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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1884
Page
5
Wahl Bros. Broadway Meat Market sells Jay-Eye-See beef, roasts, mutton and pork with highest price for hides. Farmers urged to act now to improve farm prospects and leave its description with us. T. C. Henry & Co. also promotes boots and shoes at Kenyon's and advises securing abstracts of title for lands this winter.
IMPORTANT TO LADIES! Our dry goods and millinery store adds a Ladies Tailoring and Dressmaking Department led by Miss Thomas formerly with Kansas City firms. She will run the department starting September. Also notes on local visits, events, and political activity in Abilene and Dickinson County including the Reflector and county convention.
Abilene readers were offered a busy week of notices from rail passenger movement to local banking inspection. A special Kansas City to Salina rally train carried about 50 uniformed club men and 74 others, with 2000 strangers estimated in Salina. Samuel G. Owen of Lincoln completed a First National Bank of Abilene audit, endorsing its soundness and solvency. Upcoming events include church services, a Sunday school concert, lectures at the courthouse, a supper and social for M. Sup, a Walnut Grove basket picnic, a Cleveland and Hendricks club rally, and an Excursion by Company K to Clay Center. Senator J. J. Ingalls visited Abilene, toured drives and residences, and was serenaded by the Abilene band before departing for Salina. A Democratic club organized at Abilene with 62 supporters noted.
Camp Bros agents tout the Cream Agitator as a simple easily cleaned device that churns butter in three to ten minutes. They report selling 63 units in seven days and seek 30 canvassers across counties with promised big earnings, locating at the Continental Hotel.
Two young bird dogs, a five month old red Irish setter with a leather neck strap and a spotted liver and white dog, were stolen last Monday morning from the Continental Hotel. A $15 reward is offered for their return. The owners say they know who may have the dogs and urge immediate return to claim the reward.
A note promotes selling guns for a nickel at Hodge. Ed Weigiard runs a tin shop on Sixth Street west of the M Church and accepts job contracts in his line. Also announced is the A Midsummer Concert at the Baptist Church on Friday night August 8.
Defendant T L Gay is informed by Justice John P Quinn that Giles and Gordon seek judgment for 11.00 plus costs in a suit filed in Grant Township Dickinson County Kansas in 1844. McCormick Mowing Machine held by Union Pacific at Ablcene Kanens attached. appearance required by August 25 to answer. failure may yield judgment and sale of attached property.
Notice urges debtors to settle accounts or give notes, signed M Niconay. Also lists price quotes for cheap guns at Hode Wheat No 2 and 3, and stock and produce rates for hogs per 100, steers per 100 pounds, cows per 100 pounds.
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