Young Man
New Ipswich Historical Society
Resident of Temple or Turnpike Road
Photo of an unidentified young man who may have lived on either Temple or Turnpike Road.
News Clipping
Moose Frightens Horses in New Ipswich
Jan 11, 1940
Strange stories trickle down from the New Ipswich woods but the queerest of all queer stories came in last week. A big bull moose nearly scared the daylights out of Harold Case of Peterboro and his two horses, Conservation Officer George S. Proctor of Wilton reports.
Mr. Case, employed by Honore Rousseau of Greenville in getting out cordwood on the Binney Hill Pond road in New Ipswich, related the woodland tale to the Wilton warden a few hours after the episode became a new chapter to the story of bull moose encounters along the Souhegan.
According to Mr. Case he was loading his scoot with wood when his horses became fidgety. One of the animals almost jumped out of its harness, the other kept straining on the reins. "I thought something must be wrong somewhere, so I looked up," Mr. Case told Warden Proctor.
What the woodsman saw put him in the same state of nervousness as that of the horses. A short distance away, surveying the horses and man with equal interest was a bull moose. "My horses weigh 1,300 and the moose was bigger than either one of them," Mr. Case is quoted as saying.
About that time nothing could persuade the horses to linger long- er, and with a half filled scoot, team, horses and man left the regions of Benny Hill Pond road on the run. Two hours later the hors- es could not be urged to return to the woodlot.
Sixteen men from Wilton, Greenville, Mason and Rindge, led by Game Warden George S. Proctor of Wilton, formed a posse Sunday and scoured the woodlands in the vicinity of Benny Hill Pond road in New Ipswich, after the Souhegan Valley's big bull moose wakened Mr. and Mrs. Harold Case shortly after 1.30 Sunday morning.
The posse jumped the moose about noon. For an hour the men hurried along to get a glimpse of the Souhegan's monster, but the moose was too fast for them. War- den Proctor measured the moose's hoof prints and found them to be 6 by 9 inches. His stride was measured at 6 feet 9 inches. Case's horse's hoof prints measured 7 by 8 inches.
Mr. Case weighed his horses and found they tipped the scales at 1,650 each. Warden Proctor believes the big bull moose weighs about 1,300. He said the posse came upon a place where the moose had been browsing near the Wachusetts fire lookout station.
Since the moose scared Mr. Case and his horses in the woods last week the Case horses have flatly re- fused to re-enter the woods. Mr. Case, who contracted to remove Honore Rousseau's wood, doesn't know what to do about it. He wishes the moose would move to another territory, but Mr. Moose says "no." Several times since last Tuesday he has bellowed at the Case back door. Now Mr. Case wants to know how you'd like a moose for a backyard pet!
James Roger diary entries
14th October (Monday)
Fair and mild, wind west. David at Spofford’s all day. I wrote three letters: Pilgrim Press, Fern Mission,and forest Society. Went to mail, got letter from Hamish. W. Preston called today and settled claim for fire on brooder house on th of May ($15. 00 ). Got clipping from Alice on Saturday of Judge Perry’s death aged 86. Took laundry to Mrs. Tucker’s. John Preston went away this forenoon.
Autumn Fest - Saturday October 14th 2023
Visit the Historical Society Table at the Autumn Fest at Memorial Field this Saturday.
So was the moose loose near Pratt Pond or is Binney Hill Pond a separate body of water from Pratt?
These old photos are interesting but I'm too young to help you with them.