Bound Volumes

October 3, 2024

160 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from an address by A.A. Brown to a meeting of the Cooperstown McClellan for President Club: “We have entered upon a campaign, the results of which are perhaps to decide our national existence; and it behooves each one of us to use all the means in our power to bring it to a successful issue; but at the same time that we carry on the contest with the most determined energy, let us avoid all appeals to passion, and all indecorous personalities—let us “rally from the hillside and gather from the plain,” and with one grand charge at the ballot box, elect as President, our candidate, the Hero, Patriot and Statesman, Gen. Geo. B. McClellan.” This sentiment was received with prolonged applause by the meeting. The McClellan Glee Club sang a campaign song with good effect.

September 30, 1864

110 YEARS AGO

Bids for the building of the state highway between Cooperstown and Milford will be received by the State Commission of Highways in Albany up to October 15th, and on that date, the contract will be awarded. The highway is to have a concrete base instead of water bound macadam. The concrete costs $1,700 per mile more than the usual water bound type. Commissioner Carlisle is anxious to try out the concrete construction and to give us a particularly good road. The road is seven and three-fourths miles long.

September 30, 1914

60 YEARS AGO

Local News: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Kantorowski have purchased the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Olin at 24 Delaware Street. Mr. Kantorowski is physical education instructor at Cooperstown Central School.

Miss Margaret McGown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. McGown, Jr., has returned to her studies at the Northfield School for Girls at Northfield, Massachusetts.

Drs. Alfred Jaretski III and Edward Carey of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital will be in Chicago this weekend attending the annual meeting of the American Association for Surgical Trauma at the Drake Hotel.

About 400 persons were served at the public turkey supper sponsored by the First Baptist Church of Cooperstown last Thursday evening for the benefit of the student exchange fund. The sum of $439.50 was realized.

September 30, 1964

35 YEARS AGO

At their annual luncheon held at the Otesaga Hotel, the Auxiliary of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, presented two checks totaling more than $33,000 as contributions to hospital programs. Auxiliary President Emily Marcalus presented Bassett’s Senior Vice President William H. Hermann with a check for $20,758 to underwrite the cost of several new pieces of equipment, including six wheelchairs, two respiration monitors for the Pain Clinic, a crib for the nursery, an ultrasound unit for Physical Therapy, a Gambro Fluid Control Monitor for Dialysis and two Dinamap non-invasive blood pressure monitors for the operating room. A second check for $12,500 was presented to complete a $25,000 pledge to fund the cost of furnishing one room in the Bassett Birthing Center.

October 4, 1989

20 YEARS AGO

Ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night will be the subject of October walking tours of Cooperstown. Local author Bruce Markusen, who spent a decade working as the manager of programs at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, will soon be guiding visitors through the ghostly sights of Cooperstown every Thursday and Friday evening in October.

October 1, 2004