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Show iB i a m NOTICK I am again prepaired to render you servfre in repairing and Hales on Sing'T Sewing Machines in Millard County. 1116 ll23pd ; MILLION VISIT : THREE SHRINK - Figure Yearly Total in Pilgrim ages to Washington and Lin-' Lin-' coin Memorials. : mm CLIMB 610 MONUMEM i Big Share of Guests in National Caj 5 ital Make Trip to Mount Vernon Recently Completed Lincoln Memorial Popular. Washington More than 1,000,0C perduns niuke pilgrimages each year t Yv'ashinglon's home, Mount Vernoi the beautiful Lincoln memorial and til Washington monument, the latter bi b Ing the most popular of the thre i shrines among visitors to the nation! , capital. Visitors -numbering 34,113 went du: liiB July to the top of the Washlngto monument, located a i'ew hundre ; yards south of the White House. Moi than one-fifth of them clambered u 1 the 81)8 steps in order to see the mi ' morlat tablets on the various landing inside the shaft. The remainder rod r to the top in the electric elevate t which has a capacity of 3D person More than 5,250,000 people have vi: e Ited the top of the monument since wns opened for observation purpose - October 9, 1SS8. No entrance fee I i charged. Lincoln Memorial Popular. The Lincoln memorial, recently eon pleted and opened to the public, wa visited by 31,383 persons during Jul; Located In Potomac park, direct) west of the Washington monument, 1 Is rather Inaccessible for pedestrians visitors usually go there by antonu bile. On a recent Sunday 2.000 pei sons were recorded as entering th great building. It Is rapidly becomin a shrine for tourists. No entra-" -- is charged. . n a .hicTd-077ul s eld I"""1-' at JIou i hue. of brown. e Pitoin'" rlver In V lozenge, of crat-- from Washington, lo nd chicken cans meccii of pilgrims frc j the world, who go ra.- i'f'c train and nutorr .-Snj nearly In Its origin r-jMa, -...iniv.v ,- ic by the Lndles Mou I ernon association, It Is a delight "11 Americans. During July npproj mutely L'O.noO persons visited Moui - Vernon and during the year admlssloi numbered 236,000. The proceeds of : 25-cent entrance fee help keep the e 1 tnte In first-class condition, r The house where Abraham Llncol . died, located opposite Ford's theatt . at 5Ifl Tenth street. Northwest, thl city, Is another shrine visited bv man tourists. It waS bought by the"unlte States In lv'OG for 530,000. Cstc'h 7! i. Foot Eel. Taftville, Conn. A party of loca fishermen , Tadpole pond landed 13 l'"""ds of bullheads the other night" three eels U.al weighed more than ten pounds ,,.! several perch. At a point below n,ls bridge they caught a tur-tie tur-tie webbing CO pounds and one lam-prey lam-prey eel seven and one linlf feel lou - |