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Nugget news from 1950.
Take a trip back into the news of yesteryear as we delve into The Nugget archives.
In some breaking Nugget news (from 1950) a local man is fed up with the carolers who have been serenading him with fireworks.
But don’t worry, the last names and list of suspects has been omitted since longtime local readers might recognize a relative or two.
Yahoola Community was in an uproar this week after Mr. Henry had sworn out warrants Monday for 13 citizens of that section following a dispute which arose after a serenading party that visited his residence last Thursday night.
The serenaders claim that when they first visited Mr. Henry’s home he came out in night clothes and ordered them to cease shooting fireworks and to stop the loud clamor.
It appears that the group resented the reception, and as a result some of them visited Mr. Henry every night many times for several days thereafter and set up a running bombardment of fireworks around his premises.
A spokesman for the accused men say that in the course of the dispute Mr. Henry held at least one man at gun point, that he and members of his family made an arsenal of their residence, that stones were hurled at the serenaders, and that they further had armed themselves with butcher knives.
Mr. Henry, on the other hand, states that the boys kept up an almost continuous roar of fireworks around this house for several nights.
He claims that cars would ride up and down the highway and unload large quantities of explosives in his yard and that some even were thrown into the porch endangering his family and his property and causing him to wonder at the time if dynamite or “left-over bombs from the last war” were not being used.
The exact facts of this case probably cannot be established unless and until it goes to trial in court.