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Dateline 1914 — Tents would require fewer oxen
You have to really envision on this one: “Harrison County is considering substituting tents for iron cages in which to house the prisoner work force doing time in various sections of the county farm west of Lyman. At present the county has two steel cages, one with a 20-man capacity, the other with 12. The cages are not as sanitary as they should be. And do not keep out the chill on cold nights.” But here was the county’s greatest concern: “Seven or eight yoke of oxen are needed to transport the cages from one work site to the next — and they are tearing up our roads.” (Road damage might not have been quite that serious had that newfangled motorcar not begun proliferating.)
Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years. Jimmie Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.
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