Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-04-30
RECENT RHrLIcTloNs.

snlp Is rePorteu as ueinS very III.
The county high school will have
a rhetorical contest Friday evening.
Harrington defeated Council Grove
at base ball last week by score Of 10
TO 3.
j. L. Morley caught six-inch
fish from his sidewalk on West Third
last night.
The Herington Signal is a "yellow
fellow" being printed on paper Of a
saffron hue.
Misses Mary and Martha Grosser
Of Enterprise will attend the State
Normal school.
j. H. Niesley will move this week
from West Third to the Speer prop
erty on East Fourth.
w. H. Doake, formerly meat
dealer here, has gone to Kansas City.
His family remains in Harrington.
A Junction City woman issues a
card Of thanks to jury which ac-
quilted her Of charge of embezzle-
ment.
--One town in the county has boys
who stay by the school. The Solo
mon graduating class has 6 girls and
9 boys.
H. F. Graham, formerly Of the
city schools here, is chairman of the
Republican central committee of
Jackson county.
The man who listed his corn and
ran the burrows directly up and down
long slopes is finding the seed in a
heap in the valley.
The creameries Of Lyon county
are closing because they cannot get
milk enough to run proftably. Dick
inson is the banner creamery county
yet.
F. H. Knobel is completing a
handsome imported granite monu-
ment for the Briggs family of Solo
mon. 1t is plain but very tasteful
and massive.
Base libel from the Hutchinson
News; Abilene has an organization
called the City Mission. Abilene
needs them. 1t is the only town in
Kansas which soes Populist
Topeka Mail: Dickinson county
has had AZ marriages as against -
divorces so far this year. This APP
pears to be record evidence against
the popular idea that Solomon valley
girls are hard to get along with.
Manchester News: The cream
cry under the new management has
made two shipments to New York
and the butter brought the highest
market price, which proves that a
first-class butter maker is in charge.
Mrs. Vaninam, a married daugh-
ter Of N. Ruse of Hayes township,
was burned to death by lamp ex-
plosion at her home in New Lebanon,
Ohio, last week. She was SO years
old and visited this county some years
ago.
--Hiland Southworth is a great adj
mirer Of Alexander Hamilton. He
has just secured some valuable fac
smiles of Hamilton manuscripts re-
lating to the Monroe doctrine, its
origin and intent. He probably has
the best collection of Hamiltonia, in
GLIDING portraits. in the State.
There's new poet in town. Ed
Malott won the second prize in the
News competition on poetry. The
Lanier Circle should have a special
meeting at once to investigate the
matter. Unless the number Of poets
is limited this town is going to have
trouble yet with its verse writer's.
To the girls: Put sulphur can
die in the bottom Of a barrel, hang
your last summers white straw hats
from string across the top, cover
the opening, and leave them there
until the candle is burned out. The
,sulpher fumes will bleach your hats
thoroughly.
Nobody has yet commenced to
agitate Fourth of July celebration
in Abilene, and it is too early to state
whether the glorious day will be
properly observed or not, but no con-
fidence is violated when it is stated
that the small boy and his shooting
cracker will be up and coming on that