Stephenville Hog Law

For the first decades in Stephenville’s history, hogs were allowed to roam the streets as a primitive form of garbage collection. In October of 1885, “One of the most exciting elections ever held in Erath County ,” attempted to establish a hog law to stop the practice. For some reason many people in town favored the inexpensive waste control and the measure was voted down again, 1160 to 433. The anti-hog people, called prohibitionists, had increased by 200 this time. Fort Worth Daily Gazette