Abilene weekly reflector. [volume], September 12, 1912, Image 4

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CONDENSED STATEMENT OF,
Jiio Abilene National Bank,
Abilene, Kansas, at the close of business Sept. 4,' 1911.
v resources
IT-cans and Discounts.... $125. 4IM0
tonkins; House .. 11,600.00
Furniture and Fixtures, 1,300.00
5. aa4 ' - '- ' ..' ' " ' ..: '
-ether bonds..$ S4.677.6S ,'
Cash and sight 1 ' ' v
Exchange J66.f66.67 260,544.23
$696,780.16
LIABILITIES
Capital 8tock.... I 60,000.00
Surplus and Undivided
Profits
Deposits . 45a.704.el
I1M l i.
ivv.
From Tito Who Ts Cool IV
ce Books OtMuUaUjrM U"
,- AaJtwrring la Beat, ,
!jNclaJ flttM Ikinjr Ir'arel
$616,780.11
j The above statement is correct. - .
f N. GLEISSNER. Cashier.
CONDENSED STATEMENT OF
The Farmers National Bank
Abilene, Kansa-. at the'close of business Sept 4, 1912. :
Resources
Loans and Discounts....$240,857.22
-Seal Estate, Furniture
and Flxturea
U. 8. Bond (at par)
Municipal Bonds...
Redemption Fund 1
Caeb and Sight Exchange
f a..
20,000.00
60,000.00
'20,200.00
2,600.00
86,810.80
$419,368.02
; liabilities
Capital Stock ....
Surplua and Proflta....
Circulation
Deposits
Stop asking and answering need
leia questions and start , clipping
coupon. Then you can let tbe die
tlonary do your work. Begin your
clipping 00 another page of thla is
sue today In readiness to Join those
who bate already aeen ' tbe books
and are coming back to take them
away as soon, as six coupons have
been published, Jr ; , " .. , '; . .
Children's questions should never
be Ignored. Impatient parents con
stantly bar the pathway of learning
to little questioners anxious to
There Is uo difference of opinion
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Fa fwr "foolish fltiitIona will teiren me veterianarlans at toe
be asked and answered In Abilene In agricultural college and tbe mem
the future since the Refektor's self- br ' the state board of medical
Imposed tssk of distributing the "aminers as to the nature of the
.... 29,9$6.82nw websterlan 1912, Dictionaries ; ; disease that is anjUng Urses In
80,000.00 i!!rwl. Is now wil eu.w6.-d. Kansas. It Is tM, now, that the
disease Is cerebro-splnal-menlngltl
as first announced by the egrteul
tural college experts. : The differ
ence of opinion lies In the cause of
the malady. The college physicians
believe that a germ, dlplococus. Is
tbe cause, while the physicians In
Topeka lay the blame to the palisade
worm.'- : . V f -
'80 sure are we that the disease
Is meningitis," said Dr. R. RDyk
stra of K. S. A. C "that our bac
teriologists already are working on
a serum which will prevent the
.$ 60.000.00
. 43.767.17
. 49,997.60
. 275,003.85
The abov statement is correct.
I. B. MARTIN, Cashier.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
4 Items from the Reflector of
m September 7, 1887. -
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4
' Mr. and Mrs. M. NIcolay and Mrs.
D. Croft left on tbe cyclone for
Solomon. '
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A. W. Hargreaves left on this
Afternoon's cyclone for La Crosse,
Kansas, on a business trip.
W. L. Cooley baa the finest grove
of castor beans we ever saw. They
sure , from eight to ten feet tall,, and
with their tjroad-leaves, make a
ery tropical appearance.
' Attorney C. F. Mead left on the
noon train for Topeka, where he-has
legal business that needs attention
vefore the supreme court, W. W.
"Wilson will be found attending to
-U1 legal business during ihls ab
sence.
:. Miss Ida Lebold and Carrie Cor-
"XmU left on today's noon train for
"Boston, where they go to complete
their musical education: A host of
friends were at the station to ' see
-them off; among them' such Illus
trious names as Sumner, Sherman,
te. We wish them a safe Journey
nd great success In their studies.
Abilene Is looming up as, a whole
sale point. Burdett Bugle. ' Right
Tou are ' Mr. Bugle. With . lock
works, carriage works, canning fac
lorIes, extensive harness shops and
ctber factories jtnd shops,, hardware
sad grocery storea that are carry
f&s enormius stocks of goods, Abi
lene Is looming up as a wholesale
3-slat, and In a few weeks our old
n n A . haw ' will . I
luni Thurirti V1T to SkV TOUf ' nraail rf th rflaABM Wa will trf
patience and provide for the chll-to . reproduce the disease here in
dren's Instruction as well. Let the our hospital with the germs we have
dictionary tutor your tots. 1 discovered. If we can do this. we
Children's encyclopedias are th - will bare proved, conclusively, that
latest fad among the wealthy classes, it is cerebro-epinal-menlngltifl. In
where tbe Importance of letting the the meantime we can only offer the
coming generation learn by looking precautions given put a few. days
up the answers to its owns queries o. , Eight of our experts now are
Is recognised. Children's encyclo- tt work in the field and In the
pedlas are very expensive and very. laboratory.: . Several cases of. the
cumbersome, and the New. Webster-;; disease have appeared near Manhat
tan 1912 Dictionary suits the pur- tan which makes it convenient for
pose well and requires far'less ex-0ur .study, -?v-.-"'.."
