Snowballs, meteors, bullets and Braggville people constitute bad news in Holliston.
It’s against the law to throw snowballs @ someone.
February 17, 1899 – Officer Durfee arrested Bert Bullard and Frank Carroll last night and they remained in the lockup pending a trial before the district court this morning for throwing snowballs at William Axbloome as he was passing along Washington street. This act is in violation of Article 5, Section 15 of the town by-laws and is the first arrest under it.
Chicken Little back in 1899?
April 17, 1899 – A meteor fell with an explosion in Dr. Haviland’s front yard at 3:30 this morning, fortuntaely doing no damage.
April 18, 1899 – The doctor in whose yard the said meteor was supposed to have dropped, has had life made miserable by the frequent inquiries of anxious friends as to the narrow escape he had from being struck; etc., the whole yarn being made from the fact that the doctor had to throw a lighted lamp out of his second story window at two o’clock one morning to escape being cremated by an explosion. – J.F.F. (James F. Fiske).
You know those Bragville folks:
February 21, 1899 – In the list of constables to be elected at the annual town meeting, it is said that one should be a resident of Braggville for the better preservation of order in that part of town.
Nice lady gives a 4-year old boy a “toy” gun:
October 26, 1899 – A lady recently passing along Washington street opposite the residence of J.H. Peckham, saw a small revolver by the side of the road which she thought to be a toy pistol and gave it to some boys playing near by, and gave the matter no more thought. Among the number was the 4-year-old son of Thomas H. Fair, who boards in Mr. Peckham’s family, who took the supposed toy pistol and began playing with it. It proved to be a 32-caliber revolver which had been lost by someone, either from the electrics or passing along the sidewalk, and he succeeded in discharging one ball into his hand. Dr. Haviland was called, and not succeeding in locating it his father took him to the Massachusetts General Hospital to have the x-rays applied and have it removed.
