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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1920)
TAX ORDINANCE MT. VERNON. An ordinance for the assessment of special taxes or business 1 license, and to provide for and regulate the registration of all per sons doing busines of any kind whatever in the Town of Mt. Vernon. Section I. be it ordained by the mayor and council of Mount , Vernon that from and after the passage of this act every person, firm of corporation that exercises within the town of Mount Ver non, any profession, trade, calling or business of any nature what ever, shall register in the hooks kept for said purpose by the Clerk of said town, their name, professions, calling or business, their lo cation, if any within the town of Mount Vernon. Section 2. Be it furthur ordained that upon failure of any firm, person, company or corporation to register as aforesaid and to ob tain license, shall be guilty of a violation of this ordinance and upon conviction shall be punished as prescribed in the by-laws of said ; town. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to make cases against all parties who fail to obtain license. Be it ordained by the mayor and council of the town of Mount Vernon that the following license and taxes shall be levied and col lected in the town of Mount Vernon for the year 1920. Said taxes to be paid in semi-annual installments on the dates of Feb. 15 and July 15th. Agents who reside in the town and who advertise to lend or in other ways engage in the busiru sos money lending, whether the property upon which tne money is loaned is in the town. SIO.OO Agents in real estate 10 00 Agents in real estate and loan business 15 00 Architect 10 00 Auctioneer per day in addition to business tax required for selling articles offered by him. 10 00 Automobile garage, covering sale of automobiles, supplies and sundries, renting storing and repairing 25 00 Automobile dealers, in or agents for 12 50 Automobile, supplies and sundries, dealers in or agents for whether in connection with other business or not 10 00 Automobile for transportation or delivery of passengers, each car 5 00 Automobile repairing 10 00 Bank or Bankers 25 00 Bakery 5 00 Barber Shop, each chair 5 00 Bicycle, gun and pistol repair shop 5 00 Bicycle dealers 5 00 Billiards and Pool table, per table 250 00 Blacksmith Shop 6 00 Boarding House (private) (License Free) Boot and repair shop 5 00 Bond company, agent for' 5 00 Book and stationery dealer, not connected with any other business 5 00 Bottling works, for soda water, etc. 20 00 Bottled soda water 5 00 Box Ball or Bowling Alley 50 00 Brokers for sale of merchandise by sample stock 10 00 Buggies, wagons, harness dealers not connected with other business 15 00 , Builders supplies, other than hardware house 10 00 Brokers in lumber, shingles, etc. 10 00 Bill Posting, for theaters, circus or shows, etc. 10 00 Carnivals, street fares each tent where admission is charged, directly or indirectly, and for each place where there is any place for obtaining profits 25 00 Carriage and buggy repairs, not in connection with other business 5 00 Cotton ginnery 10 00 Collection agency / 10 00 Cigarettes, cigarette papers, either furnishing or giving or storing same ’ 10 00 Circus with one or more rings, performance 50 00 Clothing, taking orders for mens tailoring, made not in connection with clothing house. Confectioneries, or retail dealers in fruit and candy 5 00 Dog and pony show, each performance 25 00 Drovers, cows or hogs 15 (X) Dray , 10 00 Drugs, retail, patent and proprietary 10 00 Drugs, dealer, connection with other business 10 00 Drygoods, notions, clothing, hats and shoes 5 00 Express Coni pa ny . 10 00 Farm produce, including grain, etc. 10 00 Fertilizer and chemical dealer, or agents for 10 00 Fire insurance agent 10 00 Fish and oysters, dealers in 10 00 Flying Jenny 50 00 Furniture and house furnishings, retail 10 00 Furniture in connection with other business 10 00 Grain, hav, cotton seed hulls meal 5 (X) Grist mill or Hour mill 5 00 Groceries, retail, including cigars and tobacco 5 00 Hardware, general line, crockery stoves, house furnishings 15 00 Hardware in connection with other business 10 00 Horse traders, offering to sell or swap 25 00 Hotel 10 00 Ice Dealer 5 00 . Newspaper and job office 10 00 Insurance, accident, sick benefit, or casualty, agent for 500 Jewelry, street stand 10 00 Junk dealer 10 00 Indies ready-to-wear, hats, millinery, etc. 10 00 Lightning rod, dealer in or erecting 10 00 Mule or horse, dealer in, not maintaining sale stand in town 25 00 Machinery, mill supplies not connected with other