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July 18, 2024.
210 YEARS AGO
William Cheney informs his friends and the public in general, that he will communicate to any person, the art of breaking horses or cattle, so that they may be made docile and gentle, or will break them himself for a reasonable compensation. He can inform any person, so that they will be enabled to break a Horse, that can be rode, in the space of one hour – even the wildest that can be produced. His terms can be known by calling on him.
July 21, 1814
110 YEARS AGO
The 57th Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of Lakewood Cemetery shows the total number of lots sold since the opening of the cemetery to be 733.75 and the number of interments made 2,920, of which 544 were removed from other grounds. During the past year 44 interments were made. There were 12 bodies placed in the vault during the winter. The treasurer’s report shows receipts of $3,453.48 and disbursements of $3,285.58 during the past year. At the meeting of lot owners, Charles T. Brewer, Fred L. Quaif and Waldo C. Johnston were elected trustees to serve three years.
July 15, 1914
85 YEARS AGO
Volunteer firemen from a Central New York area of 100-miles radius are doing honor to the Cooperstown Baseball Centennial and Major General Abner Doubleday whose invention of the game of baseball in Cooperstown gave impetus for the ambitious undertaking of an all-summer program celebrating 100 years of baseball. Friday, July 22, is Firemen’s Day and plans call for a gigantic parade in which 1,100 fire fighters will be seen in line with equipment. At Doubleday Field the day will be topped off with a baseball game between two of the fastest colored teams in the east, the Mohawk Colored Giants and the Havana Cubans.
July 19, 1939
60 YEARS AGO
State Comptroller Arthur Levitt said this week that civil rights should not be an issue in the forthcoming national election. Speaking at the 49th annual convention of the New York State Election Commissioners Association at the Hotel Otesaga, Mr. Levitt called for a bipartisan approach to civil rights. “No thinking person would want either party to flounder over such an issue as civil rights,” he said. “There is a place for both partisanship and bi-partisanship in our system of government.”
July 15, 1964
35 YEARS AGO
Sam Hoskins and his boys, Matt and Andy, have a barn full of pheasant chicks in Fly Creek. The chicks, all 75, came by mail from Iowa. They were shipped on one day and arrived the next day, one-day old. The young pheasants are from the Cooperative Extension Program. The boys will raise them and when they are eight to ten weeks old the pheasants will be released. The Hoskins’ boys are the only Fly Creekers with pheasants this year. Altogether, 1,630 baby pheasants were given to 21 families in Otsego County.
Hugh MacDougall has recently published a booklet titled “Cooper’s Otsego County—A Bicentennial Guide of Sites in Otsego County Associated with the Life and Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851.” Hugh compiled this book to celebrate Cooper’s 200th birthday.
Recent guests at the home of Gerry and Dufie Bushnell on Walnut St. is their daughter Prudence and her husband, Richard Buckley, of Reston, Virginia. Prudence and Richard leave this month for Senegal, West Africa, where Prudence will serve as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Dakar.
July 19, 1989