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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:
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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.
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lie Sparks Circus in This City On '
le 6th.
THRONGS ATTEND (
> THE FUNERAL OF
MISS OLIVE THOMAS
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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 *
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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,
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drew thousands of persons from all
walks of life to St. Thomas' church,
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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- ^
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" ison Fisher, one of the ' first to discover
Miss Thomas' beauty and im- ^
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> 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, ^
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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
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i of a film for the last time. v
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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(
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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.
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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
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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
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'?Nice eight room house
1 city conveniences.
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^st class eight room house,
iveniences? The price is
?House and Store in one.
?e store room. Also ware1
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One lot 125 ft. by 160. ft.
store on lot 50 ft. by 50 ft. } .
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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*,
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and easy terms on any of
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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.
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