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5^' i L__ r Thursdoy, DecemMf 12,1940 / ^ 7 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, S. C. % Poge Eleven RAILROAD COMPANIES OR AGENCIES— Railroad agencies or com panies, each, for business ^ne in 4he Town of Clinton regulated by Act of Legisla ture, Section 7436, in 1932, S. C. Code, as follows: Town having a population to 10,000, $25.00 for first 1,000 and $30.00 for each addition al 1,000 of population. For each railroad company or and $1.00 for each a<lditional $1,000.00 of gross income. TELEGRAPH COMPANIES OR AGENCIES— Telegraph companies or agencies for business done in the Town of Clinton, but not including business to or from points without the state, or for the Government of the U. S., whose gross annual income does not exceed statement under oath, before an of-^presidents generally and Vice-Presi- PPORATP COURT ficer qualified to administer oaths, dent Wallace particularly. Mr. W'al- ^ * and lile said statement with the lace, so far, has done nothing to C^LEKK COPIES Town Clerk setting forth: make him famous as one of his Dem- AMCIFKIT \A/II I ^ (1) His or her name, Style of firm, ocratic predecessors.'Thomas R. Mar- MiN^ICiN I VVILLJ name of company, or corporation. shall. Mr. IVIarshall was vice-presi- I (2) The trade, business, profession dent under W'odrow Wilson, and Says The Laurens Advertiser: or occupation for which a license is when he-was asked w'hat the country Copying of aged will for interested God and dealt mainly u;th the dis- required. needed most he gav’e the perfectly descendants of the parties involved po.sitiuji of farm land- and property’, ' (3) The amount of businew pro- truthful answer; “A good five-cent is a task that frequently falls upon including a number of .>lavea, Th« posed to be done during the current cigar.” That made Tom Marshall fa- Miss Isabelle Fuller clerk in the of- wills were entirely hand written ra year .and in those cases in w’hich such*mous and popular. fice of probate judge who Monday large sheets of durable, rough-finisH band as.the vain attempt pf a feeble man to record hip signature. Failing to make his name sufficiently legible, the signature had been written in b/ anedher and attested to by a martc. Each of the documents opened bjf bequeathing the soul of its author to agency, per year 175.00, TRANSIENT DEALERS $5,000.00, per day 50.00. information is required, the amourit Mr. Wallace is already famous as "''a" doing just that for Charles H. copy paper. 10.00 5.00 RENOVATORS OF MATTRESSES— . Renovators of mattresses j whose gross annual income | does not exceed $2,500.00, per year and $2.00 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. Whose gross monthly in come does not exceed $150.00, per month— and $1.00 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross monthly income. ^ REAL ESTATE AGENTS— Real Estate Agents whose gross annual income does not exceed $2,500.00, per year.... 15.00 .and $2.00 for each additional $1,000.00 pf gross income. 8 SHOWS, PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS— /Show's, performances, and exhibitions of all kinds, exr cept circuses or similar ex hibitions whose gross daily income does not exceed $500.00, per day 25.00 SODA FOUNTAINS— Soda fountains with or withr out store*, whose gross an nual income does not exceed $1,500.00, per year 10.00, and $1.00 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross, income. SOLICITORS AND CANVASSERS— All persons canvassing or so liciting any orders for goods, wares, merchandise, books, literature, or soliciting or ders for any commodity or thing whatever to be deliv ered at future date, whether any part of the purchase price is collected by any such solicitor or canvasser or not, per year 50.00 Per day 2.00 STABLES, SALES, FEED AND LIVERY— Stables, sales, feed and liv ery, whose gross annual in come does not exceed $5,000.00, per year 25.00 and $1.00 for each additional . $1,000.00 of gross income. SALVAGERS OR BANKRUPT SALES MANAGERS— Salvages or sales (bank rupt) managers, or sale con ductors whose gross annual income does' not exceed IN FRUITS, ETC. Transient dealers in fruits, etc., bread and cakes meats or merchandise of whatso ever character and kind, selling from car or common carrier, except as herelnbe^ fore or hereinafter provided, per year 25.00 Apple Wagons, per day This license applies to any other fruits or vegetables such as cabbage, oranges, grapes, etc. TRUCKS, DELIVERY— Delivery trucks delivering goods, wares, cotton, mer chandise, or any other com modities into the Town of Clinton and over the streets or alleys of the Town from outside of ,the Town, each truck, per year of business done during the previous the secretary of agriculture in Mr. Cooper of Columbus, Georgia, who The two papers were -proven in year in the same occupation, trade, Roosevelt’s two terms. It can hardly I'afl requested a transcript of two the court of ordinary,” the term then I business or profession, if the same ije jiaid that he is popular. He origi- wills well