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r I h ' NOTES FROM MOODT. New Freight Depot to be Built?Local! and Personal Items. Moody, February 1:?Mr W H| Andrews, the popular and efficient) superintendent of the G Si W rail ro-id, informs the writer that the railroad company expects soon to erect a commodious freight depot tor handling freight at this station. This fills a long felt want and the, patrons of the road will appreciate! the spirit of accommodation manifested toward them hy the management of the railroad. A baby gill ha? taken up her I al>ode at the home of Mr and Mrs; J J Gibson. The arrual of the lit- i tie stranger bronghtjov t > 'he hearts' of tlie happy parents. "r ' ?. .1..* \fJ Me regret u? repuit iii.ii> ?vn j Louie Feagiu is critically ill with i pneumonia. His condition is such j that little hope is entertained for his recovery. Several uew families are moving luto our little town and new bnildiugs are goiDg up and old ones being repaired. Mr Cooper Aitman has moved into our community on a large farm of Mr G W Camlin's, which he ex- ; pects to cultivate the present year. Last Saturday, the dOth ultimo, three children of Mr S J Lambert, who died several months ago, left here for Starke, Fla, to make their home with their sister, Mrs Agnes Crosby. Mr G W Powell visited Lake City Saturday on business. .MrJo&n i'oweii 01 L?ake uiy spent last wetk here with his cotisin, Mr G W Powell, of this vicinity. Mrs A M Haselden of Laurel is spending some days with her father, Mr W i> Camlm, Sr, of oar community. Red Coon. 1 A Rhymed Wedding. According to the Mexico Ledger John Stoble, a Wellston magistrate, united a negro couple with this ceremony: Jim, will you take Bet Without any regret, To love and cherish 1 Till one of you perish, And is laid under tne sou. So help you God? Jim having- given the usual afifi: matiYe answer,Judge Stoble ; turned to Bet: L Bet, will you take Jim And cling to him, ( Both out and in. Through thick a,nd thin. Holding him to your heart. j Till death you part? Bet modestly acquiesced and the newly married couple were dismissed with this benediction: 1 Through life's alternative joy and strife, I no.v pronounce you man and wife. Go up the hill till you get to the level And salute your bride, you dusky devil! Lippincott's for February observes the centennial anniversary of Lincoln's birth by printing a striking paper on our great War President by George L Knapp, a Western writer whose work is attracting considerable attention just now. Few men have been more written about than Abraham Lincoln, yet Mr Knapp finds some new things to gay, and says them well. Washiigtoi Oice Gave dp to three doctors; was kept in bed for five weeks. Blood poison from a spider's bite caused large, deep sores to cover his leg. The doctors failed, v then "Bucklen's Arnica Salve completely cured me," writes John Washington of Bosqueville, Tex. For eczema, boils, burns and piles it's supreme. 25c at D C Scott's. xiereaixer we pusiuvciy refuse to publish any communication received at this office later than Tuesday, noon, except local and personal items, which willnot be available later than Wednesday, noon, for the current week. By trying to be accommodating we are thrown late every week and we are tired of it. This notice applies to EVERY BODY. 4-25-tf. i An Ordinance To regulate licenses and to provide for the collection of license taxes within the limits of the town of Kiugstree, S <\ for and duting the year A D 11)09. Be it ordained by the Mayor and AJdermen ot tie* i own ? t Ktngstree, S C. in Council assembled anil by the authority of tin* same: Section I. That every person, firm or corporation engaged or intending to et!gage in any trade, business, occupation or profession hereinafter mentioned, within the limits of the t??n of Kingstree, S C, shall oh- , tain, on or b-fore the first day of February, A l> 11)09, a license therefor in the manner hereinafter provided. Section II. That every person,firm or corporation commencing any trade, business, occupation or profession within the limits of the town of Kingstree, S C, after the first day of February, A I) 1909,shall in like manner obtain a license therefor before entering upon such trade, busi iiess, occupation or profession. Section III. That every person, firui or corporation re juired by this ordinance to obtain a license to engage in any trade, business, occupa* * r?r 1: tion or proiession xor which ? nucnstis required shall, at the time for applying for such license,make u statement aud file the same with the Treasurer of the town, setting forth (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 such trade, business, occupation or profession is to be conducted or carried on. Section IV. That the Clerk and Treasurer shall thereupon issue the proper license as prescribed in this ordinance, the amount of the license tax therefor having first beeu paid, on or before the date named in the first section hereof. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner auect any omer requirements of law elsewhere enacted in regard to any trade, busiuees, occupation or profession. Section V. That if any person, firm or corporation shall engage in or carry on any trade, business, occupation or professiou for which a license is required by this ordinance without first obtaining and taking out a license and paying the license tax therefor and required herein, such person,firm or corporation shall be liable for the prescribed license tax, and in addition thereto shall be subject for each ultense to a penalty of fifteen (13) per cent of the amount of such license tax, which license tax and penalty shall be lecovered as hereinafter provided, and if any person, Dim or corporation shall refuse or neglect to make out and deliver to the Clerk and Treasurer on or before the fiist day of February, A D 1909, the statement i?s required in section lit nereor, the Clerk and Treasurer shall proceed to ascertain as nearly as possible the trade, business, occupation or profession of such person, firm or corporation, and from the information thus acquired lie shall proceed to issue the required license to such person, lirm or corporation, having tirst collected Ilk- required license tax, together with the penalty of fifteen (15) per cent of the amount of said license tax as hereinbefore provided. Section VI. That if auy 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 Police man 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 in 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 l: r i.:i v o 1 cuuuuue iu lurce uuui l/cuciuuci ui, 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, occupation or profession hereinafter numerated that may be commenced, established or carried on after the first day of February,A D1909,shall become due and payable on the day that such business, occupation, profession or trade is commenced, established or carried on. Section IX. That a Foot Tax of two dollars ($2.00) be and the same is hereby assessed to be collected from each male inhabitant of the Town of Kingstree, S C, subject under the law to street duty, in lieu of doing work on the streets of said town. Section X. That the following sums, as license taxes, shall be paid to the Clerk and Treasurer of the Town of Kingstree, S C,bv any person, firm or corporation engaged or engaging iri any trade, business, occuvation or profession hereinafter enumerated, upon receipt of which said license taxes the said Clerk and Treasurer shall issue a proper license] for such trade, business, occupation ] or profession as hereinbefore pro-1 vided: Agents for stoves, selling and delivering, except for merchants paving license tax $10 00! [Agents selling or delivering lightning rods 10 00 ; Agents selling or delivering patent medicines 10 00 ; (Agents selling or delivering books 10 00i A rents selling or delivering portraits ^ 10 00 j \ ir?*r?ts selling or deliver ins fruit troes 5 00 j Agents selling or delivering sewing machines 10 00 Artists, per day 1 00 44 *4 year 5 00 Architects 10 001 Auctioneering?Livestock 35 00! 44 on street 25 00 44 in stores 25 00 Bakeries aud dealers in frtsh breads 2 50 Banks 25 00 Barbers, each 3 00 i Brokers and commission merchants as general merchandise. Boarding houses, each 2 50 Boarding bouses taking students or school children only, exempt. Billiard or pool rooms 10 00 Bicycle repair shops 2 00 Bicycle rent shops 55 00 Brick mills -v 10 00 J Butchers and meat markets 5 00 j Civil engineers or surveyors 5 00 , Cotton gins 10 00 ( n ;ll_ - nn vvorn nuns <j w Circuses and other tented , 6bows $3 00 to 50 00 ( Cook shops or restaurants 3 50 ( Cotton seed oil mills 35 00 C<mitractors 10 00 J Cotton 6eed buyers 10 00 , Cotton buyers . 10 00 , Dealers in horses and mules 10 00 " " buggies and wagons 10 00 ( ' " general merchandise, $100 to $1,000 5 00 , Dealers in general merchandise, $1,000 to $3,000 10 00 i Dealers in general merchandise, $3,000 to 85,000 15 00 Dealers in general merchandise, $5,000 to $10,000 20 00 Dealers in general merchandise, $10,000 to $50,000 25 Oo Dentists . 