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Official Organ Ben Mill County.
Ordinance Number 338.
An Ordinance f e protide for the 1< vy and collection of a
license, or occupation tax, on eerfaiq ine> of business and occu¬
pation tax, within the city of Fitzgerald and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and council of the
eity of Fitzgerald that from and after the passage of this
every person, firm, or corporation who exorcises or may exorcise
witl in the city of Fi’zgeraid any profession, trade, or calling or
business of any nature whatever, shall annually register in books
to be kept for that purpose by the city clerk or said city, the names,
professions, trades, calling or business and their place of business.
Section 2. Be it further ordained that all persons commencing
any business of any kind after the first day of January, 1912, shall
register their names and business as soon as they have commenced
same.
Section 3. Be it further ordained that whenever any person,
persons, have no fixed place of business within the city, never¬
theless exercise within the city any business of any nature what¬
ever, such person or p°rsons shall be required to register their
names and places of business and be subject to the same or like
taxation on their business as levied by the mayor and council up¬
on persons having a like business and fixed place of business.
Section 4. Be it further ordained that upon the failure of any
person, firm, company or corporation to register their names and
places of business as aforsaid, the city cierk shall from the best in-
forma'ion obtainable register the same, and the Chief of Police is
hereby required to report to the clerk ail omissions to register
which may become known to him, and any person failing to regis¬
ter his business with the cierk as required by this ordinance by the
first day of February, 1912, or within ten days after commencing
said business shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordinance,
and shall be summand before the mayor and upon conviction shall
be fined not to exceed $25 00 or imprisonment and labor on the
public works of the city not «<» exceed thirty days.
Section 5. Be it further ordained that no firm, person, or cor¬
poration shall by himself or his agent carry on anv occupation,
trade or tailing enumerated in the schedule and embraced in this
ordinance until he has registered with the city clerk at the city
hall and paid his license tax as herein provided. For a violation of
the provision of this section the mayor shall upon a conviction im
pose a fine not to exceed $100.00 or imprisonment and labor on
the public works uf the city not to exceed six*y days
Section 6 Be it further ordained ^hat no license obtained un-
tier the provisions of this ordinance shall be transferable.
Section 7. Be it further ordained that in audition to the reme¬
dies of fine and imprisonment herein provided for the collection
of the occupation tax hereby imposed, the clerk of said city is here¬
by authorized to issue executions for the same, and the Chief of
Police to levy and sell the property of any defaulter hereunder,
under the same laws, rules anu regulations as property taxes are
collected in said city.
Section 8. Be it furl her oraained that all previous ordinances
in any wise conflicting with this ordinance are hereby repealed-
Section 9. Be it further ordained that from and after the
passage of this ordinance the following business and occupation
taxes shall be levied and collected within the City of Fitzgerald up-
■on every-'
Abstract Company, individual, firm or corporation making or
keeping books of records, purporting to be an abstract of the
records of the clerk of Superior Court of Ben Hill County, or
of Irwin County. Georgia, and charging a fee for the inspection
of the same or for a transcript thereof $ 5 00
Agricultural Implements, except hardware 3lores______ 10.00
Auctioneers .. 10.00
Automobiles, dealers in or agents for__________ _ 25 00
Automobiles, use for hire, each................ .. 15-00
Automobile garages................ .......... - 20. tO
Baggage transfer or drayman, two-horse wagon . .. 10 < 0
transfer or draymen, one-horse wagon....... 5 00
.....J............. ... moo
Barbershop, per chair________________ 5.00
Barber shop, for each succeeding chair 3.00
Billard or pool room, no minors allowed, white and
■colored persons not allowed to play in same room, $25 00 for first
table, balance each....____.......................... 10.10
Bill posters or distributors, meaning those who post or
distribute bills for others for profit, but any business may
have its bills posted or distributed by its own employees 25.00
Bicycle, dealers in................. .------- .... 10.00
Bicycle, repair shop......................... 500
Blacksmith Shop............................ 5.00
Bottling works, mineral or carbonated waters - 20.00
Bowling Alleys, each alley.................. 25.00
Box ball Alley, each alley..................... .. 25.00
Baby racks, Ball racks, etc__________________ 5.00
Brick, dealer in or agent for................. 5.00
Cafe or restaurant.-------------------- 15.00
Carriage repositories, meaning dealers in afi kinds of
vehicles except bicycles and automobiles__________________ 40 00
Chiropodist........................................ . 500
Circus where admission is fifty cents or more per day 100.00
illilfMW Circus Clairvoyant......................................... Carnivals where and admission street fairs is per less week___________________ than fifty centy per day 250.00 200 75 00 00
^ Coal, Cotton Dealer Warehouse................................... in, with wood combined.................. 15.00
Cotton ginning for profit......................... 2500
gin, 10.00
Cotton compress.....................................
