From the Oskaloosa Times, March 13, 1896
It would be something in the neighborhood of a blessing to
this town if every cow that roams the streets day after day should mysteriously
disappear and could never be heard of. The writer counted eleven in one herd
one day this week. It is an outrage and a shame that this town has to deal
with, it is decidedly a law breaking matter. It would be well if this town was
corporated, we are quite sure that the city marshal if he attended to business
could make big wages.
As it remains, a farmer cannot come to town to do any
trading and leave a sack of flour or the like without one of these town cows
has it partly eaten before he returns. It is high time something of this matter
should be looked into in its true light. Treat your neighbor like you would
like for him to treat you.
This story appeared in “Yesteryears” in April 2005.
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