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AN ORDINANCE ( ranting Special License by the City of Union, S. C., for the Fiscal Year Beginning May 1, 1916. Section 1. That the following Special License Ordinance is hereby adopted and Ordained by the City Council on the i'th day of March, 1 for the Fiscal Year, beginning May 1st. 1010. That every person, firm or corporation engaged in or engaging in any trade, business or profession hereinafter mentioned within the limits of the City of Union, S. C., shall upon engaging in said trade, business or profession on or before May 1st, 11 ?. first obtain a license from the Clerk ami Treasurer thereof, upon the order of the Mayor, and all licenses hereinafter mentioned, shall be non-transferable, except by written permission ui me v n.> v uuimi, endorsed on said license, and per annum, if not otherwise specifically provided, and all annual licenses shall expire on the 1st day of May, 191(5. Any license may he revoked at any time by the Mavor or the City Council. Sec. 2. Every itinerant, trader or person (except licensed auctioneers) offering for sale or attempting to sell by sample within the City at public outcry or otherwise, any goods, wares, fancy articles, spectacles, jewelry. pictures, notions or other articles of like character or kind, shall pay in advance a license tax of no. less than Five Dollars ($5.00) per day: Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) per week, or Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year, and no plea of advertising or selling for any person, firm or corporation of the City of Union, shall relieve the said itinerant trader or person from the payment of said license. Sec. 3. Every itinerant physician or vendor, seller of medicine, patent or of his own make, or practicing as an itinerant his profession or calling shall pay a license tax of not les* than Ten Dollars ($ 10.00 f per day or Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per week, and no plea of advertising or selling for any person, firm or corporation of the City of Union, shall relieve said physician, vendor or seller from I he nnvmont nf said license. Sec. 4. Each dray, carriage, buggy, automobile or other power vehicle, and each hack for public hire, con\ eyance or trsmsportation, shall have a number thereon and the driver of such vehicle shall keep that number exposed on such hack, dray, carriage, buggy, automobile or other power vehicle and every driver thereof shall wear a duplicate number in a conspicuous place. The Clerk and Treasurer shall issue for each such dray, carriage, buggy, automobile or other power vehicle and hack and driver, such numbers at the issuance of license and place the number on the said license. Sec. 5. The maximum fee to be charged for each passenger within the corporate limits of the City of Union by such hacks, buggies, carriages, buggies, automobiles or other vehicles, shall not exceed Twenty-| five cents (2"?c) from any point within the corporate limits of said City to said passenger's destination; pi ovided no fee shall be charged for any passenger under five (o> years oi age. The maximum fee to be charged for carrying baggage by hacks, carriages, buggies, automobiles or other power vehicles or drays shall not exceed Twenty-five Cents (2">r) for .".00 oounds; Fifty Cents (oOct for .'101 to 1.000 pounds, from any point within the City of Union to any destination within the corporate limits of the City of Union; and upon any vio'ntion of the charges as above Mntitcd by tmy such public hack, carriage, buggy, automobile, power vehicle or dray license; .such licensee shall upon conviction he fined not exceeding Ten Dollars (?1(1.00) or imprisonment not exceeding twenty I (JO i days with or without hard labor. Sec. (J. Any driver or owner of any -uch hack or carriage or buggy or automobile or other power vehicle for hire as aforesaid, including I.ivery, Feed and Sales Stables, who shall run any such hacks, carriages, bugvie-. automobiles or other power vehicles. who -hall leave his, or her or their hack, or carriage or buggy or automobile or other power vehicle before mentioned, for a distance greater than ten (10) feet in solicitation of any passenger or otherwise at any depot within the City of Union, or who shall leave his, her or