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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Hickory To Revise New Hog Pen Ordinance, Feb. 18, 1920

From the Hickory Daily Record, Wednesday evening, February 18, 1920

City to Revise It’s Hog Pen Ordinance

City council last night agreed to reconsider the hog pen ordinance and ordered City Attorney Murphy to prepare an ordinance declaring a sanitary district so as to exclude hog pens in certain residential areas. The matter was brought before the board by Mr. Simeon Barger, who explained that he owned more than seven acres in the suburbs and the ordinance as it stands would probably prevent his keeping several pigs.

Members of the council explained that they had no intention of working a hardship on anybody, their only desire being to restrict hog pens so as to not inflict the more populous residential sections with them. It was then realized that many persons in the suburbs kept hogs with profit to themselves and with no inconvenience to neighbors, and it is proposed to redraft the ordinance so as to not interfere with these instances.

The territory within a certain ??, however, will be made exempt and hog pens will not be permitted in them. Close inspection of pens in the suburbs also will be made, a work in which many owners will laid (maybe should be laud?), they say.

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