The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-07-23

ton, within the city limits of the
City of Kennewick, for the purpose
of advertising, selling or giving
away any drugs, medicines or other
substances or appliances for the cure
of any disease or ailment, to give any
public exhibition in any hall, build
ing or tent, or upon any of the
streets, alleys or vacant lots in said
City, or in the open air or else
where, or in any place within the
limits of the City of Kennewick,
whether an admission to such per-
Torrance or exhibition be free or not
or for any person, firm or corpora
ton by proclamation, public outcry
or theatrical performance or show
of any kind, in any hall, building or
tent, or upon any of the streets, al
leys or vacant lots, or in the open air
or elsewhere at any place within the
City of Kennewick, to sell, barter or
give away any drugs, medicines or
other substances or appliances for
the cure or pretended cure of any
disease or ailment, unless such per-
SON, firm or corporation shall first
have procured a license therefor in
the manner provided for by the or
dinances of said City, and for such
license the fee shall be the sum of
$500 per day, or the sum Of $250.00
if taken out for a period of one
month.
SECTION, Is. Every person,
firm or corporation who shall sell
goods, wares or merchandise in any
building, tent, structure, room or
rooms or enclosures protected by a
roof, in the City Of Kennewick, by
auction, shall be deemed an auction
merchant, and it shall be unlawful
for any such person, firm or corpor-
alton to carry on such bushes as an
auction merchant without first Sc
curing a license from the City of
Kennewick to conduct such business.
There shall be charged for every
such license for the period of one
month the sum of $4,000 and for ev-
cry day less than one month the sum
of $500 per day. No license shall
be issued under the provisions of
this section for a shorter period than
one day. Every applicant for such
license having, or processing to have
a regular auction store or fixed place
of business therefor, shall state to
the person issuing such license, at
the time of the issuance thereof, the
location of such store or place of
business.
SECTION IA. No person shall
hawk or peddle any article or thing
in the City of Kennewick, without
first obtaining a license therefor;
provided, no person shall be required
to take out license to. peddle mag
azines, newspapers, or to peddle
fruits, vegetables, berries, butter,
eggs, poultry, milk or other farm
produce raised or produced by said
person. The license fee to be paid
by peddlers shall be as follows: For
linaments, drugs, groceries jewelry,
medicines, dry goods, cutlery, no.
tions or house furnishings, shall be
$500 per day for each day less than
one week; and for one week or long
er $500 per week; for peddling
statuary, pictures, books and other
publications, $500 per day, and for
selling patented articles, $500 per
SECTION Is. Every person SELL
ing or offering for sale, or soliciting
orders for sale for future delivery,
any goods, merchandise, article or
thing or any receipt for the manu-
facture of any medicine, preparation
or mixture to be used for any pur-
pose, or composed of any combination
of ingredients, by can
wasting from house to house or upon
any street, alley, or in any building,
shall obtain a license therefor and
shall pay for such license the sum of
$500 per day, or if such license be
desired for one week or longer, the
sum of $500 per week.
SECTION 16. Any person, firm
or corporation who shall keep for
hire, within the City Of Kennewick,
any cart, wagon, truck, dray, cab, bus
or automobile, and who shall load
and unload any such vehicle within
the limits Of said City, shall procure
a license so to do,and shall pay there
for the sum of $500 per annum, for
each vehicle, provided this section
shall not apply to hauling or work
done for the City of Kennewick.
Each license receipt issued, under
this section, shall be numbered con-
secutively from one upward and the
City Clerk shall procure and issue at
the expense of the City of Kenne-
wick, to each icensee under this Sec
ton, two license tags manufactured
of some durable material, both hav-
ing the number of such license re-
ceipt displayed thereon in figures at
least two inches in height. All IL
censees shall display said tag SO fur
nished to them upon their said We
hicles in such conspicuous position
that the same shall be plainly WIS.,
IDLE from either side thereof at all
times when such vehicle is upon the
streets or public places in the City.
This section shall not be so con-
strued as to require license to con-
duct or operate livery stable, or to
require persons operating a livery
stable to take out license for, any
carriage, buggy or other conveyance
kept to be let for hire
SECTION IL. Every person who
posts, tacks up or distributes any bill
or advertisement of any circus, men,
agerie, show, opera, concert, theatre,
exhibition or other amusement, or of
any tobacco, baking powder or other
commercial advertisement, for hire,
shall pay a license fee of $500 per