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BUTTS COUNTY
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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.
CORPORATIONS MAY BE
WITHOUT LEGAL STATUS
Tsßare to Pay Occupation Tax Sub
jects Them to Indictment for
nisdemeanor—Cannot
Collect Debts.
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A recent ruling of the Court of
Appeals gives new emphasis to the
legal effect of the failure of corpo
rations to pay the occupation tax
imposed by an act of the last Leg
islature. By this decision a corpo
ration or individual who is liable
for the occupation tax and fails to
pay it cannot collect debts by law
for the reason they have no legal
status.
Commenting on a recent case
decided b£ the appellate court, the
'tourt says:
“The statute makes it a misde
meanor for one to engage in this
business without having complied
with the terms of the statute and
paid the tax; but the law imposes
au additional penalty, to-wit: for
feiture of the fruits of his labor.
One cannot defraud the state of its
rightful due and then recover by
law the profit accruing from a
transaction in which he had no
right to engage.”
The decision of the Court of Ap
peals iu this case fixes a precedent
for all similar cases.
All incorporated concerns and
all individuals engaged in the fol
lowing occupations are liable for
this tax:
Photographers and sitpilar art
ists, abstractors of titles, auction
eers, automobile salesman, amuse
ment parks, dealers in bicyles,
proprietors of billiard and pool
rooms, dealers iu cigarettes and
cigarette tobacco, mercantile agen
cies, moving picture and vaude
ville shows, loan agents, social and
fraternal cluKswTTn locker rooms,
local ;• and traveling insurance
agents, lightning rod agents, mat
rimonial agencies, immigration
agents, proprietors of merry-go
rounds, proprietors of ten pin al
leys, proprietors of shooting gal
leries, proprietors of skating rinks,
owners of all kinds of gaming
machines, peddlers, gypsies and
fortune tellers, newsbutchers on
trains, manufacturers and dealers
in tobacco who redeem tags and
labels, dealers in typewriters cash
registers, adding machines and
weighing scales, n°ar-beer dealers,
proprietors of soda founts, agents
for packing houses, itinerant doc
tors and specialists, dealers in
weapons and cartridges, pawn
brokers. bottlers of beverages,
owners of slo l machines, circuses,
dog and pony shows, midway
slioxri?, real estate agents and com
pilers of city directories.
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Whit Russell left Sunday night
for .Jacksonville, Fla., where he
may be located for some time.
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At The Owl Pharmacy.
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THE JACKSON ARGUS.
THE PRICE
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fHE OLD MAN—Gimme a whiskey. - *
* THE BARTENDER—Where’s the price ?
In real life the Old Ma:i slinks out of the saloon, and the young men drinking therp
laugh at him. What the 0 and Man should say is this :
“I have spent my youth, I have spent my reputation, I have spent my prospects for
whiskey. I have spent eve ytMng I ever had. Haven’t I paid the price ?”
Then the young men ‘might think.
CHURCH SERVICES.
Rev. G. W. Young, D.D., State
Superintendent of the Georgia Anti-
Saloon League, will preach at the
Methodist church Sunday at 11
a. m. The pastor will preach at
night.
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Banks to Close Saturday
This Saturday being Washing
ton’s birthday and a legal holiday,
the local banks of Jackson will be
[closed for the entire day.
JACKSON. BUTTS COUNTY, GEORGIA. FRIDAY. FEB. 21. 1913.
JACKSON STREET RAILROAD
SUBJECT FOR CITY COUNCIL
City Asks That Cars Be Run or
Tracks Removed —The Company
Oiven Until March 10th to
Adjust the Matter.
The City Council met last Mon
day night for the purpose of in
vestigating the Street Railroad of
Jackson.
The franchise . expired several
months ago, and the tracks are in
many places danger spots.
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The city now asks that the com
pany either remove the tracks or
run cars thereon.
Col. L. W. Roberts, of Atlanta,
Col. T. J. Hrown and Mr. Parham
Smith, of McDonough, appeared
for the railroad, and stated that
they were not in position to put
cars on at present, but they wanted
time to discuss the matter with
other capitalists with a view of
forming a stock company and run
ning the line to the Spring.
The council thought they had
had sufficient time, but finally al
lowed them until March 10th to
make arrangements, or at that
time the council would condemn it
as a nuisance and have it removed.
A railroad from Jackson to the
Spring would be a great conveti
ience and doubtless a financial
success.
Court Adjourns.
On account of the illness of several
lawyers having important cases in
court, thereby rendering it impossi
ble to continue in session, court ad
journed Thursday afiernoon until
Monday oi next week.
By Hal Coffman
PENSION MONEY WILL BE
READY EARLY IN MARCH
One Hundred and Forty-Three Pen
sioners to Receive Their Money.
Between SB,OOO and $9,000
Will Be (liven Out.
