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spectful request to council to repeal the ordinance in toto or in part. , He was not here as a kicker, though Col. Schunipert might be. Col. Schunipert said Ik* could be called one of the kickers ii il was so desired. The meeting could read the ordinance item by item and decide what it wanted but it would do no good, lie was opposed to this proceeding on principle. A council had been elected and had passed a law and a meeting of citizens was j here to seek to annul it. A municipality ot this kind could not be run without officers. This kind of work might be kept up from January to December. It didn't look right. I It was only a year until the next I election and then the present conn- I cil could be turned out. This proceeding didn't look right. It looked ! like nullification. I)r. Pel ham thought that city council would be ready and willing to consider a request from a citizens' j meeting of such proportions an this. 1 Some felt that the license imposed ! upon them was very burdensome. Should they be denied the right of I appeal? lie favored the motion to take up the matter item by item. He denied that the citizens here j were actuated by any feeling of j indignation. DK. MC'lNTOSII's SUGGliSTION. Dr. James Mcintosh suggested that council be requested to give notice of some day on which they would hear all complaints. If any citizen had any complaint let him ' go to the council individually and I let the council consider his complaint. He didn't think it just I proper to criticise the action of council. He suggested that as an amendment to the motion. Mr. Alan Johnstone said if the meeting was willing he was willing to withdraw his motion and let Dr. Mcintosh put a motion. lie came in no spirit of unfriendliness to the ! council, nor as a kicker, or protestor, but simply with the others to frame a respectful request. The meeting did not want to harbor ill-will and wait until the next election and turn the council out, and if any one present harbored such ill-will he did not know of it. CO!,. GKOROK JOHNSTONK I entered objection to the withdrawal j of Mr. Alan Johnstone's motion. He said those present were citizens of Newberry and had heretofore | regarded themselves as white. It was their money to be paid. They : certainly had a right to know what ' was becoming of their money and j why a license ordinance was neces- j sary. He understood that the tax i had already been placed as high as j the State law would allow What j was the license but an additional tax? 1 he first thing to determine | was whether a license ordinance! was necessary. The meeting could j not repeal the ordinance, but the j right of petition had existed from j time immemorial. Why was a license j ordinance necessary? What was j becoming of the taxes? This thing of disclaiming ill-will towards anybody?he never did it. It seemed j to him that the taxes were going J beyond all reason. 11 they weie : not sufficient to run the business, i then curtail expenses. Four per | cent, was already being paid, and then more was bc-inj? asked for. lie did not think Dr. Mcintosh's suggestion would accomplish anything. \ A man could present his individual! complaint, but the higher question, I Why the necessity for this ordin j ance, would not be touched upon. Col. Johnstone was applauded. MR. R. II. WItl.CH said he had a right to be here without apology. Mr. Alan Johnstone's motion would take too long and no conclusion would be reached. As j to Dr. Mcintosh's motion, the council could not stay in session long enough to hear all grievances. The grievance was not individual, it was a class grievance. One presentation of the grievances of a I class would be as effective, if it had merit in it. as the grievance of each individual, and would be sufficient. llis idea was to appoint a committee from each class to get together and formulate something. If no license they thought necessary, let them say so. If they saw the necessity for a license, let them request an equitable basis lor the taxat ion. Col. George Johnstone suggested that the motion be to the effect that one person be appointed from each of the classes feeling aggrieved and that the committee report to an j adjourned meeting and that council j be requested to be present at that j meeting. WOUI.DN'T 1UC RKSl'KCTAHI.H. Col. vSchumpert said there was no doubt that the citizens had a right to come here to memorialize council. lie was glad to see those present who were conspicuously j absent on other occasions. But] those here, he thought, were endeavoring to annul an ordinance already passed. It was all right to j appoint the committee and if the' meeting adopted the committee's