Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-01-10
MISSOURI pACIFIo-AT HERINGToN.
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

RECENT REFLECTIONS.
The county commissioners are
holding their quarterly session.
The County Teachers association
is booked to meet next Saturday.
Mrs. Catherine Robson, Of Wheat
land township, fell and broke an
ankle this morning.
A man whose house burned with
out insurance this week came in last
evening to insure his barn.
The Union Pacific grew weary Of
making fast time and has new card
which will be found in the proper
column.
The Chapman high school is
about to present "Romeo and Juliet
preparatory to tackling the whole
Shakesperean repertoire.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage OF Chas H. Hurlbert for
merly Of Abilene and Miss Nina Mich
olson at New Whatcom, Wash.
-Mormonism is probably very
wrong but there is one thing Brigham
Young did not have to do; Help dress
the children in the morning before
breakfast.
Talk about moral towns, Abilene
had not single police court case dur
ing December. The city has never
had as little police court business as
now.
Mrs. Burns, mother Of Henry
Burns, one Of Manchester's most es-
teemed residents, died Sunday aged
IS. Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon.
The county teachers association
will not be held until Jan. 20. 1t
may be postponed to later date in
order to secure VIM. Hawley Smith
for a lecture on that occasion.
The Kansas City Star has exclus-
I've information that Mrs. Lease came
out several laps ahead in the debate
In the Abilene high school on "Do
Queens Make Better Rulers Than
KingsP"
w. N. Hawley Of Herington has
been chosen one of the delegates from
Kansas to the national convention of
the Modern Woodmen of America,
which will be held in the East next
summer. 1t is a deserved honor to
q worthy member Of the order.
Washington Post: The Register
is for J.. X. Burton for the United
States senate but it isn't because he
is one Of the young crowd, nor Of the
old crowd, but because he IS "worthy
and well qualified, true and trusty,"
and withal an able man and a sound
Republican.
Mrs. Gehrke was declared insane
In probate court yesterday but was
found to be unfit for the asylum and
so was sent back to her home for her
husband to take care Of. Iii a par
ticularly sad case as the family lives
at distance from neighbors, is very
poor and has five small children.
Our esteemed contemporaries,
the News and Dispatch, are very
much exercised over what they term
the REFLEcToRs attack on q min
lister Of the city on account Of ser
mon on prohibition. The REFLECTOR
'attacked" nobody and 1t certainly
has neither reason nor wish for LESSEN
Ing in any way the influence for good
OF any man. What 1t does insist on
is fairness from the pulpit as well as
from the pew Criticism only of Off
GERS Of one political faith to the ex-
clusion Of those Of another is not fair
ness-it is partisanship, and such
public criticisms are instigated and
made with view Of carrying some
partisan movement to successful
end. II the News would print the
oath taken by the sheriff and his as
slstants 1t would be an enlightenment
to It's readers. From press or pulpit,
from layman or minister, there must
be justice aud fairness before any good
can be accomplished.