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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-25
WOODBINE.

Mrs. Minnie Schwendener from
Abilene was in our town last Satur-
day.
Miss Mary Kufalk is employed in
Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. volkman and
baby from Childress, Tex, are here
on visit with relatives and friends.
Mr.. Coffman of Wodbine was mar
ried recently to lady who lived at
Hope. Their friends extend their
best wishes to them.
]. G. Nuss was here on a visit a
few days with relatives.
VIM. Fl. Shultz, Jr., and Miss Sarah
Beckel were Joined in holy wedlock
on Wednesday, March II, at the
home of the bride, Miss Clarce
Schultz was the bridesmaid and ALI.
Biegert was groomsman.. Miss Anne
lie Ruckert played the wedding
march and Rev. ]. L. Sternberg per-
formed the wedding ceremony. After
congratulations sumptuous supper
was served to the guests. Mrs. VIM.
H. Schultz is the daughter of Mr..
Adolph Beckel and wife and Mr.. VIM.
H. Schultz the respected son of Mr..
VIM. Schultz, ST.. The young couple
live on a farm near Woodbine.
Rev. ]. A. Mcclellan and family
were visiting here with relatives a |
few days last week.
The Epworth League of the Lyona
German M. E. congregation celebrat-
ed its goth anniversary last Sunday
evening. A fine program was rend-
cred in which two neighboring So
cieties participated.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-25
RINEHART.>

Andy Brown transacted business
in WOOdbine the first of the week.
Miss Irene MeNanee of Junction
City visited Miss Margie HoIlinger
Wednesday.
j. g. Murphy was an Abilene bust
ness visitor hast Friday.
Miss Floss Addison Of Salina Wis
tied Mrs. ]. Allen Hollinger the first
part Of the week
c. J. Spencer Of Junction City was
a Rinehart visitor Tuesday and We'd
nesday.
S. p. Blackwelder was in Chap
man one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. HOIlinger were
in Junction City last Tues
day.
Leslie Baughley of WoOdbine visit
ed friends here the last two weeks.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-25

were delightfully entertained BY
Miss Howe.
Frank Rogers was in town on bust
ness last week.
A dozen young ladies from the D.
2. H, S, were out for a good time
Monday. They walked to Detroit,
there two of the pedestrians becom-
Ing weary, halted at the station till
the plug took them back to Chap
man. The remainder of the crowd
tramped over to Enterprise and back.
Mr., Bowles of Chapman was in
town the first of the week.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-25
DONEGAL.

Mrs. VIM. Scheufele spent last
week with her parents in Abilene.
Mrs. John McCardle spent several
days in Beloit last week called by
the death of a relative.
Misses Anna, Mary and Elizabeth
Engle of Abilene visited relatives
here Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs, j. A. Summers returned Tues
day from a weeks stay in Linds-
borg.
Miss Gladys McCardle was the
guest of Miss Ethel Kaufman over
Sunday
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-25
ZION.

Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Kreider and
daughter Mabel visited Sunday at Mr..
Robennett's near Industry.
Rex. and Mrs. Darnell are visiting
with the latter's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J.Underhill. Mr.. Darnell leaves
Tuesday to attend the western div
ision of the M. e. church.
Mrs. Earnest Lecron is still very
poorly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosken visited Sun
day at Samuel Kitterman's.
George Lady and family visited
Sunday at Samuel Lady's.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. H. Wagaman
spent Sunday in Abilene.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. P. Grove went to
Salina to attend the funeral of their
uncle, Mr.. Whistler on Sunday.
G. McKune is staying at Carl Dorm
berger's.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-25
ACME.

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Holt
March Is, son.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Phil
lips of San Jose, Cal, March 18th, a
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Finick and
daughter and Mr.. and Mrs. Poe Cox
spent Sunday with ]. G. Engle's.
Mrs. W. M. Campbell is on the sick
list.
Jacob Steelsmith and daughter
Floss took dinner Monday with Geo.
Slater and family.
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CHAPMAN.

