The Arlington Advocate, 2 July 1897
| An alligator measuring four feet in length was shot and killed in Spy Pond by Nelson Mason, proprietor of the Spy Pond Boat House, last Monday afternoon, and it will soon be on exhibition at the cigar stand at that place, having been sent to the taxidermists for mounting. The alligator was brought home by Mr. Frank E. Thompson from his trip to Florida, and escaped his premises on Pleasant street, and has for some time been making its home in the pond, but it was deemed unsafe to allow the creature to roam at large longer, especially as the swimming season is at hand. |
The Lexington Minuteman, 9 July 1897
| The funeral of Michael Ahern was held at his late residence, on Woburn st. Monday morning. At St. Bridget's church, at 9 o'clock, high mass of requiem was celebrated by Rev. Fr. Kavanaugh. The interment was in Woburn. |
The Arlington Advocate, 23 July 1897
| The offering of light beverages for sale on the streets by small boys who fit up little stands, has grown to be so common that we presume there is money in it for the little fellows and we have often admired the enterprise shown by some of them. That these merchants in a small way should be made the victims of grown men who drink their stuff and go away without paying, or steal boxes with filled bottles, seems past belief, and yet the court record will show there are men mean enough to do this. July 7th little Bernard Svendson had a stand on the corner of Lake street and Mass. Avenue. Two strangers came along and took several bottles, laughing at the boy when he demanded pay. A few days later he saw the same men on their way to a picnic at Spy Pond Grove and notified the police. Officer Healey went with the boy to the grove and having quietly ascertained their names to be William Prentiss and Irving Edgerly, of West Somerville. Obtaining warrants for their arrest, they were taken into court last Friday and fined $3 each. Last Monday Augustus Powers, aged 13 years, and his little brother about nine years old, were the victims of a similar outrage. A dozen of more bottles of tonic and root beer were taken from their stand on Lake street by two men who had been to a picnic at the Spy Pond Grove, but the lad was unable to find them, though he had seen them go there before he went for the police. |
The Arlington Advocate, 30 July 1897
| POLICE COURT |
| Last Monday officer Duffy arrested Michael Mahan of Lowell, for being drunk, and he was sent to the House of Correction on non-payment of fine. Michael Lane was sent to the same place on Wednesday for failure to pay fine of $5 for second offence of drunkeness. |
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