Cobbler............................................. Cider, dealer in by the wholesale 5
and retail............. 500 00
Cigaretts-------------------------------------------- Cotton Oil Mill....................................... 10 00
I Cigar 25.00
;|| a* Drug Factory............................-........... 20.00
Drug store__________________________________________ soda 20.00
■ m store with fountain........................ 2o.U0
j|t>r Debenture bands and investment companies or agents
same..._______________ ______ _______ . 50 00
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And Now Goings Forth Th ce I
Exchange National Bank Believing i 1
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J i One of the wisest things bank directors do
can is to ac¬ m
cumulate a large surplus or reserve fund. The following I!
W * paragraph is taken from Pratts Digest of National Bank
Laws:
‘Tt should be the chief aim of bank managers to make i !P
their respective institution strong. A surplus fund should II
be created from the earni. gs that will be a protection to the
capital and to tl e creditors in trying times. There are few
itenvs, if any, that look better upon a balance sheet of a
M bank than a large surplus, and so well calculated to secure
W for it public confidence. It is, therefore, on all accounts the
|§ j? best policy to accumulate such fund as rapidly as possible
The wisdom of this is seen in the provision of the bank act
W for the accumulation of and maintaining a surplus of at least
M ^ twenty per cent of the capital of a bank.”
The Exchange National Bank is not below the average,
i is not the but is
on average, away above the average bank
a £S* throughout United
ss the States m its surplus, or reserve fund.
The average reserve for 1911 is about sixty five per cent.
The Exchange National’s percentage is Ninety five.
Upon this splendid proof of our strength and prudent
^ classes methods, we people. invite new accounts in all amounts from all
of
We operate a SAVINGS DEPART MEN! in which in¬
terest is allowed ,
on growing accounts at the rate of four per
cent per annum, COMPOUNDED FOUR TIMES A YEAR
THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK,
R. V. Bowen, President.
J. E. Turner, Active Vice President,
J. D. Dorminey, Cashier.
M. M. Stephens, Asst. Cashier.
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Dealers in revolvers and cartridges................... 15-00
Electric wiring, contracting to conform to S. E- T. A. 10.00
Electric display for profit, per week..................... 10 00
Electric supply wholesale dealers 15.00
Express Companies_______________________________... . ..................
Express companies, free delivery ,‘; 00.00
within and including to all parts of ci l y
both sides of Monitor, Merrimac, Sul¬
tana and Roanoke Drives_________________________________ 125.00
Fertilizers, dealers in and agents for................. 20.00
Fertilizers, manufacturers of .......................... 20.09
Fish and oyster dealer............................... 10.00
Fortune teller or palmist............................ 100.00
Funeral director or undertaker or dealer in undertaker’s
supplies 25.CO
Flying jenny, per week, not allowed in fire limits 25 00
Fruit peddlers per day_________________ 25-00
Fruit stands___________________ ____________
Gypsies 10 00
or travelling peddlers per week----------- 50.(0
Harness, dealers .
Harness solely in -------------------------- 10.00
repair shop............................ 5.00
Hand Organs, Organ grinders or hurdygurdies, etc-
Per day 10.C0
Hotels and boarding houses that keep transients charg¬
ing $1-00 per day and less....................... 10.00
Hotels ... .
charging $2.00 per day and more...... 25.00
Junks, dealers in............................ Q O
Job printing office, not connected with newspaper. O 300
Job printing and newsbaper combined-------- O
Ice cream carts _________________________—...... S
To«nr?»we cemrnt'ieo fire, plate/ glass, accident, bond
Continued o:. Last l’age. *
Succumb to Illness
Had Been Ill with c car-
kt Fever for Ten
Days—One of Ma¬
con’s Most Pop¬
I ular and Beau¬
tiful M&trorvs
The following from Wednesday’s
Macon Telegraph will be read with
regret Mrs. Stetson by Fitzgerald people, a.-
was a resident of this
city until about three years:
Mrs. Joseph Molten Shaw Stet¬
son, wife of Eugene Stetson,
president of the Macon Cham¬
ber of Commerce, a,.d ot the Citi¬
zen’s National Bank, died at her
■ ■ late home, 87 Arlington Place,
! yesteroay afternoon at 3 o’clock
after an illness ot ten days with
seal let fever. The announcement
of her death was a great shock to
her friends. It was generally
known that her condition was crit¬
ical, but the friends of the family
were unprepared for her sudden
taking away. The sympathy of
the entire community is extended
to the grief-stricken husband and
family.
