June Gleanings: War on Dogs, the Ponca, and the Census of 1880
If you read any of the other “ Gleanings,” posts, you might recall that these “seen-around-town” sort of items were a regular column in the Coffeyville, Kansas newspapers, and many newspapers, in the 1870s and 1880s. I am compiling samples from Coffeyville for each month. One change I made is that if I am commenting on an item, I highlighted it. 17 June 1875 The war on dogs continues. The county has thirteen paupers. Plenty of new potatoes in market. Ice wagon prompt – he yells at your chamber window just when you get started on that nap. Montgomery county is the first of the counties in Southern Kansas to prepare for a county fair. There will be a grand pic-nic at McLeary’s Grove, four and a half miles northwest of this place on Saturday, July 3rd. I ’m not sure what a war on dogs entailed exactly, but dogs were often mentioned in summer, with great concern, understandably, for rabies. With no vaccination, there was nothing to be done but to shoot any dog suspected o