James Omera is seriously sick a
his home in the west part of town
Prof. Indy Of Cove, Kansas, Wis
tied here over Sunday
Mrs. Baer and children and Mr.
Probasco Of near Buckeye visited
Mrs. McElhenny this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Sparks OF scran-
ton, Kansas, visited Mr.. Sparks par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Sparks, this
week.
Mr.. Nicholas transacted business
in Abilene, Tuesday.
Rev. wyandt visited friends in Alb
ilene, Sunday.
R. S. Kirk purchased a half inter-
est in Louis Isler's merry-go-round
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Dobbins Of Up
land were Chapman visitors on Mon
day.
Mrs. George Carol and little
daughter Helen and Grandpa Carroll
came Friday from Cincinnati, Ohio,
for a few weeks visit.
Joe clennan Is building q hne ad-
dition to his house in the north part
Of town.
Misses Lulu Rabers and Laura
Frey attended the "clansman" at
Ebilene Tuesday.
chss Henderson Of California, No.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-25
EAST SIDE ITEMS.

J. G. Norman is digging a cellar
and will build an addition to his
home on East Enterprise.
Mrs. H. Davis has been quite Ill
for the past two weeks but is improv-
ing.
Mrs. Kean of Holland is visiting
her daughter Mrs. W. @. Curphy.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Shepherd help
ed to surprise Mrs. John Lands Mon
day evening.
Mr.. Klause is quite sick at his
home in the east part OF town.
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A PRIZE HAT.

Call at the New Manchester Mil.
liners and see the Prize Hat. Fine
line of new spring millinery just in.
Manchester, Kansas. wit"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-25
Card Of Thanks.

may expressing my
gratitude confidence repod the Blue Front We
held this
community having IS of Fall and Winter
winter when arguing
politics. working day and night distributing good
of Dickinson County
thank their for their compliments
their advertising their friends all of which requires
the machinery equal to
10 to IA hours properly attend customers wants
cordially invite prospective shoe buyers and inves
repair them free with
equipped to half sole shoes by cleo
ty investigate the difference
paronng business the bench
through Merchants" who In
business to spend their time Yours very truly, n
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r. H. VIOLA
Blue Front Shoe Store.
Blue Front Shoe Store.

came Friday for a few weeks visit
with his sister, Mrs. ]. e. Mcdowell.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-03-25
Knows Whose Hogs
Ate the NubbinS

A farmer said to US a few days
ago, II know why hogs ate the nub-
bins in my corn field this year. "
This remark was prompted BY the
fact that he had enclosed his fields
with American Fencing and was 90
well pleased with the results that
he had come in to order more.
The grain that can Be saved BY
enclosing fields win q good hog
tight fence win soon pay for the ma
teriA1 used.
HODGE BROS.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08

have you ever tried 10 picture 20
yourself this country OF ours Ii Is
given TO only small number TO travel
widely. Bat In reading and with
imagination you can travel this coun-
try. and the world, for that matter
II is warm. Maybe you are stretch
ed out I'm hammock Wherever yOu
are. travel with us awhile IL will
help you to get cool aud Will rest
your weary body and mind.
Away to the northwest. dividing the
states of Oregon and Washington.
flows IA majestic river. the Columbia.
'Trace II on the map sometime It's
great flood. drawn from the mountains
OF Canada and this country. product
of the melting SHOWS OF Rockies and
Cascades and Selkirk glaciers. no
wonder IL moves with increasing vol
ume until. after II has passed the last
mountain barrier. II seems like great
arm OF the sea.
What story of conflicts passed from
tiny waterfalls over rapids and finally
In pent up energy as II squeezes
through the narrow rock channel at
the Dallas. IL could unfold
A lazy lagoon. overhung with trop'-
cal growths. AN alligator slips into
the water. you need hardly be told
that YOU are in Florida. IL is SO easy
To dream and rest, TO he lulled 10
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
OUR COUNTRY
sy J. C. HARPER.

sleep by the music OF the mocking
bird and every sense uckled by the
Breath OF myriad flowers. What "A
refuge for weary nerves And do YOU
recollect noting in your old school
Biographies the great American de-
sert9" Where has IL gone? The
ground is still there. but IL blossoms
as the rose irrigation and dry farm
ing have worked miracles already
and as the years pass the miracles will
increase until the inhabitants VIII ex-
claim. Surely. nobody ever thought
OF this as desert.
Have YOU ever seen that unendins
PROCESSION OF vessels moving up ane
down the Detroit river? DO YOU real
ice that In eight months greater tor
hage passes through II than enters
New York harhor In II months?
From Atlantic to Pacific. great lakes
To gulf. with mountain. hill and valley.
majestic rivers. purling brooks, all
manner of lakes and streams-broad
acres. yielding all the prouucts or the
temperate zone-great ana smal
cities. throbbing with life. of which It's
machinery seems To be part-grea,
towns and villages where one can lead
"th. simple life" and pursue the quest
for knowledge should We not be
proud of our country and Try 10 be
worthy OF her?
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
From Another Point of View

