“Curfew Law Is Made Effective in Lenoir,” from the Hickory Daily
Record, October 4, 1922.
Lenoir, Oct. 4—Lenoir is one of the towns that has set a
determination to care for the youth of the community, and especially where the
parents are lax in parental authority in allowing their children to have such
hours as they please, and run on the streets until late hours in the night.
Hence the curfew law has been invoked, and Mayor V.D. Guire has set his foot
down flat and solid, and gives out of the world that the city ordinance, No.
72, of the town of Lenoir will be strictly enforced according to the letter and
spirit of the law. Therefore, he has caused the town to be posted to that
effect.
Commencing with the first night of the first day of October
the curfew rang, and the edict went into effect, and it says: “Children under
the ages of 16 years will not be allowed on the streets after 9 o’clock at
night, unless accompanied by their parents. The courthouse bell will ring at 9
o’clock each night. Children found on the streets after that hour can be found
by their parents at the city lock-up if wanted.”
That’s Lenoir’s new move to keep the kiddies at home, if
their parents will not look after the matter themselves.
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