their hack, buggy, carriage, automobile or othe'power vehicle standing unattended within one block of any depot or upon .Main street from the court house to the Maptist church shall pay a line '> ' Five Dollars (?f>.00) or be impris oned for a period of ten (10) days with or without hard labor, in the discretion of the City Council. Sec. 7. Any person or persons holding license, convicted of selling, t ran-po> tiny or storing whiskey, or other alcoholic lienors said license -hall he revoked. Set-. N. The following schedule of license fees is hereby adopted and made a part of this Ordinance. A Auctioneerinc in house or on street, not less than, per day $ 1,00 In discretion of City Council. Automobiles or other power vehicles kept for public hire or transportation of passen gers, each 25.00 Or per day not loss than $2.00, or more than $10.00 at discretion of City Council. Autumohile dealers 10.00 Automobile repair shop 15.00 Agents, or agency, persons, firm or corporations using trading stamps 100.00 Agents soliciting employees or laborers for manufacturing companies, railroad companies or any companies or individuals where such employees or laborers are to work outside of the corporate limits of the City of Union, S. C. 100.00 Ammunition: Each person, firm or corporation dealing in ammunition, whether loaded or unloaded, balls, shells, cartridges, etc., each 10.00 11 Barber shop, for each chair 5.00 Barber shop in suburbs, each chair 2.50 Bicycle, repairing or renting.. 5 00 Bill posters, or agents, posting or tacking or distributing, per annum 25.00 Bill posters?itinerant, posting or tacking or distributing, per day 1.00 Milliard and Pool Room, each.. 100.00 Pool room in suburbs 50.00 Rook agents selling maps, books, periodicals and other like publications, per day, Five Dollars ($5.00) per yr. 50.00 Boot or Shoe Black, with privilege of chair on street, each 10.00 Boot or Shoe Black, with privilege or chair on street, each per month 1.00 Boot or Shoe Black in barber shop or in building on Main street, year 5.00 Boot or Shoe Black in barber shop in suburbs, year 2.50 Bottling Works, or agents, therefor 25.00 Bowling Alley or Ten Pin Al. ley, each 50.00 Butchers?Each and every dealer retailing fresh meats, such as beef, mutton, pork and the like, shall pay a license of Fiftv Dollars oer year; and shall have a fixed place of business, which said place shall be mentioned in the license, and said dealer shall not be permitted to sell from any other place; Provided that this section shall not apply to persons selling any of the aforesaid kinds of meats in quantities of not less than one-quarter of the animal. Such per sou shall tirst maKe and nie an aindavit with the Clerk and Treasurer of the City Council settinir forth the name and postoffiee address of the person proposing to sell. Second. That the animal butchered was raised upon the farm of the proposed vendor. Meat Markets in suburbs 25.00 C Cotton Seed Agents, each buying seed for shipment out of City of Union, per annum _.$ 50.00 Cotton Seed Oil Mills, each 100.00 Clothes cleansing or pressing establishments, per annum.. 25.00 Circuses, dop and pony shows, etc., each not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more thai. One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per day, in the discretion of City Council. Carnival Shows in the city, per week .150.00 D Dance hall, when run for pain.SlOO.OO I Drays, each dray, cart or wapon. with one horse, per annum - 10.00 Drays, each dray, cart or wapon with two horses, per annum 15.00 Dealers in second-hand merchandise of whatever kind, MiM' i\ n mi ?n 1 0 (1(1 Dealers in pianos and organs, (itinerant) per day, $5; per annum 2.r>.00 E Express companies transacting and doing business in this City and other points within this State for corporations other than the Government of the United States, its officers and agents, per annum 100/)0 Employment I'ureaus, each person or firm, per annum.. 25.00 Exhibition fairs, concerts, festivals or parties on street, per day or night in the discretion of City Council, not to exceed . . 