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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1930.

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AMUSEMENT

NEWS

QUEEN'S present Joseph Wag- staff and Lola Lane in “Let's Go Places," a musical extravaganza. No less than four of the best known song-writing team in the country contributed catchy melo- dics to this production. A talkle film.

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CENSUS - TAKING IN AMERICA.

Where the Farmer Lived.

HUMAN INCIDENTS.

Home is where the head is when the census in takon. It's only in põems, says the New York Literary the official place of residence. An Digest, that the heart determines towa census-taker had to make` a spilt-hair decision, we learn from an Associated Press dispatch from

CENTRAL features Nancy Car RAFT PROGRAMMES and roll and Hal Skelly in "The Dance DENTRY FORMS for

the of Life." The film is the ultim SEVENTH EXTRA RACE MEET-ate in perfection in the all-talking ING to be held on SATURDAY, motion picture medium. It has Waterloo in that State:

Causeway Bay Stables.

He visited "a farm which strad des the Black Hawk and Benton

27th September, 19:10 (weather per-everything that makes for thrill- mitting) may be obtained at the ing. gripping entertainment-n Race Course, Hong Kong Club and romantle love story of back-stage county line" and "found that the life, burlesque sequences, dancing, farmer's bed was so placed that he Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock a gorgeous "Follies" revue, aingalept in both countries. Noon on THURSDAY, 18th Seping, music, dialogue, colour. It is

"His head rested on a pillow in tember, 1930.

¡Paramount's master production Black Hawk," we read on, but his made from the remarkably suc-feet projected into Benton County, cessful atage play, "Burlesque.” A The enumerator,. puzzled. thumbed through his rule-book until he rend that heads (ot MAJESTIC presents Sir Harry families presumably) shall be Lauder and Vera Voronina in counted in their usual place of "Huntingtower." The popular abode.

Hong Kong, 5th Sept., 1930.

GENERAL NOTICES

NOTICE. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE IS

carried on by me under the name

talkie Alm.

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STAR

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stage comedian and songster plays "The farmer was listed officially the part of a little grocer in a as a Black Hawk County resident." Scottish town a

Just one of the many human in- gang of boys, and. after purchas-terest touches in the taking of the of "YEE SANG FAT" at No. 34, ing their goodwill with halfifteenth decennial census. And Queen's Road Central, which pre-f crowns, becomes involved in an there were many more touches.

international intrigue. mises have been recently de-

The film grave, gay and even tragic. molished and upon

the site of assures him of a new success in

One enumerator saved a life, which the new Theatre of The motion pictures. A silent fin many listened to family troubles, China Entertainment & Land In-

some had dogs set upon them, and vestment Company, Limited, is bei

features Tim McCoy, others, working in districts inha- ing erected, has been wound up. Pauline

Starke, and Karibited by non-English-speaking for NOTICE IS HEREBY FUR- Dane in "War Paint.". McCoy elgners, had trouble to make them- THER GIVEN that I have no con- is said to be

great-selves understood. cern with nor am I connected in est living authority on any way with the business now carried on under the name of "YEE SANG FAT" at Tui Ping Building. Queen's Road Central and I will not be responsible in any way for any of the liabilities of such business.

Dated this 6th day of Septem- ber, 1930.

CHANG. FAT.

COMPANY MEETINGS

THE HONG KONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING

CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

1 instructions to sell by Puble NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Auction

ON

FRIDAY, September 12, 1930, commencing at 2.30 pm.

at thoir Sales Root,

Duddell Street

A Large Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

Comprising

FURNITURE

Teak Hatstand, Glass Cabinet, Chesterfield Couches and

the

the The census, employing more than North American Indian and for 10,000 persons and costing appro- years lived among the Arapahos, ximately $10,000,000, is expected to who adopted him into the tribe and set the population of the nation made him a white chief, "War around the 120,000,000 mark. Paint" is a picture full of action and colour presenting some re markable feats of personal valour A silent film.

