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k P. \ STT^sm-E^EB."iT,T TO THE COUNTY RECORD __ KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 28, 1909. ' MIRROR OF EVENTS AT HARPERS KFIECTED BY OUB ALE8T CORRESPOND ENT?TRUCK ASSOCIATION BUSY ?NEGRO BOY KILLED. Harpers, January 25: ? Our Truck association met at Harp- j ers last Saturday and arranged j for securing bean seed, also po- j tatoes, cantaloupe and cucum-l ber seed. Our merchants have agreed to order the seed at i - l 1 I ! once, we aiso nau several dt'CB added to the number pledged I to be planted. Our farmers are determined to plant both truck and tobacco and less cotton. If your scribe can succeed in getting the farmers to make this change. 1 know success will crown our efforts and your hum ble scribe will feel amply repaid for his efforts made. With ;our help, Mr Editor, our farmks will look back to 1909 with I oleasure and profit. Our town people were aroused j on last Monday night by the i alarm of tire. One of the dwell-' ing houses of Mr W S Camlin. Jr, was found to be in a blaze, j The people responded promptly j but the fire was too far advanced to save the building. There were ' live buildings only a short dis-! tance apart, but by the heroic efforts of our good people Mr Camlin lost only one house, j partly covered by insurance. HnaH hnriv nf a neero bov. i Peter Grayson, was brought to Harpers last Sunday morning on the G & W railroad This boy was accidentally killed by a j "skidder" belonging to the Mar?, ion Lumber Co. He was raised in y- " our town and came from a good family of negroes. Saturday the hum of the Harwell Jin Co coulcl be heard in X ? town. Our farmers are not en j Jk tirely through ginning their last year's cotton yet. There have also been 5 or 6 cars of cotton seed and 40 or 50 bales of cot- j ^ton shipped from Harpers the past week. The cleaning and cultivating ol tarms around town is progressing nicely. We shall have in one farm at Harpers this year 500 acres This farm,I have been informed,will be planted in small grain and some fruit as well. The owner, Mr W H Andrews, told the writer that he would join our association and plant as much track as anyone in the association. Mr Andrews' farm will be one of the largest in this i community. A good part of it is in town. There are several other farms of 50 and 100 acres each "being opened up around here. Several parties who bought land last fall from Mr Edwin Harptr are now putting up buildings on i t lose lands and getting the soil j in shape for cultivation. Wei hope to see our modest little J town within 12 months grow so v as to attract the attention of home seekers. We have the resources arid invite and welcome 1 good people to come and cast their lot with us. ^*^he Harpers Mercantile Co has made application for a charter and hopes to begin business * by February 15. The promoters seem determined to begin this enterprise at once and we predict success for those who have taken stock in the company. Subscriber. COTTON STATISTICS. I j Number el Bales Ginned up to January! 16 According to Census Report. ! Washington, Januarv 23:?There V) ft A 7 9.31 rnnnincr hales of > o -| cotton ginned from the growth of 1908 to January 16 last against 10,339,551 a year ago, according to the census bureau report today. The report couuts round bales as halt bales aLd excludes liaters. It in eludes 232,521 round bales for 1909; 137,800 in 1907 and 90,456 for 1908. The total of bales ginned in 1907 up to January 16 was 12 176,199, representing 93.8 per cent, of the crop of that year and of the 1906 crop 93.5 per cent, was ginued ed by January 16. The following statement shows the bales ginned and number or ginneries operated respectively by States as follows: Alabama 1,317,266 and 3,477; Arkansas 931,540 and 2,115; Florida 68,518 and 254; Georgia 1,951,710 and 4,458; Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico 1,787 and 6; Louisiana 458,723 and 1,696; Mississippi 1,551,205 and 3,476. Missouri 55,182 and 78;Nortb Carolina 661,295 and 2,756; Oklahoma 12,608 and 984; South Carolina 1,193,520 and 4,229; Tennessee 321,677 and 649; Texas 3,599,426 and 4,148; Virginia 12,614 aud 115. S: einc i mure nu rue icrciei itiidc a ^ aiUL uuuifl un iiil iLuiauiiuib.^j Representative Carter spoke in opposition to Representative (Gibson's bill to impose a tax of $10,00 on all female dogs. Representative iirvan made a speech against the bill to require secret societies to take out a license Representative Graham has introduced a bill to amend the act exempting certain portions of Williamsburg from the operation of the stock law. The legislature in joint assembly last Thursdav bv a vote of 96 to 65 elected Associate Justice Ira B Jones of Ijancaeter chief justice over Associate Justice Eugene B Gary of Abbeville. We have just got in a splendid lot of all kinds of stationery, fine bond papers,ruled headings, 100,000 envelopes, and Dennison's shipping tags with brass eyelets and wire strings, the best made. See our samples be fore ordering elsewhere. tf We hereby give notice that after January i, 1909, all ac * 1 _ or corporation engaged or intending j to engage in any trade, business, oc- i cupatiou or profession hereinafter < mentioned, within the limits of the 1 t ?wn of Kingstree, S C, shall ob- I tain, on or before the first day of t February, A D 1909, a license there- f fnr in rh* manner hereinafter nrf>? 