business 10 00 Meat, wagon, dealer in, except sale by quarter or in bulk, which shall be license free 5 00 Meat curing plant 25 00 Market for sul6 of meat in connection with other business 5 (X) Market for sale of meat not in connection with other bus’ns 10 00 Marble works or agents soliciting for same 10 00 Planing mill 25 00 Palmistry and fortune telling 5 IX) Photographer 10 00 Pressing and cleaning 5 00 Pistols and cartridges 25 00 Retail oil A gas dealers, not in connection with other bus 10 00 Restaurant 5 00 Saw mill and lumber manufacturing 10 00 Sewing machine agents or dealers not connected with other business 10 00 Shoes, dealers not connected with other business 10 00 Shooting gallery 10 00 Show of any kind, under t> nt, ' cii coses each performance 25 00 Soda fountain, including bottled unnks 5 00 | Sales, stable, dealer in mules and horses 10 00 Sign painters 6 00 1 Telephone exchange 15 00 Telegraph Company 5 (X) Undertaking, including coffins and supplies 10 00 ! Wire fencing, sale of 5 00 Wholesale gasoline and oil dealer 15 00 Warehouse, cotton, storage 10 00 Wood yard, for manufacturing wood 10 00 AIJ business or trades m t i.» ie:n specifically provided for shall be fixed by the Mayor aud Council. Read, adopted and approved Fob. 9. 1920. Troy J. Mason. Clerk. Fred M. Harris, Mayor. I. Troy J. Mason, certify t! ' above is a true and correct copy ■ ordinance passed v by mayor and council Mt. Vernon, Feb. 9, 1920. Tkoy J. Mason, Clerk. * THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1920. TF\e l\or\lgorr\&iry Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFPICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Kntered at the Postoffice in Mt. Vernon, Ga. as Second-Class Mail Matter. | H. b. FOLSOM, Editor sad Owacr. $1.50 • Year, in Advance. «r Legal advertisements must invariably be paid ia advance, at the legal rate, and as the law 1 directs; and mast be in band not later than Wednesday morning of the first week of insertion I Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, February 12, 1920. ► Georgia State > Press Expressions. 3 a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas This is to advise the editors of South Georgia that the Nashville Chamber of Commerce has agreed to back the Herald to the limit in entertaining them next May. We are going to try to duplicate the Quitman meeting.—Nashville Herald. One of the real needs of our county commissioners is an accu rate road map of the county on which the distances, the bridges and general character of the roads are shown. So far as the condition of the roads at this time is concerned, it is all the same and is spelled m-u-d. —Marietta Journal. Last November in the meeting of the Executive Committee it was voted that all who attend the 1920 State Sunday School Con vention would pay their own en tertainment expenses, as. is the case in practically all other con ventions. It was also voted that there would be no registration fee charged, but the Convention would be open to all Sunday School workers who wished to attend.—Springfield Herald. Wealth is not the real prize of life, it is only a trophy, a symbol, and may carry with it no satis faction ; indeed it does not carry with it genuine lasting satisfac tion unless it has been won fair ly, honestly, honorably.—Butler Herald, The Savannah Morning News has been making some revela tions as to lawlessness and im morality in that city that is awakening the advocates of law and order to action. And the municipal gang is peeved over the exposure. The better element of Savannah should back the Morning News to the utmost in its brave stand for a clean city.— Southeast Georgian. A man who will slip around and try to rent a building that is already occupied and which the tenant still wants to occupy, will steal dough from a crippled biddy.—Swainsboro Forest-Blade. The Presbyterians are now making a drive for funds and are asking for only a modest sum. They are among the best people on earth. — Adel News. To Rebuild Mill. This will inform the public of our intention of shortly rebuilding our grist mill in Mt. Vernon. We will appreciate a renewal of the patronage accorded us prior to the destruction of our former plant by fire. Cockfield Milling Co., 25tf Mt. Vernon. Ga. Wire Fencing. Carload American Wire Fence just received. Standard sizes. Mt. Vernon Mercantile Co., Mt Vernon, Ga. Woodland for Sale. 400 acres of best woodland for farm purposes in Montgomery county. Good soil and convenient Ito railroad. Fair price—cash or terms. For particulars apply at Monitor office, Mt. Vernon. Lost Suit Case. On road between Wadley and Mt Vernon, via Swainsboro, Louisville, Vidalia; Feb. 2: case contained men’s wearing apparel, two razors, shot gun, two insu rance policies, etc. A suitable reward to finder. Notify Dr. E. A. Odom. Norway, S. C. i |* Sheriff Sale. i Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be Hold before the court house door in Mt. Vernon on the find, Tues day In March. 