150.00 Klying Jenny or Merry-GoKound. per month _ 25.00 Flying Jenny or Merr.v-GoRound. per week 15.00 Fish and Oysters, agents or dealers, per day 1.00 Fish and Oysters, agents or dealers, per year 15.00 Each nelson aoent or ilnalov sliiill have a lixed place of business, which said place shall be mentioned in the license, and said dealer shall no' be permitted to sell from any other place; provided further, that it shall be and is hereby declared to be unlawful for any and all person or persons t > sell or offer for sale or expose same for sale in or upon any street or sidewalk within the corporate limits of the City of Union, S. C. Fruit dealers, wholesale, and re tai. at discretion of ( ity Council II (lacks, buggies or carriages for public hire, one-horse kept for hire outside of I.ivery Stables 10.00 Horses or mules, selling by auction, whether from a regular license or sale stable or otherwise, per day _ ">0.00 I Ice cream saloon, or dealer in fi.00 Ice cream on streets, each person peddling or selling 100.00 Insurance companies, each, life 25.00 Insurance companies, each, fire 15.00 Insurance companies, Casualty, Accident, Fidelity, Guarantee, Liability or Plate Glass, each 10.00 K Kerosene?Any merchant or merchandise broker in oils or agent of oil companies, or other person receiving illuminating or lubricating oils, either in carloads or less than carloads, and selling and re-shipping the same in quantities of 50 gallons and upwards, shall pay a license fee of, per annum $'150.00 L Laundries 10.00 Laundries, each resident agent soliciting for laundry outside of City 10.00 Lightning rod agents or dealers in 2.").00 Lunch dealers, exclusive of Sundays, per annum 25.00 M Moving picture shows, per day 2.00 Moving picture shows, per wk 10.00 Moving picture shows, per yr 50.00 O Optician, per year 25.00 Optician, per day 5.00 Opera house, per annum 50.00 Oyster Saloon (not including sale of hulk oysters) per annum 10.00 Oyster Saloon (including sale of hulk oysters) per annum 15.00 Oysters, fresh in sealed cans 5.00 P Pawn brokers, each 100.00 Photographers, each 10.00 Photoraphers, itinerants, each, per day 1.00 Plumbers and Tinners, per yr. 10.00 R Restaurants, cafes and lunch dealers, each, per annum 50.00 Restaurants, cates ana lunch dealers in suburbs, per year 25.00 Restaurants conducted in houses according to hotel plan and which do not keep, offer or expose for sale, any stock of poods, soft drinks, etc., may serve meals where meals are prepared and served on table on Sunday. No lunch dealer, restaurant or cafe shall be allowed on Main street from court house to High School, except those in a buildinp conforminp to the Fire Limit requirements. Roasters?Peanut or Popcorn on street (other than at place of business of owner) not at all on Main street, each 30.00 Railroads, for business done within the City of Union and within the State, and not includinp that done without the State, each? Southern Railroad 300.00 Union & Glenn Springs R. R. 200.00 S Stables, livery, feed and sales, including street carriages,""" nacks, buppies and drays, per annum ">0.00 Stables?livery, feed and sales, in suburbs without privilepe of street carriapes, hacks, buppies and drays, per year 20.00 Soda Fountains, each 5.00 Shootinp Galleries, each 25.00 No shootinp palleries will be allowed on Main street. Skatinp Rink, each, per month 5.00 Skatinp Rink, each, per year__ 15.00 T Telepraph Companies transacting and doing business between points in this city and <?n.y |ii)iiii ui |u>im,:s Ill llll.s State for individuals or corporations other than the Government of the United States, its officers and agents .",0.00 Telephone Companies transacting and doing business between any point or points in this State for individuals or corporations other than the Government of the United States, its officers and agents 100.00 Sec. !). For each and every business not specified above, a license fee shall lie charged in the discretion of the City Council, not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00). That all license fees herein mentioned are due and collectable on May 1st. 1915, and the said licenses are subject to inspection by Mayor or policemen at any time. Sec. 10. Any person, persons, company, firm or corporation embraced or mentioned in any of the foregoing section or sections of this ordinance and required therein to obtain license or to pay for the performing or carrying on of their respective business or for the transaction <>f the same who shall fail, refuse or neglect to pay the license or amount therein specified in advance, and each ano eve rv nei'son. firm ?