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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1887
Page
5
Abilene thrives on new buildings contracts and rail talk as area growth accelerates. Advertisements note piano tuning services, drug stores, funerals, and social events. Nearby towns send visitors and officials to examine utilities, schools, and street improvements while courts, churches, and vendors report licenses and marriages.
Local notes describe Santa Fe work chances in Logan. Loganites gain employment in building crews while couples from Hope tour area and plan to return to California. Institutes at Maple Grove and Walnut Grove faced attendance issues from bad weather. Farmers move corn to Abilene for stock and praise Stauffer and C. H. Merrill in East Logan. Revival by German Methodists on Lyons Creek draws interest as Children’s Aid Society plans aid.
Dr Barker has moved his office to rooms over Howe Brothers store and is gaining a large, well regarded practice. Railroad surveyors have folded some lines. The icebergs on the U P railway.
A blaze at the meat market building owned by H A Knight Thursday was quickly controlled by a new patent fire extinguisher. Defective chimney named as the cause. Had it gained headway, property loss could be severe. The town notes belatedly report other local items including a groundhog sighting, Mrs. Faucher visiting Lypsum City, and Dr. Gunn moving to Howe Bros. offices. Edward Engle reportedly married an heiress. The school meeting was adjourned to next Saturday. Mrs. Dobbins suffers blood poisoning and Erwin Fancher offers watch repair services with reasonable rates.
Yard sale notice listing three registered Berkshire sows and ten thoroughbred Berkshire pigs. Also Plymouth Rock fowls for sale through Hopee Bros. Enquiries to Mrs J W Bricuore Buckeye Ave Abilene Kansas as seller closes yard.
Citizens of Abilene are informed that Dr. L. M. Raub has resumed dentistry at his old corner on Second Street and Broadway, inviting former patrons. Promotions list Hamburg Embroideries at W. H. Smith & Co. and assorted ads for real estate loans, flour and seed merchants, and rentals at Kirby's Bank and Berry Bros Mercantile Co.
A good house for rent with eight rooms, a large yard, barn, cistern and well. Enquire at this office. Property offered cheap for cash or terms if required. Enquire Nicow, Keystone, Kansas.
Classified notice seeks a man and wife to operate a Solomon farm. The husband will care for stock and barn duties while the wife handles housework. Address A. M. in Solomon Kansas.
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