The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 02, 1930, Image 3

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uspected Bomber I lynched By Mob Bxampa. *^a-' AI,r^ ?'ihe bulletIddlctl body of John Hodaz, suspectB a Plant City home, imd swinging from a tree ten E', northwest of Plant City today E, x. M. Davis, a wood cutter, aeKrdirig to Sheriff R. T. Joughin. I jl<)da?'was believed to have been I, i by a group of eight men ; according to Deputy Sheriff on, snatched t he pi it oner aB.(l. last night while he was taking E ,: Bartow foi safe keeping. E.i, on said he r< ted Hodaz here Bte yesterday. Davis, who lives about a mile from H; , i nc (>f I In' lynching < 11 QOVei fid body as he entered the wood* Cut railroad ties. ..It was suspend- j about five f<< ' from the ground K(. sheriff quoted him as saying. I The British Collier Kirkwood was l ;m Heligoland, off the mouth the Kibe river, Germany, Satur m,.,- moi iiliir; after the cblliei had in collision with the American B-'" resident Harding. The PresB'b 11' 11arding: rescued all of the crew H; the Kirk wood except one fireman. B"~~ AN pRDINANCE Bo Require the Payment of License on Business, Occupations, and ProI f ess ions in the City of Camden, I S. C? for the Year From May 1. 1930 to May 1, 1931. I lie it ordained by the Mayor and ouncilmen of the City of Camden, in ouncil assembled and by the authorBy of the same. Section 1. Every person, firm ompany, or corporation, engaged on May 1, 1930, in any calling, business, profession or occupation in whole or Kn part within the city of Camden, as may be hereinafter specified, shall obtain during the month of May, 1930, a license therefor in the manner hereinafter prescribed. Every per son, firm, company or corporation commencing business in said city on or before the first day pf May, 1930, shall in like manner obtain a license therefor before enteripg upon such Ettlbogi business, profession or occu p&tion as hereinafter specified. B Section 2. Every person, firm, company or corporation engaged in or intending to engage in any calling, B business, profession or occupation for which a license'is required, shall ap ply to the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Camden for the same? by whom all such licenses shall be is rue<l, and shall at the time of apply ing, make and sign a written state ment under oath, and file it with the said Clerk and Treasurer, setting forth: First, his or her or its name or style, the name of the persons con stituting 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, profession or occupation is to be carried 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 file such written statement before May 21st. Section 3. A penalty of fifteen per cent shall be added to all licenses which are not paid during the month of May, 1930, except such as may become due after that time. Provided, however, that immediate payment may be required in each and every case at the discretion of the said Clerk and Treasurer, and the foregoing provisi&n shall in no wise stay or hinder action to enforce immediate payment; which tax and penalty shall be recovered in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and if any person, firm, company or corporation required so to do by the ternfts of this ordinance shall refuse or neglect to make out and deliver to the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Camden, on or before the time herein required, the statement provided for by Section 2 of this ordinance, or shall make a false statement, or shall refuse to take and subscribe an oath or affirmation as to the truth of such I statement, or any part thereof; or | from any cause shall fail to take out I such license as may be required by I this ordinance, the said Clerk and I Treasurer shall reportv the case to I the Mayor, who shall proceed to asir certain an nearly an possible. the business of such person, firm, company, or corporation, for which he, she, or it may bo liable to a license tax therefor, and in cane of default for the purpose of such investigation, the **id Cletlt ami Treasurer shall notify the person, firms, companies or corporation in default to appear j 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 called as aforesaid shall be examined by the Mayor, under oath or affirmation, touching the nature of the business, of such party, and everything which may evince the amount of license tax for which such party shall be liable* .From the information thus acquired the Mayor shall find and assess the amount of license tax due by such party whether he, she or it at* fended the investigation or not, and shall add thereto a penalty of fifteen per cent, thereof, and should such license tax and penalty be not paid within five days thereafter, the said ("Jerk and Treasurer shall issue an. execution thereof under his hand and the seal of the City of Camden, directed to the chief 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 license tax and pefialty, by levy and i sale of real or personal property, as