The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 22, 1909, Image 2
An Ordinance
TO RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE
YEAR 1909-1910.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN
COUNCIL OF GAFFNEY IN COUN
CIL ASSEMBLED AND BY THE AU
THORITY OF THE SAME: That a
tax to cover the expenses of the said
•town from the first Tuesday in March,
1909, to the first Tuesday in March,
1910, he. leved and collected in man
ner and form following:
Section 1. There shall be paid on
each dollar of the assessed value of
all real estate and personal property,
the sum of eight mills for sinking
fund; and the sum of two mills for
the payment of interest on town hall,
electric lights and water bonds, mak
ing a total of ten mills.
Sec. 2. That each and every able
bodied male person between the ages
of 18 and 50 years, except such per
sons as are exempted by the State
law, shall pay on or before the first
Tuesday in March, 1909, the sum of
two dollars for road and street ex
emption; and any person liable to
said tax who shall fail to pay the
same within the time specified shall
be required to work the streets of
the said town six days under the di
rection of the street Overseer; and
any person who is liable for said tax
and fails to perform the said labor
or pay the said tax shall, upon con
viction, be fined not less than five
dollars or more than ten dollars, or
be imprisoned for not more than
twenty days nor less than ten days,
or serve for a like period on the
streets of said town or upon the
countv chaingang at hard labor.
Sec*. 3. That not exceeding twen
ty-five dollars, within the discretion
of the Mayor, shall be paid per day,
by every itinerant trader or auc
tioneer, offering for sale within the
corporate limits of Gaffney at auc
tion or otherwise any goods, wares,
or merchandise, to others than the
’trade, to be paid each day in advance,
and every itinerant trader or auc
tioneer liable to said tax who shall
fail to pay the same as herein pro
vided, upon conviction, shall be fined
not more than fifty dollars or be im
prisoned not more than thirty days,
for each and every day or fraction
thereof, he shall so offend, or shall
be sentenced to service, at hard la
bor. upon '.he streets of said town,
or for a like period upon the chain-
gang of the county; provided this
shall not be held to apply to dealers
in grain, fruits, poultry, earthen ware
nr manufacturers of like character
raised on or produced on the ven
der’s own farm.
SPECIAL TAX.
Section 4 No person, firm or cor
poration shall engage in, prosecute
or carry on any business or profes
sion hereinafter mentioned without
first having paid a special tax there
for, as follows:
Agents for or dealers in ferti
lizers for sale 100 tons or
less $ 5.00
Agents for or dealers in ferti
lizers from 100 to 200 tons 10.00
Agents for or dealers in ferti
lizers for each additional
100 tons or fracUon there
of over 200 tons 2.50
Agents, residents or itinerant,
soliciting mill operatives to
leave employment or go
elsewhere 50.00
AgenYs selling or dealing in
patent rights, whether in
store or on streets .. .. 25.00
Agents or dealers in sewing
machines 25.00
Architect, surveyor, civil en
gineer or either 10.00
Auctioneer 20.00
Auctioneer replenishing stock
from time to time as the
same becomes diminished 50.00
Baker 10.00
Agent for Baker 5.00
Balls, when public is charg
ed, per night 5.00
Banks, private. State. Sav
ings or National, for each
$1,000.00 capital 80
Barber, first chair 7.50
Barber, second chair 5.00
Barber, each additional chair 2.50
Bicycles, dealers in or agents
for the sale of 10.00
Bicycles, persons running es
tablishment for hiring or
renting 5.00
Bill posters 10.00
Bill posters, itinerant, per
day 5.00
Blacksmith, for one forge .. 5.00
Blacksmith, for each addi
tional forge 2.50
Boarding house, except for
students or factory opera
tives exclusively 5.00
Boot or shoe shop, making
or repair 5.00
Brick manufacturing .. .. 15.00
Broker, dealing in tf.ocks and
bonds alone 25.00
Broker, dealing in cattle,
horses or other live stock
not paying a license for sale
stable or stock yard, per
day 5.00
The same per year 25.00
Broker merchandise, carrying
less than $500.00 stock .. 10.00
Broker, pawn 50.00
Building and Loan Associa
tion, or agent for same 25.00
■ Butchers, dealers in meats,
fresh or salt, less than 20
days old 25.00
Bottling Works 10.00
Boot Black 5.00
Chiropodist, per day 1.00
Circus, or menagerie, per
day. in advance, $50.00 to
$150.00, in the discretion of
the Mayor.