over one hundred years applied to the office now known aa I was carried on or prosecuted the pre- nated the agricultural adjustment ad- probate court, and were recorded by j vious year. ' ministration project, and has oper- The two wills being copied were David Anderson, ordinary for Lau- I The Town Clerk shall thereupon ated all of the machinery for the those of James A. William.s. written rens at that time, j assess and collect the proper license supposed benefit of the farmers since January 6, 1815, and filed January ~ j tve as provided for in tois Ordinance, 1933, vvith the'result that the latest 22, 1816, and his wife, Mary F. Wil- ChristmOS Contota rand upon such tax being paid, shall^electoin returns show that the Re- liams, written August 12, 1826, and a. la a 'tt c j I issue to the applicant the proper U-■ publicans carried practically every filed April 15, 1828. Witnesses to the At MOUntViliC bundoy 2.001 cense one of the farm states. ' It first will were W. Tinsley, William ^ Section 9. For any business, trade',' It was whispered, shortly after Hudgens and R. H. Owens, and wit- The Mountville school will present [occupation or profession, not ehu- election, that Mr. Roosevelt intended[nesses to the second were Anthony F. a Christmas cantata, “Joy To th« merated in Section 1 of this Ordi-,to lean very heavily on Mr. Wallace,,Golding, Sampel Goodman and World.” in a candlelight service Sun- nance, the license shall be fixed by,even to the extent of making him a James W. Williams. day evening, December 15, at 5:30 I the Mayor and he is hereby given.sort of “executive president" to re-' Miss Fuller interpreted an indis- o’clock. The public is cordially in- fyll power and authority to fix same'lieve the president himself of domes- tinct scrawl on the will of the hus- vited to attend. d such license therefor as shall beitic details while the vice-president . m ■ ■■ n «< j ■ i-iiiiimi^ ^3; fix 50.00 xed by the Mayor shall be as bind- j locked after such things. Some indi I ing in every respect as though it was j cations have already been given of a I specifically enumerated or designat-, project of this sort, f ed in this Ordinance. 1 During the campaign Mr. Wallace i Section 10. The license taxes here- was sent around to country to speak in imposed are levied for the purpose for the president. Since election he Each truck, per day ”17.'....... 2.00 of raising funds to meet the annual has been appointed as a special emis- ! ordinary expenses of the Town of sary and personal representative of j I Clinton for the fiscal year commenc-ithe president to attend the inaugura-| ing on the 1st day of January, 1941, tion of Mexico’s new president, and for the purpose of paying in There are rumbrs around Washing- whole or in part any legal indebted-1 ton of other jobs which the president | ness of the said city incurred for or- has in view for the vice-president i dinary expenses thereof falling due 1 after their joint inauguration on Jan- j during the said fiscal year. ' uary 20th. Indeed, if half of these! All annual licenses must be paid reports are true, the new vice-presi- on or before January Kth, 1941, on dent will seldom be seen on the ros- [ penalty of an additional 10 per cent trum of the senate, because he will [charge after January 15th. If license be out around the country some- is not paid by* February 15th, 1941, where attending to business for the Provided, however, that wholesalers delivering goods to retailers in the Town of Clinton shall not be charged a business license by the said Town of Clinton unless such wholesaler maintains within the Town of Clinton, a ware house or mercantile estab lishment for distribution of the wholesaler’s goods. U Undertakers whose gross an nual income does not exceed the business will be closed by the president. Police Department, and action' There is nothing the matter with ■ brought in the Town Court, under,that kind of a scheme. It is surpris- $5,000.00, per year 35.00, section 5 of this Ordinance for the ing that no president before has ever and $1.00 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. V VULCANIZING SHOPS, per year - W . WOOD SHOPS AND WAGON MANUFACTURERS— Wood shops and wagon man ufacturers, whose gross ^an misdemeanor of doing business with- thought of using the vice-president 10.00 out license, Section 11. If any word clause, sentence or section of this Ordi nance be declared unconstitutional or in contravention of any law or laws of the State of South Carolina, 1 such shall not effect any other word, I clause, sentence or section hereof. as his , assistant. One or two vice- presidents have been invited by the president to sit in cabinet meetings and give the cabinet the benefit of their advice as to what they might or might not be able to get through congress. But these have been few and far between, and have seldom into effect on the 1st day of Janu- nual income does not exceed $2,000.00, per year 15.001941" and $1.00 fbr each additional , Done and ratified $1,000.00 of gross income, WAREHOUSES— -Warehouses kept