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LICENSE ! ORDINANCE. i STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ; City of Abbeville. i For the purpose of meeting in part the current expenses of the city gov-J ernment of the City of Abbeville, S. C., for the fiscal year beginning the! 1st dav of January, 1918, and toj meet in part such other indebtedness! of the City of Abbeville, S. C., as J may become due in said fiscal year, I therefore, be it ordained by the City I Council of Abbeville, S. C., and by authority of the same. Section 1. That no person, firm, or! corporation shall engage in, prosecute or carry on any trade, business, occupation or profession hereinafter mentioned, without having first paid & specal license tax therefor as follows, to wit: A??ents. enlarging pictures, per^ ^ day, $1, month $iu uui Agents, retailing goods per yr.100 00 Agents or dealers in pianos or organs 10 00 Agent for, or dealer in, fertilizers, who is not a regular merchant and who does not pay the merchant's license. 25 00 Agents for sewing machines. 15 00 Agents lightning rods 50 00 Architect, civil engineer, surveyor, either 5 00 Apple wagon, wholesale or retail, per day 1 00 Auctioneer 5 00 Automobile hacks, each 10 00 Auto Dray 10 00 Ball, when admission is charged, night $1 to $10 Baker 5 00' Banks 50 00j Every person, firm or corporation conducting private banks lending money on real estate and individual securities 25 00 Wholesale, merchandise 25 00 Barbers, one chair $5, each additional chair 1 00 Bicycle dealer, repairing or hiring 5 00 Billiard, pool, bagatelle 300 00 Blacksmith, one forge $5, each additional 1 00 o:,i 10 00 JL9111 pvovv* * Boarding house, public, per yr 5 00 Book agents (not local) per day 5 00 Boot or shoe shop, making or repairing 3 00 Bowling or ten pin alley, per month 5 00 Brick mfgs. 15 00 Bootblacks 5 00 Broker, stocks and bonds, per year 10 00 Brokers (pawn) 25 00 Building & Loan Association (other than local) 25 00 Butcher and dealer in meats. 10 00 Circus, per day, $25 to 300 00 Circus, side show per day $10 to 25 00 Coal and wood dealer 10 00 Contractor, for less than $500 5 00 Contractor, for over $500 15 00 Cotton factory 100 00 Cotton seed oil mill 50 00 Cotton gin and press, $10 over 5 gins, each additional 2 00 Cotton weigher 1 5 00 Dogs, upon each and every dog or bitch to be paid for by the person or persons on whose premises said dog or bitch is kept 1 00 H/?onco not. naid on or ??w<??v jr before 15th of May 1 50 Dealers in automobiles, per year 10 00 Dealers in builders' supplies _ 10 00 Dealers in horses or mules or both 25 00 Dentists 5 00 Druggists 10 00 Exhibition, outside Opera House, per day, $5 to 25 00 Express companies for business done within the State and not including that done outside State or Government business 100 00 Feather bed and mattress makers and renovaters, other than local, per week 25 00 Fish and oyster dealer or e.ich 5 00 Fruit tree agents 5 00 Flying jenny, first week $15, each week after 10 00 Gas fitters and plumbers 10 00 Gun and locksmith repair shop 1 00 Harness shop, repairing 5 00 Horses, sold at auction exclusively, per head 2 00 Hotel 15 00 Ice cream saloon 5 00 Ire dealers and marufactur ers, 25 00 Insurance companies, life 15 00 Insurance companies, fire 10 00 Insurance companies, accident 10 00 Itinerent physician, faith curer or other healer, per day, $5 to 10 00 Junk dealer, per year 15 00 Laundry or agent for same__ 5 00 Lawyer 5 00 Lawyer, lending money on real estate securities for self or others, in addition._ 5 00 Loan, saving or investment lrt.ininni rYinnov UUIIipuillCd, wcuii..b on real estate or otherwise 15 00 Lumber yards 10 00 Lunch dealers 2 00 Manufacturer of bottled soda water or agent for same 20 00 Marble yard dealer or agent- 10 00 Merchants shall pay license according; to following schedule of gross sales upon sworn returns: Sales amounting to five thousand dollars or under the sum of $10; on each additional thousand dollars of sales or fractional parts thereof, the sum of fiftv cents. Provided, that mrchants who engage or are engaged in business in said City of Abbeville for a shorter period