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THIS WEEK
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Mik J-I Earl
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People that we could do without:
Hick-town high-brows. There is one
or more in every community. (By
the way, you’ve heard the definition
of a low-brow, haven’t you? A low
brow is a person who likes burlesque
shows and such stuff. A high-ibrow
is a person who likes the same thing,
but won’t admit it.)
A cartoon which appears in our
favorite morning newspaper is en
titled, “They’ll Do It Everytime.”
It’s always good and never dull, not
because the author is a mental mar
vel, but because he uses ideas sent
to him by his readers. A person we
would like to see in that cartoon is
one of the many who brings some
little insignificant piece of news to
this paper (about an, hour before we
go to press, too) and wants it put
on the front page. Yessir, it’s al
ways got to be on the front page.
They’ll do it every time. One of
these days we expect some fellow
to bring some news in and ask for
it to be put on page seven. And
then there will be an opening for an
editor on this weekly. For certain
ly our editor will die with heart
failure.
We’re no old fogey nor a kill
joy and certainly wouldn’t want our
young friends to think so. It hasn’t
been so terribly many years ago
when we were a kid. But we do wish
our young friends wouldn’t use the
streets to do their skating. It’s pos
itively dangerous and we live in
dread that some of them will get
massacred by a passing automobile.
On Bainbridge street and River
street, especially, do the young folks
skate without thought of danger and
tempt every passing automobile. It’s
bad enough for motorists to have to
watch out for the kids during school
hours, since school is being held on
the public square this year, without
having to watch for them in the
afternoons, as they skate recklessly
and heedlessly up and down the
streets. It might be a good idea for
our city officials to rope off a street
for them to use in the afternoons.
Or confine their skating to the side
walks.
Thanks to Alex Carswell, of Nor
folk, Va., and Miss Enid Godwin and
John Hudson for the following little
satire on “What to Do in Case of
An Aid Raid”:
1. As soon as the bombs start
falling, run like the devil. (It doesn’t
matter where, as long as you run.
Wear track shoes, if possible; if the
people in front of you are slow, you
won’t have any trouble getting over
them.
2. Take advantage of opportuni
ties afforded you when air raid si
rens sound the warning attack: If in
a bakery, grab a pie; if in a tavern,
grab a bottle; if in a movie, grab a
blonde.
3. If you find an unexploded bomb
always pick it up and shake it good.
Maybe the firing pin is stuck. If that
doesn’t work, heave it into the fur
nace. The fire department will come
later and take care of things.
4. If an incendiary bomb is found
burning in the building you are in,
throw gasoline on it. You can’t put
it out, anyiway, so you might as well
have a little fun. If no gasoline is
available, throw a bucket of water
on it and lie down —you’re dead.
5. Always get excited and holler
bloody murder. It will scare the
mischief out of the kids and add to
the fun and confusion.
6. Drink heavily, eat onions, lim
burger cheese and garlic before en
tering a crowded air raid shelter. It
will make you very unpopular with
the people within your immediate
vicinity, eliminating all unnecessary
discomforts that would be more
prevalent if people crowded too
closely.
7. If you should be the victim of
a direct bomb hit, don’t go to pieces.
Lie still and you won’t be noticed.
8. Knock air raid wardens down
if they start to tell you w’hat to do.
They always save the best seats for
themselves and their friends anyway.
9. We expect you to adhere to
the above instructions in a 'whole
hearted, co-operative manner. In the
event your memory fails in the heat
of excitement, just remember youi
life is then your own responsibility.
If you’ve been saying that noth
ing constructive could come out of
a bridge club, then you can hush
up and go foot. Because we’ve
found a club which is playing in the
interest of defense. How? Well,
don’t rush us, we’ll tell you. In
stead of giving the usual prizes for
high and dumb scores, this club is
giving defense stamps. Not big
stamps, but just large enough to
make the game interesting. This is
a patriotic gesture and other local
bridge clubs should follow suit.
Along about this time last year
and the year before that, we said
we hoped the Columbia road would
be paved before the end of the year.
If you will excuse us for the act of
repetition, we would again like to
repeat that hope.
CITY OF BLAKELY ANNUAL
LICENSE ORDINANCE FOR 1942
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Council of the City of
Blakely, and it is hereby ordained by
the authority of the same, that the
following License and Specific or
Occupation Taxes shall be levied and
collected in the City of Blakely for
the period commencing on the first
Monday in January, 1942, and end
ing on December 31, 1942, upon the
following businesses and subjects,
to-wit (If following licenses are not
paid by March Ist, 1942, 10 per cent
penalty will be added):
A.
