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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1884
Page
5
Abilene town items report Maude Atkinson at Bonebrake's Opera House, Thanksgiving sermons, ball plans, and a busy political scene. Mentions Woodward in Iowa, Topeka Journal change, local church services, and Sheriff Miller's arrest in a murder case. Community notices describe social events, shopping promotions, and civic concerns.
The Damon Lodge K P will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday evening next week and urges every member to attend. Local notices recount various community happenings in Enterprise including a major barn fire near J H Baker, church calls, and town improvements.
Elector Staples of North Carolina declares the south will defend constitutional rights of Black men if endangered. The piece notes West Virginia may drop October state status and Ohio should follow, arguing October presidential elections distort suffrage and are corrupting.
London Times asserts Cleveland's election as president with Jay Gould's testimony cited as conclusive. Also notices a teachers examination at Abilene Public School on Saturday November 29 1884 at 9 am. Clerks of Baptist and German Baptist churches in Dickinson county urged to send addresses to Rev George Merriam and Singer Agency respectively. D S Beemer opens Singer Sewing Machine agency on Cedar Street south of the corner grocery stocking pianos organs and repairs offered.
Advertiser seeks 150 head of feed steers and promises top market value. Send a postal card with details to E. T. Elison in Abilene Kansas.
For school books satchels pens pencils crayons slates and all kinds of school supplies visit Bowman's Book Store in the Opera House Block. Call at our office to examine work and learn prices before ordering elsewhere. We offer elegant sale bills at prices within reach of all.
A compact Abilene Reflector listing highlights the largest stock of cigars and tobacco at B H O Hays, a tin shop run by Ed Weigiard on Sixth Street, and T C Henry Co abstracts. It also notes J S Slicks purchasing the Davis restaurant on Cedar Street serving meals, a premier line of toilet soaps at Northcraft’s, sale of pedigreed Berkshire pigs and a high grade short horn cow, and a tip to include legal ads via attorneys in the Reflector.
G B Shumway relocates Flour and Feed to the former Bush's barber shop room on Cedar street. Calls invited for flour and feed at low prices with any brand available. Also notes Leading Standard Agency in Dickinson County offering 14 insurance companies.
The ad claims a non explosive lamp with light equal to five burners sold by F. W. Potter & Bro Abilene Cedar Street. Also sponges stove pipe and Russian iron pipe advertised, with shop on Sixth street west of the Methodist church. We offer lower cost job work in the county.
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