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WORLD presents "A Vermilion Egg" the Chinese drama. silent film.

THE FROTH LINE.

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The census men visited everyone in the land. One of the first to give information was President Hoover himself, some of whose given thus by the

answers

are

Washington Evening Star:

A GOOD COCKTAIL MIXER

IS ALWAYS POPULAR

But always use

SEAGER EVANS

GINS

DRY &

OLD OLD TOM.

Obtainable Everywhere.

Sole Distributors-

H. RUTTONJEE & SON, 15, Queen's Road. C.

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Donations and Subscriptions must now

be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Mrs. H. E.

Goldsmith, 525, The Peak.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT. SOCIETY

Down in Texas, Houstor resid- ents who had to be away from home at census time took great care not. to be counted in the wrong place, as the. Houston "Post-Dispatch" tells us:

Name Herbert Hoaver."

men, announcing themselves as she learned that the woman had Relationship to the head of the enumerators, robbed 蟲 home. been twice married, and wished to family The President answered This made other Chicago house- keep it a secret. Another woman "Head" for himself and "Wife" for holders nervous. One enumera- enumerator was invited to lunch. Mrs. Hoover.

tor called J. E. Vesely, chairman To the question, home owned or of the Chicago Census Advisory rented, the President's answer was Committee said, according to the "SCANTY" GLASSES SHOWN TO "Occupied". This question appll- Chicago Tribune:

ed only to the White House and not) ROYAL COMMISSION,

"I'm having a lot of trouble with to the home owned by Mr. Hoover a woman who doesn't want to let on S. Street. '

me in.

She thinks I'm a burglar. Next came the President's What had I better do about it?"

with you," advised his chief,

"Take the cop on the beat along

policeman went and the home was The

soon recorded.

measure to

Other answers to questions were the that he was married at the age of 25, and that he was able to read

Another census,taker in Mr.

Vesely's district complained:

A, S. Pimentel, one of those heard from, enclosed two pink absentee slips, which he

Baid had been left for him in an hotel in Dallas, with the request that he fill them out there.

"Like fun I will," his letter to Clarence A. Miller, census direct- tor for Houston, concluded. "That would be two more for Dallas and two less for Houston."

In Colorado, the Associated Press reports, a woman was found

Mr. Joseph Wilson, a borough answers to such questions as own- that the NINTH ORDINARY councillor of Sunderland, showed ing a radio set. To the question of YEARLY MEETING of the Share to the Licensing Commission re-age he wrote "55," Mrs. Hoover's holders in the Company will becently a number of glasses, by the age was not made public. held at Lane Crawford's Cafe, Ex-use of which the "trade, he alleg change Building, on TUESDAY, ed, gave short 23rd September, 1930, at 10.45 public.

m. for the purpose of receiving He also displayed a glass which and write.

"One of these women told.me the Report of the Directora to had a ring round it about half.an

through the speaking-tube to come Laugha and tears were plentiful to the back door, and when I went gether with Statement

of Ac-inch from the top, and he suggest- as the enumerators made their around there she wouldn't unlock counts, and re-electing Directors ed that this was the fairest con- rounds, and newspapers all over the door. and Auditors.

talner which could be used

I can't get any facts beer. The glass ensured that the dies and tragedies

for the country were full of the come-trying to yell through a door.

⚫ uncovered: What do I do now?" beer, should come up to the line, He are some brief: bita gleaned by

who could recall neither her mald- allowing room above the line for the Associated Press, Kansas City. go back to-morrow," said Vesely. marriage; and New York City "Put a note under her door and en name nor the date of her

Kansas, furnished this bit of "She'll change her Mr. Wilson said that one

mind to yielded the case of a man and wife, frm

colour:

morrow." made £3 148, 8d: extra per hoge-

living together, who had not Naming The Baby.