than twelve months shall be required to pay a license fee of $1.00 to $250. vc.7:. Sec. 2. To constitute a merchant doing business :n the City of Abbeville within the meaning of the fore-j proing section it shall be necessary! for the person or persons so engaged to maintain and keep a place of business or office in the said city of Abbeville. Medicine venders, per day__100 00 Mill, grist 5 00 Mill, saw 5 00 Newspaper 5 00 Oil company, kerosene and gasoline 25 < Oculist or optician, iterant, per day 100 i Oculist or optician, local, per year 5 i Painter, contractor 5 i Physician 5 i Piano or organ tuner or repairer per month $3, year. 10 i Photographers 5 1 Pressing clubs, per year 5 1 Printing office, job 15 1 Railroad, for business done within the State, and not in Hndine- that done without the State, or inter-State commerce, and not including that done for the Government 100 i Street peddler or dealer in produce for profit 25 i Tailor, merchant or manufacturer 10 i Tailor, not merchant, engaged in making and repairing __ 5 I Tannery 5 I Telephone, exchange 50 i Telegraph company, for business done within the State, and not including that done without the9State,- or interState commerce, and not including that done for the government 15 I Real estate agent ? 10 I Repair shop for automobiles, per year 10 I Repair shop for furniture or other wood work 5 I Repair shop for shoes 3 I Repair shop for sewing machines 3 ( Restaurant 20 I Shows, 5 and 10 cents, per week, $5 to 25 I Stables, feed 10 I Stables, livery and feed 20 I Stables, sales 25 < Stables, sales and feed 25 I Stables, sales, livery and feed 30 I Stock yard, for horses, mules cattle 10 I Stoves, itinerant dealer in __ 10 I -- or i Street drummer oo < Street hack or carriage 5 I Street wagon or dray, 2 horse 5 < Street wagon or dray, 1 horse 2 I Shooting gallery, per week ? 5 I Skating rink, per week 5 I Soda fountain, connected with business or alone 6 < Tin or tinker-shop 5 I Undertaker or embalmer, either 10 I Veterinary surgeon 6 ? Warehouse 20 I Watchmaker and jeweler, repairing 10. I Sec. 3. Any person or persons cs rying on any or prosecuting any bi iness or occupation or running ai establishment named in this or pi ceding sections, without first havi; taken out a license therefor, shall fined, except in cases where spec penalties are imposed, not less th two dollars nor more than one hu dred dollars, or be imprisoned r less than two days nor more th thirty days, for each and every d such business is carried on withe such license. That no license shall i sued for a less period than one y? | (unless otherwise specified) dat from the first day of the month which same is issued, and it shall the duty of the Clerk of Council see that licenses and fees are i posed and paid, and to promptly : port any and all cases of failure do so. Sec. 4. That for any business, < cupation or profession not enum ated in the foregoing sections, the cense shall be regulated and impos j by the City Council at any meeti 'of the same. I Sec. 5. The City Council here .reserves the right to refuse or Ivoke any license for any cause wh may seem to it just. i Sec. 6. That any firm, person I corporation making any false 'fraudulent returns, where a retv lis necessary or required under t (Ordinance, shall upon conviction ! fined not exceeding fifty dollars r less than five dollars, or be impris< | ed not exceeding thirty days nor I jthan five days. Sec. 7. That any person, firm corporation carrying on or prosec ing any trade, busness, occupati or profession, or running any est? lishment named in this Ordinance, 'upon which a license may hereafl be imposed by the City Council, wi flrof Vioxrincr ntlt ? llf?PT therefor, shali be fined (except , cases where special penalties are i posed) not less than two dollars r more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than two da .nor more than thirty days in t county or city prison for each a , every datf such business, occupati or profession is carried on withe such license. i That this Ordinance shall go ir 'effect on the first day of Noveinbi 1917, and all persons, firms, corp< ations or professions not conformi to its requirements shall be liable the penalties herein imposed ire and after last mentioned date. Done in Council this 9th day i October, 1917, and ratified under t I seal of the City of Abbeville, S. C. IT. G. PERRJN, C. C. GAMBREL City Clerk. Mayor. FRANK CARWILE WRITES. ! Level Land, Oct. 9.?Today cool and rainy and fires are not o of place. The following happen on the same date. Mrs. James Carwile died 1889. She dropp dead in the yard of David R. Penn who married her oldest daughter. 