for storing cotton, grain and other com modities, whdse gross annual— income does not exceed 1 $2,500.00, per year 35.00^ and $1.00 for each additional ) $1,000.00 of gross annual in- ' Section 12. This Ordinance shall go lasted in that capacity. by the Town Situation a Puizle The whole Wallace situation is a good deal of a puzzle, to which the! I Council of the Town of Clinton, S.C.,! best answer that the Washington [ in Council assembled and the corpor-jwiseacres have been able to figure' ate seal of the said Town of Clinton I out Ls that, while Mr. Roosevelt hereto affixed this the second day of‘doesn’t^ expect a fourth term for him- December, A. D., 1946, und in the' self, he wants to pick the fourth-term —- One Hundred and Sixty-fifth year; candidate and he is grooming Mr.! of the Sovereignty and Independence, Wallace for the job; come. Section 2. All licenses issued for $5^000.00, per year L. ......... 25.001 one day only shall be double the 5.00 5.00 / 5.00 2.00 25.00 5.00 % and $2.,Q0 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. Whose gross daily income does not exceed $50.00, per day ; and $2.00 for each additional $50.00 of gross daily income. STREET TRUCKS DOING DRAYAGE— Street trucks doing drayage whose gross annual income does not exceed $500.00, per year and $1.00 for each additional $100.00 of gross income. STREET wagons OR DRAYS— Street wagons or drays, one horse, per year 5.00 Per day .1-00 Street wagons, or drays, two horse, per year .’. Per day SHOOTING GALLERIES— Shootihg galleries, whose gross .annual income does not exceed $2,500.00, per year and $1.00 for each additional $500.00 of gross income. * Whose gross weekly in come does not exceed $500.00, per week lO.OO and $1.00 for aech additional $100.00 of gross weekly in come. K Whose gross daily income does not exceed $10.00, per day and $1.00 for each additional $10.00 of daily gross intome. SHOE SHOPS— ‘ , Shoe Shops whose gross an nual income does not ex ceed $1,000.00, per year and $5.00 Tor each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. SILK MILLS, per year 100.00 STORAGE BATTERY CHARG ING STATIONS, per year 10.00 T TAXI CABS, per year... No person, firm or corpor ation shall let or hire any hades, automobiles'or other vehicles for hauling or trans porting passengers within the corporate limits of the ,Town of Clinton, without 'first obtaining a lic.ense therefor from the Town Cle^. TAILOR SHOPS— • Tailor Shops ,ladies or gents, whose gross annual income •does not exceed $1,000.00, , per year and $2.00 for each additional $1,000.00 of.gross income. TIN AND TINiaaiS SHOP— Tin ana Tinkers shops whose groes aiinual income does not exceed $1,000.00, per year.... TELEPHONE COMPANIES- Telephone companies, local, each for business done ex clusively in the Town of Clinton, S C, but not in cluding business done to or from other points without stato, .or lor the Oovem- mcot of the U. Sh whose •rose does not exceed $10,$$04f, per yew of the United States of Amrica. * P. S. BAILEY, *! Attest: Mayor. D. C. HEUSTESS, (City Seal) City Clerk and Treasurer, As Washington Sees It THE NATIONAL SCENE I amount above mentioned for Satur days, show days, Christmas days and other days of public gatherings. Section 3. That all licenses issued uqdei' and by virtue of this Ordi nance’shall be non-transferable, and except a license for a day, a week orj a month, shall terminate anc^ end on i December 31, 1941' but may be re-j voked at any time by the Town j Special to The Chronicle. Council of the Town of Clinton on: Washington, Dec. 11.—The position satisfactory cause being shown. Ex-[of the vice-president of the United cept licenle issued for a da;!, a week {States has been a peculiar one for or a month, annual rate shall be the past one hundred and twenty charged for all licenses issued prior to June 30th, 1941, three-fourths the annual rate shall be charged for all licenses issued after June 30th, 1941, and prior to September 30, 1941; and one-half the annual ~rate for all li- years. The first two vfce-presidents, John Adams and Thbnfas Jefferson, succeeded naturally to the office of president because- each of thdm had received the second largest number of votes when the president was censes issued after September 30th, elected. Then the constitution was That impres.sion grow.s the more the experienced observers here ex amine the situation. There have been a great many worse presidents than Henry Wallace would be, if he could get elected. Whether he will shape up as a 1944 presidential candidate is something which will depend upon the kind of work he is given to do by Mr. Roosevelt, and how he does it. MASONS TO MEET FRIDAY Campbell Lodge No. 44, A. F. M., will hold a regular communication Friday night, Dec. 13, at 7:30 o’clock. Election and installation of new offi- i cers for 1941 will be held. All mem-i bers are urged to be present. R, D. Hughes, W. M. V. P. Adair, Act. Sec.