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Show WHOLE TOWNTO BE AUCTIONED OFF LONDON, June 30 (By Mail.) Any man whose ambition is to own a whole town will have an opportunity to satisfy sat-isfy his desire hero next month. By direction of Lord Stalbrldge, the owner, own-er, the entire town of Shaftesbury will he put on the auction block, including in-cluding private houses, banks, postof-fices postof-fices stores, offices, hotels and three saloons. The town is located in a picturesque pic-turesque part of Derbyshoro, perched on tho top of a hill in the midst of rolling roll-ing farm country. The nearest railway station Is three miles distant, at Seni-ley. Seni-ley. Sales of great estates are frequent in these days, when taxes are eating up profits, and many of the younger generation of the nohility are losing their lives on the battlefields. This is tho first sale of an entire town which has been arranged. |