Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-09-21
FaBCENg REFIECTUNs.

Marriage Incense; neury " Lpuks
bine, Carlton. and Anna Hatch, Hope.
Tho COZ mtg commissioners ended
their September session and I'D.
Ijourned.
I --"Proiessbr" Fulton, clairvoyant
and pAlmist, has not been heard Of
and his Abilene Victims are still
mourning their cash.
The Abilene high school ball team
beat the business college Friday
afternoon BY something like 20 to 8
and only 8 innings were played.
Isaac Swisher has sued the Santa
Fe for $4,000 for the death Of his son
John, a locomotive fireman, who was
killed in an engine explosion in New
Mexico. E. G. Little 10 his attorney.
CLAY Center Times: What makes
some Of the Industry bachelors sore
is that they let Miss Violet Mccall
get away from the neighborhood. She
has just inherited $4,000 from an
uncle in Texas.
Paul Fry who has been visiting
his brother, Capt. Edgar Fry, at
Angel Island, San Francisco, has
taken his old place as day clerk in the
Pacific hotel. His many friends are
glad to have him return to Abilene.
The REFLEcToR's news Of the
order to number rural mail boxes and
deliver mail to numbers as well as to
names has started a tirst.class roast
ing bee in the Kansas papers and the
postofice department Is getting this
roasting.
-Herington Sun: Uncle Tank"
Wilson continues to slowly sink. For
the past six weeks be has been con-
fined to his bed and has been steadily
growing weaker, He is receiving all
the care that good nursing and medi-
cal attention can give.
Rev DR.. Biayney writes to the RE
FLEcToR: lowing to delays in i'm
provsments on the home place will
not be able to return to dear old Abb
lene until about Thursday OF next
week so no service next Sabbath. All
we'll aud having fine time"
"A pretty school teacher up near
Manchester inaugurated new cure
for hardness recently. She offered to
kiss the first arrival each morning.
Toe next morning at 8 O'Clock three
young men were seen roosting on
the fence and by 6 all the boys OF the
school and two directors had put in
an appearance,
DIR. Snow Of the State University
says that in the past forty years Kan
sas has had 26 Augusts that we're
hotter than the enc just passed. As
this county had just 2s-hundredths
OF an inch Of rain that month it would
be interesting to know II any Of the rs
preceding we're drier.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. W. Wilson en-
tertained about so guests last week
10 honor OF Miss Alice Sterl and MIR.
F. D. Parent. G. G. Sterl won the
gentlemen's prize and Miss Anna
Warfeld the ladies' prize. Vocal
selections by Mrs. J. A. Young, Mrs.
A. b. Roberts and Miss Edna Lake
added to the enjoy ment Of the even
ing.
Manchester News: An uniortu.
nate accident occurred at the merry.
go-round Saturday night. Frank
Trickel, boy Of 8 or 9 years, fell
from the swing and sustained broken
collar bone. 1t is said to have been
the boys own fault that he fell off and
no blame is attached to the manage
ment Of the swing or any Of the en-
ployes.
"A correspondent from Buckeye Of
the Chapman Lookout says A farm
er living not far distant sold some
chickens one day last week, SO the
story goes, and the buyer ssid be
would come for them the following
day. The chickens we're caught in
the evening and put in coOps, but In
the morning the diShssrtsnsd farmer
was made glad BY finding lying near
the empty coOps, purse containing
one hundred dollars,
The big basin west OF MCPHERSON
where Abilene hunters used to 90
after ducks 10 dry for the first time In
many years. The water thAt has