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AN ORDINANCE To regulate licenses within the limits of the Town of Kingstree, S. C., for the year A. D. 1920., and to provide for the collection of the same. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Kingstree, S. C., in Council assembled and by the authority of the same. Section 1.?That every person, firm, or corporation engaged in, or intend- 1 ing to engage in any trade, business, occupation or profession hereinafter | mentioned in the Town of Kingstree, S. C., shall on or before the loth day of January, A. D. 1920, obtain a license therefor in the manner here-! inafter provided. Section 2.?That every person, firm, or corporation commencing or engagind in any such trade, business, or occupation in the Town of Kingstree, ! S. C., after the 15th day of January, i A. D. 1920, shall in like manner obtain the license therefor before entering upon, or engaging insuch trade, business, occupation or profession. Section 3.?That every person, firm, or corporation required by this Ordinance to obtain the license to carry on or engage in any trade, business, occupation, or profession, shall at the time of applying for such license make a statement, and file the same A'ith the Clerk and Treasurer of saidj Town setting forth: (1) his, her or its name and style, and in the case of a firm, the name of the several members constituting the said firm; (2) the trade, business, occupation orN profession for which the license is required; and (3) the place where such trade, business, occupation or profession is to be conducted or car- j vied on. Section 4.?That the Clerk and ** * 'J T* ?oUoll tKovo. ! Treasurer 01 saiu iv?u, suon v. , upon issue to such applicant the proper license as required and provided for in this Ordinance, the amount of said license having first been paid when such application is made for the license for a trade, occupation, business or profession, established, carried on or engaged in at the time, of such application. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any I way affect any other requirements of I law elsewhere enacted in regard to | any such trade, business, occupation' or profession. 1 Section 5.?That if any person, firm or corporation shall carry on or engage in or conduct any trade, busi-1 ness, or occupatioh or profession for u hich a license is required by this j Ordinance, without first obtaining a license therefor, as herein required, the said person, firm or corporation shall be liable for the said license required, and in addition thereto shall i be subject for each offense to a penalty of fifteen per cent (IbVc) of the amount of such license, which license and penalty shall be recovered as hereinafter provided; and if any person, firm or corporation, shall refuse or neglect to make out and deliver to the said Clerk and Treasurer, on or before the 15th day of January, A. D. 1920, the statement hereinbefore required, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall proceed to ascertain as nearly as possible the trade, business, occu- j pation, or profession of such person, firm or corporation, and upon the information thus acquired, he is hereby empowered and instructed to issue, the license herein required and pre-. scribed to such person, firm, or corpcration, having first collected the | amount of the license required, to-! gether with the aforesaid penalty of | fifteen per cent (15c/c) of the amount thereof herein imposed. Section 6.?That if the said license tax and penalty shall not be paid within fifteen (15) days after the Clerk's ascertainment nerein provmeu for. the said Clerk and Treasurer shall issue his proper execution to the Town Policeman for the collection of the same, and the said Policeman shall thereupon and thereunder proceed to collect the said tax license and penalty, by distress and sale, or by levy and saie, in the same manner as is now provided by law for the collection of taxes, together with a further penalty of ten percent (10';) 1 of the entire amount due for which said execution may be issued. Provided. that in lieu of the remedy herein given, suit may be brought in the name of the Town of Kingstree, S. C., in any Court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of the said j license tax and the penalties thereon. Provided further, that the remedies j provided for in this section for the' col'ection of the said license taxes' shall not in anywise interfere with, j alter affect, nor