Only three cases of belligerent spoken for 32 years. In Texas head. bf beer by using "scanty"

The age-old question. "What refusal to give Information were

BRYS. another Associated Preas glasses.

items, When the public was served with shall we name the baby?" was nice-reported, and these, the enumerators

two women спитега- ly settled for ane family by the said, came from men who appear- tors started the "Lloyd George" measure

out for

to cover their wines and spirits their loss was arrival of a Federal census enumed to be the worse for moonshine.

districts in automobiles, In naming all the mem- A hint that police might be call-carrying food, cooking utensils, about. 20 per cent.

bers of the family the head of the ed quelled the rebellion in each bed-rolls, guns, and picks and house wound up by saying, "and case. baby."

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Arm Company will be CLOSED from chairs, Desks, Gramophone & Re-17th to 23rd September, 1930, both cords, Pictures, Ornaments, "Curios,

days inclusive. Electric Table Fans, Carpets, Rugs, Plano, Wardrobe Trunks,

By Order of the Board of Directors, etc.

N. MANUK,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 8th Sept., 1930..

Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chatra, Sideboards with Bevelled Mirrors, Dinner Waggon, Ice Glass Chest, Dinner Crockery, Ware, Tea Sets, Porcelain Flower Stands, Porcelain Basins, Rattan Chairs, Screens, Kitchen Utensils, etc.

Teak & Brass Bedsteads, Ward-. robes with Bevelled Mirrorā, Dressing Tables, Chest of Draw- ers, Book Case, Microscope, Silk Shawls, Books, Vases, etc.

One Herring-Hall-Marvin Combination Safe,

- 1′ 11′′ x 1′ 6′′ x 1′ 5′′, .and

A Quantity of

BLACKWOOD FURNITURE.

including:-

Jose Tables, Curfos Cabinets,

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China Mail Offices,

Tea Poys, Jardialeres, Couch, STANDARD TIMES

Oplum Stools, Chairs, etc.

On View from Thursday, Sep-

tember 11, 1980.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

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Auctioneers

SUNRISE AND SUNSET

COLONY.

IN

foam.

erator.

shovels to dig out bad roads.

A tired enumerator entered a

The quarter gill was frequently used as indicating a "large port,' and charged accordingly.

All Intoxicating liquor should "Well, now, that's a pretty name, Polish home just as the children

but so anonymous and apt to be were coming home from school. NOT UNREASONABLE |be sold by imperial measure only.

Wilson

mother Mr.

marshalled said that the confusing, don't you think?" said The

The head of the brood-which she "decent the enumerator. Englishman W&S

twelve-in drinker and traditionally respect-family explained that since 'baby's bered

barmaids in Scotland.

Mr. Wilson

contended

Several members of the Com. mission suggested that Mr. Wilso. wae making charges on, slender grounds,

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong BURGLARY AT HOME

Hong Kong, September 8, 1980. Kong for September (Standard time

of the 120th Meridian, East of POLICE STATISTICS SHOW BIG Greenwich) are as follow:

September

ALL KIND

9

Sunrise Sunset.

a.m. p.m. 6.08 6.33

OF CAR

30

6.08 6.82

11

6.08 6.81

REPAIRS.

12

6.08 6.30

13.

6.09 6.29

11

FIAT GARAGE

0.11 K.1

6.09 6.28 6.10 0.27 6.106.20 6.26

6.25 6.116.24

611 6.28

6.116.23

6.126.21

6.126.19

8.12-8:18

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QUALITY PR

6.126.17

6.18 6.16

6.18 0.16

8.140.15

6.146147

6.14 6.18

time.

said the

her

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WIFE'S DESIRE FOR HER OWN CAREER.

sion..........

Although desertion was alleged to have taken place eighteen years ago, an action for divorce, on these grounds has been dismissed by Lord Mackay, in the Court of Ses-

The pursuer, William Ross Sutherland, Annette Street, Govan- hill, Glasgow, is 63 years of age, and his wife, Jane McLachlan, or Ross, whose present address is un- known, is 02.

