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? ' = * 91 H ! 9 /' Heads | J / W, We w I EH 9 you can now | B you'think of Ife. Everyth: M . less ot profit i II Ail Read i $16.50 Cl( -I i? -$30.00 Cl( 1 ! $35.00 Clc 1 , . $37.50 Cl( B $45.00 Clc . ccn no r*i/ i . $70.00 Ck M $80.00 Ck ' ' $85.00 Ck I $97.50 Ck $125.00 C ||: GUS HILL'S MINSTRELS The new 1919-1920 edition of Gus Hill's Minstrels will make its ^first appearance tit the Abbeville v Opera House Tuesday night Jan.j . exposing the cause of hilarity, I ? - mneip revplrv. I I Hie 11 illicitly VUilVlU* tuuu?v| Color, fun, comedy, novelty, wit, re, partee, vaudeville, farce, mimicry, j Characteristic dancing and happiness, is enjoying a vogue seldom accorded to any similar troupe, and at ( the same time establishing a precedent not likely to be eclipsed by soCalled productions embodying all the Ingredients of burnt-cork expositions. It is a combination of old-time ret?--'- And minstrelsy of the day, coupled with all the alluring qualities of a uie-nror iicvci-w-uo-ivigwwcii jii?duction arranged for the purpose of disturbing the gloom of the world. Its dominant keynote is laughter. It Serves, or at least that is the purpose bi its sponsdr, to eliminate Mr. Grouch .from the face of the earth. All the favorite blackface funsters | in captivity have been engaged to Kt aerve the trick of instilling happiHfc.? -ness. Just how was succeeded we Bp"' - leave to the triumphal career of the m organization itself which is now in " its third orosperous year. George iWinson, tho dean of ebony-hued Ethiopean comedy 13 still a valued i member of the company. Others who aid and abet in him in his inimitable tomfoolery machinations are Jimmy; r Wall, Jack Kennedy, Lee Edmonds, William Hallett, Herbert Williaon, Fred Freddy, Carl Graves, Ed Denys, K. _- / Max Maxen, Three Musical Cates, William and Walter Larkwith, James Brady, Jigge Marr, Eddie Gallagher, F Jack Hayea, Johnny Buckley, and twenty five other singers and af Sa< BEFORE of all departmei ant to start the new 3 come into this store the good old buying ing in our Ladies Re? for our new Spring g I TIT [y-to-Wear to CLOAKS. >aks, reduced to >aks, reduced to >aks, reduced to >aks, reduced to >aks, reduced to >aks, reduced to >aks, reduced to >aks, reduced to >aks, reduced to >aks, reduced to loaks, reduced to \ SERGE, S 0 Dresses, Reduced to 0 Dresses, Reduced to 0 Dresses, Reduced to 0 Suits, Reduced fo - No goods cha LM. AN] dancers, and comedians. If you wish Dillon __ to hark back to the halcyon days of Dorchest< Christie, Bryant and' White, and Edgefield congregate with the surveyors of Fairfield modern minstrelsy of the hour you Florence must see this show which must be Georgeto' wingssed and heard to be thoroughly Greenvill appreciated. Even the most moJes Greenwot jsress agents' store of available ad- Hampton jectives fails to pen-picture the lure Horry of its wholesomeness, originality jaSper and other fun-compelling pro- Kershaw pensities. Don't forget the inevitable Lancastei street parade. It is a treat in itself. Laurens Lee COTTON GINNING REPORT. Lexingtoi - McCormu ? Marion _ Washington, Jan. 3.?Director Sam, Marlboro L. Rogers, of the bureau of the cen-j j^ewjjerrj sus, Department of Commerce, an*'oconee nounces the preliminary report onj Qrangebi cotton ginned by counties in South ( Carolina for the crops of 1919 and Ric^]an(j 1918. The report was made public | gajU(ja for the State at 10 a. m., Saturday, gpartanb December 20, 1919. Sumter _ (Quantities-are in running bales, Union counting round as half bales. Linters williamsl are not included.) York County. 