AbilenA Water. Brown bottle with tin cap and yellow, red, and blue paper label. Bottle is about half full of clear liquid with white sediments at bottom. AbilenA Water was drawn from a well in northern Willowdale Township, Dickinson County. It was first bottled by P.H. Halleck and H.E. Ellison in 1900. Their original company, the Abilene Drug Company, was reorganized as the AbilenA Company in 1901 with a capital stock of $10,000. At that time the water sold for $0.25 per bottle. The company headquarters moved to Chicago in 1919. Advertisments for the water disappear from newspapers in the mid 1940s. This bottle came from the drug store of long-time Hutchinson druggist Terry L. Foltz.