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Principal Biggart, of the High School, has under his direction three teachers and one hundred and twenty pupils; Principal Grubbs, nine teachers and five hundred and twenty pupils; Principal McCormick, of the Lincoln School, three teachers and two hundred pupils; Miss Snider, of the West Side School, twenty-five pupils.
LINCOLN SCHOOL.
Mo hers in their homes and fathers in their shops hope that our child- ren will catch the spirit of the song the "limitless prairies sing," when they say :
"Be pure as our morning dew, Be firm as our leagnes of earth, Be bright as our hills in the sunset's glow, Be gay as our song-birds' mirth,"
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ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY.
PIONEER Produce - Company,
WHOLESALE CASH BUYERS AND SHIPPERS OF
Poultry, Eggs, Butter, Potatoes. .... DEALERS IN ....
COAL AND ICE.
Telephone No. 8, Abilene, Kansas.
Shady Lane Dairy.
Rich and Glean Milk or Cream Delivered to Your Door Every Day.
P. J. BLISS, Proprietor.
FRANK PARKER,
VETERINARY SURGEON.
ABILENE. KANSAS.
Phone No. 302.
Ninth and Olive Streets.
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BY TIIE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY.
GARFIELD BUILDING.
ABILENE'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.
To the casual sighit-seer, Abilene is not laid out to show to its best advantage. There is no main street as in most Kansas towns, which can be viewed as a panorama; but, like a city that did not intend to stop with its one street, she covers block after block with some of the finest business houses to be found in the West. To the stranger it seems that every corner that is passed brings another street lined with business blocks.
Today Abilene contains over 250 business firms and enterprises. On every hand are signs of prosperity and success.
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BY THE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY.
ABILENE'S BIG CREAMERY.
One of the institutions of which Abilene is justly proud is the Belle Springs Creamery Company. Few people realize how large and helpful an organization this is. The people have become so acenstomed to seeing the ship- ments of butter and the wagon loads of cream that the existence of this insti- tution with its 41 stations, its daily receipts of 115,000 pounds of milk and its 2,000 patrons, is taken as a matter of course. The erection of its splendid central station in Abilene during the past year has served to make it more widely known and more generally recognized. It is today the largest exelu- sive creamery institution in the West. It has the merits of manufacturing only creamery butter, and possesses the distinction of making some of the best butter found anywhere in the world. The "Belle Springs" brand, which has been known for 17 years, has a name throughout the West and South that is a guarantee of excellence and insures a higher price than many of the others are able to obtain.
The Belle Springs Creamery Company started in a modest way at Belle Springs, 12 miles southeast of Abilene in 1886. J. E. Nissley was its manager. In 1904 is was incorporated.
Later its headquarters were moved to Abilene, and its business ex- panded beyond the borders of the county until now it has 41 stations, reach- ing into several counties of central Kansas. The officers are now: J. K. Forney, president ; P. G. Hoffman, vice president : M. L. Hoffman, treasurer: E. H. Forney, secretary.
The new building, constructed especially for creamery and cold storage purposes, is unexcelled in the nation as the headquarters of a creamery com- pany. It is 70x176 feet in dimensions, and has the largest capacity in pro- portion to its equipment of any creamery structure in the West. This is because it was built from basement to roof with the one idea of making it a perfect creamery headquarters. It has three churns, three engines and a capacity of over 20,000 pounds of butter. Its ice-making capacity is 15 tons daily and it furnishes all the ice for the city of Abilene. The cold storage space is being arranged for poultry and meats in addition to the butter and egg storage now completed.
It was built entirely by day labor and "on honor" regardless of ex- pense, and never was $50,000 spent with more satisfactory results for the plant is recognized by creamery men everywhere as a model.
It numbers among its patrons over 2,000 prosperous farmers. The milk receipts amount to 40,000,000 Ibs. of milk a year, for which the farmers receive $300,000.
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ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY
THE A. B. SEELYE MEDICINE
Co.
ABILENE, KANSAS,
(
MANUFACTURERS OF Dr. Seelye's WASA-TUSA, THAT GREAT PAIN REMEDY, Dr. Seelye's NER-VENA, THAT GREAT NERVE AND KIDNEY CURE, AND MANY OTHER HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES.
Dr. Seelye's Flavoring Extracts, NOTED FOR THEIR PURITY AND STRENGTH.
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BY THE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY ..
THE A. B. SEELYE MEDICINE COMPANY.