1 was a hnlf brother of Mr. A. Penney and there are only two the large family living1. Mrs. Ci wile's maiden name was Brooks. S was raised in the Warrenton coi munity and married in 1843 and w the mother of 12 children, 8 bo and 4 girls. Six of the boys ( men) are living, three are here ai three in Texas. The youngest o: (Hugh) is a doctor and is 51 yea old. The husband and wife di near the same age, 63. The olde son, Mr. L. S. Carwile, is the fath of 12 children of whom 8 are livin The father of James M. and my f ther was Josiah and lived in tl neighborhood of Little River chun 00' 3 ARE1 1 TO oo:: ^ 00 S: no K oojjli jo | 50 Models To ?S i: Select From o? ij: ao 5|: 3? 11| d? i|: ?o | When the ( )01 pelled to scurry ai 1)011 ably to your guest 30 ij: do ij: 50 !j: 30 if: 30 !!: 3? :j: 301 ill ?, 30P 30 jj: JL jq are smart, clever frocks that yo 50 !(: rive, instead of rushnig off to c DO!;!;! are dressed in a manner that w 30 [)0 I oo I DO | I [jj} <!;? "The Cash Store" ISny " ~ nGg and is buried there. His grave isn't be'marked and I have my doubts as to ial whether there is any one living who an can show you his grave. A great ^ mistake not to mark one's last restan ing place. He and two other broay ther's married Callaham's and if ut you see one and a Carwile around sar ^ere ^ou may know at once they are e(j related. 1910 the old woman came in home from a visit to home people be and I was glad she did for I had been keeping "batch." 1911 cool. Hi I re_ rain and had fire like today. 1912 to cotton was 10 3-4, a vast difference from that of the present. 1913 hot oc" and cloudy, August day. 1914 pick]j_ ed cotton and am still at the job. ;ed 1915 picked peas and had first frost ng on the tenth. 1916 sold cotton at Due West 16.65, more than I had re_jever received for it up to that date, ich The battle of Savannah took place jin 1779 and they are still fighting oriover the water and the end is not yet! irn I in sight. And they will be fought. his long after this war is over for the; be devil was in Adam and Eve and Cain' l0r and he is the supreme ruler of many to this day. I Peru and Uruguay have joined the or,defenders of democracy. How any ut- self respecting nation can do otherw*se *s a mystery to us* Those on or the other side represent brutality in ter its worst shape. th- We received a letter from Mr. J 'j? Joe Bell of Tuxedo, N. C., in which j m- he said he would be at Little River j ion on the 28th with his quartette, if | be the weather and roads permitted, and he We sincerely trust they will. n(j: We received a card on the 9th at( on 11 o'clock, postmarked Columbia. S.' >ut C., Oct. 5, 2 P. M., Jackson Branch.! ^QIHas the old time stage coach return-, gr ed? Could have been over half way 3r- to California. Some one is to blame ng and no wonder we have :awsuits. *?i W wish we were a pood criminal! lawyer for we see business ahead, of j for one for the courts are going to i he have plenty to do we fear. Men1 k 'can't retain all the blood which j 'Icourses their veins with 26 cent cot-j; jton and there are going to be a few'' j fights this side of the bi? pond. If !we see one we are going the other is way for wc don't like the idea of put-!' ut ting our hand on the Bible and going1 ed on the stand and about the first thing ' M. we know some smart lawyer will i ed make us tell?you know what. Keep i ey out of law and let some of them go i 3e to plowing. J. Congress has adjourned and the of Records will quit coming for awhile. ' ir- Well, its a big job to read everything i he in them in this day and time espe-!1 cially the speeches of Bob La?ol-ji as lette Stone, Hardwick, and Co., and ; vs we are not eoinir to try to