Agency— Fire Insurance Com
pany, each $12.50
Agency—Life Insurance Com
pany, doing business in the
city, directly or indirectly.. $22.50
Agency—For each accident and
health insurance company.. $22.50
Agency—Real estate or renting $8.50
Agency— Fidelity Insurance
Company, each $8.50
Agency—For each loan com
pany doing business in the
city, directly or indirectly $12.50
Agency—Casualty Companies
doing business in the city,
directly or indirectly, each $8.50
Airplane—Airplanes carrying
passengers for hire, per day $5.00
Auctioneers—Per day $5.00
Per annum $25.00
Automobiles—Dealers or ag
ents selling or soliciting
sales, per annum $50.00
Automobile—Dealers or ag
ents selling or soliciting
sales in connection with a
garage or other business
where his licenses amount
to $50.00 or more $21.50
Automobile —Repairer or re
pair shop $12.50
Automobiles —Each person or
firm having an automobile
for hire, first car $5.00
Each additional car $5.00
Automobile Supplies—Upon
each and every dealer in
automobile accessories and
supplies, same license as
regular merchants, whether
carried on in connection
with other business or not.
Auto Truck Each motor
truck or transfer operating
in or out of city hauling
freight or express for the
public shall pay an annual
license of $15.00
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Bakeries—Same as merchants.
Bakery Trucks —Upon each
bakery truck doing busi
ness in the city, peddling
bread, cakes and pies from
trucks, per annum .... $22.50
Barber Shop—-Each chair
Battery and Tire Repairing—
Each person or firm en
gaged in repairing batter
ies and vulcanizing automo
bile tires, whether in con
nection with other business
or not, per annum $8.50
Beauty Parlor $7.50
Bicycle—Dealer or agent
Bicycle—Repair, or repair
shop« $4.00
Bill Poster—Upon all persons
and firms engaged in post
ing advertising bills, per
board $2.50
Bill Posters —This includes on
ly the right to post bills, but
the occupation tax placed
on other businesses in the
city shall include the right
to post bills and distribute
hand bills advertising only
such business $8.50
Billiard or Pool Tables —Such
tables or games shall be run
only between sun up and 11
o’clock at night, and only in a
single story house, or in a
house having no Inside com
munication with a second sto
ry, and said house and room
shall have no blinds, closets
or other devices behind which
liquor may be concealed.
And it shall be unlawful for
any minor to play pool, or
enter any place where such
game is carried on. Any
boisterous conduct, use of
obscene language, drinking
of intoxicants or gambling
in any form in said place
shall be cause for revoca
tion of license—
First table $42.50
Each additional table $21.50
Blacksmith Shop $8.50
Boot Blacks —Charging 5c per
shine $2.50
Charging 10c per shine $5.00
Boot and Shoe —Repair Shop $8.50
Bottling Works—Upon each
company or person selling
drinks wholesale from truck
to merchants, whether or
not manufactured here in
city $21.50
Bowling Alleys, Box Ball Al
leys, or similar alleys, per
day $5.00; per annum $15.00
Broker —Each and every broker
doing business in the city,
acting for himself or others,
who purchases, sells, ships or
orders, transfers or handles in
any way for account of oth
ers, merchandise, fruits, fish
or produce of any kind, sell
ing to licensed merchants- $22.50
Brokers, as above, selling to
other than licensed merch
ants $25.00
Building and Loan Association
—Upon each Building and
Loan Association or invest
ment or Debenture Company
or similar enterprise, per
annum $8.50
Builders* Supplies and Mate
rials—All persons or firms
selling brick, lime, cement,
shingles, doors, windows,
roofiing and retail lumber
shall pay a license of $30.00
(If these are materials han
dled in connection with an
other business paying a li
cense of as much as $35.00,
then this license shall be
waived.)
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Bus Transporting merchan
dise of any description,
each, per annum $15.00
C.
Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, Etc.
—Upon each truck doing
business in the city peddling
cigars, tobacco, candies, etc.
from trucks, to merchants
only, per annum $12.50
Cigars—Each manufacturer $15.00
Circulars or Hand Bills—All
persons distributing adver
tising matter in the form of
hand bills or circulars, not
authorized by other license $50.00
CIRCUS—Upon each circus or
any other show advertising as
a circus, per day $25.00
All other kinds of shows, exhi
bitions, or performances,
where admission is charged,
per day $25.00
Upon each stand or concession
of any nature connected
with show carnival or other
traveling amusement com
pany or concern, per daylo.oo
Merry-Go-Round—Flying Jenny
Merry-Go-Round, or other
riding device, each, per day $15.00
(Subject to ordinance regulating lo
cation of same.)
