BOUND VOLUMES, August 29, 2013
200 YEARS AGO
To Supervisors – As it is believed that much inequality has hitherto existed in the system of Taxation in this county, owing to the disproportionate rules which have been adopted by the Assessors of the different towns in the valuation of Real and Personal Estates; and, as the time is now arriving when our taxes are likely to be so much increased as to render it more necessary that their weight should be equally and equitably sustained by all – it is therefore recommended to the Supervisors of the several Towns in the County of Otsego, to ascertain as far as practicable the manner in which valuations of Real and Personal Estate have been made by the Assessors of their respective towns for the present year, in order that the Board of Supervisors may, at their annual meeting in October next, by comparing together the different rates which have been adopted, be able to detect such inequality if it exists, and to form the rolls of the several towns in an uniform system, agreeably to law. E. Phinney, Clerk, Board of Supervisors, August 19, 1813.
August 28, 1813
150 YEARS AGO
The Draft commenced at Norwich for this District on Monday last. Chenango is the first county on the list, the towns being taken alphabetically. Otsego will come last. Notice will be given by special handbill, when this draft is to take place for each town. The attention of the Commissioner has been called to the fact that very general dissatisfaction exists in this county because of the arrangement under which the draft for Otsego is to be made, at Norwich, instead of our own county seat, where it should take place. There is no good reason why the board should not accommodate the people in this matter; and it is to be hoped that even at this late hour a different arrangement may be announced.
August 28, 1863
125 YEARS AGO
It was a double chime ringing at Christ Church on Wednesday afternoon last. We do not know that the same interesting event ever before occurred in the history of our village – a double wedding, and very naturally, it claimed almost undivided attention and interest in society here. Walter H. Bunn, Jr., and Grace H. Farmer, Clarence W. Davidson and Gertrude A. Bunn, all residents of Cooperstown were the happy couples united in marriage.
August 31, 1888
100 YEARS AGO
The establishment of a brewery in the old Fenimore Mills at Phoenix Mills is the present plan of the Cooperstown syndicate composed of Martin Moakler, James J. Byard, Jr., W.D. Burditt and Jay D. Wilson, which purchased the real estate of the old Phoenix Mills for $3,900 at the auction sale last Thursday. It is their idea to incorporate and begin the operation of a brewery there this fall. This, it would seem, would be a practical industry for this location inasmuch as it is centrally situated in the hop-raising section of Otsego County.
August 20, 1913
75 YEARS AGO
Among the members of the Cooperstown Community Band and their instruments are: Trumpet players – Samuel Nile, Donald White, Carl Gus, Edward McShane, Albert Harp, and Benjamin H. Lewis who has served as band director since 1929; Altos – Arthur and Thomas McShane, Peter Mason; Bass – Erdie Washburn, George Clarke; Clarinet – Carl Phieffer, Harold Hitchcock, Stanley Nojero, Tony Volience, Robert Hubble, John Albrecht, Harry Halstead, and Kenneth Eaton; Baritone – Robert Jones, Stewart Wooley; Snare drums – Lee Furlong, Bernard Dibble; Bass Drum & Cymbals – Albert Therekauf; Tenor Saxophone – William Quaif; Trombone – Livingstone Barker, James Scott, Matthew Gleason, James Yule, Floyd Dibble, Peter Hagen; Piccolo – Steber Kerr. Trumpeter Nile was a soloist with the Carborundum Band of Buffalo; Matthew Gleason, trombone, and John Albrecht, clarinet, were formerly with Sousa’s band. The organization has $4,000 invested in instruments and a $2,500 music library.
August 31, 1938
50 YEARS AGO
The third annual boat gala of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce was held at Three-Mile Point Saturday afternoon. Highlights of the affair were a two-hour water ski show staged by the Titus Lake Ski Devils of Jefferson, and a boat parade. Taking first prize in the boat parade was a two-boat entry representing the Monitor and Merrimac of Civil War fame. In the Monitor were James B. Gallagher and Richard Currey. The crew of the Merrimac was made up of William Crain, David Gallagher and Gary Shove. They received a $25 U.S. Savings Bond donated by First National Bank of Cooperstown.
August 28, 1963
10 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Bat Company, a local institution since 1981, has been named the Otsego County Chamber’s Small Business of the Year. The business is owned by Donald and Sharon Oberriter.
August 29, 2003
