Abilene Weekly Chronicle and the Dickinson County News from Abilene, Kansas • 5

corner at Second and Cedar, M. D. Gardner is visiting in the city. He has resigned his position in the Blind Asylum at Kansas City and will move back to Abilene soon. ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Hay is getting scarce in town. W. G. Simmer spent Christmas at home. 1 iliy Keifer.

of Dillon was in town Saturday. G. A. Kubach came home to spend i Receiver Rogers sold 900 head of Gillett cattle at auction at' Hering- HOW SHALL WE KNOW the man except by his appearance? THE TRUE MAN will dress neatly. He has regard for his looks and and is careful of the esteem in which others hold him.

HE BUYS STRAUSS FAMOUS CUSTOM TAILORED SUITS AND OVERCOATS because he knows from past ex How Open for Business LOYD'S LUNCH ROOM. Open Pay and Night ton Thursday ut an average price of $14 per head. Good judges say the prices were good. Only three deaths have occured from the smallpox over in Marion county. The disease is now said to be under control and all cases are under a strict quarantine.

1 S. L. Book, of Woodbine, was In town Tuesday. W. N.

Ring, of Kansas City, was in the city Monday. tA Joh Fl' 1 of St Mary in Abilene, Miss King visited friends at Lawrence Curistmas. i J. W. Hamilton, of Longford, was in the city Tuesday.

The traveling men report business Robert Gaffney accompanied by perience that THEY ARE THE BEST The graceful bearing they give the wearer is more valuable than money. These handsome suits CI OO start at A PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. his sister, Maggie, came up from Guthrie. to spend the holi days visiting thety parents, Mr. and That's the right idea, Harry.

To win success a man cannot be too careful of hi This settles it! Hereafter I will have all my clothes MADE TO ORDER BY Mrs. John Gaffney of Ridge. James Covert met with quite a se rious accident last week. He slip First-class lunch served at all hours. Give me a call.

Will treat you right. Also full line, of Tobacco and Cigars; Fresh fruit and confectionary. Nuts of al kinds. as improving right along, ped and fell in such a manner as to Mrs. Joiner, of Salina, is visiting CALL ON.

break his shoulder and will be laid friends vi the city this week. EDWARD E. STRAUSS CO. America's Popular Tailors, Chicago (AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERB IN THE U. S.

AND TERRITORIES.) ALEXANDER BROS. RACKET STORE E. N. of Chapman, was up for sometime. Hope Dispatch.

At a regular meeting of the G. A. R. Monday it was decided to hold in town on business Monday W. H.

Hollinger of Rinehart, did a joint installation cf officers of the Yours for Business, GEO. LOYD. he went to work at once to put it into execution. The island was small, not over two acres, and he commenced to shovel it into the sea, in the direction of the main business in the city Monday. B.

R. Coggeshall came up from Topeka to spend Christmas. Herbert Howard came up from Topeka to spend Christmas. W. H.

Pisk, of Chapman, was in the city Monday on business Sam McKean, of Baker City, Idaho was in the city Monday. Mrs. W. N. King spent Christmas visiting friends at Lawrence.

land. As soon as he had moved the entired island he commenced at the other side to move it again, shoveling the dirt as before in the direction of the main land. He kept this up for several months, living lot he occupies for $800. Miss Alice Peters has returne from a visit with her brothers ii Colorado and Nebraska. Rev.

Samual Zook left on th( afternoon Santa Fe train for a visit among friends in Oregon. Miss Mabel Pherson spent Christ-rras visiting her sister and other friends, at Junction City. John Harmon and Dr. Donmyer, of Solomon, were initiated into the R. A.

M. last Friday evening. H. B. Keeler of the live stock commission firm of Dake Keeler, in the meantime on clams and lobsters and a small patch of potatoes which he managed to cultivate, till G.

A. R. and W- R- C. in the A. 0.

TJ. hall on the evening of Jan. 20. A Topeka man who used to be a revenue collector says that a colored man once came to him and inquired: "What will the license for selling tobacco be for the next physical year?" Assistant State Bank Commissioner Waterman, who was in town last week examining into the condition of the Kirby bank, expressed the opinion that the bank would pay 70 to 75 per cent. Mr.

and Mrs. H. Swanger, of Navarre, entertained quite a plear-ant little dinner party Christmas. Those present were S. P.

Kaufman and family, D. Arnold and family, and Harry Ehrsam, and family and some others. The Western Retail Implement and Vehicle Dealers' association will hold their annual meeting at Kansas ility, January, 18 and 19. lodge, of Hodge of thi3 city secretary of the association, Dave Blalock was in Hope Friday on business. Grandpa Rowe is very 'sick at this writing.

