The Washington Republican Washington County Friday July 6, 1900 Dr. Jack MATHEWS and wife are parents of a boy born last Friday. C.C. MEADER desires to expresser his sincere thanks to those who so kindly assisted him in removing his goods from the store to a place of safety on the night of the big fire. J.W. LANGDON, of Denver, visited his sister, Mrs. J.W. PIERCE and family, over Sunday. Mr. LANDGON was formerly a citizen of this place, but has been located in Denver for a number of years. Miss Clara PIERCE returned home with him for a visit. James ROBERTSON and family arrived in this city last Friday and remained her visiting until Sunday when they went to Haddam to visit Ira MATHEWS and family. Mr. ROBERTSON is located in Crete, Neb., and they made the trip overland. Prof. RICE made a successful balloon ascension with the new balloon last Saturday in Barnes. A large crowd of people was present and everything was satisfactory. The balloon is the largest ever sent up from here, it is nearly 100 feet high and about 150 feet in circumference. Ed. BARLEY and wife came over from Clifton Sunday to learn more of the fire. They returned Monday. Mr. BARLEY says they will not remain in Clifton much longer but will soon move to Formosa, and when T.H. EVES and G.G. HILL open their bank Mr. BARLEY will have a position in it. Monday of this week, Frank CARTER sold his milk business to T.D. EVANS, and Mr. EVANS began Monday night to deliver milk to all of Mr. CARTER's customers. Both EVANS and CARTER said there was room but for two milk wagons here so EVANS concluded he would rather buy than sell, so the deal was made. That leaves the milk business with R. V. DARBY and T.D. EVANS. Miss Harriet Taylor DRAPER, formerly of this county, so well known here as a vocal soloist, sang at a commencement exercise in Dunkirk, N.Y., not long aog, and her is the comment she got from a Dunkirk paper: "One of the most pleasant numbers of the evening was the singing of Miss Harriet Taylor Draper of Washington, D.C., who sang for the first time to a Dunkirk audience and left an impression that few vocal soloists have ever equaled. Miss Draper is a former resident of Fredonia and well known to many Dunkirkers. She possesses a soparano voice of exceeding clearness and purity, ranging from soft and low to all the strength of the high notes which she reaches with infinite ease."