10 00 Druggisis 5 00 Dealers in hides 5 00 Dealers in organs and other musical instruments 10 00 Dealers in clocks 5 00 Express companies 25 00 Fruit stands on street or vacant lot 10 00 Fruit shops , 2 50 (Ireen grocers 5 00 Hawkers and peddlers, per day 5 00 ' " ' per year 50 00 Dealers in coca cola, ginger ale and other soft drinks 2 50 Dealers in ice cream not in saloons 2 50 Hotels 10 00 llorse traders, per day 10 00 j Ice houses 2 50 orDiim anil nnld drink Sft loons 5 00 Lawyers and collection officers 10 00 Laundries 3 00 Laundries,resident ageuts for foreign ' 3 00 ' Life or tire insurance agents, resident 5 00 Life or fire insurance agents, non-resident 10 00 Merry-go-rounds, per day 25 00 * ' > E nA Upera nouses or piay nouses y uu Open air kitchens, per day 5 00 " per year 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 Saw mills 10 00 Shoemakers 2 00 Silversmiths 5 00 Selling 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 06 Warehouses with storage for hire 5 00 elegraph companies 10 00 TSection 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 $100.00 which shall be determined on by Council at a meeting or meetings hereafter called for that purpose. Section XII. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the above be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed and ratified in Council as- ; setnbied this fifth day of January, j A I) 11)09. T * il? i v r\ f r C?1 Vf > \ i r uv^l id \ i .>1' | ij d jj 1u(?j vi . J I> (ill.. .AND, [l- S| Clerk and Treasurer. An Ordinance : I'd raise supplies and fix the tax , levy in the Town of Kingstree, S I (', for the year A I) 1901). 1 ?? it ordained bv tlie Mayor and j Aldermen'of the Town of Kings-1 tree, S (', in Council assembled and j by authority of the same. Section 1. That a tax of sixty! cents ($U.C>0) on tverv one hundred dollars (| 100.00) of 'the assessed value of all real and personal properly within the Town of Kingstree, j S (', (not exempt by law) be and the! same is hereby levied to meet the current expenses of the said town. Section II. That the tax herein provided for shall be nr^Je on the assessment and valuation placed upon said property for the purpose of county and State taxes. Section III. That the tax herein t i -v it i. . i 1 levied snan oe uue anu payauic uu and after the first day of February, A D 1909, and that a penalty of one (1) per cent for tile month of March and a penalty of two (**) percent for the month ot April t ill be added for each day for which said taxes j have not been paid on or before the first day of March, A D 1909. Section IV. That execution as provided by law shall issue for the collection of all taxes herein provided for when said taxes shall not be paid within three months after the first i day of February, A D 1909. Section V. That a Foot Tax of two dollars ($2.00) be assessed and collected from each male inhabitant cf the Town of Kingstree, S C, subject under the road law to street duty, in lieu of doing or performing work on the streets of said town, during the year A I) 1909. Section VI. That all ordinances cr parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed and latified in Council assembled this fifth day of January, A D1909. Iahtis W Gill and [l s), Mayor. J D Gilland, Clerk and Treasurer. l-?8-2t f J, D, GILLAND, j J Real Estale Broker, j } KINGSTREE. S. C. } 11 have on hand a hand-* ?some list of bargains in ) } farm and city property. } > Call and see me. Title < ? guaranteed. Loans nego- \ } tiated at a reasonable fee. \ f List your property with t k me for sale. Good prices > ( and satisfaction assured. } ( 10-29?:3ui^ \ Sumter Steam Laundry Up-to-Date Machinery Work Guaranteed Cut out Gloss Finish and get the Beautiful White Domestic. We have arranged with Mr. J. W. Chandler at the Kellahan Hotel to represent us in Kingstree. All work left with him will be carefully attended to and promptly delivered. Sumter Steam Laundry Trespass NoticeAll persona are hereby forbidden to trespass by hunting, cutting wood or in any other manner on any lands of the undersigned. Any and all persons found guilty of same will be punished to the full extent of the law. Estate J H Hutbox, Mrs M S Hutson, Harper, S C. January 18, 1909. l-21-3t / / ? if bbhbbbbhbmi ITOBAC I Give us your o Flues. We will ma lowest possible price finm IH Have you H Wrought Stee j Six Hole Rang 1 Reservoir? j Marvelous f( j Cook Stoves j to the best. I Coffins a REMEMBEI KIISTREE HAH J. L. 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