> "Am.?* ^ r y ...... w. vvi i' fiuviuii giving, showing or attempting io give or show any of the performances, shows or exhibitions without having received and paid for their license to do so, and any person or persons, firm or corporation violating any part or parts of this ordinance, shall he required to pay a fine of not less than One Dollar ($1.00) or more thai. One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or work at or without hard labor for not more than thirty (30) days for each and every day so offending, in the discretion of the City Council. Sec. 11. All ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting with this ordinance is hereby repealed. Done and ratified in Council assembled under the hand of the Mayor and Seal of the said City of Union, this f?th day of March, 1910. L. C. WHARTON, Attest: Mayor. W. I). ARTHUR, (L. S.) Clerk and Treasurer. 14-3 1 AN ORDINANCE. ^ Do it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Union, S. C., in Council assembled, and by authority of the same: That a tax to cover the expenses and jjeneVal purposes of the said City of Union, be as follows: 11% mills for general purposes, and a special levy of 4% mills for maintenance of Carnegie Free Library and to pay the interest on outstanding coupon bonds from the first of May, 1910, to the first of May, 1917, shall be levied and collected in manner and form as follows: Section 1. A tax of Sixteen (16) mills upon every dollar of the value of all taxable real estate, personal property and stock in trade, in the corporate limits of the City of Union, S. C. Section 2. That the taxes herein levied and assessed shall be due ant? collected by the City Treasurer during the month of May, 191(5. The City Treasurer shall proceed to collect the said taxes herein levied, and he shall keep his books open from the 1st day of May, 191(5, to the 1st day of June, 1916, for this purpose; after which time he shall proceed by distress or otherwise as prescribed by law, to collect such taxes as remain unpaid, with a penalty of twenty per cent (20 per cent) in addition thereto for such nonpayment. Sec. 3. That the basis of value i'o* taxation of real estate, personal j property and stock in trade within the City of Union, S. C., shall be taken from the books of the Auditor of Union county, and such assessment shall be the same as levied by the County Auditor in 1915 and 19i6. Sec. 4. The sum of Two Dollars ($2.00) is hereby fixed as a commutation tax for the street or road duty, the said sum to be paid by all ablebodied male persons able to perform or cause to be performed the labor herein required, between the ages of FOUR twenty-one (21) and fifty (50) years who reside within the corporate limits of the said City, except ordained niin isters and those exempt by law, and ^ any person liable to this tax who shall fail to pay the same within the B time specified, shall be required to work on the streets of Union four (4) days under the direction of the Street Overseer, whenever required by said overseer during the said period herein before mentioned; and any person failing either to pay said commutation or perform said labor, when so required as before said, shall be brought before the Mayor's court and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum not exceeding Ten Dollars ($10.00) or sentenced to imprisonment not exceeding twenty (20) days with or without hard labor. Sec. 5. That all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances conflicting with this Ordinance are hereby declared repealed. Done and ratified in Council assembled under the hand of the Mayor and Seal of the said City of Union, this 9th dav of March. 1916. L. C. WHARTON. Attest: Mayor. W. I). ARTHUR, (L. S.) Clerk and Treasurer. 