memorial, why let it go to council. Hut he didn't think it would be respectable to ask council to come here to hear criticism of their acts. He wouldn't come. Col. Johnstone: Let them stay away, then. Col. Schumpert: That's exactly what they must do to maintain their self-respect. CITV ATTORNEY BI.KASIi stated that what he said was 011 his own responsibility, and not as city j attorney. He heaitily agreed with I Dr. Mcintosh's suggestion. He remembered when certain citizens of this town were oppressed and made to pay $4 street duty with 110 bridges across their ditches or creeks, 110 lights to walk by and 110 sidewalks to walk upon and made their.protest to the citizens and to the council?where, then, was your meeting, your eloquence, your nullification? No one except those liv.ng 011 that hill came to protest. Hut now, io:'sooth, since Newberry had done what nearly every other town had done we have a howl. Read the ordinances of Abbeville, j Greenville, Spaitanburg, Lancas ter, Columbia and oih'ers and you will sec that Newberry's license tax compared favorably with the taxes of other towns some 25 years be-1 hind us in other respects. The! merchants would add to their prices j the amount of the license. The j consumers at last would pay it and j if any were to complain they were the ones. The men in council now did not put on the water works bonds, the clectric light bonds, the j graded school bonds, the opera; house and sewerage bonds and other ' debts. Some of them might call on J those closer to them now than the present council and know who made the debt. Let ihe lawyers and the merchants and the other classes go before council. He would guarantee that their requests would be respectfully heard and their wrongs, if any, righted. Whenever anything was to be done the body politic had a right to meet and j to protest, but there was a way to meet and away to protest. Let the men complaining go to the city council. Indignation! ? gentlemen, you may call a rose by any name you please, but the smell's the same. You are here because you are indignant that you have been licensed. Mr. Alan Johnstone: I deny that I am here actuated by any feeling of indignation. Col. George Johnstone: I don't care whether you call it indignation or not. (Applause.) Mr. lilease, continuing, said that ii m iii'BMwwiwwMWP^i if the meeting wanted the ordinance righted, mark his words, adopt Dr. Mcintosh's suggestion, and more would be accomplished than in any other way. Mr. M. M. Harris said he was for the good of Newberry. There were too many dollars and ccnts in this tax business. Mr. Welch offered his resolution, as follows, as a substitute for Mr. Alan Johnstone's motion: MK. WKI.CH'S HKSOLUTION. Resolved, That the chairman appoint a committee, its membership to be made up from the various and several classes affected by the license ordinance in question, one member to be seleetcd from each class so affected, the said committee to report to an adjourned meeting of citizens a memorial to the town council touching the following two questions: rst. Whether or not a license tax such as is in question is desirable and desired by the citizens of the town. -d. Ii' such a license is desired, then report what is deemed a fair ! and equitable basis for such taxa- ' tion. Mr. Welch said he thought this | was the best solution of the matter, j A license tax had never been made an issue before. Mr. Blease wanted to know if while Mr. Welch was a candidate for mayor that question was never put to him. Mr. Welch did not j answer. Mr. Blease also wanted to j ask if Mr. Welch intended to hold j his resolution over the people's heads while every day the license was not paid they were subject to a fine. ! Col. Schumpert wanted it distinct- j ly understood that the committee I was not to prepare an ordinance, j Mr. Welch stated that his idea was, if the committee decided a license tax was wise, that it should simply recommend an equitable basis for the taxation. The motion on Mr. Welch's re-1 solution was put and carried with- j out a dissenting vote. Dr. Cromer appointed the following four gentleman on the com- I mittee, and was authorized by the j meeting to secure their assistance! in naming the other members of the committee: Messrs. R. II. Welch, Alan Johnstone, W H. Wallace and i K. Cabaniss. The meeting then adjourned subject to the call of the chairman. TillC ri'l.l. COMMITTKK. Following is the full committee i as finally constituted: R. II. Welch, ' i Alan Johnstone, W. II. .Wallace, 1 1C. Cabaniss, K. M. Kvnns, R. C. ; Williams, L. M Speers, James Mc- i Intosh, O. B. Mayer, W. A. I Jamieson, C. C. Davis, R. I) Smith, T. J. MeCrary, L. W. Floyd, O. McR. Holmes, J. A. Blackwelder, Iv. R. Hipp, Jas. F. Todd, J. A. Burton, C. K. Summer, K. C. Jones, W. K Pelkam, F. Z. Wilson. Congratulations. Mr. John II. 