j now provided by law for the collection of tuxes, together with an addi- ' tional 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 n\aaing such levy, which shall be paid by delinquent without entry or mileage fees; provided, however, 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 assessment of license and penalty shall have been made) 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 above set forth to enforce payment an action or actions may be,t brought in any oourt of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of such license tax and penalties. And provided further, 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 required or who shall fail to attend before the Mayor to be examined by him when so required, as provided in Section' 2 and 3 of this ordinance may be deemed guilty of a violation thereof before the Municipal Court and may be fined not more than One Hundred Dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days. Sqction 4. All license granted under this ordinance shall be posted in a conspicuous place, except in case of vehicles for hire, which vehicles shall have placed upon them metal badges with the number of badges and the license year marked theron, such badges to be furnished by the Clerk and Treasurer upon payment off the license tax. Failure to display such badges will subject the persons owning or using the same to a penalty of not more than Five Dollars or imprisonment not exceeding ten days. The license granted under this ordinance shall at all times be subject to inspection by any officers of the City of Camdeu and no calling, business, profession or occupation shall be carried on. elsewhere than the place named in t'jis license therefor, unless authoritj be granted by the Clerk and Trea br, which authority shall be endor Km the license. Section 5. Senses granted under this ord shall continue in force until *?<lay of May A. D. 1931,- exce- Hs are written for a shorter A may hereinafter be provid I i The Cif Beserves the right to revok 9 Bes for any cause which t ^Bseem to be just. Secti ^Allowing sum or j sums B^ required to be paid t; Ik and Treasurer for a 1 on the business, callin Ir occupation in whol'~ kin the limits of the ({c wias in each case spec? BJ Bu I basis, $1,000. On r !,w tfro** income iron* the business, callings, or prorossioriH enumerated in the following schedule, shall be On? Thousand Dollars or less, the license shall be "J he rule set forth in said schedule; '?<? where the gross annual income exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the license shall be increased from the wnouru set forth in said schedule at the rate of ten cents for each Thousand Dollars of gross income in excess of One Thousand Dollars. Agents for laundries, per year $25.0u Agents advertising, not print?ng 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 25.00 Agents selling sewing machines, paying merchandise lictivsc |ij 00 Agents selling and delivering soft drinks other than those paying license for bottling a *,la"'fs 100.00 Agents, advertising land sales where the land is valued at more than $5,(*0.00, per A y?ar 100.00 Architects 10 00 Agents, claim and collection . . 10.00 Auctioneers, for a year or less 10.00 Automobile agehcies .'10.00 Automobile dealers or agents not having an established < agency in Camden, soliciting or selling automobiles, trucks or trailers' in Oitmden, per . year 75.00 Automobile livery or truck, either for passenger or baggage, each . 1500 All drivers of automobiles or trucks for hire whether for passengers or baggage shall be persons of good moral character, and no license shall be issued to anyone who does not first furnjsh the City Clerk satisfactory recommendation; and if such drivers upon report to the City Council are found not to be proper persons to run said automobiles or trucks, license to the owners of same shall be revoked unless said drivers nre immediately taken off said automobiles or trucks. All persons owning or controlling hacks or other vehicles moving on wheels and plying for hire in the ( lty of C amden shall post in a conspicuous place in said hack or vehicle a printed schedule of prices, to be furnished by the Ctiy Clerk upon the issuance of license, and keep the same so posted during the continuance of said license; and shall have a tag, furnished by the City Clerk, carrying a number corresponding with the number of said hack or vehicle, fastened on the outside of said hack or vehicle in such a position as to be easily seen; and all drivers of such hacks or vehicles shall wear a metal badge, of convenient size, on the left side of his outer garment, with the number of bis license painted or engraved thereon. Storage of automobiles, not in connection with any other business, per year 10.00 Barber shops, .for each chair. . 5.00 Bakeries, maintaining a plant in the city 100.00 Bakeries, or agents delivering bread, cakes, cookies, macaroons, etc., other than crackers, not maintaining plant in ?city 100.00 Battery Service, whether in connection with other business or not 10.00 Beauty Parlors 6... 