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March 20, 2025

135 YEARS AGO

The Fly Creek M.E. Church under the pastorate of Rev. J.S. Southworth has been enjoying a year of prosperity unsurpassed in its history. The church property has been greatly improved and beautified, and the spacious auditorium is filled from Sabbath to Sabbath with an intelligent and devout people whose aim is to worship God in the beauty of holiness. During the year there have been one hundred added to the church on probation, and some fifteen taken in full connection. The Sabbath School under the efficient management of Mr. J.S. Bayard as Superintendent was never in a more prosperous condition.

March 21, 1890

110 YEARS AGO

In Our Town—Arthur P. Root, of Cooperstown has been picked for the second All-Fraternity basketball team as forward, according to George S. McMillan, director of intramural sports at Hamilton College. Root is a freshman there and has the reputation for speedy and fast work on the local floor. The season has just closed for intra-fraternity games. Hamilton does not play intercollegiate basketball.

J. Harry Cook is one of the exhibitors at the Automobile Show in Utica this week where he is displaying and demonstrating the Hupmobile and Hudson cars. An artistic electric sign advertising Cook’s Auto & Supply Store has been constructed and erected by L.A. Brainard.

March 17, 1915

60 YEARS AGO

Doubleday Field has been sold out for next July’s Hall of Fame Game between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. Howard C. Talbot, Jr., treasurer of the Hall of Fame, who handles the ticket sale for the Cooperstown Baseball Committee, said that the last of 9,791 game tickets which went on sale December 9, was sold on Thursday more than four months in advance of the game scheduled for July 26. During the sale, 744 grandstand seats, including 107 box seats, were disposed of. The sale also included 3,024 seats along the first base line and right field line, 4,205 seats along the third base line and left field line, and 1,818 seats in the outfield bleachers. Orders for 388 tickets came from 13 states outside of New York, plus a few from Canada.

March 17, 1965

35 YEARS AGO

Ballots in the recent village election had to be counted three times to decide who had won a second trustees’ seat according to Deputy Clerk Martha Sherwood. After three recounts, the four election inspectors determined that Republican James Woolson had garnered two more votes for trustee than Democrat Stuart Taugher. Democrat Harold Hollis, who was unopposed, retained the Mayor’s seat for the next two years with 317 votes. Village Justice Theodore Smith, who also ran unopposed, polled 352 votes. Newcomer Republican Wendell Tripp tallied 298 votes for the other trustee’s seat.

March 21, 1990

20 YEARS AGO

Well over 1,000 persons visited the Quilt Show sponsored by the Fenimore Quilt Club and the Cooperstown Art Association. Approximately 100 quilts were displayed including full size quilts, wall hangings, baby quilts, and quilted dolls. Visitors voted for their favorite quilt and the Viewer’s Choice Award went to “Cleopatra’s Fans” by Sheila Francesconi of Otego. She was the recipient of a gift certificate from Country Fabrics in Oneonta. “Cleopatra’s Fans” was made in 2004. It was machine pieced and hand quilted. Francesconi’s “Empire Beauty” quilt was the Viewer’s Choice in 2004. The 2005 runner-up for Viewer’s Choice is “Chickens Everywhere” by Ellie Keesler of Philadelphia, PA. The quilt is covered with chickens and roosters of varying colors and sizes.

March 17, 2005