Circus, street parade in ad
vance, not more than $50.00
in the discretion of the
Mayor.
Circus, side show in advance 15.00
Ajiy person or persons who
shall exhibit or assist in ex
hibiting any circus or mena
geries in said town without
first having paid the license
tax therefor shall each be
liable for a fine of $100.00,
upon conviction, or impris
onment not more thin
thirty days for each day.
80
80
20.00
5.00
10.00
15.00
15.00
10.00
5.00
25.00
50.00
5.00
or fraction thereof such
show or exhibition contin
ues.
Commission merchant .. .. 10.00
Contractors for contracts for
less than $250.00 5.00
Contractors for contracts less
than $500.00 and more than
$250.00 10.00
Contractors for contracts for
over $500.00 and less than
$2,500.00 25.00
Contractors for over $2,500.00 25.00
Subcontractors shall be sub-
ject to a like tax.
Cotton Seed Oil Mill, for
each $1,000.00 capital stock
Cotton Factory, for each
$1,000.00 capital stock ..
Cotton Gin and Press .. ..
For each additional press ..
Conveyancer who charges for
his work (other than
Atty
Dogs, to be paid for by the
the person, or persons OB
whose place the dog is kept
The police of Vhe town are
hereby authorized and em
powered to seize and con
fine every dog running at
large on which the tax has
not been paid for the cur
rent year.
Dealers in monazite
Dealers in building supplies
Dealers in wagons or other
vehicles except manufactur
ers
Dentists
Dyer
Exhibitions outside of Opera
House, per day, $5.00, not
exceeding
Express Company, for busi
ness done within the State
and not including that done
without the State and not
government business .. ..
Fairs, concerts or festivals,
except for religious or be
nevolent purposes, per day
Fresh fish and oysters, or
either, not sold in connec
tion with market by regular
market men 5.00
Gun and locksmith repair
shop 2.50
Gas fitters, plumbers or elec
tric wiring 10.00
Harness, repair shop only .. 6.00
Horses, person selling at auc
tion, per day 50.00
Hogs, person selling 10.00
Harness, manufacturing and
repairing 10.00
Hotel 25.00
Ice Factory 15.00
Ice cream saloon 2.50
Ice cream peddler 5.00
Ice dealer, retailer 5.00
Insurance Company, fire, life,
health, or live stock and
each insurance company or
corporation, or society hav
ing insurance features tfeh-
er than charitable, and
every agent or agency for
such
Individuals buying from mer
chants and selling to the
trade on time
Jewelry store, watchmaker
and repair
Kerosene Oil Co., or agency
for same
Lodging house without meals
Land Company, selling its own
land exclusively
Laundry, steam
Laundry, agent for
Lawyer
Lawyer also lending money
for self or otherwise in ad
dition to Loans, Savings
and Investment Company,
lending money on real es
tate or otherwise and sim
ilar companies, agent or at
torney for same 25.00
Lunch dealer 5.00
Lime Works, for each $1,000 80
Machine shop or foundry, or
either, for each $1,000.00
capital stock 80
Marble yard or agency for
same .. 10.00
Merchants shall pay license
according to the following
gross sales:
Under $1,000.00 5.00
Over $1,000.00 to $2,500.00 .. 10.00
Over $2,500.00 to $5,000.00 .. 15.00
Over $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 20.00
For each $10,000.00 over $10,-
000.00 25.00
Mills, grist or Hour 5.00
Mills, saw 5.00
Money lender other vhan bank
or lawyer 20.00
Newspaper, less frequent than
daily 10.00
Oculist, itinerant, or itinerant
optician, per day 5.00
Opera House, per year .. .. 25.00
Fainting contractor for (sub-
conVractor shall be liable
for a similar license) .. .. 5.00
Paper hanger or upholsterer 5.00
Photographer 15.00
Photographer, itinerant, per
day, or fraction thereof .. 5.00
Physician 10.00
Pianos, organs and other mus
ical instruments or either
of vhem, dealer in 25.00
Merchants selling pianos or
musical instruments in store 10.00
Same itinerant 25.00
Piano and organ tuner and
repairer of either. Mnerant 5.00
Planing Mill or machine .. 5.00
Pressing Club or clothes
cleaner 5.00
Printing Office, or job office
