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>y flBrffrl ^mmm ^QhKMi^^^ afllreS i& ^mi Tl- - T w/M.rxn nf HrUnfft I Arr J Be Seen At The Performances of Tl WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER tl ACROBATS DO MANY DARING STUNTS WITH SPARKS CIRCUi Acrobatic stunts that require the greatest skill are one of the feature: of Sparks Big Three Ring Circu: which will arrive in Abbeville, Wed resday, Oct. 6th for a day's engage ment on the regular grounds. S< thoroughly trained are the acrobat: that some display of nimbleness ii going on all the time the big show is in action. Other troupes of perform n-r-c- nr? wifli wilH nnmials ant ^ with horses have made the stunts stand out as one of the distinctiv< attractions. The big show will start with tht , two mile long street parade thru th< downtown streets. In this parade th< cages of wild animals will all be oper to viiw and the great collection ol horses, camels, elephants and othei trained beasts will be paraded befor< the crowds. The first performanc< will start at 2 o'clock Wednesday af ternoon. The doors will b eopenec at 1 o'clock and the crowds permit ted to view the Menagerie. The per formance lasts two and a half hour and is filled with thrills from begin ning to end. The bit? delegation of clowns ha: " ~ \ devised many new stunts that appea distinctively to the children. The cir cus has more clowns than ever befori in its history and some of them art among the highest paid artists in A.m erica. The evening performance start at 8 o'clock, with the doors open ai hour preceding, to view the :Menage rie and Horse Fair. SIX MILLION HOMES ARE STILL NEEDED Xew York, Sept. 25.?Six million people in the United States are inadequately housed, with little hope / that the situation will be relieved in the near future, it was estimated today by Edward P. Doyle, secretary of the mayor's housing committee. Doyle said congressional action to exempt from taxation funds available for building purposes is necessary if present housing conditions are to be elevated. There is a shortage of more than one hundred thousand apartments in New York City and about six hundred thousand people are living in quarters that are cramped unsanitary and in many instances immoral, Doyle stated. Conditions on the Pacific Coast were reported improved, although a serious situation faced Los Angeles, where it is estimated that fifty thousand persons were unable to find homes. From five thousand to ten thousand new homes are needed in Atlanta, Ga, A shortage of five thousand homes exists in St. Paul, it was estimated. There is a similar situation existing in Albany, N. Y., where John F. Fulton, building superintendent, said five thousand persons were seeking homes. ~ Construction of apartments at Indianapolis was repotted limited and .reports indicate a shortage of one thousand houses thert. Live In Houseboats in Chicago Police Chief Gharrity at Chicago ' estimated there were 4,800 flats vacant there, of which three-fourth: wer? undesirable. Scores of families were said to be living in houseboats W. B. Weisenberger of the St Louis chamber of commerce, saic that city needed between five thou sand and six thousand homes. Improvement was noted at Wash ington, where housing facilitie: were said to be adequate as a resul p* ^"parture of large number?, o' war workers. .. - - , I ! abats Whose Sensational Feats Will lie Sparks Circus in This City On ' le 6th. THRONGS ATTEND ( > THE FUNERAL OF MISS OLIVE THOMAS r sI New York, Sept. 28.?Gray j 3 shadows filtering down from 'the ^ -(high windows, softened the hues of -jthe great banks of flowers and dim) med the luster'of gowns of richly * 1 3 aressea women. 3 A silence pervaded the great 3 church, broken only by the solemn " voice of a priest intoning the Epis* copal funeral ritual. From the 5 street came the v muffled hum of i traffic. , The entire setting gave the illulusion of a silent drama. This was the last "fade out" of Olive Thomas. / * The funeral of the noted motion picture actress, who died in Paris as f the result of accidental poisoning, > drew thousands of persons from all walks of life to St. Thomas' church, s j on Fifth avenue. There were millionaires and paupers, stars and members of the chorus, friends and the merely curious. I Hundreds of men and women. mostly the latter stormed the church doors when officials turned 1 them away after the edifice was ? i filled. The police li^es were broken J time and again, only to be re-form- ' " ed. Order was not finally restored s i until long after the services were 1 ! over, and the body had been removg i i ed from the church. ( ! The ceremony was simple. Dr. ( | Ernest M. Stiers, rector, who con- ' ducted the services said: "It was | the