Blalock, Wilson Ogden formed a company and killed some fine porkers Saturday. Harvey Wingert, of Dayton, was in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Benedick, of Dayton, were calling in town Thursday.

W. R. Benedick and wife went to Herington Saturday to spend Christmas with the latter 's parents Mr. and Mrs Wine. B.

Taylor and wife came down from Longford Saturday to spend Christmas' with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Authur and Mrs. J.

J. Bath and children spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. D. L.

Holter, of Hope. Mr. and Mrs. G. W.

Dank and Mr. and Mrs. Wm ate Christmas dinner with Grandmother Murry, north of town. at length he brought his island within sight of his native land and was rescued by his friends. Mail Breeze.

Mrs. R. J. Crozier spent Christmas visiting friends at Downs. Miss Carrie Fleming is home from Weston, visiting her mother.

Mrs. C. C. Mosher of Salina, visited friends in Abilene this week. Martin Chapman, transacted business in the city Monday.

Miss Lydia' Reed was home from Emporia and spent the holidays. Miss Edwards, of Mineapolis, is in the city visiting at M. P. Jolley's. J.

H. Beach, principal the school of Denver was in town Tuesday. Dillon J. W. Asling and family left Sat I.

S. Hal lam has bought out the interest of Mr. Matteson in the farm urday for a visit with friends and owned by them east of the city. relatives in Arkansas. Lewis Beemer came home last Mr.

and Mrs. A. Zahner of Tope ka, spent Christmas visiting with Mr. and Mrs. C.

C. at Hope, was in the city Saturday. Friday from Oklahoma to spend J. L. Jones, of Navarre, is having Christmas.

County Clerk Jacobs has beei Geo. Lawson'went to Kansas City epjoymg week wjlU. quite a large barn built on his farm. Deputy" County Clerk McMilleh visited friends at Chapman, Saturday. his brother George, of Leadville which has several hundred members.

The general opinion prevails- in Lawrence Brinkman came home Colo. Mr. and Mrs. K. Bassler of Na W.

J. Jones, the I from Chapman to spend the holidays. Emporia that Mr. and Mrs. E.

Sutter spent their Christmas at Russell, visiting varre, spent Christmas in this city visiting their daughter, Mrs. Frank cattle man has committed suicide, and that his body will be found somewhere in the Cottonwood river, Death of Mrs. U. H. Amsbaugh.

Mrs. U. H. Amsbaugh. who had only returned a short time ago from a visit to Ohio, died at her home abont three miles south of the city Monday night, of pneumonia, aged sixty years.

She came to Kansas, in 1885 from Ohio. Her husband and five children are left to mourn the loss of a wife and dear mother. Miss Eva Hutchinson, came up as all efforts to discover the where abouts of the missing man have from and spent Christmas ai home. Deihl. W.

W. Brown, of Cedarvale, Kan. has been visiting his brother, R. A. Brown, and his mother, Mrs.

Susan Shultz. Mrs. Ada Brady has been enjoy thus far revealed nothing. As there Mrs. E.

W. Townend of Kansas Charlie Wykoff is laid up with boils. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Saddoris, of Gypsum City, spent Christmas with their son, Bert Saddoris.

Mrs. H. A. Ball is on the sick list. Len Lockhart of the Eastern part of the state is visiting his parents, southwest of Burt Beemer and O.

W. Taylor is not anything in the way that would prevent his return home, if alive, the suicide theory is becoming City, is visiting her father, Mr. E. Shreves. The Detroit cheese factory paid One of her sons is a soldier in the 20th Kansas regiment and is now in ing a pleasant visit from her friends generally accepted.

Emporia Dem ocrat. Manila. Two daughters live in Ohio, and a son and daughter are at A suit has been filed in the The funeral was held Wednesday at the Lutheran church and fedoral court at Topeka which for November butter fat .2344 cents per lb. Miss Annie Johuson came home from school at Emporia, fo spend the holidays. Rev.

Father Iiaydeoi of Solomon, Mrs. Henry Walker and Mrs. Esther Newell. James Kclley, one of the old time farmers from near Detroit, made the Democrat office a pleasant call Tuesday. Mrs.

C. M. Shaw, of Guthrie, Okla. is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

C. C. Hutchinson. T. E.

Nottorf presented each of his customers with a small pail of grew out of the Gillett failure Dake Keeler purchased a note for $23,830.87 given by J. W. Gillett to Thos. Trower Sons. The note was partially secured by giving a she was buried in the Abilene cemetery.