News that the Butts county pen
sioners will be paid their money
about the 10th of March has been
received by Ordinary J. H. 11 am.
There are 143 men and women
in this county who will receive
pensions this year. The sum to
be given out is between eight and
nine thousand dollars.
Judge Ham says that numbers
of people have called during the
past several weeks asking for in
formation regarding the pensions,
and he is glad over the prospect of
being able to tell them something
definite.
Grand Jury Indicts
Power Company.
The Central Georgia Power Com
pany, which owns and operates
the large waterpower plant on
the Ocmulgee river near Jackson,
lias been indicted by the Butts
County Grand Jury on the charge
of maintaining a nuisance.
The company was tried and con
victed last year of maintaining
criminal nuisance, and Judge Fletch
er, of the Jackson City Court, fined
the company $1 000. The Court of
Appeals last week reversed this de
cisinn of the local court.
jiT |,„|r| Hint ti e backwater from
Hie <lam caused a good deal of sick
ness in that part of the county, and
that Hie people are unable to liv
near the pond. This is the firs* time
that thelirand Jury has ever taken
the matter up. it f* said, and consul
era hie fntfost ■’• created
concerning the outcome.
JUDGE DANIEL DELIVERED ELOQUENT AND IMPRESSIVE
CHARGE TO THE BUTTS COUNTY GRAND JURY MONDAY
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WHISKY, PISTOLS AND GAMBLING GREATEST
HENACES TO SOCIETY.
Cites the Fact That Fulton County, With a Popula
tion of 250,c00, Had Twice as Many Homicides
Last Year as England With 10,000,000 —Stresses-
the Importance of the Proper Training of Children
The spring term of Butts
Superior Court was convened
at 9 o’clock Monday, Judge
Robert T. Daniel presiding.
After a strong, comprehen
sive charge to the Grand Jury,
in which the Judge eloquently
stressed the importance of en
forcing the laws of the State,
etc., tlie court began its semi
annual grind.
The civil docket was taken
up and a number of civil cases
of minor importance have been
disposed of.
On the criminal docket,which
will be taken up next week, are j
several murder cases. Ste\e
Plymale, the Flovilla young I
man who is charged with hav-|
ing murdered Town Marshal;
Matt Willard last summer, will
doubtless lie placed on trial for
his life at this term of court.
Able counsel has been retained
to defend the young man, and
a hard-fought legal battle is
expected in this case.
The new Solicitor General,
Hon. Emmett Owen, of Zeb
ulon, is on hand, and is per
forming his duties in such man
ner as to excite much favorable
comment among our people.
Court Stenographer W. E. H.
Searcy is also at his post of
duty. .
Judge Daniel’s splendid
charge, practically the same as
delivered at Forsyth last week
and which has attracted so
much attention throughout the
country, is reproduced in full
below:
Gentleman oe the Grand Jury:
We have a marvelous country.
Its natural resources, its rich mines,
its inexhaustible forests, its power
producing rivers, its fertile soil, are
unsurpassed in all the world.
We have a wonderful people—
initiative, resourceful, inventivz,
courageous and patriotic.
The possibilities of such a coun
try and such a people are unlim
ited.
Yet, if I am not greatly mis
taken, the great wealth, the pros-
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Also Laundry Bags. All to go at cost. When
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others, but come ree for yourself. It costs nothing
to look.
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perity, the ease and the luxury
which has come to our people from.'
the development of our wonderful
resources has resulted in a percep
tible decline of our high ideals and
in a lowering of our standard of
citizenship.
For it is a conceded fact that the
United States has not kept pace in
its morality, in its respect for law
anfl law enforcement with its other
wonderful advancement in all com
mercial and industrial develop
ments.
In this wonderful century of
Christian civilization, among a
people blessed in many respects
above all other people; in a land
upon which Heaven has well-nigh
exhausted its bounty; in a nation
blessed with more 'privilges than
any other ever had; yet, with all
these favors, with all these priv
ileges, vice and crime of all kinds
and of all grades, with a wanton,
defiant disregard of life and of law,
with a brazen effrontery, terrorizes
our highways, plunders our homes
and profanes our temples of justice.
We have outstripped j the older
nations of the world in every ave
nue of effort except in the matter
of law enforcement, restraint of,
crime and moral advancement. In
these things we are behind the civ
ilized world.
The record shows that we are
the most crime-ridden nation on
earth. There was more crime it*
the United States last year than in
any other civilized country.
The most casual readers of the
daily papers are familiar with the
facts that will substantiate this
statement, aud I will not weary
you by submitting statistics to
verify this statement.
One illustration will suffice:
Fulton county has about 250,000
people. There were committed in
that county last year 55 homicides
This is more than twice as many as
were committed in England last
year, with a population of 10,000,
000.
Is not this statement aud these,
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