undertake !1 or the job. j? nd: W. B. Mann and wife of near;] ne; Lowndesville, were with us Friday j: rs'the 5th for the first time in quits a i ed whil.e < >st; In our opinion boys of 15 and 16 1 er; years old are going to have to un- i g. dergo a course of training in our i a- military encampments. There is one be thing certain the world, with the ex- 1 ch ception of Germany isn't going to be 1 7 rou ALWJ RECEIVE ( I 7^77 f loor=bell rings and coi rv*ay and change your < s? dainty, Attractive u can wear about the house while engi hange your clothes, you proudly walk i ill call forth envy, not criticism. $1.50 to $ M. ANDE1 caught, napping again and you may but mz.rk it down and underscore it as tior mimy times as you wish. whe Soon be time for possum and hea pumpkin custard. You may have our lool part if you will give us the 'taters kno and buttermilk and corn bread. Like my tha old time religion, they are good era] enough for me. had Leo Burton of the U. S. Navy, kno Vina Hoon r?r> ti vicit Vila nl/1 Vinme tine He was on the water for 26 days 'I f< without seeing any land. on Let's not let 26 cent cotton give abo us the big head, but try to keep our H equiliburium, for it will take that to abo pay some of us out of debt. whi The preachers as a rule, are paid reti as well with 7 cents cotton as the to i present price. Wait and see if it thir isn't the truth with some of them. stat I agree with you in regard 'to son; Tillman. He has stood nobly by Mr. whe Wilson and the government. He is evei one of the greatest men South Caro- can lina has produced since John C. Cal- all houn and deserves re-election. Some is v time ago I said in an article that I w he could beat Mr. Blease ten thou-'it n sand votes and sit in his rocking goir chair without making a single speech ing and I'm still sticking to it. That cou: will not be near so bad as Ed Smith;rod* beat him when times were quiet, out ir? ?j. ....? luu may put uiia in yuui pipe anu nig smoke it, the man who runs for of- gnu fice and is opposed to the govern- loofc ment and its prosecuton, of the war ligh ?well his name is Dennis now. moi We were very much pleased with rum the first issue of your semi-weekly, my especially the local column, for I the believe it had every man's name in ed 1 the county 'ceptin mine and I hadn't see been to town. You should have had ther Mrs. Rogers before and I have al^but ways wondered why she ever left; and The Medium, her noble father's' it c paper. Frank Carwile. icom ' Jjudi COL. KERR TO COUSIN PERCY.)Die ? | this Abbeville.. S. C., Sunday Night, jit $ Dear Cousin Percy,?I know that hav< you have thought strange that I have that not written you earlier. I should (next have done so, but a few days after! I got hom? Col. Richard Sondley,!Son< our county auditor, who ic a friend(o..e of mine, called on me to make out,He my return for Income Tax. You fran may not have found it out but an: j income now is about as troublesome i,rot as an appendix. Well, I called in Roy Power and got down to business.: jgno [n returning for this tax, which I that ;houkl have said is confined to the' vji]e rich men in our State, it is necessary per " - -x i 1~ J2 ! to put down an you gei in, mciuuing, 0f 0 iny money you find, all given to you, as.t] ill amounts received for clover seed.ian(j jutter milk sold, old clothes sold and 30 on, and deduct from this all ex-!near senses in making the income. Nowjsa^ . /ou cannot deduct anything for fam- on ? ly expenses, which should be chang- ajj jd. Nothing can be taken off for bers jread, meat, salmon, or even butter nilk if you buy it, though as said wouj f you sell it must go in the income. Well, I get a fine salary you know next Tom the Emporium. I have never an(* ;old around here just what I do get, with KYS DRESSE COMPANY? IIFl II Jy oizes J Ehjj H.