The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 11, 1918, WEEKLY EDITION, Page 7, Image 7
An Ordinance
Granting Special License by the City
Union, S. C., for the Fiscal
Year Beginning May 1, 1918
Section 1. That the following Special
License Ordinance is hereby
adopted and Ordained l>y the City
Council on the 14th day of March,
1918 for the Fiscal Year, beginning
May 1st, 1918.
That every person, firm or corporation
e jgagcd 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,
1918, first obtain a license from the
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the order of the Mayor, and all licenses
hereinafter mentioned, shall
be non-transferable, except by written
permission of the City Council,
endorsed on said license, kind per
annum, if not otherwise specifically
provided, and all annual licenses
shall empire on the 1st day of May.
1919. Any license may be revoked at
/ any time by the Mayor 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 not
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 less
than Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day
or Fifty Dollars ($50.00) ner 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
the payment of said license.
Sec. 4. Each dray, carriage, buggy,
automobile or other power vehicle
and each hack for public hire, conveyance
or transportation, 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.
The Clerk and Treasurer shaV
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
or automobiles or other power
vehicles, shall not exceed Twentyfive
cents (25c) from any point within
the corporate limits of said City
to said passenger's destination; provided
no fee shall be charged for any
passenger under five (5) years of
age.
The maximum fee to be charged
for carrying baggage by hacks, carriages.
buggies, automobiles or other
power vehicles or drays shall not exceed
Tventy-five Cents (25c) for .100
pounds; Fifty cents (50c) 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 violation
of the charges as above limited by
any suc'i public hack, cariage, buggy,
automol ile, power vehicle or dray license;
such license shall upon conviction
he fined not exceeding Ten Dollars
(*11.00) or imprisonment not exceeding
twenty (20) days with or without
hard labor.
Sec. 1. Any driver or owner of
any such hack or carriage or buggy
or automobile or other power vehicle
for hire as aforesaid, including Livery,
Fe^d and Sales Stables, who
shall run any such hacks, carriages,
buggies, automobiles or other power
vehicles who shall 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
rf any pasenger or otherwise
at any depot within the City of Union
or who shall leave his, her or their
nacK, ouggy, carriage, automobile or
other power vehicle standing unattended
within one block of any depot
or upon Main street from the Court
House to the Baptist church, shall pay
a fine of Five Dollars ($5.00) or he
imprisoned for a period of (101 with
or without.hard labor in the discretion
of the City Council.
Sec. 7. Any person or persons
holding license, convicted of selling,
transporting or storing whiskey or
other alcoholic liquor, said license
shall he revoked.
Sec. 8. The following schedule of
license fees is- hereby adopted and
made a part of this Ordinance.
A
Auctioneering in house or on
street., not less than, per day $ 1.00
Tn discretion of City Council
Automobile or other power
vehicles kept for public hire
or transportation of passengers,
each - 25.00
or per day not less than
$10.00 at discretion of City
Council.
Automobile Dealers . 2.5.00
Automobile repair shop 15.00
Automobile Dray 15.00
Agents, or agency. persons,
firms or corporations using
trading stamps 100.00
Agents soliciting employees or
laborers for manufacturing
companies, railroad companies
or any companies or
individuals where such employees
or laborers are to
work outside of the corpor- i
ate limits of the City of
Union, S. C. 100.00 <
Ammunition: Each person, <
firm, or corporation dealing <
in ammunition, whether load- i
ed or unloaded, balls, shells, J
cartridges, etc., each 10.00
B
Barber shop for each chair 5.00 I
Barber shop in suburbs, each
chair 2.50
Bicycle, Repairing or renting 5.00
Bill posters, or agents, posting
or tacking or distributing,
per annum 25.00 1
Bill nosters?itinerant- nostinc
or tacking or distributing,
per day 1.00
Billiard and Pool room, each 250.00
Billiard and Pool room in suburbs
100.00
Book agents selling maps,
books, periodicals and other
like publications, per day,
Five Dollars ($"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
of 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
(No Boot and Shoe Black not
to exceed 5c.)
Bottling Works, or agents
therefor 25.00
Bowling Alley or Ten Pin
Alley each 50.00 i
Butchers?Each and every dealer
retailing fresh meats, such as beef,
mutton, pork and the like, shall pay
a license of Fifty Dollars per year;
and shall have a fixed place of business,
which said place shall be mentioned
in the license, and said deal- :
er 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
person shall first make and file an
affidavit with the Clerk and Treasured
of the City Council setting
forth the name and postoffice 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
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Clothes cleansing or pressing
establishments, per annum 25.00
Circuses, dog and pony shows,
etc., each not less than
Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00)
nor more than One Hundred
and Fifty Dollars (-150.00)
per day, in the discretion of '
Ci.ty Council.