25.00 Bill Boards, each board not to exceed ? square feet, in business district, each .... 3.00 In residential district, each .. 100!00 Business district to be located on Broad Street, from Lafayette Avenue on the North to the City Limit on the South, and DeKalb Street, from the City limit on the East to the City limit on the West. Bicycles for hire 5.00 Bicycle repair shop ." 5.00 Bicycle dealers 5.00 Bill posters, per year 26.00 Bill posters, per day 3.00 Billiards, bagatelle or pool tables, first table per year.. 40.00 Additional tables, per year .. 1.00 Billiard and pool rooms to-be allowed on ground floor only of any building and not to be kept open after 12 o'clock at night. And each table shall be considered a separate business. Building and Development Companies, Incorporated, Partnerships or Individual 25.00 Blacksmith or wheelwright .. 10.00 Bowling Alley or box ball, each _ alley 50.00 Brokers, pawn 25.00 Brokers, merchandise 25.00 Brick masons, plasterers, taking contracts 10.00 Firms of brick masons, for one member 10.00 Each additional member 10.00 Brick yards or dealers in brick 15.00 Boarding houses furnishing board for three or more, where the rates are from $1.00 to $2.00, per year .... 5.00 Boarding houses furnihsing board for three or more, where the rates are $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 incqme from the business, callings or professions 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 at the rate of ten 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 w4ek. All contractors shall obtain permits for each and every job, building or repairing, before the work, ja commenced, permits to be charged for as follows. This is to be paid in addition to the separate license herein required pf painters, plumbers and electricians, unless general contract l 0 ~ includes same. In the event that the building is not done by contract hut by day lahor, the owner of the building shall first obtain permit for each and every job before the work is done. $1<M) aiul less than $.'100 1.00 I' roni $.100 to $500 2 00 From $500 to $1,000 y!oo From $1,000 to $2,000 5.00 From $2,000 to $3,000 7!oo From $3,000 to $-1,000 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 $10,000 to $15,000 20 00 From $15,000 to $20,000 30.00 From $20,000 to $26,000 40.00 From $25,000 to $35,000 45.00 From $35,000 to $50,000 60.00 rrom $50,000 up, $100.00; and for each additional $1,000, $1.00. Cabinet makers or furniture repairers 5.00 ( undy manufacturers in eonflection with other business 10.00 Candy manufacturers not in connection with any other business 10.00 Vandy manufacturers or deal. ers on streets per day 5.00 Candy dealers not in connection with mercantile business, per year 15.00 Canning factories 10.00 ( ai riage, buggy and wagon dealers, not paying merchant V license 15.00 Chiiopyftctdr 15.00 Circussps, menageries, animal shows, wild west shows, and similar exhibitions under whatever name carrying ten or less number of cars for transportation of people, animals, equipment, paraphernalia or fixtures connected with or incident to the show, per day, or part of a day .. 100.00 Circusses, 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 ( ireusses, menageries and shows as above enumerated and carrying more than 25 cars, per day or part of day 200.00 C ircus parades, or parades of menageries, animal shows, wild west shows, as above named when the show locates outside of c ty limits, shall pay for each parade, the same license as such circus, 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 _ 100.00 Cotton ginners, for each gin ^ stand 5 00 Cotton mills 75.00 Civil engileers and surveyors or either.. 15.00 Druggist, licensed druggist other than the proprietor, _ e1ch 5.00 Dealers in caskets and coffins, paying a merchandise license 10.00 Dealers in coffins, caskets, not paying merchandise license, per year 10.00 Dealers in second hand clothing whether connected with other business or not .... 25.00 Dealers in second hand shoes, whether with other business or not 25.00 Dealers in electric refrigerators, or Frigidaires 25.00 Dealers in fruit, peanuts, or cooked food on street, 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, or soda water on the streets, per day 5,00 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 private property, and whether delivering the medicine themselves or through orders to drug stores, per week .. 100.00 " per day 20.00 Dealers in millinery goods, not paying merchants' license ... lft.00 Dealers in radios, alone and in connection with any other business . 10.00 Dealers in kerosene, oil, gasoline or either, wholesale, other than merchants 100.00 Dealers in stocks and bonds, as brokers, per year 25.00 Dealers in wood, coal or coke per year 25.00 Dealers in wood only 5.00 Dealers in second hand machinery, per year 25.00 Dealers in cattle, hogs, etc. .. 25.00 Dry cleaners, maintaining plant in city ?