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r ArcldentH jU Ktrahaw. Om- day last week Jack Morgan, i) employee of the Kerahaw Cotton , I ills, was found unconscious on the k.()i of the room just behind the enj -me room at the mills, with blood o/.intf from his mouth. He wae ,aken to h'is home and a physician iUninioned, und upon gaining con .ciousness its was learned from him iliat he, having finished his task of sweeping, was 9arryirof a broom >ver his shoulder when he wan knocked down unconscious, It is sup posed that the broom was caught in the belting and ho was struck by the liiooin, or that he was drawn near irii'Wgh to he hurled to the floor by tin' belting. It was thought at first that he was fatally injured,' but he is now very much improved and able to be out again. While Lewis F. Truosdel and Kin belle Faile were tussling one^day last week on the steps at the front of the Threatt-Carson ^Company's store they fell to the ground together, Mr. Truesdel's head striking the hard pavement and receiving a very dan gerous wound from which he has Suf fered very much. We are pleased to note, however, that he is now steadily improving.- ? Kershaw Era. Hud Latta, a negro, iR dead and Ui-rt Clinton, white, is in tho York jail as the result of a duel they fought Saturday afternoon on the road between Chester and York. The men had been at outs for some time and when they met Saturday both | began firing at close range, the whito man using a shot jgun and the negro a pistol. The white man was not hit but the negro received a load of shot under the arm pit causing death in a few minutes from hemmorhage. When seasoning soup use whole pepper and spices, putting them in after it has boiled up. AN ORDINANCE To require the Payment of License on Business, Occupations, and Pro fessions in the City of Camden, S. C., for the Year From May 1, 1921, to May 1, 1925. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Camden, in Council assembled and by the author ity of the same: Section 1. Every ? person, firm, company, or corporation engaged on May 1, 1924, in any calling, business, profession or occupatidn in whole or in part within the City of Camden as may be hereinafter specified, shall obtain during thfe month of May, 1024, a license therefor in the man ner hereinafter prescribed. Every person, firm, company or corporation commencing business in said city on or a fter the first day of May, 1924, | shall in like manner obtain a license therefor before entering upon such calling, business, profession or occu pation as hereinafter specified. Section 2. Every person, firm, company or corporation engaged in or intending to engage in any callings business, profession or occupation for which a license is required, shatl apply to the Clerk and Treasurer ot the City of Camden for the same? by whom all such licenses shall be is sued, and shall at the time of ap plying, make and sign a written ? statement under oath, and file it with the said Clerk and Treasure^, setting forth: First, his or her or its name or style, the name of the persons constituting such firm or company. Second. The calling, business, pro fession or occupation for which li cense is required. Third. The place where such calling, business, profes sion or occupation i3 to be carricd on; the amount of capital invested, or the gross annual income. Parties in business on the first of May, shall make such application for new license and lile such written statement before May 21st. Section 3. A penalty of fifteen per cent, shall be added to all license which are not paid during the month <-f May, 1924, except such as may become due after that time. Pro vided, however, that immediate pay ment may be required in each and every case at the discretion of the -aid Clerk and Treasurer, and the foregoing provision shall in no wise stay or hinder action to enforce im mediate payment; which tax and pen alty shall be recovered in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and if any person, firm, company or corpora tion required so to do by the teVms ftf this ordinance shall refuse or neg lect to make out and deliver to the clerk nnd Treasurer of the City of ('amden, on or before the time here ! u required, the statement provided for by Section 2 of this ordinance, or '-hall make a false statement, or hall refuse to take and subscribe an <?ath or affirmation as to (the truth of ?tub statement, or any part thereof; >-r from any cause shall