Preparations are being made by the Salvation Army to distribute baskets to a large number of the city’s poor and indigent people. All of the ingredients of a good meal will be included among the articles of food that will be placed in the baskets. They will not be as well stocked as are the baskets distributed at Christmas time each year, however.
Captain S.J. Bivans and his corps of workers have already received requests from approximately 100 families for baskets and all of them have been investigated by members of the army staff to ascertain as to whether or not they are worthy of assistance. There are other families in the city who are thought to be in need and who are worthy of help. Captain Bivans states that he will appreciate if any such persons or families will be reported to him in order that an investigation might be made into their worthiness.
When a family is reported to the Salvation Army as being in need, an investigation is immediately made and a ticket issued to each family found to be worthy of aid. This ticket entitled them to a basket Thanksgiving Day. The baskets will be presented next Tuesday afternoon, it was stated, with the holders of the tickets reporting to the Salvation Army home to receive their baskets.
The schools of the city will help in the work of providing for the baskets. Next Tuesday will be potato ay and every student will be requested to bring a potato, either of the sweet or Irish variety. They will be placed in barrels and receptacles placed at all of the schools for the reception of the potatoes. They will be collected during the day and will be placed in the baskets to be distributed.
From page 18 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, Nov. 25, 1923. Thanksgiving was celebrated later in November 100 years ago.
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