Abilene weekly reflector., 1897-06-24
RECENT REFLECTIONS.


mems races.
Marriage license: H. B. Miller
and Ida Ertell, both Of Topeka. They
will be married at Enterprise.
--Solomon's fire department is COM
ing after the gold prizes offered at
Abilene's Fourth of July celebration
Walter Rockeiellar has been dam
gerously sick in Africa with blood
poisoning resulting from cut, but is
better.
The tantalizing manner in which
rain hovers over this town yet fails
to appear, indicates that there is a
hoodoo somewhere about.
Ed Little is back from Washing
ton. He says he does not know about
that boundary matter. OF course not,
He was not there for that purpose
w. H. Eicholtz today received a
handsome silver plated carriage for
use in carrying coffin through aisles
in a church, etc, decided addition
to his undertaking equipments.
Hutchinson News: The Abilene
undertaken announces that he has re-
ceived silver carriage with which to
carry coffin up the church aisle.
Abilene is a good town to die in.
Miss Tressie Addams of Cawker
City has been engaged as one of the
teachers in the Solomon schools.
Mabel Searl, Rose Hood, Lucy Shaffer
and Ozetta Marshall are the others.
The county commissioners adj
journed as n board Of equalization.
They made visit to Wescott's ranch
to look at some cattle, there being
some controversy in regard to their
assessment.
Junction City Union: The cream
cry patrons Of Geary county are slow
ly awakening to their best interests
like those Of Dickinson. B. F. Engle,
who is a very able butter maker,
handles daily from S75 to 400 pounds
Of butter.
Seward A. Jones, lately with the
Kansan at Concordia, has taken John
s. Parks place on the Beloit Call while
the latter serves as state printer. Mr.
Jones was compositor on the Abb
lene Daily Gazette, and is pleasant
gentleman.
j. N. Engle, formerly of this
county but last year a principal Of
Junction City, has been elected prin,
cipal of the White City schools at a
salary of $40 a month out of 20 appli.
cants. He is Il good school man and
will succeed.
DR.. j. D. Rddel Of Enterprise
and Miss Doris Kinney of Omaha,
Neb., were married Tuesday. The
bride and groom were escorted from
Detroit to Enterprise at midnight
Wednesday by a torchlight and fire.
works procession.
Thornton Cooke, son of the Her
ington banker, has sailed for Europe
to spend the summer. He has won
by superior rank a Harvard scholar
ship which includes an assistant pro-
iessorship in that college and is in
doubt whether to accept it or return
to the bank.
The medicine show boys who
have been exhibiting in tent at
Rossville and st. Marys came home,
driven out by the heat. j. S. Smith
tends door, c. M. Worth lectures for
the Halleck- Scott medicines and Frank
l.emaster acts. 1t is said to be second
only to the Booth-Barrett company.
-Croakers' stories are drifting into
town. In them figure chinch bugs,
drouth, blight and army worms, but
they are mostly fakes. Dickinson
will raise far more crops than last
year, and some Of the finest wheat
ever produced here will be gathered.
Croaks are always in the air at this
time Of year.
Ottawa Herald T. c. Henry, a
former Abilene man, will leave this
country becouse he says it is no longer
place where man can make an
honest living. Mr.. Henry lived in
Kansas in the boom days, and was for
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