Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-10-17
AFTERMATH OF
RABBIT SLAUGHTER
Gilmore City Woman Takes Excep-
lions to Criticisms and Makes
Weak Defense.

| weak Oc1SnSc.
| The recent so-called "coursing
Fevent" at Fort Dodge has finally
| found defender, but it must be
| conceded that she is very weak
one and puts up about as gauzy an
argument as was ever turned loose
in a newspaper. Her name is Mrs.
Kellogg and she halls from Gilmore
City. The management of the dis
graceful affair recently pulled of In
Fort Dodge are certainly entitled to
all the balm they can extract from
Mrs. Kellogg's effusion. The fol-
lowing from the Lehigh Argus, to
which paper Mrs. Kellogg addressed
herself, is self-explanatory:
The Argus is in receipt of let
ter from zone Who Knows" in Gill
more City, who comes forth in be-
half of Fort Dodge concerning the
recent coursing event which took
place in our county seat town. She
takes exceptions" to the article
which appeared in this paper week
before last and says that we don't
understand the game, ETC., and that
Fort Dodge needs to be sympathized
with and not scored. We will agree
with the lady that Fort Dodge does
need sympathy, and they also need
something else-and they got the
something else from nearly every ex-
change that comes to our table.
We do not know who Mrs. Kel-
logg is, nor do we know why she
should take the trouble to call the
Argus down because of the item, but
we do know that if she answers ev-
cry newspaper which criticised Fort
Dodge's coursing event she has more
money with which to buy postage
stamps than the cOursing event
made for the automobile club there.
She states she thinks there were less
than 200 hares slaughtered and that
all of the rabbits were crippled or
sick, which only makes it more dis
graceful for those who had it in
charge. No, our dear Mrs. Kellogg,
you have the wrong idea; such an
event is disgrace to any civilized
community and no amount of ex-
cuses will make it otherwise. Be-
sides, those who encourage this So
called sport" are entitled to the
same criticism as those who assist
in pulling off the events. The Fort
Dodge coursing event was dis
graceful one, in spite of the wishes
of others to have it otherwise. Mrs.
Kelloggs letter in full follows,
which letter takes away every yes
tige of the credit We gave, in our
former article, to the respectable cit
liens of Fort Dodge for stopping the
disgraceful exhibition. Mrs. Kellogg
would make them out not only
knaves but fools.
Editor Lehigh Valley Argus: |
wish to state that l have taken ex-
ceptions to your scathing rebuke OF
the Fort Dodge "cursing events.
It was rather "cursing event." but
it wasn't the fault of Fort Dodge.
And you are misinformed as to the
number of hares. There were less
than 200. / think / am safe in say
ing there were only few more
than 100, some of them being Grip
pied and sick when they arrived. |
presume they should not have run
these doubtful hares at all, but the
thing had been advertised SO great
ly that they didn't want to disap-
point the people and most of all,
the coursing men who came there
from all parts of the United States.
Another mistake of yours. |. e., that
the people stopped the affair. Well,
this is misstatement, for the cours-
ing merely ran cut because there
were no more hares. As said be-
fore, Fort Dodge was not at fault.
The club ordered the hares from
Kansas and the Kansas fellows sent
a poor bunch. When coursing is