restrict any other I provision or provisions of this Ordinance, or any other Ordinance for the Town of Kingstree, S. C., providing for and prescribing the punishment of offenders against this Ordinance, or any part thereof, on account of the. non-payment of the said license taxes | hereinafter prescribed and provided for, and hereby imposed and required., Section 7.?That if any person, * - -L.n | firm, or corporation snau eaun u^u, engage in, exercise or carry on any trade business, occupation or profession for the exercising of, engaging in, entering upon, carrying on or doing of which a license is hereby required, without first obtaining or taking out such license as in that behalf is hereby required, such person, firm, or corporation shall for each offense, be subject to and liable for a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor less than One Dollar ($1.00); or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days and not less than five days, in the discretion of the Mayor before whom the case shal! be tried, and each day for which or during which such trade, business, occupation or profession shall be engaged in, carried on, or conducted without the license therefor, and the payment of the license tax herein prescribed and provided for, shall be deemed and taken for a separate and distinct offense. Provided the Council in its judgment may extend the time for the payment ,on the license tax in a proper case, and upon due application. And provided further that no fractional part of any license shall be granted. No conviction under the provision of this section shall entitle any such person, firm, or corporation so convicted to thereafter enter upon, engage in, carry on or conduct, or exercise such trade, busi ness, occupation or profession without 1 paying the license tax and obtaining the proper license herein required for such trade, business, occupation or profession. Section 8.?That each and every license applied for and issued under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be non-transferable, and shall be applied for, issued and gratned with the express understanding and condition that should said license for any reason be revoked, annulled, or cancelled, or should such trade business, occupation or profession, for the conducting carrying on, or exercising of which such license may have been granted under this Ordinance, be interferred with, restrained or prohibited by any authority paramount to the Town Council of Kjngstree, S. C., then and in such case and event the said Town of Kingstree, S. C., shall not be A - A' - rt M fU/\OA name to ine saiu licensee, vi muoe claiming under him, her, or it, or them, for any damages arising from such revocation or cancellation or interference with, restraint or prohibition of such trade, business, occupation or profession, or the license therefor granted under the provisions of this Ordinance. Section 9.?That all licenses granted and issued pursuant to and under the provisions of this Ordinance shall continue in full force and effect until the 31st day of December A. D. 1920, unless revoked or cancelled, or such business, trade, occupation, or profession be suspended within the provisions of the Section next proceeding, and the Clerk and Treasurer of the said Town shall prepare the form of license to be issued in all cases, applications for all licenses hereunder and in accordance herewith being made and required to be made only to the said Clerk and Treasurer of said Town. Section 10.?That the license charge or fee for any trade, business, occu pation or profession not hereinafter named, enumerated, and specified shall be determined and prescribed by the Council at any regular meeting or special meeting called for that purpose. Section 11.?That the following sums and airfounts shall be paid to the Clerk and Treasurer of the Town of Kingstree, S. C., hereunder, who, upon receipt thereof, shall grant and issue therefor the proper license herein provided for the following trades, businesses, occupations, or professions hereinafter set forth and enumerated and hereinbefore provided for and for such other trades, businesses, occupations, and professions as maybe Council he hereinafter specified and determined: Agents for stoves, selling and delivering, excepting merchants paying regular and proper license: $ 10 00 Agents selling and delivering lightening rods: 10 00 Agents selling and delivering medicines, per day $25. per year: 500 00 Agents selling and delivering txaA /lc?