BOUND VOLUMES, June 7, 2012
200 YEARS AGO
Advertisement – Carding Notice – The Subscribers have entered into a co-partnership in the Carding business, and have furnished themselves with a good Picking machine, and two Carding machines, which are entirely new. One of them is covered with the finest kind of cards, suitable for carding Merino wool. The machines are in complete operation at Fairchild’s Mills, on the Oaks Creek, one mile west of Captain North’s Inn, in the Town of Otsego; said machines are under the immediate direction of Mr. Asahel Jarvis who is engaged to tend the same through the season, and whose experience in the above business is not surpassed by any in the county. Their accommodations, the complete order their works are in, and the faithfulness of the tender prompts them to warrant satisfaction to all who employ them, and as no other works erected on the dam shall interfere with carding business, different customers may depend on being served with punctuality. Most kinds of produce received in payment. Wm. Fairchild. Wm. C. Jarvis. Josiah Stevens. June 1812
June 6, 1812
175 YEARS AGO
(Ed. Note: The following editorial was occasioned by the banking panic of 1837 which gave rise to currency and banking reforms) As a man becomes wise by his own follies and vices, so a community may reap wisdom from its own experience of evil. Hence, much good may arise from the present circumstances of the commercial world, inasmuch as the people may obtain an insight into the ways and means by which a certain few have, for several years past, been endeavoring to grow rich at the expense of their fellow citizens. People will be led to inquire into the nature of wealth, and into the causes of these several fluctuations in the value of property which have so frequently taken place, during the last 20 years. They will find out by these inquiries that the general cause of such fluctuations is the present system of banking, aided by numerous secondary causes, such as overproducing one kind of manufacture, and speculation in various articles of consumption.
June 12, 1837
150 YEARS AGO
Correction – About Face! Gentlemen who are to put up eleven new buildings this season on the north side of Main Street object to the location given in our “local” of last week; while Mr. Keyes thinks it would be inconvenient for him at this stage of proceedings to place his hotel other than on the south side of the street. Well gentlemen, have it your own way!
June 6, 1862
125 YEARS AGO
Editorial – It is a matter of just concern that the government has stowed away in its vaults some $70,000,000 in silver dollars uncovered by outstanding certificates. It is actually buying silver bullion and coining it into about $30,000,000 each year. Its surplus revenues over and above all its expenditures are $100,000,000 a year. It has called in the last dollar of interest-bearing debt that it has any right to pay before it is due. It has outstanding a demand indebtedness in the form of circulating notes to the amount of 346,000,000, against which it is maintaining absolutely idle in the treasury a reserve in gold of $100,000,000. It is therefore within its power during the year, to pay off $100,000,000 of these notes without imposing a penny of taxation upon the country, and should be authorized by Congress to do it. When these notes were first issued, they were regarded as a forced loan to meet the expenses of the war – and the general understanding was that they should be retired from circulation as soon as practicable.
June 10, 1887
100 YEARS AGO
The prominent hop growers of Milford and vicinity have formed an organization for a timely, thorough, systematic and intelligent warfare against the dreaded blue mold which first made its appearance in Otsego County last year. An expert from Cornell University has been secured who will be on the ground during the hop growing season, carefully watch the appearance of the enemy and direct the forces against its ravages. Sulphur is coming in by the carload and there will be no letup in the struggle until the crop is secured. Already, mold has appeared in several hop yards, earlier than last year.
June 12, 1912
75 YEARS AGO
The Hon. Robert J. Leamy, whose appointment as Otsego County Judge was announced last week took the oath of office before county clerk Geary L. Wilmot on Tuesday and immediately assumed the duties of the bench. He plans to continue to hold weekly terms of County Court at Cooperstown on Mondays, and Childrens’ Court Tuesdays in the Municipal Building in Oneonta. Otsego County’s new Judge, who is only 28 years of age, is the youngest County Judge in the state.
June 9, 1937
50 YEARS AGO
More than 4,000 persons attended the formal opening of the Woodland Museum Memorial Day on Route 80 three miles north of Cooperstown. Major General Conrad F. Necrason, commander of the 28th Air Division of Hamilton Air Force Base California, who was born and lived as a youngster in a house a short distance from the site, addressed the large audience, and the two children of Louis Busch Hager, the museum’s founder, cut the ribbon.
June 6, 1962
25 YEARS AGO
Dr. Herbert Marx will speak on the nuclear arms freeze at the Pierstown Grange Hall at 8:15 next Tuesday. Marx is a member of the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Nuclear Freeze Committee of Otsego County. The meeting is open to the public.
Dr. Herbert Marx of Cooperstown was recently honored for his distinguished volunteer service to the American Heart Association, Central New York Chapter. Dr. David Vaules, also of Cooperstown, presented Dr. Marx with an award plaque during a meeting of the local and state Heart Association volunteers in the chapter’s Utica office. Vaules said Marx has worked unselfishly for the American Heart Association for many years. Dr. Marx is a graduate of Columbia University, is married, and has three children.
June 9, 1982