LICENSE !
ORDINANCE.
i
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ;
City of Abbeville.
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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
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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
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rou ALWJ
RECEIVE (
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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
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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
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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
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ill Women
f v
! you com- I
ir respect- | ,
?n when callers ar- |
; security that you | '
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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
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