Prohibition and politics in Abilene Gazette era
In the Abilene Reflector issue from April 8 1886 readers see editorials onPhilip Krohn and Kansas Republican dynamics with Topeka convention plans. There are quips about a soprano church singer onlookers and a tongue in cheek exchange about Ingalls remarks and Republican self restraint in office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robins
Philip Krohn
Gazette
Philip
Mary Jones
Salina
Ingall
Kansas
Ingalls
William
Chapman Items and town notes from Enterprise
The column blends winter talk with local updates. Election results show the Mayor and Councilmen elected for another year while bids seek the mail route to Herington. Yadou brothers open a south side meat market. Rev J A Wilson secures his third term. Dr T N Gunn attends many patients. postmaster Patrick Sheeran runs the office efficiently. missing or lost orders noted. and a money loan notice appears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Here
Herington
IC. Yerks & Co
Boles
Yadou & Bro
South
Yandon & Bros
J. A. Wilson
Highwatha
Wilson
Methodist
T. N. Gunn
Burlington
Russel & Fancher
Patrick Sheeran Esq
Sheeran
Local notes from Carlton and Abilene era commerce
Busy Carlton town week with new buildings and a 30 by 50 barn under way. Carlton firms promote fashions and fabrics from A E Bishop and Co with sales on handkerchiefs and white goods. Early March Wheat crop prospects and railroad freight hopes mix with social events and church fundraising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton Town Company
L. A. Peck
Valentine Gouben
N. Digina
Ben Smith
New York
Flora Williams
Carlton
W. Ry
A. E. Bishop & Co
Indiana
Hornaryne and
Neisley
Abilene
Fashionable Tailor and Local Notices Highlighted in Abilene Ad Run
S M Wise promotes spring and summer suitings with guaranteed fit from Rothschild's location. K J Lanpis offers three teams of heavy mules and a driving horse on purchaser friendly terms. Meerschaum pipes and cigar molds featured at B H O'Hay's. Palace Barber Shop touts grooming services under Citizens Bank. Sewell's supplies window shades with 400 varieties and cash prize essay contest promises ten dollars for potato history essay by August 1 1886.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. M. Wise
Rothschild’s
Mr. Wise
K. J. Lanpis
J. Foxtey
Abilene
Kas
Coal and medicinal lotion for sale in Abilene
Geo Ogden Jr. offers Leavenworth Nut Coal at five dollars a ton and Woolfords Sanitary Lotion, for curing mange and scratches in eighty minutes, sold by J T Curtis, Druggist, Abilene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Ogden, Jr
Woolfords
J. T. Curtis
Abilene
Also Mentioned on This Page
B. 1
Strother
Rexuy Litts
Strother & Litts, Editors and Publishers
Republican State Central Committee
Topeka
Stev, Philip Krohn
Emma Molloy
Ballance
State House Commissioners
Architects
State Board of Charities
J. C
Union
Sly
Hoosier
Chapman Items
Suen Ae
Eas
B. F. Sarry
Drom A. Hapner
Enterprise
Bishop & Co
Lovas
Goto A. E. Bishop & Co
A. E. Bishop “x Co
Berry Bros
Mies
Hapgood
Berry Bros. Mercantile Co
B. H. O’hay’s
The
Palace Barber Shop
Citizens Bank
B.il.d'iluy’s
Sewell
Sewell’s
Sebold, Fisher & Co
Compar Mammoth
T. E. Sewell
Jay-Eve
West End P. O. Block
A. B. Coulson
Canton
Avery
Studebaker
South Bend
Webber Farm
Ross
T. B. Ross
A. S. Gish
M.D
ADAMS
Gus Hansbrough
Third Street
Buckeye Avenue
Barlow
T. E. Sewell’s
Emma Harnis
Ee. Fr
District Court of the
State of
Dickinson County
Calland Seeus
Eysmir
Hodge ‘Bros
Cooper Shop
South Third
Kor
Hallam & Parker
Mulberry Street
Rial
J. HL. Brapy
A. C. Romig & CO
Successors
W. E. B. Colwell & Co
Cedar St
Abilene, Ks
Keller & Tisdales
Ghiraware
Queersware
Morargh
Blnee Bros
ST. Louis
Abilene, Kansas
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