John today. laid for his
old
This latest aeroplane
hasn't
An of police
a lot of
most remarkable Seventy years
: his head--or rather
The insanity experts spare
ii crowd the Boyajian trial
ing whom he the lion had charged hunter
Possibly If he would though, luck would
cisco
!
omtting the calling
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08

The United States Steel corporation
has raised the black nag OF Nothing
10 arbitrate" in its war on the TIN
plate workers. as did Carnegie ana
Pullman nearly a generation ago. II
has enwalled its mills and strung
barbed wire charged with electricity,
has employed regiments OF private po
lice and strkebreakers and armed
them 10 the teeth. and in fact the
trust is giving plain demonstration
OF being III insurrect.on and prepared
to enforce its will at all hazards.
Why is the United States Steel
corporation making war upon marine
workers. iron and steel workers and
unplate workers At this time why
are some $4,000 men thrown out OF
employment and compelled To battle
against a few captains OF industry.
backed by countless millions wrung
from the brain and Drawn of these
very same workers?
Is the mere question OF open shop
at stake? No. That il only sur
lace indication, a cloak 10 disguise
the real purpose of the far-seeing
gentlemen who control the trust. The
zeal object is not 10 deal impartlaliy
between union and Ron-union work
men, as the open shoppers frequently
claim Is their desire, but TO destroy,
TO wipe out every vesuge or unionism.
so there will be no interference with
their program OF exploitation. Not
only a monopoly of the home market
Is the goal OF the trust, but 10 conquer
the world market Is its ambitious
program.
Glaring headlines In the newspaper S
nave assured the public, which is over
whelmingly In sympathy with the
workers in their struggle against the
new trust slavery. that no reduction
OF wages was contemplated. The TIL
plate workers declare that such state
ments are deliberate misrepresenta-
tions They point out that the wage
rates IN the non-union mills are lower
than the rates in the union mills. and
that their wages are 10 be "equalizcd.
downward OF course In the nou-union
mills the employees hardly dare 10
speak 10 each other about wages and
working conditions, no standard rate
exists, and any old wage is paid.
The steel trust proposes the follow
ing reductions, based On the 80 gauge,
from which the wage scale is always
based Roller. $40 per cent; doub
Ter. 4-l0, heater. . 2-10: catcher
II 40. screw boy. 2 $40: shear
man. $40 On orders over Ia l-2
square feet. 26-gauge and heavier. the
reductions wage from IL $40 per cent
for rollers TO Is 2l0 per cent for heat
ers. Other reductions covered by root
notes run from IL to % per cent
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
L A B O r