- 1941, and prior to December 31, 1941. Section 4. That every person, cor poration or partnership required by this Ordinance to obtain a license to engage in any business, trade, pro- chahged and with it the method of electing the vice-president. The post of vice-president contin ued to be an important one because, as Woodrow Wilson once put it, “he become president.” That has happen ed five times in the brief history of l6.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 150.00 fession or occupation, for which a'^may cease to be vice-president and license is rtquired, shall at the time of applying for such license, or at any other__ time as ^may be required the United States. That number of by th^Town Council, furnish to the; presidents have died in office and Town Clerk, or auditor of the city, the man who had been elected vic^- such other and further information; president has succeeded him. That as may necesskry for correctly' is the way Presidents John Tyler, ascertaining the license to be as- Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, sessed and collected. Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Cool-' Section 5. Any persons, firm, com-lidge reached the White House. Not pany or corporation prosecuting or [one of them had any real expecta-j engaging in any business or occu-1 tion of becoming president, certainly j pation or profession, or keeping or not by that route, and not more than j maintaining any establishment nam- [ one or two of them had any ambi-} ed in this Ordinance without having j tion to be president. 1 first paid the license tax imposed i Chose the Confederacy . ' 'thereon, or shall otherwise violate, On the whole, the presidents who! any of the terms or provisions of have reached that post by succession | this Ordinance, shall, upon convic-|have turned out pretty well. The: tid^ be fined not exceeding one hun- first of them John Tyler, who suc-j dred ($100.00) dollars, or be impris-1ceeded Generau William Henry Har-j onde not exceeding thirjy (30) days, risen after the hero of Tippecanoe I with or without hard labor 'at the had been only a month in office, has discretion of'Jhe officer trying the ^ the unique distinction of having been case. 'both president of the United States Section 6.—Where a. license is im- and a member, of the congress of the posed by this Ordinance upon any Confederacy. business, profession or occupation, As a Virginian, he had to make the and such business, profession or oc- difficult choice which so many citi- cupation is carried on or conducted zens of that commonwealth faced. He by an agent, clerk or employee, such was all for keeping the state in the agent, clerk, or employee shall be Union; but when he was overruled, j subject to all the penalties herein he cast in his lot with his fellow citi-1 imposed should the said business,' zens of Virginia and was elected to profession or occupation be carried the Confederate congress in 1862, but on or proaecuted without the license I died before that body assembled, imposed having been paid in the' Vice-President Tyler had another same manner as if such agent, clerk distinction in that in 1844 he was or employee were the proprietor of such business, profession or occupa tion. Section 7. Where the amopnt of U- ncmiinated for a second term as pres ident by the Democratic national convention and declined the nomina tion. censes iwovided for herein are de-j How Andrew Johnson. Chester pendent*on the amount of income.[Arthur, Theodore Jloosevelt and Cal receipts or sales, the basis for ascer taining the amount of said licenses shall be the amoimt of income, re ceipts or sales for ti)c preceding srear ending Decembeir 31, 1940. Section 8. That every person, firm, coAspany or corporation, required by this Ordinance to obtain a license to engage in any buidnsaa, trade, pro- feaakm or occupation for whidi a li cense la requlM, tfiall at the time of applying foraudi Ucensa, make a vin Coolidge became presidents, be cause of the assassination or death of the president of the time. Is familiar history to every schoolboy. And ev erybody who reads the newspapers today knows that Henry A. Wallace became vice-president by order of President Roosevelt, over the opposi tion of practically the entire Demo cratic par^. Attantlaa Paenrad That loetiaes attention upon vice- Smarfasf 0«ffv#ry TruckB on tho StrooU •Here’s streamliaied styling iyt business^haUding pres tige. Here’s •e&rnmn el eparatien, tea, mid QUALITY canstnictiaii tlmt iasves Vng, itpandMt sem^ka. Steel faramewerit and bady panals msH-waldad. Bady, fandm and sbaat matal nm^praafad. SSaetHa waatbartjgbt saab iiig ptatocta aMfcbandiM against dirt and maiatnra. Saalad daan—daaaa Uidd — caaafaetaUa and adiwtabla driver’s seat —and arany atbar darinMa faatnras! ALt TYPES AND SIZES . . . from -Xvi Delivery Units to Big Heavy-Duty 3-Toii Diesels e Hsa Taa-TsM Mart—at Ha Extra Cast dM Taraat—ga hedi W aadl-taa. • Ian tpafcrs tMW Traaa-, I —tBMeth, fwt,' (14m) —ENkieM. aaa- • laa AsaMa sadkNBt la aA • ■aaEdce-TyMEaeinitsr. • lea Caadart lesiga Ca$s m ‘-Ala** *- • ■ Ml Wli%M mvtwm McMILLAN-COOPER MOTOR CO. WESr MAIN STREET CUNTON, 3. C. \ \ . I \ \ . .... . . -aa