When business ability, push and merit are back of enterprise, suc- cess is always the reward. Fourteen years ago Dr. A. B. Seelve and his father located in Abilene and began in a modest way the manufacturing of their products; they were their own chemists, their own salesmen. Their laboratory was but one room. From this small beginning has grown one of the largest proprietary medicine companies in the West. As the business increased, their facilities were enlarged. Wagons were started on the road selling their products. Success greeted them on every hand. As the merits of their medicines became known. the demand compelled them to extend their business to a still larger scale. In 1900 Dr. A. B. Seelye purchased what was then known as the Bonebrake block. The ground floor of this block was divided into a number of store rooms : the second floor was the old Opera House. The opera house had become an eye sore to the town. Dr. Seelye at once began remodeling the block. He did not spare expense and the result was that Abilene today has one of the finest, best equipped and most beautiful theatres in the West. It was made a ground floor house, with a seating capacity of 800. A balcony, four hoxes and a stage that is large enough to accommodate city attractions, large commodious dressing rooms and every thing that could go to make a beautiful amusement home. The decorations of the house are in old ivory, green and gold, making one of the most beautiful and artistic theatres to be seen anywhere. It is one of the sights that the people of Abi- lene never tire of showing to their friends.
The remainder of the building was equipped as a laboratory and offices for the Seelye Medicine Company. In the east end of the building are the offices. large airy rooms, arranged with every convenience and comfort for the transaction of business. Back of the office is the laboratory, and the same personal attention is given to the preparation of their produets now as was when the company first began its small business. In the basement are the bottling rooms, packing and shipping rooms.
It is but a few years since this company had one salesman. Today they have 40 wagons in the State of Kansas, traveling from house to house. delivering their products to every home. Scattered all over the eentral and northern part of the United States are a half hundred or more agents. Their products are to be found in every drug store and supply house in the West. From a small beginning, this company has grown until today they ship over six million packages of goods annually amounting to over $200,000.
Their principal prodnets are Seelve's Wasa-Tusa; Seelye's Ner-Vena : Seelye's Magie Cough Cure; liniments, condition powders, ointments and extraets of all kinds. Few men achieve singly the success which Dr. A. B. Seelye has achieved in these few years. And Abilene today points with pride to this man and this institution.
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ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY.
ABILENA
THE NATURAL AMERICAN CATHARTIC WATER.
ABILENA is the only water found in this country which belongs to the same class of waters to which the Enropean cathartic waters belong.
ABILENA
THE ONLY AMERICAN NATURAL CATHARTIC WATER
16.157
Large Size, 35c Per Bottle. $3.50 Per Dozen.
Cu es Constipation. It is an Intestinal Disinfectant.
It cures Rheumatism, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness annd Sick Headache.
It relieves the Ill Effects of Over- Eating and Drinking
It is a Valuable Adjunct in the treatment of Kidney Diseases, Ty- phoid Fever and all Infectious Dis- orders.
The Goodyear Drug Company.
ANN ARBOR. Mich., March 20, 1903. The AbilenA Company, Abilene, Kansas.
GENTLEMEN: - The five cases of AbilenA wa- ter we ordered first, I am pleased to say, jumped to the front as no other water has here in Ann Arbor. When such men as Drs. Pres- cott. Vaughn. Dorling. Andman, and about five or six others of our best physicians pre- scribe it. von have something that will be a seller. These men are using AbilenA, and stand in the profession as anthority on such things.
Yours very respectfully, THE GOODYEAR DRUG CO.
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BY THE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY ..
THE ABILENA COMPANY.
One of the largest and most successful business enterprises in Abilene is The AbilenA Company. This company is incorporated under the laws of Delaware with a paid capital stock of $250,000. Its present officers and direc- tors are : Dr. Frank M. Gier, president ; P. H. Halleck, vice president ; H. E. Ellison, secretary and treasurer; R. M. White and Gardiner W. Kimball, directors.
The history of this mineral water, which was named in honor of the town, is interesting. Out on a mid-Kansas prairie the Travelers' Insurance Company took a quarter section of land under a foreclosed mortgage.
Nature had provided no living streams on this farm and the tenant needed water for his stock, therefore a well was a necessity and one was driven down to water over 100 feet through solid rock. The water thus secured affected the cattle peculiarly, acting as a strong cathartic; people became interested. The water was sent to prominent chemists for analysis. This analysis showed that AbilenA was one of the purest cathartic waters in the world and the only American Natural Cathartic Water.
The wells are located on a hill which slopes gently in every direction and away out on this Kansas prairie, practically removed from every human habitation, there has never been the slightest possible chance of contamination or pollution. There is nothing picturesque in the location, yet in the depths of this hill nature has, in her own laboratory, combined in an unknown way these elemental substances and produced a remedy so simple and yet so potent, so harmless and yet so thoroughly effective that it has proven itself one of the most remarkable mineral waters in the world.
