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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1887
Page
5
Town column lists visits and travels of T. C. Henry Sheriff Bartlett Gen McDivitt and many locals including Misses Hollar in from Topeka to visit E. E. Hollar. Clerks, physicians, and professionals travel to Kansas City Marysville Emporia and Lincoln with social calls New Year greetings and a 250 pound hog sausage noted.
The Reflector reports local items including a drugstore advert for Gleissner across from the depot and an address for E H Rounxeon a druggist. It notes Isaac Shockey welcoming a son and Miss Hattie Rice hosting friends at Mayor A W Rices residence. Socials include Milk Maid's Social at Mrs C Shaler's New Year Eve event.
The Owl Pharmacy notes persistent, inexpensive, and intelligent work by locals for Abilene during 1887. R. D. Parker, once a skating rink operator who hired a Beloit youth to kill his wife, died in prison serving a ten year sentence. Terington Tribune reports two Russian families arrived by train, stayed at the depot, then moved to Lyona where a settlement exists.
The annual meeting of the bar association of Kansas will be held in Topeka on Tuesday January 1 1887 at four o'clock p m in the supreme court room. All attorneys are urged to attend. The Lancashire Lass will be performed by the Arlington Club on Thursday and Friday evenings this week.
An old businessman says ads should appear before the public, last longer yield more. On Thursday at 3 pm at the bride’s parents home Mr. and Mrs D H Metzger witnessed Geo DeBeaumont marry Miss Lizzie Metzger in a ceremony by Rev McKeehan of the Presbyterian Church. The couple left that evening for a brief southern state tour.
The Arlington Club presents The Lancashire Lass with Miss Anne Jordan in the title role. Tickets are 50 cents, children half price, no extra charge for reserved seats, available at Barnes & Northcraft's. expect strong crowds. Abilene fire destroys a Broadway carpenter shop and a frame building, total loss, with tools valued over $300, no insurance. Incendiary suspicions noted.
A garbled 1887 column references Frank Levi and a lecture course, winter start on New Year, collectors tapping people with bills, tobacco remarks, a coal famine ending with carloads, Goss ending speculation, and Madison Monroe Shipe missing his vocation in a slangy, fragmentary urban notice.
Ed Humphrey continues the nightly pedestrian act for about a year. Johns Carriage Works finished, production to begin. Ed Etter serves as night clerk at the Throop House. Ice eight inches thick reduces risk of next summer famine. Week of prayer unites Methodist Baptist Presbyterian churches. Mercury drops to 16 below zero at 3 am, the season's low. Skating on the Smoky Hill is excellent with nightly parties.
Miss Mamie Hoisington hosted a Wednesday evening gathering for friends with lively cheer. A gymnasium in the Armory rooms is planned, with apparatus purchased for about 200 dollars. a fish horn nost can ward off chestnut cases. Ed. Baker regaled a self introduced friend at the Union depot in Kansas City. Blue Sisters to amuse at Lancashire Lass. Harger tract of 100 acres on Enterprise road sold by J. R. Burton to Arkansas Valley Town Company for 11000 dollars, Col Fisher sells forty acres to same firm for 13000 dollars.
Tickets for The Lancashire Lass Thursday and Friday evenings offered at Barnes & Northcraft's or from Arling ton Club members. Fifty cents admission, children half price, no extra charge for reserved seats. Also notes a Gazette issue mocking business closures after January 1, 1887 and praises two musical acts as top colored female impersonators. A $300 drawing by F. H. Boardman & Co. held on New Year's Eve awarded prizes to ticket holders Theo Mosher, A. Nixon, John Weller, and Will Gleissner.
Last Christmas night Henry Bensch of Jefferson township was halted on a road near eleven. Two men ordered him to raise his hands and fired two shots, one passing through his hat. He suspects one assailant and intends to pursue justice.