$419,368.02 penditure and far less space. ..Tna dj,ease. without a doubt? Is
Your sons and daughters, nieces getting worse every day. . We get
and nephews, In fact every- Pwi; frantic calla for help from, farmers
In whose welfare you tfre Interested, ; w"ho have lost all their horses. Mass
should have this beautifully bound meetings of farmers have been held
and comprehensive . Illustrated mine . jn gome western towns and an ur
of ready reference information al-.crent letter from the meeting aent
Some time ago John M. Glelssner wayi at hand. The colored plates t0 , Miting for help. About eighty
are partlcuhyly well suited for. the.; horses in the immediate vicinity of
instruction of tbe children and the Ransom have died from the disease.
offered several prises' at his drug
store for those who would guess
the nearest to a Jar of beans. Every fornjation of young ideas through
one that made a guess wrote his th0 fund 0f information of which
name and tbe number of tbe beans ,i.v fnrm nart . -
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ALCOHOL S JPEK C tNT."
IVotnofcs Distionflitnf J
ness and fcstjCeiitiins rtj
Opiuni.Mufyham norfcriJ
Apcrfcct Remedy forConss
Hnn . sour S!nnvich.DlarrfeM
Wonnsfoiiviraonsjevm&ll-
nessoiidLossorW
IkcSluiile Sijnatnrs of
TH frr1 Vr1 V-k
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Exact Copy, of Wrapper.
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Thirty Years
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CKMTAUN WdV, HCW MIT.
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"To all these requests we can only FARMERS HOLD CORN
answer that our entire force Is do
ing all it can In the work but that
ne tnougnt in we jar on a sup 01 f M ty,nmMnr Mr volumtts. It will be imnosstble to cover the
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FOR HIGHER PRICES.
Anticipating low priceB for, corn
paper "and dropped It In a box. The ' v.vk.h-. waio nwr book entfra state with the men we have the. coming winter owing to the
til UBLH.-a 1 CBRtMll nvu.-n " - - . -
beans were counted last night and
the following persons guessed the
exact number, which was 3333: F.
O. Hogue, Mike Barnes, L. B. Johns,
T. Mosher, C. S. Crawford and Henry
Lltts. The lucky ones are requested
to meet at the store this evening
and decide on a manner of distri
buting the prizes.'- , ,
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The game of base ball at 8allna
thia morning was commenced so
near train time that only two full
stand or book shelves, no dictionary
that would seem to require a der-
available for the work. Just as bumper crops raised In this part or
aoon as we make any discovery which , the state, the farmers of Dickinson
rick to lift it. The concise com-.we tninx win relieve in suuauon couuiy r u'"s umucr. iU u6j
niintinn of in forme tion obtalnea.it will be announced to everyone. 1 quanuues ror cno uuumng una w.u
through years of studious effort by
eminent scholars is always at hand
This dictionary is not published by
hold their crops. for, the better price
that they, believe will prevail next
The Implicit confidence that many vrlg . Many predict that corn will
people have in Chamberlain's Colic 1
the original publishers of Webster's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy la
Dictionary or by their successors.
There are three different . styles
eell here before: Christmas for 45
of . binding. First, there is tae
full limp leather edition, flexible,
with red
1 - a v,i - vriuivu VU Ul
1 neara . .
boys claim that they never
such yelling and hooting as the Ba
the regular contents revised to date,
Una players kept -up. . At the end . .j L -AA ,,;..iiKr- It.
of the second Inning the score stood
11 to 7 in favor of Abilene. .
STATE EXAMINATION KEEPS
D. C. H. S. ENROLLMENT DOWN cetltg;
many of them "on rich color piates
and 16 pages of valuable and offi
cial charta. Ah of this, for six con
secutive dictionary coupons .nd 98
. The enrollment at the county
high school is not as large for the
first we,ek of school this year as It
was for the same time last year, '
and the probabilities are that the
total enrollment will not
- Then there la the. regular $3 edi
tion, which is exactly the same as
the $4 book except that it la bound
in half leathen, with oHt4 edge
and square corners. : It contains all
founded on their exnerience in' the I cents. Sp?entld weather, for the
use of that remedy and their knowl- J maturing of the crop has prevailed
edge of the many remarkable cures
of colic, diarrhoea and dysentery
that It has effected. For sale by all
dealers. " -v- -
DEMOCRATS TO HAVE
. BIG LIST OF SPEAKERS.
for the last ttwo weeks and the.
yield and quality promise to be bet
ter than; for many years. : A;'
. Owing to the- widespread ravages
of cholera last winter., and spring
there are but few, ,h pgs . to be fat-
GOSSIP OF SOCIETY. . s ,
- ; " IFrom Friday's Daily.)
