Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-07-02

County News please copy
The hogs Of Dickinson county are
getting too gay. One attacked Mrs
Czarnowsky Of Herington last week
and nearly killed her. BY good luck
she knew how to climb a fence and
escaped.
The Kansas City Journal pays
theowner Of the Monitor, H. N. Gaines,
this compliment: "Gaines is the
most gifted cusser that ever held the
Office Of superintendent Of schools in
Kansas"
The L. A. W. has refused sane
ton for Abilene's Fourth Of July
bicycle races owing to Herington
having secured it for the same date.
The boys have not decided what to
do.
Mrs. A. E. Bishop and daughter
Mary are very ill with fever in Cen
trail America. 1t is going to be a mir
acle ifall the party comes back alive
as was freely predicted before they
left.
1t is understood that ". L.
Cooley feels highly aattered at being
classed by the News as a "leading
Republican" 1t always makes q
Democrat or Populist happy to be
called a Republican.
Both Abilene and Minneapolis
advertise the Haskell Indians for the
Fourth Of July. The question is
where will the Indians play ball on
the Fourth Manchester News
At Abilene Of course. Minneapolis
: is only blufing.
! The merchants Of town, all o
whom know j. A. Kimball Of Salina
are glad to learn Of his election a
supreme councillor of the Unite'
: Commercial Travellers of the Unite
States. jim deserves it.
X. G. Gazette: The new uniform
of the Abilene baseball club is com
y bination Of green, red and yellow
and the Pops are green. They wi
Il try to paint the town red, and WI
veil. TO-" when the cops catch IN
~ Pops.
The Hutchinson News declare
" the western part of the State lost tn
convention by failing to stand tt
gether. The News is right. That
where western Kansas falls dow
) every time. Eastern Kansas alwa.
stands together.
Enterprise Journal The Roc
y Island near Herington is using sa
by the car load to put in around pi
ing at bridges and culverts as a pr
u servative to the timber. 1t is sal
% to make them last twice as long
they otherwise would.
y The REFLECTOR has received fro
!" j. D. Milliken, president Of tt
Ehrsam shops. letter thankingit !
Sc its fair and helpful reports OF u
OF troubles in the shops, in vivid co
trast with the twisted statements
ed papers that tried to foment disput
H. and hinder settlement.
"A brilliant piece of description a
in literary criticism combined is g
ng Arkansas" by Tn. Benton, (Mn
Blanc) translated for the July M
,se land Monthly, by Mrs. E. $. Sch@ff'
no 1t describes the great French woma'
visit to the Arkansas home Of Octa
~ Thanet.
ID The REFLECTOR has some har
some new window signs, about
~ prettiest things in town. They
81, bimetalism signs-gold and silv'
but not l6 to land are the work
Felix, one Of the best sign painters
- the West, who is in the city for I
WV DAYS. His skill is something to
proud Of.
Topeka Mail: jim Vickers, v
,'A has been nominated for representa-
10y by the Pops Of Dickinson county, '
a boyhood chum Of Governor Fora
In Of Ohio. He says they slept toget
eo' under the same blanket during
nee war, but a bedspread four miles i
wouldn't cover the two since Wick
vn, went "agin the government"
10 1t is very amusing to Johr
- Cooper to see the Populists and D
ocrats rejoice because he will not '
MAI for Mckinley. OF course he wo
oth He has lost his residence in Color
Ell by moving back to Abilene and
by not have resided in this State
enough to vote by November