Mrs. Stetson was born in Wash¬
ington, D. O., twenty-eight years
ago and moved to Macon with her
parents in 1899. Seven yeurs ago
she was married to Eugene W.
Stetson and leaves, besides her
husband, two children, Lconice,
aged 6 years, anu Eugene W. Stet¬
son, Jr., aged 4 months. She is
also survived by her father and
mother, Mr. auu Mrs. William
Check ley Shaw, two brothers.
William Checkley Shaw, Jr., auo
Join Stewart Shaw, and three
sisters. Mrs. Charles C. Harold,
Misses Anne and Nona Shaw.
She was a former student ol
Wesleyan college, and was, at hi l
death, a devoted member of tin
Christ Episcopal church, and al¬
ways took an active part in the af¬
fairs of her church. Besides be-
j I ing one of the most popular wona n
m Macon society, she was also one
of the mo.sl beautiful.
On account of the nature of tla
disease, the funeral and interpret t
will be private, at the Kiversiut
cemetery, this afternoon at 3:3<
o’clock, Rev. John S. j^intinc,
r • am of Christ Episcop* . church.
officiating.
Catholic Church
Mass at the Catholic church wil
Do as follows:
.Saturday, FeK 10th, 7:30 a n
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Official Organ of Ben
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VOL. XVJI. NO. 9
Daughter's Meeting
Nathaniel A bney Chapter I). A.
it. wore entertained by Mrs. E.
K. Farmer \ uesday afternoon,
Ket>. C*ii. There were eleven metn-
l‘»-rs present nnd the chapter was
pleased to have with ;t, Mrs. (jril-
I'espio, of Norfolk, Va., Mrs. W.
ii. Right-on, ot Savannah, and Mrs.
Wooding, of HoganiviUn.
The meeting was called to order
by the rownt, M r s. L, 'V Mcak-
ln by whom prayer was offered.
Roll call by the recording secre-
tary, Mrs. Holtzendorf, was ie-
sponded to with historical events,
some of which were amusing and
all interesting. Business of inter¬
est to the chapter vras disposed ot
end delegates elected to the annual
meeting of the National Society,
D A. R to be held in Washing¬
ton, L>. C. April 15tb, and also to
the state meeting which convenes
m Marietta, April 9-10-11 and 12th,
Mrs. J. B. Seanor will represent
tne chapter at Washington and
Mrs. Holzcndorf and the regent
at Marietta, with Mrs. Russel) as
alternate.
Among other plans decided oft,
the chapter will give a prize to
the public school pupil who will
prepare and deliver the best essay
Georgia Day, the subject to be se¬
lected by a committee consisting
of Mesdames Jones, Russell and
Holtzendorf. A committee was
also appointed to meet with other
committees from the women’s or¬
ganizations of the city with one
idea, to make Fitzgerald the pret¬
tiest, cleanest and most delightful
city in south Georgia This com-
mi|> ' consists of Mesdames
■seanor, Farmer and Mingledorf,
After the meeting adjourned to
meet with Mrs. Holtzendorf in
April, a pleasant social time Wli8
•njoyed. Mrs. Farmer, assisted
>v h'r daughters, Misses Sarah
ind Janet, and her sister, Mrs.
•Vooding, served delicious salad,
oaidwi'-hes and sherbet together
with sa't-d almonds, olives aud
uints. The color scheme of green
and white was seen in the salads
and mints and in the b< autiful nar-
c-ri and ferns which iiiled the cut
glass bowls and vases.
Those present were: Mesdames
L. \V. Meakin, A. E. Junes, Htr-
o d Beall, J. B. Seaucr, G. I\ Min-
gledurf, E. A. Bussed, C. E Bak¬
er, C. A. Holtzendorf, E. K. Fur*
me ', Ross Wilson, L. S. Osborn,
W oding, Gillispie, W. H Righ-
t •'». and Misses Sarah and Janet
Farmer.
.Mrs, I.. S. Osborne,
Historian.
Mr. A idler ChaiMdi'!' ViS*
Rot to Abbov i Tt