alone 5.00
Railroads, for business done
within the State and not in
cluding that done without
•ihe State, or inter-State
commerce and not including
that done for the govern
ment 250.00
Restaurant 10.00
Stove repairer 5.00
Sewing machine repairer .. 5.00
Stoves, itinerant dealer in .. 5.00
Street drumu or 25.00
Street wagon, or dray, two
horse
Street wagon, or dray, one
horse 5.00
Shooting gallery, per day,
$2.00, per year 25.00
Skating rink 10.00
Soda fountain, or goose neck
connected wMi other busi
ness, or alone 5.00
Stables, keeping horses and
vehicles for hire under one
roof 20.00
Stables, feed and sale under
one roof 80.00
25.00
10.00
25.00
75.00
10.00
25.00
15.00
10.00
10.00
Stables, feed and sale under
one roof keeping horses
and vehicles for hire .. .. 40.00
Stables, livery and feed .. .. 25.00
Real estate agent 25.00
Undertaker and dealer in cof
fins, caskets and undertak
ers’ supplies 25.00
Dealer In coffins, caskrts and
undertaking supplies .. .. 5.00
Pool or billiard table, first
table 300.00
Each additional table .. .. 100.00
This also applies to club
rooms operating pool or bil
liard tables.
Ten-pin alley 25.00
No person shall Irt or hire
any wagon or dray or other
carriage or vehicle for trans
porting passengers or goods
within*the limits of the
town without, having first
obtained a badge from the
town clerk, paying therefor
fifty cents under penalty
of five dollars for each and
every day that such vehicle
shall run, or five days im
prisonment, after conviction,
for each day so run.
Street railway or dummy line 35.00
Tailor, merchant or manufac
turer 15.00
Tailor, agent for 5.00
Telegraph Company, or agency
for business done within
the State and not includ
ing business done without
the State 35.00
Tin or tinker shop 5.00
Telephone exchange 50.00
Veterinary Surgeon 5.00
Watchmaker and jeweler, for
repairing and selling or
either 10.00
Wholesale Grocer 25.00
All licenses issued by the clerk as
herein provided if to a firm, shall
contain the name of the firm pur
posing to do business under same,
and also all names of the individuals
composing such firm. If to a corpo
ration it shall contain the name of
♦ ho corporation and the names of the
officers of the same.
Any person or persons, carrying
on business or occupation or running
any establishment or business named
in this, or proceeding sections, with
out having taken out a license there
for, as herein provided, shall be fined,
upon conviction, except in cases
where special penalties are imposed,
the sum of not more than twenty-five
dollars per day, or fraction thereof,
or be Imprisoned in the town prison,
or county jail, or be sentenced to
hard labor on the streets or oUier
public works of the town for a per
iod of not more than five days for
each and every day, or fraction there
of such business, occupation or pro
fession is carried on without such
license. No license shall be issued
for a less period than twelve
months, unless otherwise specified
above.
For any business, calling, occupa
tion or profession not enumerated in
the foregoing a license tax of not
more than twenty-five dollars shall he
paid to the clerk by the person, firm
or corporation engaged In or running
same. All licenses issued under this
ordinance shall be posted in a con
spicuous place on premises where
business or profession is carried on
and subject at all times to inspec
tion by the officers of the town. Any
person or persons failing to post said
license shall be subject, upon con
viction, to a fine of not more than
twenty-five dollars or imprisonment
for not more than ten days.
Section 6. The tax on real and
personal property provided for in
this ordinance shall be paid on or
before the first Tuesday in March,
1909, and any person, firm or corpo
ration liable for same, who shall fail
to pay the same on or before said
date, shall he liable to a penalty of
fifteen per cent, of such tax, and tax
and penalty with cost, shall be col
lected by execution or other legal
process.