In 1890 the present company acquired the wells. They have erected in Abilene a commodious and practical plant 50x175, thoroughly equipped to care for their business. There is no firm or business in Abilene that has so thoroughly advertised the town as the AbilenA Company. In every part of the United States where the water has been introduced, it has met with the strongest approval of the people as well as every practicing physician. The business has grown to such an extent that the shipments are almost all made in car-load lots. The success that this company will undoubtedly make can only be measured by the success of foreign mineral waters which do not have the merits of AbilenA.
The following signed by the physicians and surgeons of Abilene, Kan- sas. is certainly sufficient recommendation to the home people that it is a remedy that can safely be nsed and should be in every home.
"We the undersigned physicians and surgeons of Abilene, Kansas, having been using AbilenA, "The only American Natural Cithartic Water," since its first introduction some two years ago. We wish to speak in highest praise of the water as a laxative and cathartic. as exce ling any and ali the foreign waters we have ever used, and earnestiy commend its use to the American profession and public.
We are personally acquainted with the gentlemen composing The AbilenA Company and we know them to be honorable, honest and courteous gentlemen. We are familiar with the wells and their surroundings and know that the water is truly a natural water and every precaution is taken to maintain perfect sanitary conditions. We have frequently visited the bottiing works which are located in our city and know that strict sanitary regulations are observed in every department of their work."
E. B. LAFEVRE, E. E. HAZLETT, P. B. WITMER, H. B. FELTY. T. R. CONKLIN, A. A. SHELLEY, S. STEELAMITH, C. MESSICK.
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ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY.
The Brown Telephone Co.
EXCHANGES AT
Abilene, Chapman, Enterprise, Hope.
See Directory In Back Part of This Book.
Long distance lines connecting with Topeka, Kansas City and all towns in central Kansas.
C'all toll operator for rates and additional information.
Rural lines extending in every direction from our exchanges give best service to subscribers in country.
Toll Lines to Every Postoffice in Dickinson County.
We invite all subscribers and those interested to call and see our exchanges in operation.
ONLY BEST EQUIPMENT USED. BEST SERVICE,
REASONABLE RATES, COURTEOUS TREATMENT.
Call and See Us for Rates and Other information.
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BY THE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY.
THE BROWN TELEPHONE COMPANY.
A complete telephone system is a necessity and a luxury that is appre- ciated by the people of Abilene. The success that has attended the Brown Telephone Company from the beginning in 1890, when the city granted it a franchise, to the present time, is the reward that comes to any business that dlevotes its utmost energy to the satisfying and pleasing of its customers.
Previous to the construction of this company's line, Abilene was at the merey of the Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company. The rates were so exorbitantly high that few people could avail themselves of the use of the telephone. The Brown Company constructed a plant with the best equipments, switchboards and other equipments that money could buy. From the start they received the unanimous support of the people. In 1902 the Company was incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000. The equipment has been greatly improved. Over 12 miles of lead cable has been put in, thus insuring a perfect service at all times and in all conditions of weather.
Today there are in use in the city over 400 'phones. There is, in the county, over 200 miles of toll lines, connecting every postoffice, and many of the farm homes with the homes and business houses of Abilene. There are altogether over 1,100 phones in the county owned and controlled by this company. The support that the people of Abilene and Dickinson County have given the Brown Telephone Company only shows the appreciation of the per- feet services that the company has given in return.
THE UNION TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
To form a long distance connection for the local telephone company the U'nion Telephone & Telegraph Company was incorporated in 1903. This company has just completed a long distance copper service of six wires that connect every town in Central Kansas, from Topeka west to Stockton, from Ilebron and Beatrice, Nebraska, south to Wichita, Kansas. The equipment is of the very best and the benefits that this service will be to Central Kansas cannot be measured.
ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY.
Abilene has one of the most complete electric light systems in Central Kansas. The plant was built in 1898 by Jacob Brown & Son. It is situated on the banks of the Smoky Hill river, two and one-half miles south of the city, where they have the benefit of very fine water power. They also have a 250-horsepower engine. By having both water and steam power. Abilene is always insured a perfect light system. The equipment is one of the finest obtainable. It has an alternating current and a monoeyelie generator. At the present time there are over 3,000 incandescent and 25 are lights in use in the city.
Abilene will always appreciate the advancement which Jacob Brown and C. 1 .. Brown have given the town.
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ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY.
A HOME INSTITUTION.
The Co-Operative Burial Pompany.
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS.
$1,000,000 Insurance Written IN THIS STATE IN 14 MONTHS.