\r i1A npr UUVIV^, pc\l UttY yAV. year: 100 00 Agents selling and delivering fruit trees per day $5. per year: 25 00 Agents selling and delivering sewing machines: 25 00 Artists, per day $1.00. per week 10 00 Architects: 50 00 Auctioneering: Horses and mules, not exceeding $50. per head: 10 00 Horses and mules, exceeding $50. per head: 100.00 Other live stock: 10 00 Other personal Property: 100 00 Automobile Livery Business:. 10 00 Automobile Repair Shop: 25 00 Automobile, agents for: .25 00 j Bakeries and agents for and dealers in fresh breads: 10 00 J Banks, capital stock less than $50 000: 50 00 Banks, capital stock $50 000. to $100 000: 100 00 Barbers and Barber shops, each chair: 10 00 Billiard or Pool rooms, each table: I 25 00 Bicycle repair shops: 5 00 Bicycle rent shops: ; 5 00 Brokers and Commission Merr* 1 chants,, same as iienerai Merchandise: Brick Masons (except when working under Contractor): 10 00 Brick yards, and selling brick: 5 00 Bootblack, each box $5. and [ stand: 10 00 Butchers and fresh meat markets: 50 00 Blacksmith shop, first forge $10. each additional forge $5. shop: (__ 15 00 Bowling alleys, each alley 5 00 Carpenters: (except when working under Contractor): 25 00 Civil Engineers and surveyors; each: 25 00 Cotton gins, 2 gin system, $20. 3 gins or more 30 00 Contractors, each: 50 00 Coopers and Cooper shops: 10 00 Corn or grist mills, income $1 000 or less: 10 00 Com or grist mills, income $1 000 to $3 000: 15 00 Cook shops or restaurants: 15 00 Circuses, per day, single rifffe $50 00: 2 or more rings:_i. 75 00 Carnivals per day, $50. per week: 250 00 Coal, dealers or agents: 5 00 Dealers in Ice Cream, not in Saloon: 5 00 Dealers in Coca Cola and other soft drinks, not in saloon or store: 10 00 Dealers in salt water fish: 10 00 Dealers in cider: 500 00 n^olnvc- in 5* nH fwt"OC 1/caicio in MIWW..V.. ery Merchants: Same graduation and license as provided for General Merchandise: Dealers in Horses and mules: 50 00 Dealers in: Hardware and Hardware merchants, same graduation and license as for general merchandise: Buggies and Harness: 20 00 General Merchandise: With stock $100 to $1 000 20 00 With stock $1 000 to $3 000 40 00 With stock $3 000 to $5 000 60 00 With stock $5 000 to $10 000 i 80 00 With stock $10 000. to $20 000: 100 00 Coffins and Caskets: 50 00 Hides and Furs: 5 00 Lumber and Shingles (not regular saw mills): 25 00 Organs and other musical instruments: 25 00 Furniture, (same graduation and license as provided for general merchandise). Clocks and watches, not in store: 25 00 Drays and Drayage, 1 horse 0 $5. each 2 horse: 10 00 Dealers in plumbing fixtures- 10 00 Dentists: 25 00 Druggist anc) drug stores: (?ame graduation and license as provided for general merchandise). Dealers in Dry Goods (same graduation and license as provided for general merchandise). Dealers in junk, copper, iron, brass, etc: 10 00 V/VIIJ pailic^, UUIIl^ IIIterstate business: 100 00 Electricians, each: 10 00 Electric , plants, light or power: 50 00 Dealers in Electric supplies:. 5 00 Fruit shops, and regular fruit dealers in shops: 10 00 Fruit dealers, other than regular shop keepers, per day: 50 00 Feed Stables: 5 00 Green grocers, stock less than $500: I. 10 00 Green grocers, stock exceeding $500: 15 00 Gasoline or Oil Tanks, located in Streets: 10 00 Gunsmiths and regular repair shops: 5 00 Grist Mills, same as corn mills 5 00 Hawkers and Pedlers, per day: 25 00 Hawkers and Pedlers, per year: 500 00 Hotels of less than ten rooms: 10 00 Hotels of more than ten rooms 15 00 Horse traders (not including regular sales stables) per day: 25 00 Ice Plants, manufacturing and selling: t>u uu Ice houses and dealers in Ice: 5 00 Ice cream and cold dring saloons 5 00 Lawyers and collecting officers, each: 25 00 Laundries: 10 00 Laundries, agents for foreign: 2 50 Life Insurance, resident agents for: 25 00 Fire Insurance, resident agents for: 25 00 Life and Fire Insurance, agents or agencies: 30 00 Life Insurance, non-residents agents for: 50 00 Fire Insurance, non-residents agents for: 40 00 Insurance agents for sick, health, benefit, or burial insurance company, or industrial insurance: 10 00 Itinerant repairers and novelty makers, sellers per day: 2 50 Merry-go-rounds, or flying Jennies, per day $10. per week: 50 00 Opera Houses and play houses: 2 50 Motion or moving picture theatres and show houses:. 