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r. . . ; . ' LICENSE OR PRIVILEGE TAX LEVIED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF ROXBORO FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1923. ' , Advertising: By use of brass bands or by public , announcements in city, except county fair: I; Per day - 25.00 Per week 125.00 Agencies: , ' For the exclusive handling of sew' ing machines, typewriters, cash registers, adding machines, vacuum cleaners, not paying retail merchant's tax 125.00 All other agents or agencies not specifically taxed herein 25.00. Auction: Sale of real estate, each sale by; on-resident. - ? 10.00) Automobiles: Ageneies or dealers with or withont garage 50.00. Dealers in used or second hand cars] (not rated as dealer or agencies in, new automobiles) 50.00, Service station 5.00 ^ Battery station or vulcanizing plant | ( not taxed as dealer or agent) 15.00 J Repair shop (not taxed as dealer | 9 at agent or garage) __ - 25.00. Bakeries- 5.00 [ ^ Banks or Trust Companies: 2100,000 capital and up 50.00 $ 50,000 to ?100,000- 25.00 "Under 250,000 12.50 Bikrber Shops: . First chair, whether used or not-. . I-?; 10.00, Each additional, chair, whether | need or not ..a .... 5.00 Bicycles: Each dealer or agent selling, renting -or repairing^.... . 10.00 Bill poster .... 20.00 Boot blacks, when charging more than 5c i , 2.50 Blacksmiths ....... 10.00 Bottling Works 30.00 Building contractors 25.00 Contractor?itinerant or non-resident 50.00 Cafes, restaurants, lunch rooms, lunch counters, public eating places It, ? 25.00 Candy kitchens, manufacturing and -y selling candy, ice cream, etc..,.. 15.00 * Circuses, menageries, wild west, ' rsiajdog .and pony shows and every show not specifically licensed herein, per day or part of day: Transport ed'vby wagon or motor vehicles , -1 5.00 Comprised of 15 car trains or less, per day... : 12.50 Comprised of 16 to-25 car trains, per day... ? 37.50 Comprised of 26 to 40 car trains, per day 1 50.00 Comprised of 41 to 50 car trains, per day I : 75.00 Comprised of more than . 50 car trains, per day...... 1 100.00 if more than 50c general admission is charged such show, regardless of stse. per day ... 150.00 Side show with circuses or shows requiring less thah 30 cars for transportation, each 10.00' Inquiring over 30 cars for transportation , , 25.00 Traveling circuses, carnivals or like ' . shows giving nrrfarmnn,,, in nnnn air" or tents during the time when an agricultural fair \* held in the county, or one week prior to opening date 4 ^ ; r of such fair, each day or part of day .....I 100.00 ! Concrete contractor, except those 1 paying builder's license 1 10.00 Cotton mills _ 50.00 Commission merchant, broker oc dealer buying or selling. goods and merchandise on commission ._ 5.00 Contracting painters and decora- < tors, employing labor 15.00 Hauling for hire : One horse vehicles __ 10.00 1 More than one horse vehicles 15.00 < This shall apply t'o all horse drawn vehicles employed in hauling for com- ( pensation, except where employed in excavating for buildings. Motor trucks ________ 15.00j< Dry cleaning and pressing clubs: i * Those employing two persons or ? 5.00 5 Those employing more than two < persons 10.00 Electric light or power companies furnishing electric lights or power in the city 50.00. * Electrical contractors 10.00 ] Itinerant electrical contractors 20.00 c Express compa'nies ? 20.00,* Emigrant agents 500.00 (1 r iour nulls 10.00' ? 'Fertilizer dealers 10.00 t ||r" (Feather renovators 10.00 ' Fresh fthh and-oyster^dealera, not ^ paying meat license 5.<KH Fortune telleys ...... 200.00 Furniture or oriental goods, itin. j erent dealer... , 25.00, tomobiles , (not taxed as automobile < ' dealer).^ 25.00 i Gasoline or oTT dealers or both? i : wholesale.-.. .... 