Coal and Wood —Upon each
dealer in coal, coke or wood $8.50
'Coca-Cola—Dealers in bot
tled soda water, ginger-ale,
coca-cola, and other bot
tled drinks and ice cream,
in addition to other tax $2.50
Coffins—Dealers in $17.00
Cotton Buyer—Street SIO.OO
Cotton Seed and Produce—Up
on each person, firm or
corporation engaged in buy
ing cotton seed, peanuts, vel
vet beans or corn for ship
ment, license to date from
August Ist to July 31st
each year $21.50
Cotton Warehouses —Per an-
num, dated Aug. 1-July 31 $42.50
Clocks and Watch Repairers $8.50
D.
Drays—One horse $4.00
Two horse SB.OO
A person running a dray line
may take out a dray license
and run as many drays or
wagons as he may desire in
connection therewith at a li
cense fee of ? $21.50
Druggists—Dealers in drugs or
medicines $21.50
Drugs—Selling patent medicines
and rough drugs, other than
castor oil, Epsolm salts, tur
pentine and sulphur, but
not filling prescriptions $5.00
E.
Embalmer r $8.50
Express Companies—Upon each
Express Company doing busi
ness in said city, upon its bus
ness partly or wholly trans
acted in said city, and not ex
tending to its business trans
acted wholly or in part be
yond the limits of this State
and not including any inter
* state business done for the
United States Government or
any department thereof.— $30.00
F
Feed—Or similar mills $8.50
Fertilizers —Dealers in, or man
ufacturers of, doing business
in the city, or agents for, do
ing business in the city; ware
housemen, mercantile com
panies or individuals selling
fertilizers for profit $21.50
(This shall not include the
agents for manufacturers or
dealers who have paid the tax
under this article. In case of
agents, such agent shall pay
the tax named for each separ
ate company or person he rep
resents.)
Fish—Dealers in fresh fish at
specified place indoors $4.00
Fireworks Cannon crackers,
firecrackers, and other fire
works other than spark
lers or Japanese fire
crackers are prohibited
from being sold in
Blakely.
Per annum on Japanese
firecrackers and sparklers $5.00
Florist—Florists and persons
soliciting or taking orders
for flowers, per annum $7.50
Fortune Tellers, or Persons
P r a c t icing Palmistry—
Each, per day $25.00
Fruit—Upon each person selling
fruit from cars or trucks
and stands retail at speci
fied place outdoors, each
stand or place $50.00
Fruit—Upon each person sell
ing fruits from cars or
trucks wholesale to merch
ants only $12.50
Furniture Repairing—Each per-
son $2.50
G.
Ginnery—Upon each proprie
tor of public ginnery, dated
Aug. 1 to July 31, per gin $8.50
Grist Mill—Each $8.50
H.
Horses and Mules —Resident
dealers in horses and mules,
$9 per car up to 5 cars.
Or annual license of $42.50
Upon transient drovers or deal
ers in horses and mules, sell
ing or offering for sale live
stock in said city or cor
ralling or maintaining live
stock in said city $42.50
Each proprietor of a sale or
feed stable or lot shall be
responsible for the license
where the stock is sold or of
fered for sale on his prem
ises, if the dealer or drover
has not paid the tax, unless
he shall report the matter
immediately on arrival of
such drover to the city.
Hosiery Manufacturers—Per
annum $21.50
Hot Dog and Hamburger
Stands—Per annum $4.00
Hotels Taking transients,
charging more than SI.OO
per day $20.00
Charging SI.OO a day and less $6.00
I.
Ice —Manufacturer of, or each
person, firm or corporation
selling ice in this city .... $530.00
And for each wagon or vehi
cle delivering ice in the
city, additional SIOO.OO
Ice Cream Manufacturer—To
include retail sale and soft
drinks, per annum $21.50
Ice Cream Saloon cr Soda
Fount—Alone or in connection
with other business —l $12.50
Ice Cream Stands—Per annum $5.00
J.
Jewelry Stores—Each jewel
ry store carrying an aver
age stock of less than SSOO $15.00
Carrying an average stock
of more than SSOO $25.00
(This includes the right to repair
watches, clocks, jewelry, etc.
Junk —Each dealer or shipper
for each place of business
or storage, subject to the
special junk ordinance, per
annum $25.00
L.