HAVE YOU A POLICY IN IT IF YOU HAVE NOT, WHY NOT
?
GENERAL OFFICES: ABILENE, KANSAS.
GEORGE 8. UPSHAW, President.
ELMER H. FORNEY, Vice President. ALBERT A. SHELLEY, Secretary and Treasurer.
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BY THE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY.
THE CO-OPERATIVE BURIAL COMPANY.
The Co-operative Burial Company of this city is one of the business concerns which has grown from a small beginning to one of the largest insur- ance companies in the State. This company was started in October, 1902, by George S. Upshaw, as a local proposition. The plan met with snecess from the start. On January 1. 1903, a company was formed and incorporated under the laws of the State of Kansas. On February 13th a special law was passed placing this company under the supervision of the State Insurance Department. This put the company on a sound business basis. On January 1, 1903, there were 413 members of the local company, with $40,000 insurance in force. On January 1, 1904. there were 1223 members in the local company with over $115,000 insurance in force. During the year of 1903 thirty-three local companies were started in the State of Kansas. In 1903 there have been over 10.000 policies written amounting to nearly one million dollars insurance. Considering the size of the policy that is a record that has never been equaled by any insurance companies in the United States.
The plan of the company is very simple, yet it covers a field that has never been reached by any other plan. It is a combination of fraternal and industrial insurance. The company accepts for membership any person in good health between the ages of one and 70 years. From one to ten years, it costs six cents advanced assessment and five cents certificate fee. This en- titles a member to a $50 policy. From 10 to 70 years, it costs eleven cents advanced assessment and five cents certificate fee. This entitles a member to a $100 policy. The assessments are levied only when there is a death in the local company. While all the companies are under the supervision of the general office at Abilene, each company operates independent of the others in regard to assessments. If a member nnder 10 years ohl dies, each member of the local company is assessed not to exceed six cents. If a member over ten years old dies, each member of the local company is assessed not to exceed 11 cents. As the membership increases, the assessment decreases.
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ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY.
DO NOT FORGET THAT
IMPERIAL FLOUR
MEETS EVERY REQUISITE FOR HOUSEHOLD USE.
ABILENE MILLING CO., ABILENE, KANSAS.
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BY THE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY.
From the time that T. C. Henry planted his immense wheat fields in the valley of the Smoky, until the present time, one of the greatest products of this county has been wheat. The Kansas hard wheat is of the finest qual- ity in the world and is especially adapted to the making of high grade flour. Abilene contains two of the best mills in Central Kansas.
THE ABILENE MILLING COMPANY.
The Abilene Milling Company, with one exception the largest mill in Diekinson County, was built in the summer and fall of 1902. It contains the most complete equipment of modern machinery that money can purchase. This mill has a capacity of 500 barrels daily and from its beginning has been forced to run night and day the year round to supply the demand. This com- pany also controls the output of the Grand Island Roller Mills of Grand Island, Nebraska, This mill also has a capacity of 500 barrels daily. thus giving the Abilene Milling Company an output of 1,000 barrels daily.
Their leading brands of flour are Imperial and Leader, which find a ready sale in twenty different states and territories and which give the best of satisfaction.
THE SECURITY MILLING COMPANY.
This is the oldest mill in Abilene. It was built in 1881 by Rice & Johntz and for the past twenty years has run night and day to supply the demand for their flour.
In April, 1901, the property was purchased from Johntz Bros., by the Security Milling Company. At the present time this mill is being entirely remodeled and the latest improvements in milling machinery are being added. With its new improvements, it will have a capacity of 500 barrels daily, and its principal brands, Havasak and Crown Patent, are sold in all the prin- cipal markets of this country and have a ready export sale in Glasgow, Liver- pool and Rotterdam.
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ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY.
GO TO
Hubbard's Book Store
FOR THE LATEST IN Books, Periodicals and Stationery.
THE CHOICEST
CHINA, CUT GLASS AND ART GOODS.
Full assortment of Parker and Greishaber Fountain Pens, Sporting Goods and Hammocks.
THE MOST COMPLETE LINE OF
WALL PAPER.
County Depository of School Books and Supplies. 211 NORTH CEDAR. TELEPHONE NO. 184.
Woman's Exchange: Art Supply Store.
Full line of supp'ies for Art Needle Work. Stamping done and all orders for finished or commeneed work promptly filled. Lessons given forenoons and afternoons.
HOME COOKING always on hand in Exchange Department.
JESSIE M. THAYER. 307 N )RTH BROADWAY.
