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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1886
Page
4
The Abilene Reflector features readers’ quips about the daily Gazette and editorials lampooning current events. It reports Patrick Eagen’s severe barrow accident, critiques editorials, and comments on politics, pensions, and public works including new sidewalks in town and improved Woodward Street.
Spaulding, who opened the Spaulding Restaurant in Norwood last fall, left town abruptly two months ago amid rumors of rich iron ore on his farm. The myth became fact as two Abilene men became half owners in what could be a bonanza. Samples sent to Chicago Denver and Leadville yielded high assays, prompting the owners to plan a trip to the mining hubs with funding ready for machinery.
The Knights of Labor have achieved victories and face new contests that stir speculation about their direction. Questions arise about escaping dissensions and whether leaders will proceed with caution as the order grows. The essay argues they must balance progress with public opinion and justice, avoiding haste while steadily improving workers’ conditions.
Fine weather described with winter killed crop reports. Glenwood school closes winter term and plans a two month spring session starting April 5. Local residents arrive from Franklin County and Colorado, with moves to Cheever and Atwood. Central Buckeye Prof Jones departs for Mississippi to teach. Oscar Simmers and others attend the Hayes Institute and praise its value. The Reflector is popular in the county, per T Beauclerc.
The Chapman audience observes Abilene’s rapid progress and debates a proposed North South railway from Omaha to Wichita that could boost Abilene to eight to ten thousand people. The note mentions St Patrick’s Day church services, Mrs. Marston’s illness, Ellison visits from Abilene, and local religious and literary society activity. It also promotes Chapman’s flouring mill site on the Smoky Hill river near the U P depot, urging investors to visit. The piece ends with March weather reflections and new spring goods filling stores.
Washington report notes no summer plans for President Cleveland with possible Adirondack stay and a theater visit with Miss Cleveland. It discusses proposed inauguration date change to April 30, Edmunds resolutions weariness, pension bills, the John Bull locomotive exhibit, and Agriculture Dept frauds in hulless oats with tens of thousands in losses across Ohio and the West.
A dissolution notice of a medical partnership by A B Ross and Als Gish requests debt settlements. A sheriff’s sale in Dickinson County Kansas announces sale of the north half of the northwest quarter of section 14, township 13 south, range 3 east, to satisfy a court order in a civil action.
Hogs per 100 Steers per 100 Cows per 100 Ibs Res Wheat No 2 soft hard prices Unbaled hay per ton dressed Gus Hansbrough's Restaurant at Third and Buckeye offers all day meals with first class cooks and eatables in the city.
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