fail to take ' ut such license as may be required ' y this ordinance, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall report the case to tie Mayor, who shall proceed to as ertain as nearly as possible, the bus iness of such person, firm, company, t corporation, for which he, she or it may be liable to a license tax therefor, and in case of default for the purpose of such investigation; the said Clerk and Treasurer shall notify the person, firms, companies ? r corporation in default to appear before the Mayor at his office ? at a time stated in said notice; and also such witnesses as the Mayor may desire to examine. The witnesses railed as aforesaid shall bo examined by the Mayor, under oath or affirma tion, touching the nature of the busi ness of such party; nnd everything which may evince the amount of li cense tax for which such party shall be liable. From the information thus acquir <*d the Mayor shall find and assess the amount of license tax due by such party whether he, she or it at tended the investigation or not, and shall ?<ld thereto h penalty of fifteen per cent thereof and should such li cense tax and penalty be not paid within five days thereafter, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall issue an execution thereof under his hand and the seal of the City of Camden, di rected to the chicf of police of the City of Camden, or the Sheriff of Kershaw County, in said State and the said Chief of Police or Sheriff shall proceed to collect the. said li cense tax and penalty, by levy and sale of real or personal property, as now provided by law for the collection of taxes, together with an additional five per cent of the whole amount, which shall be the Sheriff's or Chief of Police's compensation for making such collection, in addition to one dollar for making such levy, which shall be paid by delinquent without entry or mileage fees; provided, how' ever, that any person or corporation shall have the right of appeal to the City Council of Camden (notice of such appeal having been given to the Clerk and Treasurer within five days from the time of which such assess ment of license and penalty shall have been madf ) and upon hearing such appeal, the said Council shall make such order therein as it shall deem just and proper; and provided further, that in lieU of the remedy abovo set forth to enforce payment an action or actions may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of such license tax and penalties. And "provided fur ther that any person, firm, company or corporation who shall carry on, or attempt to carry on any calling, business, profession or occupation without a license as herein required, or who shall neglect or refuse to give the information required or to answer such questions as may be re quired or who shall fail to attend before the Mayor to be examined by him when so required, as provided in Sections 2 and 3 of this ordinance may be deemed guilty of a violation thoreof before the Municipal Court and may be fined not more than One Hundred Dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty* days. Section 4. All license granted un der this ordinance shall be posted in a conspicuous place, except in case of vehicles for hire, which vehicles shall have placed upon the metal badges with the number of badges and the license year marked thereon, such badges to be furnished by the Clerk and Treasurer upon payment of the licenso tax. Failure to display such badges will subject the persons own ing or using the same to a penalty not more than Five Dollars, or im prisonment not exceeding ten days. The license granted under this or dinance shall at all times be subject to inspection by any officers of the City of Camden and no calling, busi ness, profession or occupation shall, be carried on elsewhere than the place named in fhis liccnsc therefor, unless authority be granted by the Clerk and Treasurer, which authority shall be endorsed on the license. Sec. 5. All licenses granted under this ordinar.ee shall continue in force until the first day of May A. D. 1925, except such as are wrtiten for a shorter period, as may hereinafter be provided. The City Council reserves the right to revoke any license for any cause which to them may seem to be just. Sec. 6. The following sum or sums of money are required to be paid to the said Clerk and Treasurer for a license to carry on the business, call ing, profession or occupation in whole or in part within the