DON'T TRUST
To memory to recall faces of friends and relatives that grow dearer as time passes. Memories are not nearly as pleasant or as permanent as those
FINE PORTRAITS
303 North Broadway, Messick Building.
MADE BY
SCHREDER, THE ARTIST.
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BY THE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. CORNER SIXTH AND NORTH CEDAR.
Rev. Robert V. Maloney, Pastor.
Trustees
M. P. Jolley, T. C. Iliff, J. H. Speer. O. P. Fenton, H. A. Keve, A. C. Menor, A. Eohannon.
Recording Steward. W. S. Anderson
Sunday School Superintendent J. A. Tufts
Assistant Superintendent. Miss Lottie Northeraft
Superintendent Primary Department. Mrs. C. H. Hill
H. D. Focht Epworth League President
Hours of Service
Sunday School. .9:30 a. m.
Preaching. 10:45 a. m.
Epworth League 6:30 p. m. in winter; 7 p. m. in summer
Preaching.
.7:30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p. m.
A hearty welcome extended to all at every service.
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ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY.
J. L. THAYER, DENTIST
Office over Loyd's Grocery, 210 N. Cedar St.
TELEPHONES: Office, No. 2; residence, 341.
C. H. PINKHAM,
Dry Goods and Notions.
THE MAN WHO MAKES THE PRICES RIGHT.
YOU SHOULD SEE
MERRIFIELD'S FOR GROCERIES
His prices are right. He handles the best quality of goods. Customers treated courteousty and fair.
318 North Broadway. Telephone No. 12.
Abilene Plumbing and Heating Co.
Contractors for Fine Plumbing. Firstclass Sewer Work. Steam and Hot Water Heating. Repairing Promptly Attended to.
108 West Second Street, Abiiene, Kansas.
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. CORNER MULBERRY AND FOURTH STREETS.
Rev. F. S. Blayney, Pastor.
This church was organized by the Rev. H. T. Whittemore, July 25. 1869, and has been a strong and conservative factor in all the moral, social and religious life of the city and surrounding country ever since. The present pastor, the Rev. Francis Stockton Blayney, A. A., Ph. D., came from the presidency of Bellevue College, Nebraska, to visit the place in the fall of 1890 and has remained with the church ever since and has seen every other church in the city change pastors from three to six times.
Sabbath School Superintendent.
.C. C. Wyandt
Assistant Superintendents. F. G. Puliver and J. S. Bigler Secretary Board of Trustees George Merrill
A. W. Rice Treasurer
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ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY.
A. M. WARD, Watchmaker, Jeweler RETAILER OF Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Cut Glass, Sterling Silver, Fine China and Optical Goods. EYES TESTED FREE. FIRS DOOR EAST OF POSTOFFICE, ON THIRD STREET, ABILENE, KAS. TELEPHONE NO. 328. CENTRAL HOTEL, THAD MITCHENER, Proprietor, ABILENE, KANSAS. ONE OF THE BEST $1.50 HOUSES IN THE STATE. SPECIAL RATES BY THE WEEK OR MONTH. Bus Meets all Trains. Centrally Located. Electric Lights. Good Sample Room. P. SCANLON, I. S. HALLAM, A. W. LIVINGSTON, S. J. ASHBY, President. Vice President. Cashier. Ass't Cashier. Abilene State Bank, ABILENE, KANSAS. Capital Stock, - $25.000,00 Surplus Fund, 4,500.00 I. S. HALLAM, P. SCANLON, A. W. LIVINGSTON. J. N. BURTON, J. L. ENGLE. D. MATTESON, G. F. LIVINGSTON, 43 BY THE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH. CORNER CEDAR AND WEST FOURTH STREETS. Pastor, Rev. Fuller Bergstresser. Elders Christian Johntz, Homer Martin, John C. Royer. Deacons J. E. Brewer, H. W. Jacobs, H. L. Humphrey. Trustees A. W. Livingston, C. C. Sherwood, J. H. Niesley. Secretary, J. C. Royer. Treasurer, H. L. Humphrey Sunday School Superintendent. C. C. Sherwood Assistant .. Mrs. J. E. Keel The church was founded in Abilene, 1870. 44 ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY. CROWN PATENT FLOUR IS USED BY DISCRIMINATING HOUSEKEEPERS BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT ALWAYS MAKES GOOD BREAD THE SECURITY MILLING CO., ABILENE, KANSAS. 45 BY THE AMERICAN DIRECTORY COMPANY. GRACE REFORMED CHURCH. CORNER FIFTH AND BUCKEYE AVENUE. Ernest N. Evans, Pastor. Belongs to Kansas Classis, of the Synod of the Interior, of the Reformed Church in the United States. 46 ABILENE CITY DIRECTORY Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.