Moreover. the mill men declare that
the trust Is deliberately attempting To
eliminate all foot notes In scales, ana
beat them out OF . TO 10 per cent IN
gaugos-that is. get still more work
done FOR nothing after the reductions
have been enforced.
Despite the increased cost OF living.
the Amalgamated Iron. Steel and Tia
plate workers declare that wages have
been cut during the past IL years ON
skilled jobs as high as 800 10 500 per
cent
Tinplate workers declare tnat the
product they are permitted TO tuin
cut IN American mills is inferior To
that produced in the mills OF Wales
and other foreign countries. rotten
hut the people OF this country. on ac.
count OF the high tariff enacted 10
protect labor" and which protection
labor does not receive are compelled
to purchase the American product.
they say. is domestic product ana
feed exCrbitant profits into the fattel-
ed steel trust hog. Now the plan is 10
manufacture better grades for export
purposes and compete In the worlds
markets for trade.
In order to undersell foreign manu-
facturers and still clean up the profits
10 which they have been accustomed
or more, To declare their usual divld.
ends on their scandalously watered
stock and "bull' il in Wall-st TO at
tract fresh crops Of lambs TO be shorn,
the irod and steel barons have plotted
for several years 10 destroy the labor
organizations and compel the working
people TO make the sacrifices in this
international conques. for more and
more power and pelf.
The Pittsburg survey has shcwn
that the unions in the trusts mills in
that district have been destroyed and
the workers have been forced to the
slavery leyel The organizations OF
the mcialliferous miners OF the trusts
northwestern mines have been wiped
cut. and those workers too. have been
driven to the pauper and slave lite
The workers on the trusts docks have
been largely overcome by machinery
and the few still remaining are among
the worst paid in the country. Now
the seamen on the trusts ships and
the organized workers in certain OF
the trusts mills are being made 10
feel the pitiless iron heel. Next the
railway employees on trust controlled
railroads will probably be driven from
! their organizations, and then. with
wages crushed down 10 or below the
European pauper level. and with ma
chinery Speeded TO the limit and Ann
erican workers turning out more prod
ucts than the European workers. as is
the case now, the iron barOns, whose
hearts and brains and very souls are
iron can truthfully cry. The world
is ours,
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
HONOR MONEY
Thinks Riches Really
Achieve.

Prof. George n. Palmer, of Harvard,
sent the graduating class Of Dart
other day with this advice:
You nave had little To do with self
support Now you are called upon 10
earn your own living. From this time
on honor money-getting. money and
power. Riches are the lever OF seI-
vice TO the world
Is Prof Palmer right? Did he state
the full case? Is that good advice?
Is II safe TO give that notion to an
ambitious boy?
We think not. Money is not the
standard OF success--.t is merely one
medium White corpuscled fools may
honor money. but red-blooded men
honor achievement Riches are not
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08

the lever Of service to the world
brains are the lever Does anyone
think John ID. Rockefeller as great a
success as is Thomas a. Edison or
Orvile Wright?
There are too many people who
hold Palmer's idea about money They
change their view when they have a
Harry Thaw In the family. Sometime
they change their lew when they
get well acquainted with a Luther
Burbank. Wright brother, William
il. Bryan, a La Toilette, Robert
Hunter or some other fellow who has
never relied upon mere money for a
lever % service. They learn then
that only brains count for happiness
and success Brains achieve. and
many fool and almost any knaye can
stack up money.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
MOST ANYTHING

lege professor, will learn with regret
that the winner and loser OF the Al
round Hyland-Cross fight divided
$1,000 pot for their trouble.
Mr. Gotti-Casazza. director OF the
Metropolitan Opera house. may quit.
This Will be good news for the men
who have 10 write headlines for New
York papers
They may have tried 10 reform the
tarifT down at Washington, but it's IN
awful backslider
II lions knew what many lion.tam-
ers wives know .here'd be less lion.
tanners.
A colored candidate for messenger
at one OF the government departments
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08

had just told the clerk In the special
ierm ol the supreme court that he
was goingsaway for a few days TO take
4 rest when two deputies approached
him and told him ne Was under arreAt
ON an '0rqer signed by justice Thomas
lie asked permission To use the tele
phone and Immediately began call
ing up the justices Of the appellate
division of the supreme court 10 see
" he could not obtain a stay of tn
order FOR his arrest lie failed co
set any relief in that direction and
was taken 20 the jail
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
MAN OF 20 GOES TO JAIL
Brooklyn Man Who Is Always His
Own Lawyer at Last In Cell.

OWH Lawyer az Ldst IN Oell
NEW YORK. July S.4-Josiah T.
White, 20 years old. a wealthy resi-.
dent OF Columbia Heights. Brooklyn.
who has frequently appeared as MS
own lawyer before the Justices OF the
supreme court of that borough. was
arrested and taken To Raymond-st
Jail for contempt of court I'm refusing
examination In supplementary pro-
ceedings started year ago against
him by the Pioneer Iron works. Seg.
eral times during the year the CON
any has tried TO collect a Judgment
cf $lei, which amount Mr.. White -
said TO owe the company. He has
opposed the collection OF the money
by frequently appearing before the
courts 10 argue motions in the case.
Mr.. White has tried for sevefal
weeks TO staye OF Imprisonment. and
yesterday he appearo1 in court with
bundle OF legal papers to argue an.
other motion which nc believed would
save him from being arrested. de
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
Detroit Get. Customs Court.