same as any one else would j have." , * During the services, Jack Pick- * ford, husband of Miss Thomas, sat t with her mother, Mrs. H. B. Vankirk t and Miss Thomas' brother, James ; s Duffy. Among the honorary pall- r t ' bearers were, Owen Moore, former c husband of May Pickford, and Har- ^ J f " ison Fisher, one of the ' first to discover Miss Thomas' beauty and im- ^ . i- ? __ I > morcanze it on canvas. The coffin rested in the center of the chancel under a blanket of pink ^ tj orchilds. Surrounding it were great i.ui i ? of pinK a.". J white flowers, the gifts of relatives, friends and * members of the .. theatrical profes- ^ sion. There was one floral piece a from the Ziegland Follies, in which a Miss Thomas began her stage life, ^ J f and one from Miss Pickford, bearing a card inscribed "From Sister F I Mary." , . ? j As the floral pieces were carried I through the street, to waiting vej hides after the services, many were ! torn to pieces by women and girls; p J who sought the flowers as souvenirs, t j The police tried to protect them but r I were powerless. p As a protection against the curi- g ous, the burial place of Miss Thomas c was kept secret. It was learned, v 1 however, that it would be in one of j the New York cemeteries. 1, 1 i When the coffin was carried j j through the throngs to the hearse 4 : several motion picture machines I i near the steps clicked in unison, i ' wAfl +Iia Aorifvol fiflpnro ' ' iUi?>?> ? livmao nao tnc jlv**.^ v i of a film for the last time. v j ( CALENDARS WILL BE HIGHER -| BUT YOU HAVE TO BUY THEM t 5 1 ???? c 5 Chicago, Sept. 30.?Peak prices s .' evidently reached in many staple . commodities and tendencies now on { 1' tV.e decline do not apply to the price ] -cutlook for 1921 as regards advertising specialties, particularly those - made of leather or paper, said G. S. |( s Sultzor, president of the Red Wing j t Advertising Co. Red,Wing, Minn., be-' j f fore the specialty advertisers conven-.] ' lion today. j( i J. S. POPULATION I NEAR 107,000,000 Washington, Sept. 28.?The United States has more than 106 millions of people. This already has been determined by the Census Bureau. r This information has become known without an actual count of the people. It happened this way: This classification of the people into male and female, white and black race, occupation and so on, is done by means of machines that punch lards. Hundreds of employes have been punching these cards foe months. Orginally there were 110*000,000 jf these blank cards. There is one :ard for each person. The fact that ill but 4,000,000 of tfye cards have ?een punched shows that there are 106,000,000 persons already ac:ounted for. Announcement Soon. Sometime ago the bureau anlounced 92,000,000 persons. Withn a week it will give out - official 'igures on the number of persons. There is a census sheet for each >erson. The peoplte whose sheets lave not gone through'the punching nachines live in Massachusetts, iVest Virginia, ^Alabama and ,Texas, ind only fragments of these states emain to be counted, or rather to lave their sheets punched. The punching is going on now at he rate of from 40,000 to 80,000 a lay. It is said there are less than .,000,000 of these sheets yet to be >unched. This would mean that, alhough it has been shown there are .06,000,000 persons, there will be ess than 107,000,000. Census Facts Some of the facts the census will ihow are: Fifty-two per cent of the people ive in cities, whereas 1910 showed nore than half lived in rural disricts. Women are in excess of men; alvays before the census has shown in excess of males. Fifty one per cent of the people lave specialized occupations. Twelve persons in every 100 canlot read and write. Birth rate has materially decreased since 1910, due to crowded conlitions in cities and the hHgh cost of iving. Gain of 15,000,000 since 1910. Ten million due to excess of )irths oVer deaths and five million ;o immigration. If the official figures determine here are 107,000,000 persons, it vill mean, according to unofficial >pinioi among experts, ihat there ire, in the United States, about .09,000,000 people. Experts claim hat no matter how thorough a cenus enumeration may be ,at least 2 >er cent of the people will not be numerated. This would leave 2, 00,000 uncounted. Who Are They? Who are these two million of >epole? Many of them are crooks vho dodge the census-takers. There ,re thousands of persons who travel , dodge the census-takers. They lave no hom^ address. It is estimaed there are more than 2,900,000 tersons on trams all the time. EXPORTS OF WHEAT SHOW BIG INCREASE Washington, Sept. 28.?Wheat exhorts increased in August over July, he department of commerce's aonthly detailed statement of extorts today showing that 