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May 16, 2024
160 YEARS AGO
Important War News—The very day upon which our last paper was printed, the powerful armies of Grant and Lee met in dreadful conflict and once more the blood-stained hills and valleys of Virginia echoed and re-echoed the sound of booming cannon. For several weeks Gen. Grant had been concentrating his forces and perfecting his arrangements; and, as soon as ready, he “moved upon the enemy’s works.” The accounts at hand, up to the hour of writing this article are meager and mostly unofficial. The last mail may bring something more satisfactory and definite. The battles of Thursday and Friday were contested with an obstinate courage. The losses of both sides were heavy and prisoners were captured by both armies. Gen. Grant brought up his reserves on the second day, when Lee was forced back after desperate fighting. That night Lee retreated and Grant started in pursuit Saturday morning. The skill of Gen. Grant and the courage of our soldiers lead us to hope that the army of the rebels may be defeated and Richmond captured.
May 13, 1864
85 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Centennial nine opened its season here Sunday afternoon with a bang, providing some 250 spectators with a fourteen-inning thriller against the Utica Outlaws and winning in the last of the fourteenth when, with the score knotted at 4-all, and a man on base, Les Bursey poled a homer into the right field bleachers in true Horatio Alger style. Bursey had been out of baseball for the past two seasons and had not the remotest idea of coming back in this year, until after putting his high school team through spring practice. Les took a few swipes at the ball himself while the kids looked on and found his batting eye keener than ever. That put the idea in his head and there he was Sunday afternoon patrolling center field and banging away at the ball.
May 17, 1939
60 YEARS AGO
A trial away from Cooperstown was ordered Monday in a $625,000 lawsuit brought by a Cooperstown housewife who contends she was libeled in the paperback novel “The Sex Cure.” The book, authored by Mrs. Isabel Moore under the pen name of Elain Dorian, reportedly has Cooperstown as its setting. Supreme Court Justice Robert O. Brink found that a fair and impartial trial might not be held in Otsego County because “truthfully or not” the book allegedly exposes the private mores of local citizens. The trial will be held in Cortland, New York.
May 20, 1964
35 YEARS AGO
The Bop Till You Drop Spring Fever Dance Party will kick off at 8 p.m. on May 20 in the banquet room of the Sportsman’s Tavern in Fly Creek. The Rubber Band Band featuring lead guitarist Jack DuPont will play music that ranges from reggae to rock to rhythm and blues. The dance party is a Gallery 53 Artworks benefit sponsored by the Bold Dragoon, Northern Eagle, Oneonta Grocery Co. the Sportsman’s Tavern, Stewarts and Video-Deo.
May 17, 1989
20 YEARS AGO
May 17, 1989