- < To Fit i npany is announced, are clothes in order to appes Wash Dresses aorori in vniiT flails miltine hnilSPWnrlf. Thf nto your parlor, with a feeling of absolute 52.50 RSON CO.K w when I was in New York I men- was the pn led the matter once or twice in Abbevill ire I thought Joe Harrison would they had r< r of it, and I remember you and Banne ced surprised. Then again you to know m w I have a fine clover patch in ner either, garden, and am'interested in sev- knew Mr. [ big enterprises, so that when I rison, or D figured up all my income, and banks and eked off all the expenses of get- them, thouj : it in, after three weeks work, York a doz< aund that I would have to pay even know $1.25, which will give the State goods up tl ut one and a quarter cents. of uncle J row there is another strange thing was *n ut this income tax business, Now, I c ch I found after sending in my down your lrn, and I could have cut it down which will $1.20 if I had known it. This quickly as ig to which I refer is this: As I We have n ed you cannot deduct any per-[where peo] al expenses at all, therefore,' an educatit sn I buy a cigar and smoke it,!them in N< a though it is burnt up, nothing, suggest tha be deducted for the cigar. But should reqi losses are knocked off. Now that j be educate* rhere I could have made it $1.20. i^ll the paj ill explain this point to you as'calls can 1? lay be useful. You see as I was who calls, a ig up to New York, after pass-; barber-shop Hodges, I wanted to see the J of the day ntry which was new to me, so I: Let me 1 - most of the way with my head when you of the window. Now the mornwe were nassinc throne}! Vir t, I was in the smoker and was] :ing out the window. I had just] P* S.?W ted a cigar and put it in my J good lookir ith to smoke, when I saw a dogjn New Yor ning after the train and I stuck I head out a little too far to watch I j dog and a telegraph pole knock-! ;he cigar out of m ymouth. You| that cigar was not smoked, and! Mr. Fran efore was not personal expenses, i visitor in o being knocked out of my mouth, contributes nnf V?olT1K! cr o nkqnna +A 1*0^ f ?"janci his art omes under losses under the in-' e tax law, after consulting ln^eres^ je Holiingsworth and his consta-! thank him I find that I should have deducted plimentary loss from the $1.25 and made|tion. 1.20. So you see the State will ; a little the advantage of me on, , but when I do the returning ; year I will keep this in mind. ( nirkv (1hnt. is what. \vt> rail jley) tells me that my return is of the finest he has ever seen. By* thinks the Governor may have i< didn't say anything about it to her Stillman, but I don't mind ng you that you have the most rant set of barbers in New York I have ever seen. In Abbe-, a man don't need to take a pa-j if he has time to go down to one (/ ur barbershops every morning lie barbers here know everything \ yjS; everybody and can tell you all: j(\ news. In New York I went to (If K Vw ly every barbershop in town and CiUA \ around to hear what was going, \ \J tnd I didn't hear any news at| WciK Finally, I decided tnat tne Dar-i i * thought I was a spy, or some-! ? of that kind, so I thought ij Id let them know who I was the time, so I walked into a shop, went around and shook hands I all the barbers and told them I 34 to 56 ill Women f v ! you com- I ir respect- | , ?n when callers ar- | ; security that you | ' Idea Patterns ! > *' 15c. I oprietor of the Emporium e, S. C., about whom iad so much in The Press, r, and they didn't seem t e or The Press and BanI asked them if they Allen Smith, or Dr. Har>r. Thomson, who run our they didn't know a one of *h they have been to New en times each. Thy didn't Bill Wilson, who buys , i i i i i 'i itire, auu xiau IICVCI tiuaxu im, and didn't know he mule business. lo not want to try to run town, but there is nothingmake a town go dead as a set of ignorant barbers. ight schools down here jle who want to can get > >n and I guess they have sw York. If so, I would ,t each shop in your town lire at least two men to- , d in the News and take >ers so a gentleman who :arn something, as a man ,t prominent center like a i likes to hear the issues discussed. enow the status of things \ write me agan? Your cousin, Davis. hat do they have all those ig women in barber-shops k for anyway? FRANK CARWILE. k Carwile was a pleasant ur office last week. He frequently to our pages icles are read with much [e is looking well. We for his expressions com to our semi-weekly edi xy4 M ' . \Ltipm. >> M. fit. * fcOw.> mfcUm j H I