25 00 Manufacturers, capital stock not over $3 000 10 00 Manufacturers, capital stock $3 000. to $5 000: 15 00 Manufacturers, capital stock $5 000. to $10 0000:' 20 00 Open air kitchens, per day:.. 5 00 Open air kitchens, per year 50 00 Oil tanks, kerosene storage and wholesale: 50 00 Oil tanks, gasoline storage and wholesale: ? 50 00 Oculists or Optician, resident: 10 00 Painters: 1 10 00 Planing mills: 10 00 Printing Offices and publishing concerns: 10 00 Photographers, itinerant per day $1. per week $10, per year: ? 25 00 Photographers, resident: 15 00 Pedlers and hawkers per day in lot $25. Per dky on street $100. per year 500 00 Physicians: 25 00 Pressing Clubs, dying or clean- s ing or both: ; 10 00 Plumbers: 15 00 Oculists or opticians, nonresident or transcient, per day: 5 00 Raffling, nng or ball throwing and all games of chance prohibited: Railroad Companies: 150 00 Real Estate Companies:' 20 001 Real Estate agents or agencies, renting or selling: 10 00 Stables, public livery, feed or both: 10 00 Saw Mills: 10 00 Shoemakers and cobblers: 10 00 Shooting Galleries, per day: 50 00 Silversmith and Jewelers (same graduation and li cense as ior general merchandise: i Selling Beef, not in regular stall or shop, per day: 5 00 Selling Pork not io regular stall or shop, per day: J 00 Soda water, and cold drink saloons: 5 00 Shows, tented or otherwise, not hereinbefore designated and classified, per day $10per week: 50 00 Tailors (merchants): 10 00 Telegraph Companies or agencies, each, for business done within the Town of Kingstree, S. C., to and from points within the State and not including any business done to and from points without the State, and not including any business done for the United States Government, whose gross re- i ceipts are less than $1 500 25 00 Telegraph Companies, and agencies, each for business done within the Town of Kingstree, S. C., to and from points within the State, and not tintluding business done for the U. S. Government, whose gross receipts exceed $1 500 50 00 Telephone companies and agencies (local) 50 00 Telephone companies and agencies, each, (long distance^ for business done within the Town of Kingstree, S. C.f to and from points within the State ^nd not including business done I to and from points without the State, and not including business done to and from points without the State and not including business ~ done for the U. S. Government, whose gross receipts ? exceed $1 500 50 00 ceipts are less than $25020 00 Telephone companies and agencies, each (long distance) for business done within the Town o? Kingstree, S. C., for and from points within the State, not including any business done to and from any points without the State, and not including and business done for the U. S. Government, whose gross receipts exceed $250: 25 00 Tinners and tin shops: 10 00 Tobacco warehouses, each: 100 00 UDholsterers and upholster ing shops: 5 00 Undertakers: 10 00 Watchmakers and watch and clock repairing: 5 00 Wall paper hangers and shop: 5 00 Warehouses, each, storage for hire: 25 00 Bottling plants and companies: _ 25 00 Clairvoyant, fortune tener or palmist, per day $5. per week: 25 00 Section 12.?For any other trade, occupation, business or profession not hereinbefore specifically mentioned and designated, a license tax of not less than $1. and not more than $100. to be prescribed and fixed by Council. On and after January 15th, A. D. 1920, a penalty of 15% will be added to all unpaid licenses. Section 13.?That all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances inconsistant with this Ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed and ratified in CounciJ assembled this 15th day of December, A. D. 1919. M A OIITTT PD iU. n* OllUUJUlk; I Mayor.! (Seal) J. F. SCOTT, Clerk and Treasurer. ADMINISTRATE NOTICE All persons indebted to the estate ! of John S. Fulton, deceased, are here- [ by requested to make payment there-' of to the undersigned administratrix, j and all persons having claims against i said estate are requested to present the same, duly verified, to L. W. Gil- j land, Attorney, Kingstree, S. C. SALLIE W. FULTON, Administratrix of the estate of John S. Fulton, Diceased. TRESPASS NOTICE All persons are herby warned against cutting and hauling wood, from the lands of the undersigned, also against hunting thereon or trespassing in any manner. Violation of thic rifttirp will hp nrospcuted to the extent of the law. Estate of J. J. McCullough, Per, A. E. McCULLOUGH. I RO I Ft |royster4 f^BluizERj, * Letters to Santa Claus Exceyton, S. C., Dec. 18, 1919. j Dear