The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 07, 1916, Page 8, Image 8
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
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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 ($5.00) per yr. 50.00
Boot or Shoe Black, with privilege
of chair on street, each 10.00
Boot or Shoe Black, with privilege
or chair on street, each
per month 1.00
Boot or Shoe Black in barber
shop or in building on Main
street, year 5.00
Boot or Shoe Black in barber
shop in suburbs, year 2.50
Bottling Works, or agents,
therefor 25.00
Bowling Alley or Ten Pin Al.
ley, each 50.00
Butchers?Each and every dealer
retailing fresh meats, such as beef,
mutton, pork and the like, shall pay
a license of Fiftv Dollars oer year;
and shall have a fixed place of business,
which said place shall be mentioned
in the license, and said dealer
shall not be permitted to sell from
any other place; Provided that this
section shall not apply to persons selling
any of the aforesaid kinds of
meats in quantities of not less than
one-quarter of the animal. Such per
sou shall tirst maKe and nie an aindavit
with the Clerk and Treasurer of
the City Council settinir forth the
name and postoffiee address of the
person proposing to sell. Second.
That the animal butchered was raised
upon the farm of the proposed vendor.
Meat Markets in suburbs 25.00
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Cotton Seed Agents, each buying
seed for shipment out of
City of Union, per annum _.$ 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.?*
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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
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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. \
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.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. *
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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
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| 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. |
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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.