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HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 27, 2014 125 Years Ago There was a good attendance of the leading taxpayers of the village at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on Tuesday evening, when a petition asking that a wooden block pavement be laid in Oneonta was presented. Several gentlemen present spoke in favor of the adoption of wood pavement. A committee composed of T.W. Stevens, D.F. Wilber, G.R. Shearer, A.C. Moody, and Albert Morris was appointed to investigate as to the…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 4, 2014 125 Years Ago The third annual meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Otsego County was held in the M.E. Church at Milford, June 19th and 20th. The Superintendent of Unfermented Wines reported that, of the 22 churches responding to inquiries, eighteen used unfermented wine, and of the four using fermented wine, at least one had been the cause of the fall of a reclaimed man, who at tasting wine at communion, aroused his…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 11, 2014 125 Years Ago The Free Baptist Society has let the contract for the erection of their new church to Briggs & Miller. Work has commenced and the contract requires it to be completed by May 1, 1890. The building will be of brick, veneered, and extend 66 feet on Main Street and 84 feet on Maple Street. The main floor will contain five rooms, a library, study, infant classroom, a lecture room 40 x 26…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 18, 2014 125 Years Ago The Oneonta Chair Company – Ground was broken for the original building June 15, 1887 and work began January 1, 1888. The company now manufactures about 20 varieties of chairs, ranging from the kitchen chair to the more expensive spring rocker. Most of the work, however, is on the less costly varieties. All the common hardwoods of this vicinity are used, veneered in some cases with the more valuable black walnut. Most…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 25, 2014 100 Years Ago Charles A. Scut, age 23, of Harpersfield, Delaware County, was the victim of swindlers in the City of Albany which he visited, taking with him the sum of $250 and returning with only 15 cents to his name. On Wednesday night Scut made the acquaintance of Nellie Condon and became thoroughly enamored of the young woman. The two went to 43 Hudson Avenue where Scut remained in residence for several days. There,…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 1, 2014 125 Years Ago The materials used to construct the Normal School are described as follows: The materials of which the walls are composed are limestone, brownstone, hard red brick, pressed brick and common brick. The foundation throughout is of Cobleskill limestone of the best quality obtainable. The front and sidewalls are faced with pressed brick, the rear wall with extra hard red brick; and the interior walls are of a good quality of common brick.…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 17, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Charleston, South Carolina – The Polly, Capt. Daniel, came in on Saturday from the fishing ground, off the bar. Whilst lying there, she was spoken with by the schooner Nancy, Capt. Holland, 14 days from La Guayra. Capt. H. informed, that the Earthquake, which happened at Carraccas, on the 25th of March, was one of the most destructive that has been known since that of Lisbon; he said that more than three…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 24, 2012 200 YEARS AGO One of the horses, which 17 years ago, in February last, drew the press and types on which the Otsego Herald first commenced, the property of John Noyes, Esq., late Sheriff of the county of Columbia, brought him and his son in a single wagon, to Otsego, on Wednesday last, and the Editor had the pleasure of entertaining them, and the veteran horse, which appeared plump and lively, aged from 24 to…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 31, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Financial matters – Congress has made appropriations for the support of government for the year 1812, passed February 26, 1812, for $1,264,412.54. Congress has passed a bill appropriating fifty thousand dollars for the relief of the sufferers by the late earthquake at Venezuela. The president is empowered to purchase provisions to that amount and cause them to be exported to Carraccas. The Treasury Department statement of the probable application during the year…

BOUND VOLUMES, June 7, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – Carding Notice – The Subscribers have entered into a co-partnership in the Carding business, and have furnished themselves with a good Picking machine, and two Carding machines, which are entirely new. One of them is covered with the finest kind of cards, suitable for carding Merino wool. The machines are in complete operation at Fairchild’s Mills, on the Oaks Creek, one mile west of Captain North’s Inn, in the Town…