27,569,'82 bushels were shipped out of the ountry last month as compared rith July, Flour exports, however, dropped ; ast month, the total for August be- \ ng 106,707 barrels as against 2,- ] i03, 882 barrels in July. Cotton shipped out of the country I n August aggregated 146,668 bales I ralued at $28,051,552, compared i| vith 479,058 bales valued at $81,-,| >42,841 in August 1919. Exports of meat and dairy prodicts durng August aggregated $24,!57,573 against $85,969,713 for the ame month a year ago. Mineral oils exports in August otalled 248,648,813 gallons against LS1,438,064 in August 1919. A motion picture, carrying the iniorsement of Presdent Wilson is beng prepared for the political campaign to favor the League of Nations [t will he called "Uncle Sam of Free'om Ridge." NEGROES MAY REPLACE JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA Los Angeles, Sept. 28.?The possibility of negroes taking the place of Asiatics as term workers, in California was discussed today at the National convention of tfie Industrial and Commercial Council of -the People of "African Descent., W. H. Sanders, a Los Angeles delegate said he was in direct touch with at least five thousand negroes who will come to California to take up truck gardening ih case persons of Oriental races are barred from further colonization in this state. He said the workmen would be headed by graduates of the agricultural department of Tuskegee Institute. Captial was subscribed for a co-oper ative company to market products of negro farmers through grocery stores to be established in negro communities. i ? I * HEN BECOMES FRIGHTENED WHEN SHE HATCHES AN ALLIGATOR EGG Corpus Christi, Tex., Sept. 29.?A he'n owned by Dr. Willis of this city is suffering from something akin to nervous prostration, according to the physicians. ( Dr. Willis found a rfest filled with alligator eggs while on a hunting expedition recently he brought six of the eggs home with him. A sedate hen in the doctor's barnyard was determined to set and although the sun would have hatched the alligator eggs Dr. Willis decided to humor the fowl and put the eggs under her. " Biddy j waited for but one egg to hatch, ac-| cording to the doctor, and then left j the nest on a dead run, cackling wildly. MASTER'S SALE ? The STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ? ' COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. ^ Court of Common Pleas. ^ C. L Pressly, D. E. Pressly and others ^ against Plaintiffs jai Leila E. Ramey, F. J. Sutherland Q? and others Defendants ^ By authority of a Decree of Sale by ^ the Court of Common Pleas for Ab- CQ beville County, in said State, made in the above stated case, I tfill offer ^ for sale, at Public Outcry, at Abbe- g \ | I I r ' Horse M 1 ONE CARLOJ! i ALL I FINE | See Hkdi Bel It.g jjj Abbeville, Valuab Property ON NORTH MAIN STREET in good condition. A1 ON CHURCH STREET?Fii Corner lot, all city coi right ON SOUTH MAIN STREET 14 Bed Rooms and larg house on large lot. i ON MAGAZINE STREET? deep. ON MAPLE STREET?One Possession ran hp civf ON WALNUT STREET?rO good condition. A Ba house in god condition ON SOUTH MAIN STREET ON WARDLAW STREET? feet. Goqd section of to er Wardlaw Street, 60 ON ORANGE STREET?On house. We will make close prices this property. * The Dixie La le C. H., S. C. on Salesday in Oc)er, A. D. 1920, within the legal urs of sale the following described id, to wit: All that'tract or parcel land situate, lying and being in >beville County, . Cedftr Springs twnship, in the State aforesaid, ntaining One Hundred and Fortyyo (142) Acres, more or less, and unded by lands of J F. Miller, M. Hollingsworth, Long Cane ^Creek TENNESSEE sII [ULE in NOW AT II 11/ 11XI II / 111 11 SOUND a CONDITK fore They Are .WH RINITY STREET So. \ ____ le City For Sale '?Nice eight room house 1 city conveniences. i ^st class eight room house, iveniences? The price is ?House and Store in one. ?e store room. Also ware1 ' \ v--* One lot 125 ft. by 160. ft. store on lot 50 ft. by 50 ft. } . jh at once." ne five room house jn Lrffain. Also one six rnnm ?One lot 40 ft. by 190 ft. One nice lot 125 ft. by 210 rwn. Also two lots on lowft. by 200 ft. deep*, ' v ' 1 e house and lot. Five room ; ' L x .. v ' / ' . r. and easy terms on any of y * :x "\f * i ltd Company 4 ' : v and known as the McCartney place. Also?All that lot or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the' City of Abbeville, County and State aforesaid, containing one (1) acre, IS more or less and bounded by lands 6f flH S. F. Cromer aird Perry Street. Ba TERMS OF SALE?CASH. Pur- B chaser to pay for papers and stamps. / THOS. P. THOMSON, 3t. /' Master A. C., S. C HE tares I !nH si IIY STABLE || s mm nd in |9 Ricked Over jl ITF 1 1 Carolina _|