Mrs.- Chester Hutchison entertain
ed yesterday afternoon in ' honor of.
her little niece Eva Jessop,' of To
peka,; who is visiting with her this,
week. The afternoon was spent in
games and a - luncheon was . served
at o'clock. The following littlo
girla were present : Dorothy Engle. -.
Louine Engle," Nina May Howard, .
Maude Irene Whitehead, Gretchen
Rugh, Geraldlne De Young, Gern
trude De Young,, Mildred .Nickels,
Margarete Bowers of Topeka, Julia
Hutchison, -. Valarle . Andrewson,
Gladys Waljerstedt. - - ,
The I. T. club went to the country,
for sunrise breakfast at 6 o'clock
thl8 morning. s.&mQng other, thing
tened : in this county and, this Is they got a good supply of the fine
bound.' to have a bull teh effect on" country air afloat 'early this mor n
the local - market.' Fattening1 live ingand returned, before the sun got
atock" win 1) confined mostly, .t&j around ' for - any rpamage. - Bess
cattle and this will not be carried , Shockey; Drusilla. Halleck, Grazella
on as i extensively a la years past'; Pullver, Ruth Harger, Irene Ether-
tkn man rharf rnloiv nlates. etc.
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Oe BP 11 .... ft, I- maw lia flail list a!z
homa will be one of the speakers
for f everaldatea in the county. .
Chafrman Henderson Martl of
the state committee has secured
some of the best Democrats in the
country for his campaign and he
prom'setf to warm up the political
atmosphere for the next month, and
a holf TTa hoan't haan abl tta
common .school graduate, took ;a " "! TZCZLa-Z::
noni niic wnn inH color uiulci aiiuiri. ..ww.vt. ..uuu, .muM.ww
consecutive coupons and 8 1 . cents.
The third edition is $2 & copy on
examinations which the common
nhflol mtnAttntm hoi, tn fair a loaf
rnrin . hin mA tn, . Am. ' market. It Is ptoi cloth blnd-
creaae. Pravlona th thl. h. mg wua we same ppr sbs.m-.
uma umamuoni a luc oiuer ur .
, During tbe next six weeks Chair
man J. T. Prendergast of the Demo
cratic : county .. committee, will "4m-:
port- a number of Democratic speak
ers. The f tate committee has not . Tne county waB practically cleaned ingtbn, Mildred Morse and - Marie
i.u .w.wiuiiw. ,.. .1 ll.a fw.V loaf fall anil ln. TTnffnll WAra In fha hnnoh : ..
vi eaa ss.vu aBi hUu , w .
A reception is being given . this
afternoon at thr home of Mrs. ' J.
E. ' Johnta for the members of the
party of suffragist' speakers who are
Tired Mothers. It's hard work to making the campaign through the5
Dickinson county butjs Practically ter becaUBe 0t the iack of feea l Fot
certain thl Senator Gore of Okla- rea80B thwe wU,W ,ot8 0f
com or the markets this year,
county examination which was
as hard to pass as the state ex
amination, Only 100 of the 800
who were eligible for the examina
tion took it last spring and only
60 of these passed. This leaves a
very small fiefld from whldh the
county high school 'can draw and
the result is a decrease in enroll
charts omitted. . This may ,be ha4 j president, , but , he tas' a long list
for six consecutive coupons and. 481
cents. - ,
Any book ordered by mall will be
22 cents extra for postage.
direct communication with all parts mment. The enrollment at the pres
cf the state and eastern Colorado, jent time is not quite 200.
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ana maie your cnoie b
' gun good Li tnj 1 or t' .Mr .
Arrow and Kl;ro C J 1' ! C.ie J ,
s your LrJ cr.3 r.tL!.cf gj. too ciuJi nor lx L..'
SOME: BIG MELONS AT i '
- ABILENE NATIONAL BANK.'
