Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-05-11
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

ing wired for electric lights.
Grant township gained 40 IN
population in the past year.
Born, to MIR. and Mrs. C. G.
Cobun this morning, daughter.
The supreme court Saturday al.
tirmed the decision Of the lower court
in A. V. Jewett VS.. I. H. Malott 4
Co.
The Fire department suspended
a member last evening on the charge
of appearing at fire in an intoxi-
Gated condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. |. Slaybaugh and
Mr., and Mrs. Wm. Blakney were
taken in as members of the M. II.
church yesterday.
-R. M. White has moved house
to the lot east Of his home on West
Third. He is fitting it up and will
make pretty residence of it.
&C. T. Estes has sold his hand
some driving horse, one of the pretti-
est animals the town ever saw, for
$3.50. 1t will be shipped to Ohio.
The X. P.'s will have banquet
May 10 at the Pacific hotel which
promises to be very swell affair.
They will also have program and a
dance.
Tom Wilson has begun publica-
ton of the Pixies Peak News for the
season. His plant was burned last
winter but he has new one and is
getting out as fine paper as ever.
County Attorney Smith and fam
ily will leave about june lst for a
ten weeks visit among old friends
and relatives in Pennsylvania. Mr..
Smith goes on important legal busi-
ness.
w. A. Stacey, Of LaCygne, for
merly one Of Dickinson's successful
teachers, was elected superintendent
Of the city schools of Burlington on
the second ballot. There were thirty
five applicants Tor the position.
--Beloit Gazette: The board Of
education has reelected Prof. Barnes
superintendent Of the city schools for
the coming year. Prof. Barnes has
given unicersal satisfaction, and we
are glad to know he will remain an
other year.
The street commissioner would
gain the everlasting gratitude OF
owners Of vehicles and bicycle riders
by gathering the large number Of
stones off the streets. Almost every
street in town has lots OF them and
they are a great annoyance and a pos
tive danger.
The National Bank Of Commerce
Of Kansas City has issued circular
to its customers asking them not to
send in so much silver. 1t says the
white metal comes in at the rate OF
$4,000 day and it cannot get rid Of
1t except by shipping it to the sub
treasury at st. Louis. Who said sill
yer was not "free' enoughp
j. G. Republican: John Gartner
has purchased the John Bath cigar
factory and moved back from Herring
ton last week. lie was doing good
business at Herington and both him
self and wife leave many friends
there who will regret their departure,
but they are both glad to get back to
their old home again and Junction
City people are glad to have them
back. He will take possession of the
factory May l5.
Manchester News VIM. Rynear-
son went to Abilene Tuesday with
numercusly signed petition to lay be-
fore the county commissioners pray
ing that a road be opened to cross the
railroad tract at the foot OF Coats
street. The notice by the railroad
company that the angling road would
be closed after June 10 is the cause OF
this petition. The road petitioned
for is practically the one ordered
closed, with the railroad crossing a
little north Of its present location.
This is what +. D. Springer, the
coal dealer Of Hope, has on the back
Of his business card: "I'm from Kan
sas; where r U from? Hope dwells
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