Any person, firm or officer of any
corporation making any false returns
where a return under oath ts »y this
ordinance required, shall, upon con
viction, he fined not less than twenty
five dollars, nor more than fifty dol
lars, or be imprisoned, at hard labor
upon the public works of Gaffney, or
streets, or the county, in the discre
tion of the Mayor.
See. 7. Any person, firm or cor
poration liable to the license ta/
hereinbefore set forth, whose said
*.ax is regulated by the amount of
stock carried is required to make re
turn under rath to the clerk of the
Town founeil on or before the first
Tuesday in March. 1909, and on fail
ure so o do such person or officer
or :r'< ni of such firm or cornoration
siutll he liable to a fine, upon con
viction, of not exceeding one hund
red d( liars or imprisonment not ox
(ceding thirty days, at hard labor up
on ’.he streets of the town or public
works of Cherokee county, for each
and every day, or fraction of a day,
such person, officer or agent afore
said shall he in default of making
such return. *
Sec. 8. All licenses issued here
under are NONTRANSFERABLE
AND WILL ONLY PROTECT THOSE
TO WHOM THEY ARE ISSUED.
Done and ratified in Council as
sembled. this the 14th day of Jan
uary, 1909.
W. H. ROSS.
Mayor.
GEO. E. HOOD,
Town Clerk.
AGED WOMAN HURT.
Terribly Gored by an Enraged Cow
Near Woodruff.
Woodruff, Jan. 20—Gored in the
side, face and breast by a raging cow,
which had been angered by a aog
while she was milking the animal,
Mrs. F. B. Castleberry, mother of L.
E. Cartleberry, of the firm of Castle
berry & White, who lives a mile and
a half from Woodruff, lay at the point
of death last evening, the members
of the immediate family having been
called to her beside.
Mrs. Castleberry was seated upon
a stool milking the cow when in a
rear lot a house dog, which the cow
despised, began to worry the animal.
The cow became angry and bolted for
the dog, which dodged and continued
to bark and snap at her. Mrs. Catsle-
berry, being sixty years of age, was
not able to keep out of the path of
the frightened animal and was first
run over and knocked down.
It was after her pathway had been
obstructed by Mrs. Castleberry’s form
that the cow left the dog, and wheel
ing, gored the aged woman In the
side as she endeavored to rise to her
feet, trampling her and * turning
again to renew the attack.
Those in the house hearing her
screams, ran to the rescue, but did
nau arrive before she had been hor
ribly mutilated. The beat off the
cow with sticks and gently carried
the unconscious form into the house,
where she was quickly given medical
attention.
Aside from flesh wounds inflicted
with horn and hoof, two ribs were
found to be broken on one side and 1
several on the other. From the first |
it was feared that the aged lady could j
not live, and yesterday afternoon the
family was called to her beside, the
end seeming near.
She is one of the best known ladies !
in the count v.
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A New Story About Robert E. Lee.
A hitherto unpublished story about.
Gen. Robert E. Lee is given in he
Manufacturers’ Record of January
14th in an article entitled “Rounding
Out of the Nation’s Life Through
Southern Development,” in the course
of which it said:
“At the close of vhe Civil War sev
eral young men who had served in
the Southern army, so the Manufac
turers’ Record has recently been told
by one who was in the party, called
on Gen. Robert.' E. Lee. In explain
ing the object of their visit they said
to him:
“ ‘Your name lias carried us into
many places where we did not want
to go. Now we want to vake your
name with us where we are going,
and we have come to ask for your
autograph on these photographs.’
“Geh. Lee, in reply, said:
“ ‘If my name has carried you, as
you say, into places in which you did
not want to go, I want you to be
careful not to cary it. into any place
where I would not. want it to go.
Where are you going?’
“One said that he was bound for
Mexico, another that he was looking
to the far Southwest, and the others
to distant sections because they felt
there was no opportunity for them at
home by reason of the destruction
caused by the war.