limits of the City of Camden, as in each case spe cifically appears. Class No. i. Business or income basis, $1,000. On each additional $1,000, ten cents per $1,000. Whore the gross annual income from the business, callings, or pro fessions enumerated in the following schedule, shall be One Thousand Dollars or less, the license shall be at the rate set forth in said schedule; and where the gross annual income exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the license shall be increased from the amount set forth in said schedule at the rate of ten cents for each Thou sand Dollars of gross income in ex cess of One Thousand Dollars. Agents for laundries, per year $15.00 Agents advertising, not print ing office 15.00 Agents for merchant tailors . . 10.00 Agents selling books, per year 20.00 Agents selling books, per day . . 5.00 Agents selling fruit trees or other trees or plants .... 145.00 Agents selling sewing ma chines, paying merchandise license . . . I ">.00 "Agents selling and delivering soft drinks other than those paying license for bottling plants 100.00 Agents advertising land sales where the land is valued at more than $5,000.00 . . . . 100.00 per year. Architects 10.00 Agents, claim and collection . . 10.00 Auctioneers, for . a year or less 10.00 Automobile agencies 30.00 Automobile dealers or agents not having an established - agency in Camden, soliciting and selling automobiles or trucks in Camden, per year 75.00 Automobile livery or truck, either for passenger or bag gage, each 15.00 All drivers of automobiles or truck for hire, whether for passengers or baggage, shall be persons of good moral character and if such drivers upon report to the City Council arc found not to be proper persons to run said automobiles or trucks, li censes to the owners of same shall be revoked unless said drivers are immediately taken off said automobiles or trucks. Storage of automobiles, not in connection with any other business, per year 10.00 Barber shops, for each chair . 5.00 Bakeries 10.00 Bakeries, or agents delivering ?n A bread or cakes, etc 26.00 Bicycles for hire ! 5.00 Bicycle repair shop . . 5.00 Bicycle dealers . , . . . 6.00 Hill posters, per year 25.00 Bill posters, per day 2.00 Billiards, bagatelle or poo) ta bles each table per year . . 40.00 Additional tables, per year . . 1.00 Billiard and pool rooms to be allowed on ground floor only <u any building and not to bo kept open after 12 o'clock at night. Ami each table shall be con sidered u separate business. Bus and transfers carrying passengers to and from Camden, per year each . . . 25.00 Blacksmith or wheelwright . . 10.00 Bowling alley or box ball, each alley .... ,60.00 Brokers, pawn . . .... 25.00 Brokers, merchandise 25.00 Brick masons, plasterers, tak ing contracts . . .... . . . . 10.00 Ifirms of brick masons,. for one member . 10.00 Kaeh additional member . . . 10.00 Brick yards or dealers in brick 16.00 Boarding Houses furnishing board for three or more, for one day or longer, where rates are from $2.00 up, per year 20.00 Business or income basis: $1,000 on each additional $1,000, ten cents per $1,000. Where the gross annual income from the business callings or profes sions enumerated in the following schedule, shall be One Thousand Dol lars or less, the license shall be at the rate set forth in said schedule; and where the gross annual income exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the license shall be increased at the rate of tep cents, for each One Thousand of gross income in excess of One Thousand Dollars, from the amount set forth in the said schedule. Agents taking orders or delivering pictures', $25.00 each week. All builders, contractors or own ers of property shall obtain permits for each and every job before the work is commenced, whether the job is done by contract or otherwise, per mits to be charged for as follows: This is to be paid in addition to the separate license herein required of painters, plumbers and electricians, unless general ? contract includes same: $100 and less than $300 1.00 From $300 to $500 .......... 2.00 From $500 to $1,000 . . . . . . 3.00 From $1,000 to $2,000 .. , . .. 5.00 From $2,000 to $3,000 7.00 From $3,000 to $4,000 8.00 From $4,000 to, $5,000 .. ... .. 10.00 From $5,000 to $7,000 .. .. 12.00 From $7,000 to $10,000 . . . . 15.00 From $10,00 to $15,000 .. . . 20.00 From $15,00 to $20,000 . . . . 30.00 From $20,000 to $25,000 40.00 From $25,000 to $35,000 . . . . 