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Stockholders of the National Hank of Newberry, S. C., will he held at the office of the President, at Newberry, S. C., at 11 a. in., on Tuesday, thp 12th day of January, 190-1, for the purpose of electing directors and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. Shareholders will please attend or be representee by proxy. T. S. DUNCAN, Cashier. January 1st, 1903. T? <. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY?IN COMMON?PLEAS. , Jesse L. Denson, Plaintiff, , against i Corrie West, Sallie Tucker, Nannie Boone, Eflie Lyles, Ellen Atchison, John Denson, Joe Kay, Jack Matthews, Hart Hinson, Carl Hinson, Armond Ilinson, John Hinson, Grace Ilinson, Lillian Hinson, Ella Hinson, Monroe Wesson, Tomp Stewart, Georgiana Bailey,, Alice Abrams, t Ellen LaFar, Detendants. vi | Summons for Relief.-Complaint served, i To the Defendants above named: \/X)U ARE HEREBY SUMMONED X and required to answer the com' plaint in this action of which a copy is I herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their office on Law Range, Newberry, S. C., withI iii twenty days after the service hereof; , exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. To the Def'tsJolm Ilinson, Grace Binson, Ella Ilinson, Lillian Hinson, Ellen LaFar: You and each of you take notice that unless you have a Guardian ad litem appointed to represent you in this action within twenty flays after service hereof upon you, the undersigned as j Plaintiff's Attorneys, will move the j Com c to appoint Fred 11. Dominick, Esq., or some other lit and suitable person, as such Guardian ad litem. I Dated, Dec. 1(5, A. D. 190:?. SEASE & DOMINICK, Plaintiff's Attorneys. To the Defendants, Nannie Boone. j llart Hinson, Carl Hinson, Armond | Ilinson, Eflie Lyles, Monroe Wesson, i Tomp Stewart and Georgiana Bailey: ' Take notice that the complaint in this | action together with the Summons, of . which the foregoing is a copy, were filed with the Clerk of Court of Com; mon Pleas for Newberry County in the ! State of South Carolina, on the 16th ! day of December, A. D. 1903. SEASE & DOMINICK, Plaintiff's Attorneys. I Newberry, S. C. i STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY?IN COMMON PLEAS. Francis L. Britt, Plaintiff, aguinst i Ezylphia Gauntt, Dolly Brogden, Eliza Gunter, Polly Gunter, Alfred Slauntt, Jacob Gauntt, Mrs. Rish, ohn Lindsay, Henry Lindsay, Fanny Lindsay, Eliza Ann Killough, Martha Ann Johnson, Eloise Matthews, the heirs at law of Henry Gauntt, and the heirs at law of Isreal Gajinfi, whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff. Defendants. Summons for Relief. Y [Complaint filed. 1 OU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint in this action which is filed in the j office of Clei'k of Court for said county, j State aforesaid, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at the law office of Lambert W. Jones at Newberry, South I Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff* in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. LAMBERT W. JONES, Plaintiff's Attorney. [J. F. J. CALDWELL,] of Counsel. Dated Oct. 18, A. D. 1897. | To the Defendants, Eliza Gunter, Tolly Gunter, Mrs. Rish, also the heirs at law of Henry Gauntt and heirs at law ot Isreal Gauntt, whose names and places of residence are unknown to the Plaintiff: Take notice that the complaint in this action together with the summons, ! of which the foregoing is a copy, were filed with the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Cor Newberry County, in the State of South Carolina, on the fourteenth day of October, A D. 1899. LAMBERT W. JONES, Plaintiff's Attorney. Newberry, S. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY?IN PROBATE COURT. ByJno.C. Wilso", l?>q , Probate Judge WHKlil'jAS, .1 no. C. Gogirans, as Clerk of (.ho Court, hath made suit 1 ; to me toy rant him Letters of Administration of (heestate and elTueteof Lucy C. Longshore | The-e are therefore to cite and ad1 j monish all and singular the kindred and ; I creditors of the said Lucy C Longshore, 1 j deceased, that they be and appear bei fore me. in the Court of Probate, to be ; held at Newberry Court House, S. C., on the 2tlth day of January next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Act ministration should ; not be granted. ; Given under my hand, this the . [i..S.] 10th day of Decomber, Anno Domini, 1903. ; JOHN O. WILSON, J. P. N. C. WANTED.? Manager for new branch of our business here in 1 Newberry. Write promptly, with references. The Morris Wholesale House, Cincinnati, Ohio.