The California Limited. Via Santa Fe Route. Best and speediest train to California. Chicago to Los Angeles in 2 days, three times a week. Observation car, with spacious parlor for ladies and children, is a special feature.

returned to Longford Monday Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Snyder spent Christmas with their daughter, Mrs.

Brown, of Hope. Little Gerald Saddoris is sick with tonsilitis. Mr. Cuningham and daughter, of New Basel, attended the Christmas entertainment. There seems to be considerable sickness in this vicinity.

The doctor is kept very busy. Walter Mitchell, of Hope, died last Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Heller and Mr.

mortgage on 740 head of cattle val-ured at $16,280. A pasturage bill of $1,565 against the cattle had been purchased from Carmichael Co. pake Keller alleged in the petition that when they weut to get the candy Saturday as a Christmas F. G. Adams has invented an im cattle W.

L. Pattison, who held them, refused to give them up. So they filed the suit in replevin. proved farm gate, and has applied for a patent. He will have them made here.

All kinds of repair work on watches, clocks, bicycles, sewing machines, done on short order. Good work and low prices my motto. Frank Jaymes, south of Hodge Bros. Buckeye, Ave. They ask judgement for the value of the cattle, $17,280 and $1,000 Tickets for the benefit concert returned to tnome4 aj, ooiomon 'v Vo-M Dr Chas.

Jolley, wife came down from to spend Christmas. Geo. J. Heller, of Dillon, was transacting business in the city Saturday. Col.

L. W. Pattison of Leavenworth spent Christmas with his son, C. H. Pattison.

On account of the muddy condition of the roads very little grain, is coming to market. W. A. Redding, of Navarre, has returned from an extended business trip in Missouri. Walter Gish left Tuesday for Oregon, with a view of buying and locating there.

P. T. Nickel, of Butler was in town Tuesday and dined at the Abilene hotel. The street commissioner has had a hard time keeping the street damages besides. next week, are on sale at the various stores in town.

Everybody aud Mrs. H. F. Brinkman weut to Burns Monday evening. The Wichita Commoner has dug ought to attend.

E. J. Lorson and wife spent up this interesting account of an adventure of one of the ancestors A very pleasant entertainment Christmas with his wife's folks, The twice-a-week Kansas City Times and Abilene Democrat, three papers every week during the year $1-35. Call at this office and was given oy toe ocotia ana Ash of the celebrated newspaper corre south of Banner City. Nate Wilson returned to Longford Grove schools south of the city Christmas eve.

spondent. Dave Leahy. It will be noticed that the name is given as Monday morning. Miss Lucy Stacy, of Industry, T. B.

Mosely is having a new Dooley. This is accounted for, we presume, by the fact that some of Dave's ancestors on his mother's will succeed Miss Rudolph, as sten windmill erected on his farm north! ographer and typewriter, in T. E. of town. side were originally called Dooley.

Dewey's office. Added This Season. Barber shop and ladies' car on the California Limited Considering the bad roads the Dave's ancestor, as the story goes, Miss Bertha Woolverton visited was shipwrecked on a small island her sister, Miss Grace Woolverton, is Christmas entertainment at the M. E. church was well attended.

Stand ing room was at a premium, all who via Santa' Fe Route, Service finer than ever before. three hundred miles north of Christmas who is teaching the Scotia school. attended report a good time. Mrs. Frank Smith, pianist, and Burt Beemer, II.

A Ball and O. crossing cleaned off. John F. and Harry Peters are visiting their father, who lives In Cheever township. On Christmas Miss Mamie Hersh visited Miss Grace Woolverton, who teaches at Scotia.

Miss Elsbeth Khrsam, of Enterprise have promised to assist in the con W. Taylor came down from Longford Friday night to spend Irland. At that time there were not many crafts on the high seas, except pirate ships, and at first Dooley gave up all hopes of being rescued. But it so happened that among the few things that were washed ashore on the island was a shovel. As soon as Dooley saw the nhovpl a bricrht idea struck him and cert next week.

Finer and Faster than Evee. The California Limited, Santa Fe Route, solid between Chicago and Los Angeles. Time, 2 days. Electric-lighted. Three times a week.

Charlie Schmidth will attend to J. T. Prendergast, the hardware man will occupy the new building Leslie Perring, proprietor of the the lumber yard during J. W. Asling's absence in Arkansas.

Midway restaurant, has bought the to be put up on the old Bonebrake.