50,00 From $35,000 to $50,000 . , . . 100.00 From $50*, 000 up , . Cabinet makers or furniture repairers . . 5.00 Candy manufacturers in con nection with other business . 10.00 Candy manufacturers not in connection with ' any other business 10.00 Candy manufacturers or deal ers on streets, per day . . . . 1.00 Candy dealers not in connec tion with mercantile busi ness, per year . > . . / . . . . . 15.00, Carriage, buggy and wagon dealers, not paying mer chants' license ?. . 15,00 Circuses, menageries, animal shows, wild west shows, and similar exhibitions under whatever name carrying ten or, less number of cars for transportation of people, an imals, equipment, parapher nalia or fixtures connected with or incident to the show, per dayv or part of a day . . 100.00 Circuses, menageries and shows as above enumerated, and carrying more than ten cars, not over 25 cars, per ' day or part of a day . . . . 150.00 Circuses, menageries and shows as above enumerated and carrying more than 25 cars, per day or part of day 200.00 Circus parades, or parades of menageries, animal shows, wild west shows, as above named when the show lo cates outside of city limits, shall pay for each parade, the same license as such cir cus, menagerie or other show would be required to pay for exhibiting within corporated limits. Corn and flour mills, each . . . . 10.00 Cotton seed oil mills including gins 75.00 Cotton ginners, for each gin. . . . 5.00 Cotton mills 75.00 Civil Engineers and surveyors, or either .. ., .. .. .. 10.00 Druggist, licensed druggist other than the proprietor, each 5.00 Dealers in caskets and coffins, paying a merchandise li cense 7 10.00 Dealers in coffins, caskets, not paying merchandise license, per year 10.00 Dealers in second hand cloth ing, whether connected with other business or not . . . . 25.00 Dealers in second hand shoes, whether with other business or not 25.00 Dealers in fertilizer or agents for dealers in fertilizer, sell ing to consumers, not pay ing merchants' license .... 25.00 Dealers in fruit, * peanuts or , cooked food on streets, per day 1.00 Dealers in fish or oysters or either at place of business . . 10.00 Dealers in hides, except those paying mercantile license . . 25.00 Dealers in ice cream, lemonade 6t soda water on the streets, per day ? . . 1.00 Dealers in junk 50.00 Dealers in junk, per month . . 25.00 Dealers in Medicine other than regular druggist of the City either on the street or pri vate property, and whether delivering tie Medicine 1 themselves or through orders to Drug stores, per week . . 100.00 pur day . , . .. . . . . 20.00 1 Valors in millinery goods, not paying merchants' license .i. 15.00 Dealers in stocks and bonds as brokers 10.00 Dealers in kerosene, oil, gaso< line or either* other than merchants 100.00 Dealers in stocks and bonds, as brokers, per year . . . . . . 25.00 Dealers in wood, coal or coke per year . . ... . 20.00 Dealers in second hand ma chinery, per year 25.00 Dentists 16.00 Electrician, taking contracts, doing electrical work, or selling electrical supplies .. 16.00! Exhibitions, traveling theatri cals, musical or other, for gain, not in opera l# house, $25.00 to $100, in the discre tion of i Mayor and City Clerk. Fruits and vegetables sold in carload lots from railroad cars, within the city, and sold either by wholesale or retail 4 Flying jennies, or horse or s ? steam riding galleries, per week . . . . .... . . 50.00 Filling stations not in connec tion with any other business per year Filling "Station in connection with storage of cars per 50,00 60.00 year ? . . .... . v. Filling Stations in connection . ^vith storage of cars, and Celling agencies or garages, for selling gasoline . . . . . . 30.00 Garages and storage . , . . ? . 50.00 gunsmiths . . 5.00 Hair dresses $10.00; chiropo dists . . . . , , . . ? &.00 Hotel, from twenty (20) rooms to seventy-five (75) rooms per year 40.00 Hotel, from seventy-five (75) rooroR upward, per year . . 75.00 Hucksters or peddlers of fruit, vegetables, etc., including Ready Rolling stores, each peddling goods, wares and ? other merchandise, manufac tured articles, all fruits, veg etables, melons, eggs and all other kind of farm pro ducts, not having regular stands, per year, each : . . . 100.00 Per day . . .. . . ????> vr ? ? KMfo Said hucksters or peddlers not to sell on prohibitive streets. Hucksters or peddlers selling fresh meat of any kind, or dressed fowls on the streets in wagon, each per year . . . . 