1920, between the legal ( ! hours of Hate, to the highest, bidder for cash, certain property, of which < the following is a complete descrip- < tion: One certain black horse, about five j years old and weighing about one thousand pounds. Levied on and will be sold as the property of Will Josey, to satisfy an execution issued from the Justice’s Court of the 1967th G. M. District of said county and state In favor of M. B. Peterson vs Will Josey. Alice Josey, claimant. Levy made and returned to me by H. K, Carpenter, constable, and written notice of same given in terms of the law. This the sth day of Feb ruary, 1920. E. E. Burch, Sheriff. G. B. Cowart, Atty. Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court house door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tues day in March, 1920, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which tiie following is a complete descrip tion : One certain iron safe, No. 55639, manufactured by the Macueale & Ur ban Safe and Lock Co.. Hamilton, Ohio. Said property being located in tiie garage of P. J. McNatt, Uval da, (ia., and levied on and will be sold as the property of the Bank of Vidal ia to satisfy a tax fi fa issued by H. C. Davis, tax collector, vs Bank of Vidalia, for state and county taxes for the year 1918. Written notice of levy given in termw of the law. This the 3rd day of February, 1920. E. E. Burch, Sheritf- Velvet Bean Huller. Huller operated on Saturdays, in connection with grist mill, at Longpond. W. A. Johnson, 1296 Rt. 2, Mt. Vernon. Hastings* Seed Catalog Free It’s ready now. One hundred hand somely illustrated pages with brilliant cover in natural colors. It is both beautiful and helpful, and all that Is necessary to get it is a postal card request. You will find our 1920 cata logue a well worth while seed book. Hastings’ Seeds are sold direct by mail. You will never find them on sale in the stores. We have some five hundred thousand customers who buy from us by mall. We please and satisfy them, and we can please and j satisfy you in 1920. Planting Hastings’ Seeds in your j garden or in your fields Insures “good | luck” so far as results can be deter- j mined by the seed planted. For 30 vears Hastings’ Seeds have been the standard of seed excellence and pur- | ity in the South. Only varieties i adapted to the South are listed. Qual- J Ity of the best and prices often less than those you pay at home. Write for free copy of this splendid cata logue now. H. G. HASTINGS CO., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Ga.—(Advt.l II THE UNIVERSAL CAR Ijj I The Ford Sedan with electric starting and lighting system and } I demountable rims with 3 tires all around, for every day in the * year has no equal as a family car. Just as popular on the farm as it | is in the city. In fact, it fits the family demands in every vocation of } I life. Large, roomy seats, finely upholstered, plate glass windows make I if it an open car in pleasant weather, -while in rainy and inclement ! j j weather it becomes a closed car, dust-proof and rain-proof. It is j j ideal for social functions, the theatre, or parties; carrying the children I | to school, or for touring. It is not only comfortable, but really cozy, ; and above all, economical in operation and maintenance, and has all the Ford merits cf j | strength and durability. We solicit your order I for one. Come in and see it. ' r \- I 1 P.J. McNatt Citation. Georgia—Montgomery County. The appraisers appointed upon the application of Mrs. Bessie H. Dixon, for valuation and setting apart a twelve months support tor herself and three minor children out of the estate of D. L. Conner, deceased, having filed their re- j turn, notice is hereby given that said application will be heard at my office on the first Monday in March, 19*20. This the 2d day of February, 1920. J. C. McAllister, Ordinary. Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court bouse door in Mt. Vernon on the lirst Tu<*'- . day in March, 1920, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which | the following is a complete descrip tion : All of the undivided interest in re mainder of Laurence W. Williams j in and to all of that tract or parcel of j land situated, lying and being in the ] 1664th, District (formerly tin* 12215 t. I District) G. M. of Montgomery coun ty, Georgia and being bounded on the j North by lands belonging to Lillie M. Williams; on the East by lands formerly belonging to R. A. Berner and on the South and West, by lands belongingto W. C. McCrimmon and containing three hundred (300) acres, be the same more or less, and known as the Ladson place; and being the same tract of land conveyed to H. H. Williams for and during his natural life with remainder over to E. M. Williams and the children of the; said H. H. and E. M. Williams by j Thomas F. Williams by deed bearing * date on the 29tli day of Janiiarv In the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Four (1894) as shown by tlie record of said deed book “R” folios 411 and 412 of the Records of Deeds in the office of the Clerk of tin* Superior Court of Montgomery County. Georgia. Said land levied upon as the property of Laurence W. Williams to satisfy an : execution issued from the superior court of said county in favor of The Mt. Vernon Rank vs L. W. Williams, principal, and J. C. and M. B. Cal houn. In possession of Lillie M. 1 Williams and written notice of levy I given as required by law. PoiAted out for levy by attorneys for plain tiff. This the 3d day of February, ! 1920. E. E. Burch, Slifiriff. Underwood <& Harris, A ttys, for Plff. Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court house . door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tues day in March, 1920, between the legal hours ot sale, to the highest bidder fbr cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete descrip tion : One certain Jersey wagon, now in ' my possession. Levied on and will I be sold to satisfy an attachment is-! sued from the justice’s court of the I 1343rd (4. M. district of said county I and state in favor of W. G. McDonald vs Lindy Joyce. Written notice of levy given in terms of the law. This the"3d day of February, 1921). E. E. Burch, Sheriff. - Highest Prices Paid for Live Stock. I Waare constantly in the mar- Iketfor cattle and hogs. Many j years experience qualifies us to i offer superior advantages to the j producers of this section. We are in position to handle your business in a most satisfactory manner. Get our prices. W. D. & C. W. Peterson, 9192 m Ailey, Ga Lost Hog. Young Hampshire sow; un marked; about 18 months old. Disappeared from my residence in Mt. Vernon Jan. 12. Infor mation leading to recovery will be suitably rewarded. W. L. Snow, 1224 Kibbee, Ga. NOTICE OF NEW ROAD. Georgia —Montgomery County. To all Whom it May Concern : Take notice that J. W. Adams, ,T. J. Moses. H. A Moses, W. H. Denton. W. K. Pluliips, 0 M. Pool and 6thers have applied for 1 an order seeking the establishment |of a new road, which lias been laid out and marked conformably to law by commissioners duly ap pointed. and a report thereof made on oath bv them, said road commencing at the mcoporate | limits of the Town of Uvalda and I running in a southwesterly di rection through the lands of H. A. Moses, W. A. Conner, W. K. Denton, J. W. Adams, W. R. Phillips, the Clayton Morris old home place, O M. Pool, and in tersecting the Old River Road near Dead River Cemetery, being about two and one fourth miles in length; now, if no good cause be shown to the contrary, hv persons j interested in t he matter, the order 1 will be granted by the Board of ; Commissioners of Roads and Rev enues of said county on the 2d day of March, 1920, establishing said new road. This the 3d day of February, : 1920. Board Commissioners of Roads i and Revenues*M. C-, Ga. J. H. Dees, Chm. A. B. Hutcheson, Clerk. Citation. i ! Georgia—Montgomery County. W. G. Mcßae, as administrator IT. J. Thompson, deceased, repre ; sents to the court in his petition, duly filed and entered on record, j that he has fully administered j said Thompson estates. This is | therefore to cite all persons con cerned, kindred and creditors, to | show cause, if any they cau, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administra tion and receive letters of dismis ! sion on the first Monday in March, ; 1920. J. C. McAllister, Ordinary. Citation. Georgia—Montgomery County. To all whom it may concern: B. A. Conner, a resident of this state, having in due form applied to the undersigned for guardian | ship of the persons and property lof Grace Conner, D. L. Conner : and Ernest Conner, minor child ren of D. L. Conner, late of said county, deceased, notice is hereby giveD that his application will be heard at the next court of ordinary for said county, on the first Mon day in March, 1920. Witness my. j hand and official sigifhture, this I 2d day of February, 1920. J. C. McAllister, Ordinary,
