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||: 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
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0 Dresses, Reduced to
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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
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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<
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oods are already a
Go at Pract
. $ 8.53
. $20.76
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. $18.28
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. $37.38
. $43.97
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$58.04
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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
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instructed to
if anything carried (
til January 1 Oth at p
ir.
rtment has been cut
rriving and we mus
ically OneCOAT
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In Silvertones, Velours
con nn Qi-,u0
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$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
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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
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to trie quiCK rcgciru- m
t have the room. I
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and Plush Materials. $S
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$12.20 B \
) $29.67 gg
$29.70 / I
$36.24 7
$38.92 fg
$49.50 I
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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.
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;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.