C. O. Clemence has four jumbo
watermelons on exhibition" at the
Abilene National bank . which - take
the cake.: They will be put in cold
storage and Kept for exhibition at
the county fair, the first week in
October. Tbe melons average 70
pounds each. t ? , y.- :-,:J
The watermelon crop in this vie?
lnlty is now looked upon as of great
or greater importance than a bum
per corn and tbe melon crop of this
year is unusually large . and of a
splendid - quality. The sand hill
melons are rapidly gaining a na
tional reputation,, and tbe demand
for them all over the country Is
growing greater every year. They are
being shipped by the car load from
this city and the towns near here
where the sand hill melons are ship
ped report equally aa heavy an ex
port. ' A car load of melons Is val
ued at from $150 to $200 and Is
madia, tip of about 10 wsroa loads.
The corn y!eU this year wl'l bs
extra good, tut it will sot t bet
ter tsn tie melon crop ia value.
and is well pleased over the pros
pects. His 1 list includes: Gov. - T;
R. Marshall, candidate '. for i vice
president; . Speaker Champ Clark,
W." J. ' Bryan,' Joseph Folk 6f Mis
souri, Senator; OUte James of Ken
tucky, Senator James A. Reed, Sen
ator Gore of Oklahoma and . John
H. At wood of Kansas City. .
FIRf FOUNDATION
Nothing Can TJndermlne It In Abilene
tako care of children and i9KTttt-Ai--0,vtiM begun
arAan ' var Acan . Ka&VaW ann tnonn rvACEIniaSl -
b tw vr cM9sa w aaaais imvuu wnauvn
Tired mothers should take Hood's
Sarsaparilla-
Improves the appetite, assures Test
ful sleep, and helps In many ways-
at 3 o'clock and lasts until S o'clock.
it refreshes the blood, A large; number,, of Abilene -women
have been invited and are present
at the reception. . - ' '
The Fortnightly crowd gives -Its'
dance tonight in the K. P. ball. A
large number of the friends of the
club have been invited and It Is
oeing made a farewell party to a
HUNTERS ARE GETTING '
---r ; THEHl LICENSES.
' People are "sometimes slow ot rec
ognize true merit and they , cannot
be blamed, for so many have' been
humbugged in the past.. Tbe ex
perience of. hundreds of Abilene
residents, expressed publicly through
newspapers and other sources, places
Doan's Kidney Pills on a firm foun
dation here.1' -; v-T- '"' '' ' i :"
1 T. O. "Adams, $03 West First St.
Abilene. Kan., says: "My kidneys
did not do their work properly and
the kidney secretions not only pass
ed too frequently but also contained
sediment. I suffered constantly
from, backache and when I arose 1a
the morning, I was all tired oat.
Kotbing had effect on my trouble
until' I vr?i Doan's lOiney Pills.
After taking them ray kidneys' fce
"" rTi' .il at ! i-y aias and
u ? ft d ... if ar:l. C'-cr ' pirnbers
r f..-".y hive v-i Pcan's Ilid
; ' t 1 Ii every irtane tc "e
:.s 1 - 1 it. ved. I da r:t i-
The njmrods of the county are be
K'apls? vto nransre for the slaughter
of game and are Tialtlng; the 0ce,iarge number of young people who
of Ht:.W, .KIng. county clerk, for ,cave for BCnool next week. Grtbbles'
licenses. ,raui ,ry-0i Aouene gov orchestra of Manhattan will furnish
the first license issued ia the county tne mug,! '
this year. There have. been 29 11- jt ji " - "
ceneea to hunt Issued since the first ' Mtea Pranoea rocat entertained at'
of July, and of this number Abi- ner noma la8t nigM for the U. B.
lene-nunters Wave . puBled , .twenty, w. club. Old fashioned games were
Hope four, Chapman four, and De- BiaVad and at Mm M nt th
troit.one. . .'.' ' ling a dainty two course luncheon
The duck season opened the first ' Wag., j,tm ;- The following mem
of the month but very few ducks Mr. of the club were present: Alma
have been visiting this part, of the ( Etherlnston, Ruby. Landes.' Ruth ;
country. - As soon aa the snow be- ETa meU; ElmA Noble
Kins to xau m uanaaa tne auco : Mary je, ; Lucy Lee, Edyth Engle
will begin to come this way and and FiOPanCo Robson. " Miss Vera
there will be a big man for permits t-a of chapman and Mlsa Kath-
10 nunc mere were 10 iieeascB
issued Hut year and the number , will
not fall behind this year. The state
game law - has received severaj al
terations for 1912 that the hunters
are not familiar with and before a
trip in the country is made it might
be well to look such laws over care
fully. Tbe game laws are printed
on .the .backs of, the llceosts. Which
are issued by the county clerk.
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guests of the club.
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The yours folks of the Chrlpt'an
church 'gave a tarprioe party last
night for Miss Lucile Sullivan. Lawn
games were played during the even
ing and the party ended with a
watermelon feed. .
The ladles of tbe ?f?'vo'-t church
are cannios peaches tlsis fiTternoon at
tbe church for Iliary Ilo'rli&l at
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