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June 29, 2023

210 YEARS AGO
Fourth of July – The Republicans of the County of Otsego will celebrate the Independence of the U. States, on the 5th of July next, at the Village of Cooperstown. An oration will be delivered on the occasion; the exercises will begin at 10 o’clock a.m. Republicans are earnestly invited to attend. By order of the Committee of Arrangements, June 26, 1813.

June 26, 1813

185 YEARS AGO
The following names appear in a list of The Democratic Young Men of the Town of Otsego: Francis Taylor, Chester Taylor, 2d, Joseph A. Cheney, Cornelius Van Horne, Luther J. Burditt, Abner Graves, Jr., Joseph S. Jarvis, Alexander Waterman, Rufus Butts, N.D. Tunnicliff, William Cooper, Wm. L. Crandal, Philip Roof, Philander Waterman, George Potter, Aaron Norton, Hiram S. Babcock, Parley E. Johnson, Thomas Jewitson, Benjamin F. Kip, Rensselaer Fitch, John Boyce, Wm. Holmes, George Jones, Ezra D. Burr, Richard W. Higby, John Nichols, Nelson Johnson and Delos Pier.

June 25, 1838

160 YEARS AGO
A case of lynch law occurred at Newburg, New York on Saturday last. A Negro perpetrated an outrage on an Irish girl, after terribly treating her. The Sheriff immediately started in pursuit of this Negro and captured him at Mattewan. Before dark he was a prisoner in the Newburg jail. As the poor girl’s story was made public, the villagers became greatly excited and congregated by hundreds around the jail. Finally, after efforts to restrain them, they broke open the jail, dragged out the Negro, and, after beating him unmercifully, they put a rope around his neck and hung him upon the nearest tree.

June 26, 1863

135 YEARS AGO
For the Ladies – No woman need cease being a girl, nor should she, for a good deal of her bloom is off the rye when the naturalness and vivacity of girlhood are gone. There is a time coming when women will be fair at forty without being fat – at least without being covered with that manner of fat which destroys the taper of the ankle and reduces it all to a uniform size set into the middle of the foot. You have it in your power, if homely, to make your face pleasing and attractive. If handsome, you have it in your power to keep your beauty up to forty and beyond it, and to keep growing more attractive. Your face is not shaped by chance. There is a cause for the expression usually found on it. Thoughts make faces pleasing or repulsive. They carve lines, put in wrinkles, keep the mouth open as it should not be, or keep it shut as it should be. Thoughts dye the skin sallow or leather color, or the pink and white of health. They govern the walk and the way the body is carried.

June 29, 1888

110 YEARS AGO
The thirtieth annual convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers is now in progress at the O-te-sa-ga. The engineers, numbering two hundred and their wives arrived on Monday, their arrival marking the opening of the hotel’s season. Monday evening, a reception and dance was held in the hotel ball room with music by the orchestra under the leadership of Harry Meyer. Two sessions are being held daily at which time papers on technical subjects are read by members of the institute. An elaborate schedule of entertainment has been planned by the committee in charge, consisting of a golf tournament on Tuesday upon the course of the Cooperstown Country Club; an automobile trip around Otsego Lake on Wednesday afternoon, a bridge tournament for the ladies and an excursion around the lake Thursday afternoon on the steamer Mohican.

June 25, 1913

85 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Playground under the personal direction of Lester G. Bursey, Director of Physical Education at the Cooperstown High School will open its fourteenth season on Tuesday, July 5. All parents are urged to send their children on that day to register. As in former years special programs for boys and girls will be held, with activities for all, including quiet games and swimming. Swimming makes up a major part of the playground program and each morning is devoted to this sport. This year the children will have the use of the new facilities at Fairy Spring Park and will be transported to and from the playground. Miss Harriet Withey will assist with the girls’ programs and Walter Eggleston with the boys’ work.

June 29, 1938

60 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Rotary Club’s employment service has found 43 part-time and full-time jobs for applicants since it was started late last summer according to Mrs. Charles A. Coleman, Jr., who operates the service for the club. At the present time, Mrs. Coleman said she has about 30 applications for jobs on file. The big need now, with school out, is for more employers who may wish to hire part or full-time help for the summer months. Mrs. Coleman said she also has on file a number of babysitters. There is no charge to employers seeking workers through the Rotary service. However, applicants for jobs pay a registration fee of one dollar each time they file.

June 26, 1963

20 YEARS AGO
Ground was broken this week near Hartwick Seminary to begin construction of a Holiday Inn Express that proprietor Erfan Khan expects will be in operation by the end of February 2004. The 74-room hotel, on a site several hundred feet east of State Highway 28, will be two stories high facing the road and three stories behind, taking advantage of the sloping grade of the hill. A two-story-high lobby with large windows will offer a view of the valley.

June 27, 2003