10.00 1 jjjiT'' WM- ?ff? hin dealers^ O.oO | 1 - \ Hide and skin dealers?itinerant. ] ' 25.00 ( Hoteis: | Ten rconu lo.>oo; Fifteen rooms * 30.00| Twenty-five rooms or more 50.00,1 House mover (each house where'.' public property is \jsed)..... 10.00 1 Itinerants, each house 25.00 1 Installment dealers in furniture,' 1 clothing or notions, jewelry, or any kind of merchandise doing an annual business of not over $5,000. . 10.00 Doing an annual business of over ?5,000 ----- 20.00 ' Incensed merchants shall not be liable to tax as installment dealers* I Junk dealer;,., 5.00 Merchant, itinerant >100.00 Plumber, itinerant 25.00 Portrait painter, itinerant- 100.00 Laundries: Steam i 15.00 Agencies for outside laundries 10.00 Licensed laundries acting as agents for outside laundries shall not.be liable to this tax. Live stock dealers 10.00 The above license tax shall not apply to dealers in horses and mules exclusively, nor 'to persons selling their own productions. Lumber broker or agents 10.00 Lumber dealers ~ 25.00 Livery stables _. 5.00 Lightening rod dealers 20.00 Merchants tax on annual gross sales up to (50,000-- 10.00 $50,000 up to $100,000 20.00 $100,000 and up -25.00 \T? - , . . _1 ? insak utUL BCMy any piaWC >YUCIC fresh me?t is kept for sgle 45.00 Merry-go-round, ferris-wheel or flying jinny 40.00 Manufacturers, not specifically mentioned herein : J 25.00 Motorcycle or bicycle dealer or agent, including repair shop.. 10.00 Moving picture shows ... 30.00 Newspaper (Religious exempt): Other than daily 7.60 Bach contest of other than daily .. 10.00 Palmist ? - .? 100.00 Pawn broker 150.00 Peddlers, per month ... 12.00 Per year . 100.00 Persons not classed as peddlers, and not paying license aB merchants or other dealer in the town, selling and delivering goods, wares and merchandise, other than melons, at retail, by means of Wagon;' trucks ot other vehicles; each vehicle 50.00 Phrenologists . 250.00 Piano or organ dealer, not taxed as merchant--.. ...... 20.00 Piano or organ dealer, itinerant 50.00 Plumbers 10.00 Printing establishment 5.00 Public conveyance, on the business of transporting passengers or freight for profit a privilege tax shall be paid as follows: Hacks - ... ; 5.00 Passenger motor vehicles for hire: Five passenger cars or less. 10.00 Over five and not more than seven passenger cars 15.00 Over seven passenger cars. 20.00 In every case the tax on itinerant vehicles for hire shall be double the amounts above respectively. estate agents.. 10.00 Shows, dog and pony, per day 20.00 , Sewing machine agents, itinerant 40.00 Soft drinks dealers 5.00 Soda fountains 10.00 Shoemakers and repairers, by maihinery . 10.00 Steam fitters, provided, that persons holding plumbers license be not liable for this tax - 10.00 Steam fitters, itinerant' 25.00 Telegraph Companies ' 10.00 Tobacco dryingplants steam 25,00 Drying plants not using steam 10.00 Dealers in leaf, not taxed as drysrs . 10.00 Undertaker and embalmer, either r both in the same establishment 15.00 ,Vood working establishment, not taxid as dealer or blacksmiths 10.00 Wood, coal, coke or wood and coal lealers 10,00 Watarsr , Itinerant dealers selling or delivering to retailers bottled soft drinks or vaters, per day 50.00 Every person, firm or corporation telling pistols, in addition to Merthants' tax (pawn brokers exempt! 25.00 Manufacturer of ice - 25.00 Ice dealers other than manufacturn . - - 25.00 Section 13. All ordinances or parts >f ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby epealed. Ordinance adopted by unanimous 'ote at ragutar adjourned meeting of he Board of Commissioners held (uiy 22. 1924. r - - - W.