1 vided. Section II. That every person,firm t or corporation commencing any i trade, business, occupation or pro- 1 fession within the limits of the town ' of KingstrePsS C, after the first day i of February, V 1) 1909, shall in like < manner obtain a license therefor be- I fore enter;ng upon such trade, busi ness, occupation or profession. t Section III. That every person, t firm or corporation required by this ' ordinance to obtain a license to en- ? gage in any trade, business, occupa- < tion or profession for whicn a license c is required sh^J at the time for ap- t plying for suc? jeii3e,inake a state- ? ment and fije the same with the Treasurer of the town, setting forth11 (1) his, her, their name and style, < and in case of a firm, the names of \ the several members constituting the . firm; (2) the trade, business, occupation or profession for which a license is required, and (3) the place where j on/ik trurln Kn oinooa a/?aii iioh.^n ap OUV/11 VI WUV ) VUOIUVOI^ VWUpHV-VII VI | profession is to be conducted or car- . ried on. Section IV. That the Clerk and . Treasurer shall thereupon issue the proper license as prescribed in tbis , ordinance, the amount of the license tax theretor having tirst been paid, on or before the date named in the first section hereof. Provided, that j nothing herein contained shall in any manner Hffect any other require- ? ments of law elsewhere enacted in regard to any trade, business, ocou j pation or profession. i Section V. That if any person, firm or corporation shall engage in or carry on any trade, business, oc- I cupation or profession for which a license is required by this ordinance ] without first obtaining and taking ] nnt u linunui unil navincr flip linpnup I tax therefor and required herein, such person.firm or corporation shall be liable for the prescribed license I tax, and in addition ^hereto shall be subject for each offense to a penalty of fifteen (15) per cent of the amount of such license tax, which license tax and penalty shall be lecovered as hereinafter provided, and if any person, tiim or corporation shall refuse or neglect to make out aud deliver to the Clerk and Treasurer on or before the fiist day of February, A D 1909, the statement n8 required in section III hereof, the Clerk and Treasurer shall proceed to ascertniu as nearly as possible the tnde, business, occupation or pro fession of such person, firm orcoi 1 * , puiniiuUf miu nuui LUC IIIHU IIJULIUII \ thns acquired he shall proceed to i sue the required liceuse to such person, firm or corporation, having first collected the required license tax, logether with the penalty of fifteen (15) per cent of the amouut of said license tax as hereinbefore provided. Section VI. That if any liceuse tax herein prescribed shall not be paid within fifteen days after the same has become due and payable, the Clerk and Treasurer shall issue his execution to the Town Policeman for the collection of the same, and the said Town Policeman shall proceed to collect said license tax and the penalty thereon by distress and sale or by levy and sale in the manner as now provided by law for the collection of other taxes,together with five (5) per cent on the whole amount for which said execution is issued. Provided, that in lieu of the remedy herein given, suit may be brought in the aame of the town iu any court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of said license tax and the penalty thereon. Section VII. That all licenses granted under this ordinance shall continue in force until December 31, A D 1909; that the Clerk and Treasurer shall prepare a proper form of license and that all applications for licenses shall be made to the Clerk and Treasurer. Section VIII. The license tax required for any trade, business, occu CUUlllb Ul a uuuai ui uiuic iui subscription will be placed in the hands of a collecting- agency. We hate to do this but can't afford to lose the hundreds of dollars our honest toil entitles us to. tf An Ordinance To'regulate licenses and to provide for the collection of lice.ise taxes within the limits of the town of Kingstree, S C, for and during the year A D 1909. Be it ordaiued by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Kingstree, S C, in Council assembled a.id by the authority of the same; Section I. That every person, firm 3ation or profession hereinafter anuni erated that may be commenced, established or carried on after the irst day of February,A D 1909,shall become due and payable ou the day ] hat such business, occupation, pro* < eseion or trade is commenced, es- I ablished or carried on. Section IX. That a Foot Tax of < ;wo dollars ($2.00) be and the same < 8 hereby assessed to be collected ] :'rom each male inhabitant of ti e rown of Kingstree, S C, subject mder the law to street duty, in lieu ] )f doinsr work on the streets of said ] awn. Section X. That the following turns, as license taxes, shall be paid X) the Clerk and Treasurer of the Town of Kingstree, S C,bv any person, firm or corporation engaged or engaging in any trade, business, oc;u pat ion or profession hereinafter .'numerated, upon receipt of which laid license taxes the said Clerk and Treasurer shall issue a proper license for such trade, business, occupation >r profession as hereinbefore