14-3 NOTICE OF ELECTION. There will be held an election in the town of Union, South Carolina, May 2nd, 1916, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Mayor and an Alderman from each ward and a Commissioner of Public Works. Voting Precincts: Ward One?W. D. Arthur Cnmnunv'c etrvro Mnn agers, E. I). Humphries, W. I). Harris and Laurens Allen. Ward Two?Progress office. Managers, H. C. I.awson, J. B. Hollingsworth and .1. .1. Colson. Ward Three?Old Police Headquarters. Managers, E. C. How/.e, H. G. Bailey and (I. B. Sanders. Ward Four?City Hall. Managers, I). W. Mullinax, A. A. Barnes and R. B. Smith. Polls shall he opened at 8 a. m. and = kept open continuously until 1 p. m. All qualified voters who are enrolled on Democratic roll hooks are eligible to vote. By order of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party. R. P. HARRY, W. W. CO I.TON, Chairman. Secret ray. 14-1} BUSINESS MOVES. Mr. E. D. Humphries, whose has for several years been conducted in the building next door to the W. D. Arthur Co., has moved to West End, where he will continue to carry on a grocery business. H. Goldstein, who I was recently burned out in the store I 2 room between 'Kinsley's jewelry store * and the Edisonia theatre, has moved * into the building vacated by Mr. Hum- ? phries. He will install a complete 4 new outfit for his shoe repairing shoo, ^ and will have associated with him If. 4 J. Foster. This copartnership existed * once before, and both men are expert 4 shoe makers. \ y .WILL HOLD SERVICES There will be services held at Green \ Street Methodist church on Sunday 4 morning a til: 1 f? a. m. and at 7;:J0 4 p. m. in the evening. 4 You are cordially invited to attend 4 these services. 4 W. F. (fault, Pastor. * m . < SERVICES AT BEULAIf. There will be preaching services held at Beulah the third Sunday af- L< ternoon in April at ft o'clock, conducted by Rev. I). W. Garvin and the fourth Sunday afternoon at the same hour by Rev. George P. White. Lt Everybody is cordially invited to at- lu tend. hn BIG SHIPMENT FRESH ROASTED HIGH GRADE I Coffee Sold regulp'^v for 25c pound, as good as the markets of the country afford for 20c, this week only through Saturday if stock lasts that long for 17c pound, 6 pounds for $1.00. Fresh stock 15c size packages Crushed Oyster , Shells for the coming Chicks, only 10c package this week. Chicken Charcoal 15c per package. Still selling Good Flour for $5.95 by the barrel, worth from the mills today $6.50 per barrel. Best Macaroni at 8 l-3c package, three for 25c. Extra Ordinary Values in Our Royal Sorghum at 50c per gallon tins. For the best things to eat see us every day. Special Bargains, in Fresh Snow Drift, Fresh Mackerel Fish for 5c each, and Baked Beans in allsize Tin*, Pure Cream Cheese, Fresh Olives, Boiled Ham, Fine Creamery Butter, and Big Assortment of Garden Seed just opened. When vou want the Best Goods, the Rest Values unci the best service. We will be glad to have you use us. The Union Grocery Co. GOOD THINGS TO EAT. Phone 100 and 80. McCIurc Ten Cent Co. Annual Easter Sale J BEGINS MONDAY 10 A. M. U Something Special will be offered every day Watch our Windows for Special Sales. It will pay you SPECIAL SATURDAY SPECIAL MONDAY 8 Bars Octagon Soap 25c 5qc sheets size 72 x 90 Hein8 Pkgs. 5c Washing Powder med Ready lor Use OC0 tor 25c each uaL D . ran-?yDSi!!e ? , 25c China Platlers While Peanut Iruit Butter, Delicious, pound 10c 200 Lasts, your choice 10c i | THE WONDER j I "The Store That Sells Under" | \ Springs Newest Things in Smart Ladies Coat Suits \ ' Greatest Suit Values Ever Offered Before Easter. ? Shepherd Checks, beautifully lined and smartly V trimmed, $12.50 values, for $6.98. y New flare model in semi-Norfolk and belted styles of ^ fine Poplin and Serge, $15.00 values, for $9.98. g Silk Poplin Dresses, $6.00 values, $3.95. 5 Figured and Striped Jam Silk Shirtwaists, Pearl Hut- y toned front, turnover scalloped Collar, long sleeve, $2.00 V value for 98 cents. y SPORT HATS?Fancy Beach Cloth in stripes and com- y hi nations. Rolled brim and sailor shapes. The latest g rage, at 49c, 59c and 79c. 5 Ladies', Misses' and Children's Hats trimmed and un- y trimmed. The very latest styles at moderate prices. ? THE WONDER \ "The Store That Sells Under" 1 Sj S. KRASNOFP, I'rop. UNION, S. C. | VXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX )CK HART'S POSTMASTER hart and throughout the county, who IN COLUMBIA HOSPITAL. ... , , , , , .. . .. will be tflad to learn that the operaHr. J. Louis Hames, postmaster at tion was successful and that he will ickhart, was operated on in a Co- SOon return to his duties in the postmbia hospital this week. Mr. Hames is a wide circle of friends at Lock- Lockhart.