Show it was eras the law Bow before the fhe f turn urn of the century Times have indeed changed since the turn of the century The following are some som e of the legal perplexities which may have been bothersome before the turn of the century According According According Accord Accord- ing to the ordinances of the City of Ephraim in effect then An annual tax of two days day's work or In lieu thereof lawful money shall be assessed upon every male resident of the City of Ephraim over twenty- twenty one and under fifty years of age who is not physically incapacitated in incapacitated incapacitated in- in capacitated to work upon the public highways designated by A A the County Court within and running through the city all under the supervision of the Supervisor of Streets All domestic fowls are hereby prohibited from running at large between the first day of April and the first day of September of each year and every person who shall allow his domestic fowls to run at large to the anno ce of any person during the time mentioned shall be deemed guilty of an offense and shall be fined In any sum not exceeding 1000 The proprietor of every pub pub- lie lic business fronting on any street of this city is hereby required to set and retain a a. post hitching-post in the street In front of said place of business not more than five feet from the outer edge of the sidewalk or water sect thereon and said post shall not be less than five inches in diameter and placed firmly in the ground and not less than 20 feet from any street crossing Every person who shall fall fail to comply shall be deemed guilty of an offense ortense and liable to be fined in any sum not exceeding 2500 Every person who shall leave leavea a horse or mule or any team attached to any vehicle standing unfastened in any street of this city is liable to a fine in any sum not exceeding 1000 Every person who shall ride drive or lead any horse mule or other animal upon any sidewalk sidewalk side side- walk except for the purpose of entering or leaving a city lot or over any foot footbridge bridge or shall shaU stop any team or vehicle on any crosswalk so as to Impede public travel is g guilty of an offense and liable to a fine In any sum not exceeding 1000 Every person who shall ride or drive any horse or other animal immoderately or shall drive any horse or other animal attached to a vehicle in or upon any street alley or public ground in a careless or reckless reckless reckless reck reck- less manner or at such rate of speed as to endanger me or property is guilty of an of offense offense offense of- of and liable to a fine In any sum not exceeding 1000 Every person who shall ob obstruct obstruct obstruct ob- ob the sidewalk or street by playing marbles jumping rolling hoops flying kites or other games to annoy or to obstruct ob obstruct obstruct ob- ob free travel thereon Is guilty of an offense and liable Hable to a fine in any sum not ex exceeding exceeding exceeding ex- ex 1000 Every group of men or boys who shall collect on any sidewalk sidewalk sidewalk side side- walk so as to obstruct the free passage thereon or collect upon any stairway doorway or In front of any business or dwelling dwelling dwelling dwell dwell- ing house theater lecture room or church or the grounds thereof to the annoyance of persons persons persons per per- sons entering or occupying such buildings or premises or who shall fraudulently enter any theater concert or lecture room or ballroom Is guilty of an offense and liable to a fine finein finein finein in any sum not exceeding 1000 Every person who shall pile or stack any hay straw or chaff or other combustible material within 50 feet of any dwelling house or who shall use any lighted candle candie or lamp lampin in any place where may be hay straw or other combustible combustible combustible combust combust- ible material unless the same shall be well secured In a lantern lantern lantern lan lan- tern or who shall smoke any pipe cigar elgar or cigarette therein there there- in Is guilty of an offense and andIs andIs andis Is liable to a fine in any sum not exceeding Every person who shall willfully willfully willfully will will- fully or carelessly throw any stone stick or other missile where any person shall be hurt or any window broken or property damaged or destroyed is guilty of an offense and Is subject to a fine in any sum not exceeding 2500 It shall be unlawful for any I II I male under the age of 17 years or any female under the age of 15 years to be upon any of the public streets of the City of Ephraim after the hour of 9 o'clock pm p.m. or before the hour of 4 o'clock am a.m. unless on special business for which they can give a proper reason to any police man who may question them Any violation of this ordinance shall be deemed an offense and liable Hable to be punished punish punish- ed by a fine of or by Imprisonment in the City Jail not to exceed twenty-four twenty hours This ordinance was amended later to make the time after which boys or girls might not be upon the public streets of the City of Ephraim to eight o'clock pm p.m. during the winter months from October 1st to April Every omnibus hack dray or Job or express driver plying his vocation upon the streets of the City of Ephraim shall be licensed twelve dollars per annum or three dollars and fifty cents per quarter No driver of any passenger vehicle shall be allowed to charge for conveying a passenger passenger passenger ger with one hundred pounds of baggage to exceed twenty-five twenty cents between any two points in inthis inthis inthis this city Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of an offense Abridged from my Supplementary Supplementary Supple Supplementary Ephraim History S S. 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