Owl Pharmacy notes dull post New Year period with fewer raffles. George Potter jailed for wife assault in default of bonds. A loss reported of a little daughter on Friday night. A funeral occurred at a west Abilene residence on Sunday. Billy Sunderland hires Jim Morris for a 315,000 dry goods and clothing store in Lamed. Subscriptions praised as paid up before year’s end. Alexander of Santa Fe reports work for all available men and teams. winter railroad building seen as beneficial to Dickinson County farmers. Leroy Albert Smith funeral held at East Sixth Street Methodist Church. many friends attend. Abilene Ref lector prints holiday edition. Marysville Star sends best wishes.
The Re Flector notes strong booster sentiment as a bond election funds Santa Fe right of way with a large majority. It highlights Fry Roger Co real estate activity and urges buyers to contact them for prime suburban lots. Fred Gedney proposes a $3000 piano factory in Abilene, while two hunters suffer injuries in a wagon accident. The paper urges a local pork packing plant to reduce freight losses and keep profits at home, praising prospects for Abilene’s growth.
A brutal, cowardly attack on S K Strother editor of the Springfield Leader is recounted. John and Ed O Day assaulted Strother after a tense encounter over a signed statement, with revolvers drawn. Strother signed under duress, later swore out warrants for the O Days. The report also notes a fatal store accident and a local stock sale and upcoming horse bargains in Willowdale Township.
William T L Sunderland married Miss Evanelle L Thornton at the bride’s parents home on Buckeye Avenue in a small gathering of immediate friends and relatives. After a brief six week honeymoon in Eureka Springs and Chicago they will reside in Larned and Abilene before settling there.
Washington correspondents mock a belief that gout is an indigenous disease of the capital. They cite presidents from Jefferson to Arthur and Cleveland, arguing diet and expense rather than atmosphere cause gout. The letter denies the White House atmosphere as a factor and labels the chatter as nonsense.
During the past year we have enjoyed heavy trade thanks to Abilene and Dickinson County residents. We offered honest goods at honest prices and commend our patrons for their support. The Public's Servants, Benny Bros. Mencantiue Co. Southwest Dickinson Institute to meet at Fairview School House District 52 Lat ee 1887 seein program cussed.
From the market ledger trade figures show red wheat at 30c and 52r N. 2, soft wheat 60c, H.gs quoted 3.50 to 3.75 per bushel. The data reflect commodity pricing in the regional fair market.
Snow blankets the region as the church group stages winter prep and a New Year supper raises funds. Local physicians treat fair patients at a town festival while ice harvesters and merchants keep busy. Residents J Whitehair and Mrs Ellison visit Chapman as New Year’s Day passes quietly.
Don’t miss the grand clearance at C A Kenyon’s 16 Broadway now ongoing. Entire stock of groceries offered at 10 percent off cash, plus 20 percent off for cash on boots, shoes, gents furnishings, queensware, woodenware, glassware, and more. come early for best selection.
Cheries Young of Abilene ready to take trees grown at Cutter Sou's nursery in Junction City Kansas 1911 Kenyon now holding a grand clearance sale offering the biggest bare roots ever heard of in Abilene Discounts offered are bona fide and can be verified by calling the store Call at once to view opportunities and place orders before supplies end
Ladies and gents hand satchels offered at 50 cents, originally worth one dollar, sold during the proprietor s absence due to a trip to Salina for important business. The note indicates the proprietor will be away and staying as a guest in a public institution at that place for some time.
Kenyon’s offers the largest cash discount in Abilene with 20 percent off on dry goods boots shoes gents furnishings ware woodenware tinware and camel goods plus 10 percent off groceries. The sale promises many items below cost at 16 Broadway.
Eighty acres of first class up land with full fencing divided into five to six fields, four buildings, good coral and hog yard, and a young bearing orchard with grove. One quarter mile from school, miles from Abilene and six miles from Enterprise. Fourteen acres in wheat and five in timothy. Address.
Local sale notices goods from a proprietor who is evacuating. Items will be sold during the evacuation period as the proprietor has time to come.
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