40.00 No hucksters or people selling said fresh meats or fowls may sell same on DeKalb street, Church street to Mar ket street, or on Broad street from LaFayette to York. Wholesale * deliveries of meats and - fowl to retail meat markets may be made on said prohibitive areas. All such wagons from which said fresh meats may be sold during every mortfh of the year except December January, February, to keep the meats on said wagons in refrigerators of sufficient ? capacity to carry the said stock and all portions of said wagons not taken qp by refrigerators to be screen ed and said refrigerators at all times to be kept in a sanitary condition, subject at all times to inspection by the health officer, or any one designated by him. No license for sale of such meats in wagons on streets is to be granted by the City without the application first being submitted and ap proved by the health officer of the, City of Camden. Ice dealers 10.00 Ice manufacturers, each factory 25.00 Labor agents per year 250.00 Per day .V . . f. 50.00 Land loan companies, or agents lending money on real es tate, by mortgage or other wise 20.00 Laundries .. 10.00 Firms of lawyers for one mem ber 15.00 Lawyers . 15.00 Each additional member . . . . 10.00 Lenders of money, on personal * property, whether in connec tion with other business or not, except such as are otherwise specified in this ordinance 1,000 Livery, feed and sales stables 25.00 Livery and drayage business for each animal 5.00 Lumber dealers or brokers, re tail whether resident or not, other than lumber or shin gles from timber or land owned by sellers 20.00 j Lunch stands 10.00 i House painters, paper hang ers, interior decorators tak- i ing contracts, per year . . . . 15.00 Steeple jack painters, per year 15.00 Per day 1.00 Piano tuners^ repairers of mu sical instruments, per year . . 5.00 Machine shops 10.00 M oving picttMf? shows, for each place of business 50.00 Manufacturers or bottlers of soda water, Coca Cola, gin ger ale and such like soft drinks 25.00 Musical instruments, whether connected with other busi ness or not 16.00 Manufacturers of ice cream, not in connection with ice cream parlors, per year . . 10.00 Meat markets, green grocer ies, per year 30.00 All markets to be screened in accordance with the direc tions of the Board of Health and subject at all times to inspection by the Board of Health and kept in sanitary condition. Newspapers, whether connect ed with job work or not .. 16.00 Old Hosa sales 10.00 Oculists or opticians 16.00 Peddlers or agents soliciting , or delivering photographs, / lithographs, pictures, etc., for copying or enlarging per week . , . , 25.00 Peddlers or vendors selling merchandise of any descrip tion per week . . 100.00 Per day . . 20.00 Physicians und Surgeons or either . . . . , . . . . lf>.00 Physicians and surgeons, or either, in firms, for first member 15.00 For additional member . . . . 10.00 Popcorn and peanut parchers v each not in connection with other business . 1 0,00 per day . . . ...... 2.00 Printers, job in connection with newspapers 5.00 Photographers .. .. 10.00 Photographers, per day 5.00 Pressing clubs y . ?? ?? 10.00 Plumbers, gas titters, heat ing contractors, tinners and steam fitters, or either, tak ing contracts . . . . . . . . . . 15.00 That no such license shall be issued until the applicant shall first stand a satisfac tory examination before the c inspector of Seweragfc. Heal estate agents 25.00 Restaurants, cafes and cook shop, each . . . 25.00 Saddle or buggy horse for hire each . . . 5.00 Salvage companies or persons taking charge of mercantile stock, or other stock not their own, per day . . . . . . 5.00 Shoe and boot repairers .. .*. 10.00 Shooting galleries, per months 5.00 Sign painters . . 5.00 Skating rinks per month . . . . . . 5.00 Per year 10.00 Soda founts, whether connect ed with other business or not 10.00 Stove repairers, itinerant, per day $1.00; per year 5.00 Stallion or Jack for service . . 10.00 Tailors, dyers, cleaners, or Trucks hauling merchandise agents for either . . 10.00 Trucks hauling merchandise into or out of 'the City of Camden, other than ? mer- . chandise owned by the owner ? of said truck, each year . . 15.00 Undertakers . 35.00 Vetortnary surgeon .... . . . . 15.00 Watch makers, whether con nected With other business or not ...? . . 