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Newspaper
Keowee Courier
Location
Walhalla, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1910
Page
7
Walhalla town ordinances grant mayoral discretion to arrest fine or imprison violators. The document, dated March 1910, deems the ordinance general and perpetual and sets the effective date upon publication under seal by Mayor Geo L. Wilson and Clerk M. Moss.
Ordinance No 6 prohibits manufacture sale barter or giving away of any spirituous malted or brewed liquors within Walhalla town limits. Penalty includes 20 to 100 dollars fine or up to 30 days in jail. Marshal to inspect incoming liquor at depots and log recipients and quantities. Ordinance deemed general and perpetual to take effect upon publication, ratified by mayor and council on the 9th day.
The section outlines a $1 per head dog tax and sixty day claim period for town payments. It fixes the mayor’s $100 salary for 1910, payable quarterly from available ordinary funds. It imposes a broad special license tax on many trades including fertiliser dealers, auto services, banks, brokers, barbers, blacksmiths, mills, canning firms, dentists, express companies, hotels, lawyers, photographers, printers, and merchants with licensing amounts tied to business type and volume.
The ordinance, to take effect until reposted or amended, was published in Walhalla on March 9 1910. It details penalties for false or fraudulent returns and outlines mayoral discretion for fines or imprisonment. Signed by Mayor GUO. L. Wilson and Clerk Jas. M. Moss.
Ordinance No 8 sets bond at two thousand dollars for the town clerk and treasurer, fixes a 315 monthly salary, and requires attendance at meetings, accurate records, receipt and deposit of town funds, payment of council-approved claims, and quarterly financial reporting with publication of the ordinance dated March 9 1910 in Walhalla.
An ordinance numbered 9 bans the keeping of hogs or pigs within the limits of the Town of Betenvonte Madar Bes. The measure establishes the prohibition, outlining enforcement and penalties for violations.
March 24 in Sicily Mount Etna erupts violently with crater activity increasing. Lava streams reach vineyards above San Leo and Rinazzo burying peasants houses as a lava wall forms. Soldiers engineers and doctors move to aid, guards seal Belpasso, and evacuees flee Boveli. Lava flows advance about 100 feet per hour amid continuing earthquakes.
In Court of Common Pleas under an 1910 decree, Mrs Carrie Pitchford offers 110 acre tract near Long Creek Chattooga river in Oconee County South Carolina for sale to the highest bidder at the courthouse in Walhalla on Monday April 4 1910 between legal hours. The land adjoins Sloan Phillips Prank Thrift Henry Cannon and others.
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