“Gen. Lee said to them:
“ ‘As soldiers you served your
State faithfully; you did your duty,
you risked your lives in the service of
your country; but your State needs
you today more than it needed you
in the war. It has hard problems
to settle. Its business interests have
been destroyed, and for these very
reasons it seems to me your State
has a right to ask you to stand by it
in uiese days of trial and to help to
rebuild its fortunes. Consider wheth
er you do not owe to your State, un
der these conditions the same devo
tion to it, the same self-sacrifice that
you gave to it at the call of war.’
“If it had been possible for this
thought of the great Confederate sol
dier to have been carried out, and if
♦he hundreds of thousands of young,
virile men who left this section with
in a few years after the war, and the
vwo and a half million people who
have left it during the past 40 years,
had been able to find at home scope
for their energy, employment, for
their talents, whether of brain or
muscle, what a mighty difference
there would have been, not only in
the South, but. in other sections! i
The South would have gained the,
energy of these people and the en- j
ergy of the children born to them, i
while other sections which have been !
enriched by their work would to that.'
extent have made less relative pro-
vress than they have made.”
De Ol’ Luck Bag.
(V. A. Hermann, in New York Sun.)
On a creepy niirlit when de moon am |
new
En de mist hang in de holler;
En de grnboyahds yawn fron a veil o’
dew—
Till yu ihink dot white ghos’s toiler.!
En Ah Ink to do rigid en Ah link to
de lef
En malt courage sold o’ sag;
Mali heaht et jump en Ah’m skeehed
to doff—
Till Ah think o' mah ol’ luck hag.
Toad skin!
Hoss haih!
Snake ha id!
OR luck hag.
I
One yeah Ah had all obil luck,
Los' mah cane en cotton;
Los' mah frien's when Ah fell in de j
ruck—
En soon Ah was forgotten.
De plough mule died an’ each move
Ah’d make,
Ah’d hit amtddeh snag
Till a voice says: “Ef del spell you’d
break—
Go git an ol’ luck bag.”
Spideh eye!
Clam shell!
Eel tall!
Ol’ luck bag!
So Ah went lo de trick man back in
de pines
When midnight hells was chimin’;
His hut Inked dahk from a net o’ vines
Kn a blood red moon was climbin’.
He gimnje a pouch all mouldy gray,
En tied wid a strip o’ rag;
En he says: “Dem ills will fly away
Ef you use de ol’ luck bag.
Glow wuhm!
Grabe dirt!
Skull bone!
OR luck bag!
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FINAL DISCHARGE.
Notice is hereby given to all con-
cerned that we will apply to Hon. J.
E. Webster, Probate Judge for Cher-
kee county. South Carolina, at his of
fice, Gaffney, S. C., on Friday, Feb
ruary 12th, 1909, at 10 o’clock A. M.,
for final settlement and discharge as
executors of the estate of Robt. H.
Moss, deceased.
All persons holding claims against
said estate will present the same
duly attested to the undersigned on
or before said day of settlement, 10
o’clock A. M. or forever be barred.
Solon A. Moss,
Thos. L. Moss,
Exors. estate Robt. H. Moss, de
ceased.
Pub. in Gaffney Ledger Jaa. 15,
22, 29 and Feb. 6, 1909.
Gathered From Goucher.
t’herokee, Jan. 16.— Miss Carrie
Spears has had pneumonia, but is bet
ter at ;nis writing.
Qu?.e a heavy sleet fell Thursday.
Land Blanton was in he city Thurs
day.
Mr. L. Sarratt has had a new house
built on his place near here.
Your correspondent, Mr. Ed. Go
forth and Mr. S. S. Littlejohn attend
ed preaching av Ravenna last Sun
day.
Miss Lola Littlejohn, of Spartan
burg, is visiting at Mr. Waddy Round-
Vree’s this week.
M'. C. Stacy, the little ten-year-old
boy of Mr. ami Mrs. Tom Stacy, had
the misfortune to get his arm broken'
the day after Christmas.
Lamar Littlejohn, of Pacolet, at
tended preaching at Ravenna last
Sunday.
Mr. Land Blanton went *co Gaffney
today on business.
M,r. Luther Sarratt was a business
visitor '1.0 the city Thursday.
Mr. Prater Smith, of Goucher, was
in the city Monday.
Mr. W. E. Phillips was in the city
Saturday.
Best wishes to The Ledger.
Bryand Humphries.
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