Santa Claus 1 want you to bring me a wheel and rifle, some fire crackers. I am in the third grade and 1 am twelve years old.. * Your friend Frank Hughes. t . . i Excelton, Dec. 18, 1919. Dear Santa: I thought I would write you a love letter telling you about Christmas, I and how old I am. I am nine years, old and in the third grade. I want j some nuts, apples, oranges candy, bananas and a doll that will open and shut her eyes. Luther Cox. o Leo, S. C., Dec. 22, 1919. Dear Santa Claus:I want you to bring me a doll, a box of oldmaid cards, some candy, oranges, nuts and raisins. That is all I want ycu to bring me. Mabel Thomas. ??o Hemingway, S. C., Dec. 18, 1919 Dear Santa Claus:I want a wheel and some raisins, apples, and candy. I am a little hoy nine years old. I am in the third grade. V Ronole McDanieK GET READY ran "nil" I VII I kV Keep Your Liver Active, Your System Purified and Free From Colds by Taking Calotabs, the Nausealess Calomel Tablets, that are Delightful, Safe and Sure. Physicians and Druggists are advising their friends to keep their systems purified and their organs in perfect working order as a protection against the return of influenza.. They know that a 'ogged up system and a lazy liver fa.jr colds, influenza and serious complications. To cut short a cold overnight and to prevent serious complications take one C'alotab at bedtime with a swallow of water?that's all. No salts, no nausea, no griping, no sickening after effects. Next morning your cold has vanished, your Iher is active, your system is purified and refreshed and you are feeling fine with a hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat what you please?110 danger. Calotabs are sold only in original sealed packages, price thirty-five cents. ? - . . ?1 ?* a _ ?a j JSvery driijgisr is auinorizeu 10 reiunu your money if you are not perfectly delighted with Calotabs.?(Adv.) ie Fish rto the h /*7 ' . ^ INTO THE NAM: YSTE IRTILIZI TRADE MARK PS.R? RJL0I3TCRCD who want fish in* their fertiliz< ; by insisting on Royster's, the o We have been successful in sen sh and will be able to fully mee for this popular ammoniate. A he Fertilizer th Fish Scrap Fc F. S. ROYSTER GIM srfolk, Va, Richmond, Va. Lynchburj Charlotte, N. C. Washington, N. C. artanburg, S. C Atlanta, Ga. Macon, Montgomery, Ala. Baltimore, Md. BETTER THhn' ?*i 'WHISKEY FOR COLDS AND FLU New Elixir, Called Aspiron- 1 al, Medicated With Latest Scientific Remedies, Used and Endorsed J>y European and American Army; A Surgeons to Cut Short a ; Cold and Prevent Compli- | cations. rS ?;? . ^ Every Druggist in TJ. S. Instructed to_RefundPrice While You Wait at Counter If Relief Does Not Cotue Within Two Minutes. K't Delightful Taste, Immediate Relief, Quick Warm-tip. , The sensation of the year in the ' drug trade is Aspironal, the twominute cold and cough reliever, authoritatively guaranteed %y the labora- ' ' tories; tested, approved and most enthusiastically endorsed by the high- 1 est authorities, and proclaimed by * the common people as ten times as ? quick and effective as whiskey, rock , and rye, or any other cold and cough' remedy they have ever tried. All drug stores are now supplied with the wonderful new elixir, so all you have to do to get rid of that cold is to step into the nearest drug store, hand the clerk half a dollar for a bottle of Aspironal and tell him to serve yon two teaspoonfuls with four teaspoon iuls of water in a glass, witn your watch in your hand, take the drink at one swallow and call^or your money back in two minutes if you cannot g feel your cold fading away like a dream within the time limit. Don't be bashful, for all druggists invite you and expect you to try it. Everybody's doing it" ; ^ When your cold or cough is relieved, take the remainder of the bottle home to your wife and babies, for . Aapironal is by far the safest and most effective, the easiest to take and the most agreeable cold and cough remedy for infants and children.?Adv.). no20-16t A. M. SNIDER I Surgeon Dentist Office at Residence Railroad Ave.. KINGSTREE i CHARGES . <-' <fl Full upper and Lower set $22.50. Gold crowns $7.00. Bridges $7.00 per tooth. Extracting 504 per tooth or 4 '. for $1.00. No charge for extracting for bride or plate. Extracting frea rti for children or persons over -70 yeara "v- _ go II ' ' pu ?ag || mi sr can be sure of ^ |jl * A\ riginal Fish Fer- JR jring ample supt the demands of isk for Royster's at Made |JI . rmous ,*| S?Va. Tarboro.N.C, Ga. Columbus, Ga. -Kj^^V ^