1919. 1918 j Abbeville 25,665 20,114 The Stat( Aiken 4 38,S^?5 46,818 Allendale 19^^ ? g^BY IS Anderson 77,875 55,436 P Bamberg 24,021 31,443 j Barnwell 29.645 62,060; Beaufort 2,127 7.619 New Y Berkeley 9,688 13,613 Christma Calhoun 32,433 3,6191 of a oneCharleston 7,774 10,800 of water Cherokee 15,763 12,970 of the si Chest&r 29,910 26,233 which ar Chesterfield 32,891 28,560 Mrs. J Clarendon 38,469 36,151 >way to I Colleton 12,334 20,523 husband Darlington 40,085 36,802 at his b< HHHHHHHHML! ihhhh STARTING * its have been fear with but little and buy goods un days before the w< ady-to-Wear Depa: oods are already a Go at Pract . $ 8.53 . $20.76 . $19.77 . $18.28 23.16 ... 34.81 . $37.38 . $43.97 . $49.79 $58.04 r$65.45* _______ ILK, TRICOTINE AND $19.71 . $27.72 q?r $25.21 * $20.48 $$ rged or sent out on ap DERSON DRY GOODS ST ? 39,710 31,333 mas and r^t jr _1 14,795 17,972 the doll Sanl 23,214 26,846 he touredfth( 21,082 21,379 went to dinn 40,107 33,299 The bath pai wn 4,333 4,113 beside the bu e 48,403 34,774 Jan, Jr., a >d 32,980 32,202 ing with Sant ? 10489 22,372 out of the bu 8,520 7,197 it. He fell h 1,992 6,025 The water co 28,853 27,677 could not e> : 21,002 >20,475 the family , re 46,848 35,732 was dead. 41,705 38,649 The baby v l L_ 26,908 32,968 father cuttin :k 16,373 14,915 the little bo 18,070 15,989 passengers i 71,448 61,279 several hunt r 32,244 32,929 family. 22,511 20,714 irg 83,944 94,790 "TONE" W 22,787 17,646 25,669 23,429 Walhalla Cou 23,467 24,960 "Tone" W urg 73,203 67,914 years of age, 44,629 47,967 Caleb Watkii 17,865 16,916 the Watkins jurg 26,043 27,731 Rich Mountai 41,612 33,399 lay evening. to jail during 2 1,367,483 1,328,925 fore yesterda r j full confessic ? DROWNED IN :others at the OJR INCHES OF WATER |triffedy lh d adduced by i (premises, am ork, Jan. 1.?Love for aibythebcyhi s doll caused the drowning jury 0f inqn year-old baby in fourinchcs to the effect in a pail during the voyage j his death by honiYishin Niomv Amsterdam Inn avp in th rived from Holland today, kins, an Pustus, who is on her It seems ti )es Moines, la., with her of the fact 1 and family, bathed Jan, Jr., never lived t ;dtime the day after Christ- father sinct NEW YEjA 1 / instructed to if anything carried ( til January 1 Oth at p ir. rtment has been cut rriving and we mus ically OneCOAT S In Silvertones, Velours con nn Qi-,u0 UUllOj 11CUUV/CU IV $47.50 Suits, Reduced t( $50.00 Suits, Reduced to $59.75 Suits, Reduced to $70.00 Suits, Reduced to $75.00 Suits, Reduced to $100.00 Suits, Reduced t( VELVET DRESSES 12.50 Suits, Reduced to* 14.75 Suits,-Reduced to !2.50 Suits, Reduced to i . .i proval at tnese prices. f CQIYWV ORE him in his bunk with mother died when ;a Claus had left when and she gave the cl ; ship. Then the family bor, Cater Alexand er, leaving baby asleep, care for. Lately Cal 1 was inadvertently left kins had been enc nk. him (Caleb) to re woke and started play- home , and on seve :a's gift. The doll fell cursed and abused nk and Jan reached for resor.ing to violenc eadfirst into the pail he killed his fathei vered his face and he,0^ man had been < ctricate himself. When anc* as i i j. j; i.