Carnival Shows in the city, per
week 350.00
D
Dance hall when run for gain 100.00
Drays, each dray, cart or wag- ,
on, with one horse, per annum
10.00
Drays, each dray, cart, or wagon,
with one horse, per annum
15.00
Dealers in second-hand merchandise
of ^vhatever kind,
per anum 10.00 ,
Dealers in pianos and organs
(itinerant) per day, $5; per
annum 25.00
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Express companies transacting
and doing business in this
City and other points within
this State for corporations
other than the Govern- 5
ment of the United State
its officers and agents, per 1
annum 150.00 <
Employment Bureaus, each
person or firm, per annum 25.00 i
Exhibition fairs, concerts, festivals
or parties on street,
per day or night in the discretion
of City Council, not
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Klyinjr Jenny or Merry-Go- i
Round, per month 25.00
Flyinp Jenny or Merry-GoRound,
per week 15.00
Fish and Oysters, agents or
dealers, per day 1.00
Fish and Oysters, apents or
dealers, per year 15.00
Each person, apent or dealer 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 further, that it shall
be and is hereby declared to be unlawful
for any and all person or persons
to sell or offer for sale or expose
same for sale in or upon any stret
or sidewalk within the corporate limits
of the City of Union, S. C.
Fruit dealers, wholesale and retail,
at discretion of City Council.
H
Hacks, buppies. or carriages
for public hire, one-horse
kept for hire outside of I.ivery
Stables $ 5.00
Horses or mules, selling by
auction, whether from a regular
license or sale stable or
otherwise, per day 50.00
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Ice cream saloon or dealer in 5.00
lee cream on streets, each person
peddling or selling 100.00
Insurance companies, ea^h life 25.00
Insurance Companies; each
Fire Insurance Company
shall pay a license fee of 2%
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of the premiums collected
Insurance companies, Casualty,
Accident, Fidelity, Guarantee,
Liability or Plate
Glass, each 10.00
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 j
carloads, and selling and re-shipping
the same in quantities of SO gallons ,
and upwards, shall pay a license fee <
of per annum $-150.00 ,
L
Laundries . 10.00 j
Laundries, each resident agent
soliciting for laundry outside
of City 10.00 j
Lightning rod agents or deal- c
ers in 25.00 J
Lunch dealers, exclusive of Sundays,
per annum 25.00 .
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Moving picture shows per year 50.00 .
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Optician, per year 25.00 ?
Optician, per day r>.00
Opera house, per annum 50.00 j
Oyster saloon (not including c
sale of bulk oysters) per annum
10.00 t
Oyster Saloon (including sale s
of bulk oysters) per annum 15.00 \
Oysters, fresh in sealed cans.. 5.00 _
p
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Pawn brokers, each 250.00
Photographers, each 10.00 j.
Photographers, itinerant, each v
per day 1.00 c
Plumbers and Tinners per year 10.00 *
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Restaurants, cafes and lunch ^
dealers, each, per annum 50.00 t
Restaurants, cafes and lunch ^
dealers in suburbs, per year 25.00
Restaurants conducted in houses j
according to hotel plan and which do s
not keep, offer or expose for sale, (
any stock of goods, soft drinks, etc.,
may serve meals where meals are ^
prepare and served 'on table on Sun- *
day. t
No lunch dealer, restaurant or cafe
shall be allowed on Main street from c
court house to High School except j.
those in a building conforming to the f.
Fire Ivimit requirements. ^
Roasters?Peanut or popcorn j
on street (other than at place r
of business of owner) not at
all on Main street, each $ 30.00 ^
Real Estate Agents 25.00 ^
Railroads for business done j.
within the City of Union and /
within the State, and not in- c
eluding that done without the ^
the State, each?
Southern Railroad 300.00
Union & Glenn Springs R. R 200.00
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Stables?Sales and Feed
Stables 35.00 *
Stables, livery, feed and sales
including street carriages ^
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per annum 50.00 .
Stables, livery, feed and sales ^
in suburbs without privilege
of street carriages, hacks
buggies and drays, per an-1 1 '!
num 25.00 t
Soda Fountains, each 5.00
Shooting galleries, each 25.00 j
No shooting galleries will be
allowed on Main street.