&5.00 Dry cleaners, not maintaining plant in city 100.00 Dentists 15.00 Electricians, taking contracts, doing electrical work, or selling electrical supplies .. 15.00 Exhibitions, traveling theatricals, musical or other, for gain, not in opera house, $25.00 to $100, in the discretion of Mayor and 'City Clerk Florists, retail only 10.00 wholesale and retail 25.00 Fruits and vegetables sold in carload lots from railroad cars, within the city, and sold either by wholesale or retail, not an established business, per year 100.00 per day . . . y 25.00 Flying jennies, or horse or steam riding galleries, per week 50.00 Foundry, per year 25.00 Filling stations not in connection with any other business per year two pumps ...... 25.00 more than two pumps .... 50.00 Filling station in connection with storage of cars per year 60.00 Filling station in connection ..With storage of cars, and selling agencies or garages, for selling gasoline 30.00 Fruit and produce dealers, not selling on the street, per year .25.00 (iurages and storage 50.00 (*hnot inort) than two men employed, per annum . . 25.00 <'OMMMiithK 500 1 Hair dresser* 10.00 t)on-resident <25 0o Chiropodists .. . . ~5 00 non-resident 25.00 Hotels, from 10 to 20 rooms, per year 20 oo Hotels, from 20 to 75 rooms, per year , ? 10.00 I Hotels, from 75 rooms upward, per year ^r, qq Dealers in fruits, vegetables, *Kgs, chickens, melons, or other farm produce (not I raised by the seller) and not sold on the streets, per year 25.00 ! Hucksters or peddlers of fruit, vegetables, etc, including Iteady Hulling Stores, if I peddling goods, wares, and Other merchandise, manufactured articles, fruits, vegetables, /nelons, eggs and other furin products (not raised by the owner) per year 50.00 (No license to be prorated.) Said hucksters or peddlers not to iu ? H, 8tun<1' an(1 to aell on prohibited streets hereinafter mentioned. 'bach wagon or truck used by said hucksters or poolers to constitute a separate business. 'Each huckster or peddler to be furnished-with a badge upon taking out license. Hucksters or peddlers selling fresh meats of any kind on wagons, trucks, each j>or year 40.00 (No licenke to Ix* prorated.') No huckster or person selling fresh meats, fowls, fruits, vegetables, merchandise, manufactured articles, melons, eggs, or other farm produce may sell same 6n DeKalb Street from Church street to Market Street or on Broad Street from Lafayette Street to York Strdet, on Kutlcdge from ( hurch Street to Lyttleton Street. Wholesale deliveries of meats and fow.s to retail meat markets may be mr.de on said prohibitive areas. All such wagons from which said fresh meats may be sold during every month of the yeur except December, January, February, to keep the meats on said wagons in refrigerators of sufficient capacity to carry the said stock and, all ]>ortions of said wagons not taken up by refrigerators to be screened and said refrigerators to be screened and- said refrigerator at all times 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 be K van ted by the City without the application first being submitted and approved by the health officer of the City of Camden. Ice dealers, not delivering .... 5.00 Ice dealers, delivering 25.00 Ice manufacturers, each fac. tory 25.00 Labor agents, per year 250.00 per day 50.00 Lund loan companies, or agents lending money on real estate, by mortgage or otherwise 25.00 Laundries, steam, maintaining ' Plant in city 25.00 Laundries, steam, or agents for ^ laundries, trucks soliciting business for laundries, not maintaining plant in city .. 100.00 Lawyers, each 15.00 Firms or lawyers, each additional member 10.00 Lenders of money, on personal property, whether in connection with other business or not, except such as. are otherwise specified in this ordinance 1,000.00 Livery, feed and sales stables 25.00 Livery and drayage business for each animal 5.00 Lumber dealers or brokers, retail whether resident or not, other than lumber or shingles from timber on land owned by sellers 20.00 Lunch stands 10.00 House painters, p iper hangers, interior deco/ators taking Contracts, per year 15.00 Steeple jack painters, per year 15.00 per day 100 Piano tuners, repairers of musical instruments, per* year 5.00 Machine shops 1000 Marble Yard gioo Moving picture shows, for each place of business 50.00 Manufacturers or bottlers of soda water, Coca Cola, ginSer ale and such like soft r!nk? 25.00 Musical instruments, not connected with other business.. 15.00 Manufacturers of ice cream, not in connection with ice cream parlors, per year .... 10.00 Meat markets, green groceries, per year 30.00 (No license to be prorated.) All markets to be screened in accordance with the directions of the Board of Health and subject at all times to inspection by the Board of Health and kept in sanitary condition. Mutual fire insurance compVT an?e? 25.00 Newspapers, whether connected with job work or not 15.00 Old hoss sales 10.00 Oculists or opticians 15.00 Peddlers or agents soliciting of delivering photographs, lithographs, pictures, etc., for copying or enlarging per week 25.00 Peddlers or venders selling merchnndise of any description, per week 100.00 Per day 20.00 Physicians and surgeons, or either 15.00 Physicians and surgeons, or either, in firms, for first member 15.00 For additional member 10.00 Planing, molding and lumber mills, whether paying lumber dealers' license or not .. 