Giving judgment Lord Mackay said that the parties had not re- other since 1912, when the wife sided together or troubled one an-

went to Canada, where she main- tained herself by nursing and other employments. The marriage took place as far back as 1891, and was perfectly happy until, at a time when the eldest of the three daugh

ed women. The Scotsman was nit birth, three weeks before, the room and began to tell off "fine" hence the absence cr family had been upset by dissen- their ages. Good progress was sion over choice of a norme. A made until child number eleven that hurried family conference was held had been scored, whereupon brewers made Christmas gifts to and "Baby" was listed on the sternation seized the mother, for number twelve could not be found. the, people, and he said that all enumerator's report as "Alice."

Columbus, Ohio, census enumera- A thorough chief constables should be com-

but unsuccessful pelled to render an account to intors solved the problem of deter-search was conducted, and the come-tax collectors of the value of mining milady's age in a manner mother was about to ask police ald that may be beipful to all faced by when the wanderer, Stanislaus, the gifts.

"Tie thus:- Buch task.

aged five, strolled in from the 'If she is reticent, the census- corner grocery.

One embarrassed father encoun- taker looks her over, guesses her age, then adds twenty years. Ho tered by a census-taker could not then announces his conclusion. remember the ages of three of his They report it works almost every seven children, while another made abashful suggestion that, "If you In Newark, New Jersey, the pro- come around in a week I'll have an- bfem of counting the city's Chinese other name to give you," population was "all" Grock" to the

Two Youngsters. census staff, according to the Even-

A couple, both past eighty years ing News, which tells us:

From detectives in police head. old, visited Mr. Vesely in his office, quarters who haunt the dark cel- and explained that they were de- burglary, or possessing housebreak-lars and twisted stairways in the parting for Florida and wished to ing instruments by night Oriental block of Mulberry Street, fulfil their census obligations be-

The chairman, Siz Montagu Supervisor George A. Guenther fore they left. Sharpe, said, that cases of house- learned that it is safe to resume breaking and shopbreaking were 475 Chinese live there. However, ed. becoming vory serious in Middlesex Uncle Sam wants more than just and the country generally. He that.AN noticed from the police statistics, Mr. Guenther expected to make that, compared with the period a tour of Chinatown himself to

The warmth of, the enumerators" He felt that the pursuer, bring- 1910-1924, cases of housebreaking determine if there are enough

Enumerator ing at the age of 63 an action had increased by 12 per cent., shop Chinese children available to pez receptions varied. breaking 129 per cent, attempts to mit an American consus-taker to Theodore Bayes of Berwyn found founded on a separation, 18 years break in 110 per cent, and entering do the work. It is the practice to himself the possessor of two ago, had completely failed to estab

fountain-pens when.lish that his wife then or now was with intent to commit a felony 123 depend largely on children for in- additional

concluded his work-both | in malicious dosertion of him.

RISE.

Of 41 persons for trials at Middlesex Sesalons recently, 80 were charged with breaking and entering,

fera was 12, the defender took it into her head to take up maternity auraing. Manners changed and

"Any children?" Vesaley inquirit was possible that this attitude of

"Two youngsters," he was told. "How old are they?" "A boy forty-six and a girl forty; nine"

the wife was a little ahead of the times, but it would be difficult to say that the desire of the wife to do something for herself was tofol- ly, unreasonable.

per cent formation in foreign quarters, he.

Sir Montagu said that one of the since they attend the public schools gratultons, he said. Another, There was at their ages no compell persons for trial was a boy of 14, and tan do better, with the Tangu a woman, was coldly reing reason why he should termin- who was charged with five offences, age than the grown-ups...

ceived, until she could separate ate a matrimonial relationship or

of breaking into two shops, a Some trouble was caused the woman from whom, bhs | brand with the stigma of divorce dwelling-house, a factory, and a by Impostors posing as census- sought Information from a group, the 62-year-old mother of throm

In Chicago ree gun- of.friends assembled at tea. Then grown-u

school..

taker.