~ ' Caleb went out of 1 turned irom unmet nc |ing with an axe, iras buried next day, his struck his father tF g the rope which sent head, inflicting wo dy into the sea. The ?W man ex nade up a purse of minutes. The docto Ired dollars for the amination of the w any one of the thi ? ?? sufficient to have c ATKINS MURDERED man's head was 1 ________ his brains havinf rier. spattered about th atkins, about 50 or 55 the tra&edy occurre , was killed by his son, Shortly after 1 is, 15 years of age, at Catkins went out home at the foot of bors and notified se n, about sundown Mon- man had been mui The boy was brought ^em that he (Ca Monday night, and be-'man ab?ut the pi; y morning had made father had been kill >n to the sheriff and,er* *?ld several jail, giving the fearful lantJ they would not etail. From the evidence ^nally, at the jai nvestigations about the morning, he admit J the statements made se,f had killed his mself, Coroner Abbott's t,lu stuI'y 1,1 UCU|"lost returned a verdict The two were th< that Watkins came to home at the time 1 reason of blows from place. Watkins mi e bands of Caleb Wat- time, but his wife village at Walhall lat the trouble grew out ployee of the mill, that Caleb Watkins has some time resided it his home with his the home place ot i an infant. Caleb's mountains. Caleb li lR s 1 $ 'Cleanup regard- I Dver. For this reason I >rices that will make 1 k? i Era * to trie quiCK rcgciru- m t have the room. I J /. ???a???J| Half Price 1 , c -v . 2? 7.';> UITS I | and Plush Materials. $S HI $12.20 B \ ) $29.67 gg $29.70 / I $36.24 7 $38.92 fg $49.50 I ) .....$56.66 I .$ HI ' $16.25 - I 1 I $13.05 1 N / sg iNY, 1 / lmw / jfsg he was very small that he is but 15 years of age, but he aild to a neigh-^js large for that age. Iria, to raise and Sheriff Alexandria states that the eb says, Mr. Wat- r00m in which the tragedy occurred leavoring to get made a ghas.ly appearance, spatterturn to Watkins' ed with blood as it was, and the body :ral occasions had 0f the old man lying there, bruised him, though not and mangled, the features scarcely e. Just before he recognizable, The boy, now that he Caleb says, the has bared the whole truth, seems v :ursing and abus- content, and apparently is not cona result of this scious of the enormity of his crime ;he house, return- or the seriousness of the charge that with which he lies against him. iree blows on the unds from which , _n ... . . . , . , Nearly 70,000,000 wild animals pired in a few . . . , are killed yearly for the sake of their rs who made ex- ^ rounds, state that ' ' ee wounds was " :aused death. The Notice of Final Settlement. earfully crushed, j been literally State of South Carolina, e room in which County of Abbeville, d. ' In Probate Cotrrt. * ^ 1 * ( /vf onf An. . ;tie Killing uaieo -r nmi ?ivmc wx ?w among the neigh- plication for Discharge. iveral that the old Take Notice that on the 31st day rdered, stating to of January, 1920, I will render a fi' leb) had seen a nal account of my acting and doings ace and that his as administrator of the estate of ed by this Strang- Whiteman Harper, deceased, in the stories, however, office of the judge of probate for Abfit together, and beville County, and on the same day 1 early Tuesday will apply for a final discharge from ted that he him- my trust as such. father and told All persons having demands against said estate will present them i only-ones at the .for payment on or before tnat day, ;he tragedy took proven and authenticated or be forirried a second aver barred. lives in the mill ELBERT BECK, a, and is an cm- l-5-3t. Administrator. She has not for with Watkins at There are 782 varieties of Arctic the foot of the, flowers which have but two colors, lolds to the story ^ white and yellow.