-l. Nawton, Mayor. ir-.fi- r n v. -r-? oi?l u. uui tu, ivwit V/ieriw. Substituting branded wooden covers for the old burlap bags formerly ised as covers for the potato barrels tnd better grading of the potatoeaf fought an increase in price of 28 to' 10 cents per barrel to fanners?tir~ Pamhce, county this spring reports. r?umy 'Agent R. W. CiV'h.n. . | - * . r~ v , . ? - . THE ROXBORO COURIER, July CARD OF THANKS I desire to express ray thanks and gratitude to all tho^e kir.d friands. arho successfully worked to save my home from burning last Thursday l ight. Their assistance is very greatly appreciated. R. V. Dickerson Mr. Dewey Moore of Anson County i has the best cotton crop that he has ever had to date and attributes his good crop to the lespedeza which he has grown on this land for the last two years reports County Agent J. W. Cameron. . ' Seashore AUGUST 1 ROUND ROXBORO t AND B Leave Roxboro 8:13 A. M. Arr Returning, Leave Norfolk 10:30 2- DA Norfolk, Virginia Beach. Cape H Consult Ticket Agents for addit ?irvnr?r\* mr ? ?- - i^UKrULK fife Wti f c | SUM B - II / ~ |1 Sale Price 1 i DRESSES 1 VOILE DRESS Beautiful fashioned many colorful effect double the price $4.95 SILK WASH DRE Many of the most at weave of the season I up to $1 5.00 SALE PRICE $8.95 CHARMING SI DRESSES In this group are di E a wonderful variety jj most favored weave ? B patterns. Value up to rt 1 ? w^T IO/\L?. fKlUt $13.75 The^ " ^ ? . /^ t -.. , . - 23rd, 1921 Trinity College Summer School h Second Term: July 22 to j , August 30. j , ' Courses for teachers, supervis- : ! t ors, and superintendents, col-1 ' f j lege students, and high school j : j graduates, for information ad- i i . dress HOLLAND HOLTON, j t- Director of Summe School j ; College Station, Durham, N. C. i ] I ' Excursion 1ST, 15)52 1 1.73 TRIP o NORFOLK tHTTJRN ive Norfolk 6:1S P. M. P. M., August 3rd, 1921.' Y? - 22 'enry or Ocean View, ional information. 5TERN RAILWAY ^learai MER r" I ?JV >s Marked wi Former Pri< ?COATS?SUITS?SWE ES Beginning i and in day, JUI/! s worth inaugurate of prices or son's best JSSES i women snn tractive "xxr .Value, new. We J ficing this i chandise;ar prices will LK those who showing. 1 sa,e o? sal1 ind rich but new gai $29-00 fered. Conn AT QUA! "THE ONLY EXCLUSP ' x'_: . Roxboro. vV; , ' - " t ' ' ' ' , \ Wheat' (frown on timed land aver-]_ K?d waist high with heads shout J hree inches in . length; on nniimed t >nd, the wheat was only about knee ligh and the heads only half as long a that on limed land. . I a# owner 1 tales that he will make a boat three imes more grain where he limed, retorts County Agent H. A. Edge of larnett County. r"" THE honor of serv i ing you at a time I when expert and cient service is so ^ * badly noeded obligates us to do everything as nearly perfect aa poe- I sible. You can rely |! I g3 upon us. rcj We Understand jg| " SPENCERS |1M| Funeral Directors AM I [j Day-47-M!?N^Kht-47-D ~1 rice of APPA /m? i?-] 1 * J L ; ' w<'? : W th Utter Disi ce or Cost. HATERS?SHIRTS?NEC g Thurs- SPG if 24, we ofPoiretl a slashing rics lf yoi l the Sea- investmen styles in you will j parel?all this showi ire sacri- AT HA1 idw merld the low astonish view this- ,.We r. , | line or mil ihis is the rince. ss ? none ments of- Every ar 2 and save including kimonas, lowest pri JTY S J\L LADIES SHOP IN ~ rNr'G. ' ' WE BELIEVE i In keeping our shelves ampi ly stocked at all times with I the best lines of Canned, I Bottled and Package floods, j So when you shop here you're assured of getting what you want and?at a rignt price, too. BLANKS -AM)MORRIS PHONE 25 ===< - M 1 I ^ REL i ! II B i egard of Jal I ?RT COATS V . * will and other fab- |j; | a want to make an ?; t at a great saving g arofit by viewing % ng. LF PRICE AND LESS. | ILLINERY offering our entire j? linery at a big sac- jg ticle in our store, B sweaters, skirts, |l underwear at the j| ces you can buy. ihop | asgiMat i'rBBvrst' t _
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