Skating rink, each, per month 5.00
Skating rink, each, per year.. 15.00
T
Telegraph companies transacting
and doing business between
points in this city and
any point or points in this
State for individuals or corporations
other than the
Government of the United ,
States its officers and agents 50.00 (
Telephone companies transact- _
ing and doing business be- *
tween any point or points in
this State for individuals or
corporations other than the (
Government of the United t
States, its officers and
agents 100.00 ,
Sec. 9. For each and every busi- (
ness not specified above, a license fee
shall be charged in the discretion of
the City Council, not exceeding One s
Thousand Dollars ($1000.00). That all 1
license fees herein mentioned are I
due and collectable on May 1st, 1917,
and the said licenses are subject to j
inspection by Mayor or policemen at (
any time. f
Sec. 10. Any person, persons, com- ^
pany, firm or corporation embraced
or mentioned in any of the foregoing
section or sections of this ordinance *
and required therein to obtain li- f
cense or to pay for the performing or t
carrying on of their respective busi- t
ness or for the transaction of the
same who shall fail, refuse or neglect ]
to pay the license of amount therein <
specified in advance, and each and
every person, firm or corporation f
giving, showing or attempting to give '
or show any of the performances,
shows or exhibitions without having i
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
be required to pay a fine of not less
than One Dollar ($1.00) or more than (
One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or ]
work at or without hard labor for
not more than thirty (30) days, for J J
each and every day so offending, in
the discretion of the f.itw rnimnil
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 8th day of March. 1018.
T,. C. WHARTON,
? Mayor.
Attest:
W. D. ARTHUR, *
Clerk and Treasurer. 14-3
Swat the fly; shoot the 'spy; kill
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AN ORDINANCE
ro Raise Supplies for the Fiscal Year
Beginning May 1, 1918, for the
City of Union, S. C.
Be 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
ind general purposes of the said
!3ity of Union to be as follows: 11 3-1
Hills for general purposes and a
jpecial levy of 4 1-4 mills for maintenance
of Carnegie Free Library
ind to pay the interest on outstandng
coupon bonds from the first of
Vfay, 1918 to the first .Vnv, 1919
thall be levied and colli U 1 in mauler
and form as follows:
Section 1. A tax of Sixteen (16)
nills upon every dollar of (he value
>f all taxable real estate, personal
>roperty and stock in trade, in the
jorporate limits of the City of Union,
5. C.
Section 2. That the taxes herein
evied and assessed shall he duo and
:ollected by the City Treasurer durnf?
the month of May, 1018. The City
he said taxes herein levied, and he
hall keep his books open from the
st day of May, 1018, to the 1st day
if June, 1018, for this purpose; after
vhich time he shall proceed by disress
or otherwise as prescribed by
aw, to collect such taxes as remain
inpaid, with a penalty of twenty per
ent (20 per cent) in addition thereo
for such non-payment.
Section 3. That the basis of value
or taxation of real estate, personal
iroperty and stock in trade within
he City of Union, S. C., shall be takn
from the books of the Auditor of
Jnion County, and such assessment
hall be the same as levied by the
bounty Auditor in 1017 and 1018.
Section 4. The sum of Two Dollars
$2.00 is hereby fixed as a commuation
tax for the street or road dutv
he said sum to be paid by all abletodied
male persons able to perform
ir cause to be performed the labor
lercin required, betw'een the apes of
wenty-one (21) and fifty (HO) years
vho reside within the corporate limts
of the said City, except ordained
ninisters and those exempt by law,
ind any person liable to this tax
vho shall fail to pay the same within
he time specified, shall be required
o work on the streets of Union four
4) days under the direction of the
Street Overseer, whenever required
ly ??m overseer nurinp rne saw peiod
hereinbefore mentioned; and
iny person failing either to pay said
:ommutation or perform said labor,
vhen so required as before said,
hall be broupht before the Mayor's
:ourt and upon conviction thereof.
ihn.ll he fined a sum not exceeding
Pen Dollars ($10.00) or sentenced to
mprisopment not exceeding twenty
|20) days with or without hard la>or.
Section 5. That all Ordinances or
lav^Sof Ordinances conflicting with
;hiV Ordinance are hereby declared I
epeatyd.
Done and ratified in Council assem)led
under the hand of the Mayor
tnd Seal of the said City of Union,
his 8th day of March, 1017.
L. C. WHARTON,
Mayor.
attest:
W. D..ARTHUR, (U.S.)
Clerk and Treasurer. 14-3
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ind seemed to be bothered more at
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ight. I have had dizzy spells and
iftentime came near falling. I tried
lifferent remedies with no relief and
inally a friend advised me to try
loan's Kidney Pills. I got a box at
he Palmetto Drug Co., and took them
is directed and continued use rid me
ntirely of my trouble. 1 have had no
rouble since that time."
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Sprouse said: "I wish to confirm the
itatement I gave for Doans Kidney
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t that time has been permanent. I
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