25 AO Popcorn and peanut parchers each not in connection with other business 5.00 per ,day 2.00 Printers, job in connection with newspapers 5.00 Photographers 10.00 Photographers, per day * 5.00 Pressing clubs 10.00 Plumbers, gas fitters, heating contractors,? tinners ana \ ' ~r " steam fitters, or eithe^, taking contracts, local 15.00 transient .. 25.00 That no such license shall be issued until the applicant shall first stand u satisfactory examination before the, inspector of sewerage. I'rinters, not in connection with newsppuers, maintaining plant in city 10.00 Printers, soliciting business . . 25.00 Kent agents or collectors, per year 15.00 Keal estate agents 25.00 Kestaurants and cafes, each . . 25.00 fuddle or buggy horse for hire each 5.00 Salvage companies or persons taking charge of mercantile stock, or other stock, per day 5.00 Selling or erecting ayvnings or tents 15.00 Shoe und Iniot repairers 10.00 Harness repairers 5.00 Shooting galleries, per month 5.00 Sign painters . . 10.00 per day 2.00 Skating rinks, per month ... 5.00 per year 10.00 Slot machines 250.Ot) Soda founts, whether connected 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, or agents for tailors . . 25.00 Trucks hauling fruits, green produce, crackers, in or out of the city t 25.00 Trucks hauling merchandise, in o^ out of the city, either in connection with or without fruit and green produce 50.00 Undertakers 25.00 Vulcanizing, whether in connection with other business or not . 10.00 Veterinary 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 tho gross annual income from the business, cullings or professions enumerated in the following schedule, shall be One Thousand Dollars or less, the license shall be at the rate set forth in said schedule und 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 One Thousand Dollars of gross income in excess of One Thousand Dollars. Express Companies or agencies for business done exclusively in the City of Camden and not including any business done to or from points without the State, and not including any business done for the government of the United States, its officers or ugents 75.00 Railroads for business done exclusively within the City of Camden, and not including business done to or . t from points without the :State, and not including any business done for the government of the United States, its officers or agents, for each road entering the city 100.00 Telegraph companies or agencies, each, for business done within the City of Camden, with joints within the State, ^ not including any business done for the government of the United States 50.00 Telephone Companies or agencies, each, for business done within the City of Camden, with points within the State and not including any bus- . \ iness done for tno government of the United States 200.00 Tea rooms, not selling merchandise, per year 10.00 Seasonable gift shops or sport shops selling merchandise, not a charitable organization, per year 60.00 Class No. 3 Wholesale groceries, per year 50.00 Retail Merchants On gross sales up to $20,000.00 * per yeur, $1.00 on the thousand. On gross sales from $20,000.00 to $40,000.00 per year, $1.50 on the thousand. On gross sales over $40,000.00 per year, $2.00 on the thousand. License to be based on previous years sales. On new business sales to be estimated and adjustment made at end of license year. Accident, Automobile, Casualty, Fidelity, Guarantee Plate Glass or other like insurance Company, each Company represented 10.00 Life Insurance Companies, each 25.00 All Life Insurance Companies doing Industrial Insurance business, per annum 50.00 Insurance Live Stock (each Company) .* 10.00 Section VII. The license on any business or occupation not named in the foregoing schedule shall be fixed by the Mayor and Clerk. Section VIII. Wherever in this ordinance the terms "persons, firm, company, corporation or party" are used, the same shall include not only the principals, but in their absence shall include any agent, clerk or employee having charge, management or control of the business, calling, occupation or profession referred to, and such agent, clerk or employee shall be subject to the penalties herein imposed for failure to comply with the terms and requirements of this ordinance, in the same manner as if he, she or they were princi^ls or proprietors. Section IX. This ordinance shall go into effect on and from the first day^of May A. D. 1980, and all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Done and ratified in Council assembled, under the corporate seal of the City of Camden, S. C., this the 28th day of April, 1930. R. M. KENNEDY, JR., Mayer. . W. H. HA1LE, City Clerk. 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