Winter time in Laconia 1880

upthesaukee · 02-13-2005, 07:55 AM

See the following from the Laconia Citizen's Web site. Good thing that snowmobiles were not around!!!!!

First-class runaway 125 years agoBy WARREN D. HUSE

LACONIA — Pike Davis "figured in a first-class runaway," Feb. 10, 1880.

"Driving into town in company with Mrs. Davis, behind a pair of spirited colts, he encountered a boy coasting in the road," reported The Laconia Democrat, 125 years ago this week.

The colts "not being used to that kind of a team, took fright and dashed along Court street at the top of their speed, becoming entirely unmanageable."

Davis "made a vigorous attempt to drive them across Main street and up the rising ground on Lake street (now Union Avenue), but the colts turned up Main street and stranded against one of the hitching posts in front of the O’Shea building."

Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis "were violently thrown and badly bruised and scratched, and the sleigh pretty thoroughly demoralized. It is to be hoped that this will include the whole catalogue of injuries done, but it seems almost a miracle that the results were not vastly more serious."

© 2005 Geo. J. Foster Company

Poor Kid!!!!!

02-13-2005, 07:55 AM	#1
upthesaukee Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alton Bay Posts: 5,600 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 2,463 Thanked 1,983 Times in 1,083 Posts	Winter time in Laconia 1880 See the following from the Laconia Citizen's Web site. Good thing that snowmobiles were not around!!!!! *First-class runaway 125 years agoBy WARREN D. HUSE* LACONIA — Pike Davis "figured in a first-class runaway," Feb. 10, 1880. "Driving into town in company with Mrs. Davis, behind a pair of spirited colts, he encountered a boy coasting in the road," reported The Laconia Democrat, 125 years ago this week. The colts "not being used to that kind of a team, took fright and dashed along Court street at the top of their speed, becoming entirely unmanageable." Davis "made a vigorous attempt to drive them across Main street and up the rising ground on Lake street (now Union Avenue), but the colts turned up Main street and stranded against one of the hitching posts in front of the O’Shea building." Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis "were violently thrown and badly bruised and scratched, and the sleigh pretty thoroughly demoralized. It is to be hoped that this will include the whole catalogue of injuries done, but it seems almost a miracle that the results were not vastly more serious." *© 2005 Geo. J. Foster Company* Poor Kid!!!!! __________________ I Live Here... I am always UPTHESAUKEE !!!!