Laundry—Which shall include
right to press and clean
clothes, per annum $20.00
Live Stock Dealer—Per an
num $20.00
Long Distance Telephone
Companies $22.50
Lumber Dealer—
Wholesale $25.00
Retail $25.00
M.
Machinery and Farm Imple
ments —Agent or agency,
for each company doing
business in the city $8.50
Machine Shop—Other than au
mobile shop, each $12.50
Machine—Each sewing machine
dealer or agent, not in con
nection with some other busi
ness which has paid an occu
pation tax under this ordi
nance equal to the amount
hereof $12.50
Market—Upon each market, sub
ject to the terms of market
ordinance, at specified place,
including right to sell fish and
oysters, alone or in connec
tion with other business $21.50
Mattresses—Upon each person
selling mattresses (other
than in connection with oth
er business) $7.50
Merchants—Upon each and ev
ery person, firm or corpora
tion selling goods and gen
eral merchandise, and car
rying an average stock not
exceeding SI,OOO $12.50
Above SI,OOO and not exceed
ing $2,500 $21.50
Above $2,500 $41.50
N.
Newspaper and Job Office. SIO.OO
O.
Oculist —For each transient oc
ulist or optician, per day
$4.50; per annum $25.00
Oil or Gasoline Dealers—Whole
sale $42.50
Oil or Gasoline Dealers, Retail
First stand, per annum $16.50
Second stand, per annum . $9.00
Each additional stand ... $4.00
Oil Mill—Cotton seed or pea-
nut mill or shelling plant
(including the right to buy
seed), per annum $42.50
Oyster and Fish Stands $4.00
Oysters and Fish Whole-
sale—Each person selling
oysters and fish or either
from wagon or truck to
merchants wholesale, per
annum $8.50
r.
Peddlers—Selling to any per-
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son other than persons
who are themselves en
gaged in retail or whole
sale, per annum $50.00
Photographers—Tin-type or but-
ton pictures, per day.. . ... $2.50
Portraits', per day $5.00
Either, per year $15.00
Piano or Organ Agent or Deal-
ers—Each $25.00
Pistols —Upon every dealer in
pistols, toy pistols, bowie
knives, cartridges, .alone or
in connection with other
business SIO.OO
Planing Mills—Each ... $21.50
Plumbers—Each person, firm or
corporation doing a plumbing
business and electric wir
ing, either or both, in said
city, per annum $12.50
Pottery or Similar Articles—
Upon each person who is en
gaged in selling from trucks
or cars and stands retail at
specified place outdoors,
each stand or place, per day $25.00
Pressing Club or Dry Clean
ing Plant—Each pressing
club or dry cleaning plant
or individual engaged in the
business of dry cleaning or
pressing clothes $8.50
Pressing Club or Dry Clean-
ing Plant Trucks Each
truck soliciting dry clean
ing, pressing or laundry
from another city shall pay
in addition to other license
an annual license of $25.00
R.
Real Estate Agents—Each $8.50
Restaurant or Case——Each $8.50
S.
Saw Mills—Each $21.50
Second Hand Clothing and
Shoe Store, etc. $12.50
Seed & Feed Store—Per an-
num $12.50
Seed Peanut Shellers—Per
annum $5.00
Sign Painters Each sign
painter $2.50
Skating Rinks $12.50
Slot Machines—Prohibited.
Slot Machine—Where money
is used, such as nickelodeon $7.50
Soda Fount—Per annum $25.00
T.
Tailor Shops—Per annum .. $5.00
Talkies and-or Moving Pic-
ture Shows $25.00
Telegraph Company—Upon each
telegraph company having an
office or place of business In
the city $25.00 per annum, as
a specific or occupation tax
upon the business of receiv
ing messages in the city from
persons in said city, and trans
mitting them to persons by
telegraph wholly within the
State of Georgia, and of re-
ceiving messages addressed
to persons in said city trans
mitted from points in the
sthte of Georgia, and not in
cluding any business perform
ed by it for the United States
Government or any agent or
department thereof. It is not
the intention of this ordi
nance to tax any interstate
business or business trans
acted for the U. S. Gov’t. $19.00
Telephone Companies Each
telephone company doing a
local business, per annum $50.00
Ten Cent Stores—Not includ
ing groceries, restaurant,
lunches or soda fount, per
annum $25.00
Truck Lines Transporting
merchandise of any descrip
tion, each, per annum $30.00
V.
Variety Works—Or Handle
manufacturers $12.50
W.
Wholesale Houses—Per an-
num $50.00
H. ED. MINTER
Fellows & Forrester
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and Merchandise
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