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Friday, January 29, 2021

Police Chief Lentz Says He Needs More Money to Help Worthy Poor, Jan. 29, 1921

Chief of Police Lentz, who administers to the sick and needy in Hickory for the Associated Charities, issued an appeal today for funds with which to buy provisions and other necessaries for the city’s poor. There is a good deal of sickness, Mr. Lentz said, and the funds of the association have been depleted. Not only is there distress among some colored families in south Hickory, but there is need among white families in town.

Mr. Lentz said he was not passing anything around to families where one or more of the members were able to work unless there was sickness. The able-bodied men and women are told they can shift for themselves.

(From the Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Jan. 29, 1921)

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