5.00 Warehouse, charging storage 25.00 Class No. 2. Business or income basis, " $1,000 on each additional $1,000, ten cents per $1,000. Where the gross annual income from the business, callings or professions enumerated in the fol lowing schedule, shall be One Thou sand Dollars or less, the license shall be at ehe rate set forth in said sched ule; and where the gf oss annual in come exceeds One Thousand Dollars the license shall be increased from the amount set forth in said schedule at the rate of ten cents for each One Thousand Dollars of gross income in excess of One Thousand Dollars. Banks, fifty cents, and fifty cents on ?each $1,000.00 of capital and sur plus. Express Companies or agen cies for business done exclu sively in the City of Camden and not including any busi ness done to or from points without the State, and not including any business done for the 'government of the United States, its officers or agents . 75.00 Railroads, for business done exclusively within the City of Camden, and not includ ing business done to or from points without the State, and not including any business done for the gov eminent of the United Suites, it? olTicera or agents for each road entering the city . . . 1O0.0# Telegraph companies or agen do* each, for business done within the city of Camden, with points within the State, nut including any business done for the Kovernment of th?< United States ftO.Ot Telephone Companies or agen cies, each for business done within the City of Camden, with points within the State and not including any busi ncsH done for the govern* ment of the United States . . 100.0# Tea room or gift shops not a charitable organisation . . (50.0# Class No. ' Business or income basis, $1,00# on each additional $1,000 ten cents per $1,000. Where the gross annual income from the business, calling, or professions enumerated in the fed lowing schedule shall he One Thou sand Dollars or leas, the license shall be at the rate set forth in said sched ule, and where the gross annual in come exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the license shall be increased from the amount set forth in said schedule #t the rate of ten cents for each On* Thousand Dollars of gross income in excess of One Thousand Dollars. Merchants stocks, retail or wholesale, including all classes of merchants, drugs, jewelry, buggies, harness, hardware, etc. Merchandise License. Less than $300, per year . . . . 5.00 $300 less than $500, per year . . 7.5# $500 less than $1,000 per year . 15.0# $1,000 less than $1,500, per year 20.0# $1,500 less than $2,000, per year 25,0# $2,000 less than $2,500, per year 30.0# $2,500 less than $3,500, per year 35.0# $3,500 less than $4,000, per year 40.0# $4,000 less thftn $4,500, per year 45.0# $4,500 less than $5,000, per year 50.0# $5,000 less than $5,500, per year 65.0# $5,500 less than $6,000, per year 60.0# $6,000 less than $6,500, per year 65,0# $6,500 less than $7,000, per year 70.0# $7,000 less than $7,500, per year 75.0# $10,000 and above, per year . . 100.00 Accident, Automobile, Casual ty, Fidelity, Guarantee Plate Glass or other like Insurance Company, each Company represented rv . ..... . V 77' 10.0# " Life Insurance Companies; I each . . 25.0# Insurance Live Stock (each Company) ;. .. 10.0# Section VII. The license on any business or occupation not named in the foregoing schedule shall be fix ed by^tlre^ Mayor and Clerk. ><Sec. VIIJ. Wherever in this or ' I dinance the terms "persons, firm, company, corporation or party" are used, the same shall include not_> only the principals, but in their ab sence shall include any agent, clerk or employee having charge, man agement or control of the business, calling, occupation or profession re ferred to, and such agent, clerk or employee shall be subject to the penalties herein imposed for failure io comply with the terms and re quirements of this ordinance, in the same manner as if he, she or they were principals or proprietors. Sec. IX. ThiB ordinance shall go into effect on and from the first day of May, A. D. 1924, and all ordi nances or parts of ordinances in con flict herewith are hereby repealed. Done and ratified in Council as sembled, under the corporate seal of the City of Camden, S. C., this the 28th day of April, 1924. H. G. 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One-piece, droy V forged, 'chrome nickel ite?l double heat treated. A two piece valve cast iron head welded (o ? (ted (tea it common practice. but doe* not ?eH well and i? in dan gc* of ill I GEO. T. LITTLE, D ealer, Camden, S. C. Hupmoblle