Who was in charge of keeping Western streets clean?
Breht Rader
Ostrander, Ohio
Most of the time, local jail inmates could earn time on their sentence for cleaning the streets. Or, if the jail was empty, the town marshal or constable might hire a kid for a dime or quarter.
Most towns didn’t have a budget for street cleaning and it was a dirty job. You had horses, mules, dogs, cats and sometimes cows and chickens doing their business in the local thoroughfares. And when it rained, it was a
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