pro?ided: Agents for stoves celling and delivering, except for merchants paying license tax $10 00 Agents selling or delivering lightning rods 10 00 Agents selling or delivering patent medicines 10 00 ' Agents selliug or delivering books 10 00 i Agents selling or delivering portraits 10 00 Agents selling or delivering truit trees 5 00 Ageuts selling or delivering spwintr machines 10 00 - o Artists, per day 1 00 >? .1 5 oo , Architects 10 00 Auctioneering?Live stock 35 00 " on street 25 00 " in stores 25 00 i Bakeries and dealers in fresh breads 2 50 Banks 25 00 Barbers, each 3 00 brokers and commission merchants as general merchandise. hoarding houses, each 2 50 Boarding houses taking students or school children 1 only, exempt. Billiard or pool rooms 10 00 Bicycle repair shops 2 00 Bicycle rent shops i 55 00 Brick mills 10 00 | Butchers and meat markets 5 00 | Di viI engineers or surveyors 5 00 Uotton gins 10 00 , Jorn mills 5 00 , Jircuses and other tented flhnwfl $5 00 to 50 00 , Jook shops or restaurants 3 50 j Jotton eeed oil mills 35 00 , Jontractors 10 00 , Jotton seed buyers 10 00 Jotton buyers , 10 00 j Dealers in horses and mules 10 00 , 44 44 buggies and wagons 10 00 ( 44 44 general merchau- , dise, $100 to $1,000 5 00 Dealers in general raerchan- 1 dise, $1,000 to $3,000 10 00 j Dealers in general merchandise, $3,000 to $5,000 15 00 I Dealers in general merchan- i dise, $5,000 to $10,000 20 00 I Dealers iu general merchan- i dise. $10,000 to $50,000 25 00 1 Dentists 10 00 I Druggists 5 00 Dealers in hides 5 00 ] Dealers in organs and other mu- < sical instruments 10 00 i Dealers hi clock- 5 00 ' Express companies 25 00 < Eruit stands on street or vacant lot 10 00 I Pruit shops 2 50 < ireen groc-rs 5 00 < Hawkers and peddlers, per day 5 00 j 44 44 44 per year 50 00 < Dealers in coca cola, ginger < ale and other soft drinks 2 50 i Dealers in ice cream not in sa* loons 2 50 < Hotels 10 00 Horse traders, per day 10 00 i Ice houses 2 50 Ice cream and cold drink saloons 5 00 Lawyers and collection officers 10 00 Laundries 3 00 Laundries,resideut agents for foreign 3 00 Life or fire insurance agents, resident 5 00 Life or fire insurance agents, non-resident 10 00 Merry-go-rounds, per day 25 00 Opera houses or play nouses 5 00 Open air kitchens, per day 5 00 14 44 4 4 peryear 50 00 Organ grinders, per day 50 Oil companies with local tanks 10 00 Paint shops or paint contractors 5 00 Printing offices or publishing papers . 10 00 Physicians 10 00 Pressing clubs 5 00 Railroad companies 50 00 Real estate companies or agents, renting or selling 5 00 Stables, public, feed or livery 5 00 3aw mills 10 00 Shoemakers 2 00 Silversmiths 5 00 Sellinu beef on street.per day 1 00 Selling pork on street,per day 25 Selling fish, not fresh water, on streets 5 00 Tailors, merchant 5 00 Tinners and tin shops 5 00 Watch-makers and watch-repairers 5 00 Restaurants or cook shops 2 50 Wheelwright and blacksmith shops 5 00 Warehouses with storage for hire 5 00 Telegraph companies 10 00 Section XI. That for every other trade, occupation or profession not hereinbefore mentioned there shall be imposed a license tax of not less than $1.00 nor more than $100.00 which shall be determined on by Council at a meeting or meetings hereafter called for that purpose. Section XII. That all ordinances or parts ot ordinances inconsistent with the above be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed and ratified in Council assembled this fifth day of January, A. D 1909. Louis W Gilland [l s], Major. J D Gilland, [l s] Clerk and Treasurer. l-2S-2t An Ordinance To raise supplies and fix tbe tax levy in the Town of Kmgatree, S C, for the year A D 1909. Be it ordain-d by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Kingstree, S 0, in Council assembled and by authority of the same. Section I. That a tax of sixty cents ($0.60) on every one hundred dollars ($100.00) of the assess* d value of all real and personal prop, erty within the Town of Kingstree, S C, (not exempt by law) be and the same is hereby levied to meet the current expeuses of the said town. Section 11. l'bat the tax nereiu provided for shall be made on tbe assessment and valuation placed upon mid property for fbe purpose of xiunty aud State taxes. Section III. That tbe tax herein levied shall be due and payable on aud after the first day of February, A D 1909, aud that a penalty of one [I) per ceut for the month of March ind a penalty of two (2) percent for the month ot April shall be added f~- ~..~U ofhinK oairl tavos Ll/I UH^U UOJ l vi TT UIVU Wiivt whaw have not been paid on or before the aret day of March, A D 1909. Section IV. That execution as provided by law shall ifgue for the lollection of all taxes herein provided for when said taxes shall not be paid within three months after the first lay of February, A D 1909. Section V. That a Foot Tax of wo dollars ($2.00) be assessed and jollected from each male inhabitant )f the Town of Kingstree, S C, subject under the road law to street inty, in lieu of doiag or performing work on the streets of said town, during the year A D 1909. Section VI. That all ordinances or part* of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed and latified in Council assembled this fifth day ot January, A D 1909. Louis W Gilland [l s], Mayor. J D Gilland, Clerk and Treasurer. l-'28-2t