsworth carrier pigeon
started from here at 7;l5 yesterday
morning, reaching home at S.l5, go
miles in exactly one hour.
Go to Bearce's for the very latest
style in hats.
Josiah Reed has brought suit
against his wife Elizabeth for divorce.
He says they were married in 1879
and she deserted him in 1889.
The county superintendent today
had request for a teacher who
"would be willing to accept good
wages" 1t is believed that about
23l could bc furnished on short no.
tice.
Little Edna Kugler, who had such
q siege with diptherla has so far re-
covered from the disease as to breathe
normally again, but kidney compli-
cations are keeping her from full
return to health.
Nonbreakable cup TO date" stiff
hats at Bearcc's.
Chapman has a school Disagree
ment growing out OF a misunder-
standing as to the arrangements
made when u principal was engaged
and petitions are being circulated.
School troubles don't pay in the end
"A Demo-Pop dinner was held at
George Mvingston's in'Buckeye.tod
A large dish Of carefully baked crow
was all that ornamentcd W. d.
Struble's dish. The others had fusion
potpie and Office seekers mixtures Of
various sorts,
In one district in the county, 81, at
the school meeting when the ques-
ton Of electing director and clerk
came up no one voted, all sitting
silent, The chairman declared two
gentlemen elected and now they are
wondering II they really hold Office.
Under Sheriff Kieffer spent Sum
day in Wichita and called on ex-Gov
Lewclllng. He says Lewelling has q
pleasant home and n good business
and was about the only man in
Wichita who is standing up for
Morrill, in these times Of Wichita's
becrlcss distress.
The Abilene young man who
went to Kansas City this week to buy
n lot Of fall clothes and had his valise
and the new duds stolen on his way
home should not forget the lesson he
was thus taught-to buy of his home
merchants. Had he done so he would
now be becomingly arrayed instead Of
mourning for the iinery which is
adorning some tramp's corporosity,
The first shipment OF hats being
opened at Bearce's. 81 4&c2
Perry Friz who has spent week
in Osborne and Mitchell counties
says the corn there is simply I'M
mense. The wheat ground was
plowed up and put into corn and
practically all the titled land Is in
this crop. And every field is almost
perfect From Delphos this way
however, he says the fields are burned
in spots and Dickinson is not nearly
SO well off as Western Kansas.
This was an Abilene mans we'd
ding anniversary. On my wedding
day, said he, we took the train to 60
23 miles to the home of relative OF
my wife where the ceremony occurred.
A tunnel had cayed in and we had to
walk quarter of a mile in a dreuch-
inc rain. Added to that my wife suf-
fered with a toothache. She went to
the dentists and had five teeth pulled.
Then we got married. 1t was a day
worth remembering.