WASHINGTON. July s-Through
the efforts OF Senator William Alden
Smith, the United States court OF Gus
toms appeals created in the Aldrich
bill is 10 sit In Detroit in addition
TO other cities agreed upon. Senator
Smith had notified Senator Aldrieh
OF his desire that Detroit be included
I'm the provisions OF the bin and when
the matter ca meup yesterday the SEN
ators amendment was accepted.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
BY WALDO eosToNseANs.

juvenile upon achev
ed in N
of
OF
he
of
the
OF
as In o exceptionally
individual
discerning
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
Mining Promoter piseharoed

NEW YORK, July S.--Wm. ). Nit.
chell, the mining promoter who is
wanted in Canada ON the nominal
charge OF securing $4,000 under false
pretenses from Alex g. Ross. "a mem
ber OF the dominion parliament. was
discharged yesterda yby United States
Commissioner Alexander. MitcheiTs
explanation TO the court that he act
ed In good faith in handling Cobal.
mining properties was accepted by the
court.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08


people regard
strictly a regular only there
though president trying help Adich and
Cannon outside the lines the who have sven aan
promises which the party made the last fall through
the presidency that the tariff should be revised DOWN
WARD
President Taft seems to forget elected
regular
reporters invited this conference
No that kind a conference
strictly private just a private a it regular.
The business public business, however
made that important changes
decided upon plans president had recommended
legislation by attorney referred back 10
decisions the SECRET conference
Had the people right a full report
The business they ansacng not the private business OF
single present every citizen of the
United
public people what
agents every word that said
And things were done there that the people nightly
president provision provide
supervision and thereby the and
public knowledge the real business
transactions and the profits in the
country
Fair,
president message congress given mighty
good
2 81
while the faculty of assuming corporate form has been the
utmost utility the business world 1T is ALSO TRUE THAT SUB
STANTIALLY ALL THE ABUSES EVILS WHICH
HAVE AROUSED PUBLIC NECESSITY OF REFORM
WERE MADE POSSIBLE BY THE USE OF THIS VERY FACULTY
which the corporate form of doing business
regular conference the president
backed down.
arguments Adch and and their hench
power pared down until takes
internal oncurred
by secretary treasury before investigation be ordered
looked pretty good that stockholders and public alike were to have
directors robbing
both.
difficult and dangerous such transactions
8 Hartman Chicago & Alton deal
people called into this private conference had pce
and favored privacy corporate affairs
Cumms La Toilette other the insurgents
would disturbed the harmony of the conference
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08

had TO take a civil service examina.
ton
How far is Il from the earth 10 the
noon was one OF the first questions.
"Lawsie. me" said the candidate.
If got TO go on any trips like dat. |
don want the job.
In Holland the average number OF
deaths from railway accidents Is one
a year.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
The Truth. No Matter
Whom It Helps or Hurta

The news dispatches tell us OF an
important conference at the White
House. the subject OF which was the
income tax on corporations
Those present We're Aldreh and
his me, too men Of the senate
finance committee, Cannon and
Payne.
Cummings, La Toilette, Do,liver
and Beveridge, insurgents, men ~ho
have from time 10 time evidenced
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08

You can be arrested and fined IN
Russia for sending love messages on
a postal card To people who have
seen some Of the oh. You Kid, SOU
yenir postals in this country. this
sounds ike a good law.
The worst thing about mailing lie
Is that you are apt 10 hammer your
fingers. PUCK
I'm puzzled" ," said Gladys. Il told
Bob maybe I'd marry him Gould he
call that PROMISE
lie probably calls it a threat said
MABEL her chum
Soft looking and delicate clouds
foretell fine weather. hardedged ones
wind. and a pale yellow sky indicate.
wet weather.
Those people who are always talk
ing about how much better IL Is tinan
cially 70 be prize fighter than col
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08
Why This Privacy
When II Is All Of the
Peoples Business?

Secret Conference In Washington
Finds President Taft In some
Very Bad Company With
No insurgents Or Re-
porters Present.
The Detroit times., 1909-07-08

"Wnen a girl takes a good cry. rs
usually good fer others as we'll as fer
herself"