BOUND VOLUMES, March 27, 2014

200 YEARS AGO
Taylor & Graves have again commenced business in the white building south of the Bookstore of H. & E. Phinney, where they hope their friends and the public generally will please to call, in order that they may be enabled to forget the loss which they have so recently sustained by fire. They are constantly receiving the newest fashions from Albany and New York, and trust they shall be able to cut and make clothes to the satisfaction of their employers. Cooperstown, March 24, 1814.
March 26, 1814

150 YEARS AGO
Mr. Linn Babcock is spending a few days in this village. Anyone wishing to purchase pianos, or to make inquiries with a view of purchasing, will find Mr. B. by calling at C.R. Burch’s Jewelry Store. Mr. Babcock has become well and favorably known to our citizens; and all who think of getting pianos or other instruments for which he is Agent, will find their interests promoted by giving him their patronage. He remains in town until Saturday.
While in the Bank of Cooperstown the other morning, one of the firm of Cockett and Murdock, as part of a deposit, tendered several dollars in silver, which, it was supposed, had long since left this part of the country. A transaction so unusual naturally attracted the attention of those present. The “bullion” was passed around as a curiosity – “good for sore eyes” – and finally voted as a marked sign of an early return to peace. So may it prove.
March 25, 1864

125 YEARS AGO
Sulphur Water – To Mr. S.M. Shaw: I was quite favorably impressed with the suggestion recently made in the Journal that an effort be made here to obtain Sulphur water by boring for it. If successful, it would be of much benefit to our beautiful village. Even if the effort failed, it would have the good effect to divert the attention of our villagers into a new and healthful channel. Whatever makes for peace and concord and good fellowship, which all should seek to promote, will also make for the material prosperity of Cooperstown.
March 29, 1889

100 YEARS AGO
“Government without the consent of the governed is unjust and as women are obliged to obey the laws and the government they should have a voice in making the laws,” said Dr. Helen Brewster Owens of Ithaca, addressing a

suffrage meeting at the Village Hall last Wednesday under the auspices of the Cooperstown Equal Suffrage Club. The American woman, simply because of her sex is denied the right, she noted. At the close of the lecture titled “Self Government” Dr. Owens asked if any of those present were opposed to equal suffrage and the “antis” dared not make themselves known. When the question was put whether or not any were in favor of it, a shower of hands arose including ex-village officials, carried away by their feelings.
March 25, 1914

75 YEARS AGO
Plans are rapidly shaping up for the tenth annual demonstration in Physical Education. “There’s No Base like Home,” portraying the history of baseball and its invention by Abner Doubleday in 1839 in Cooperstown. The pageant will be presented at the high school gymnasium on Friday and Saturday nights of this week under the direction of Lester G. Bursey, physical education director at the school. In the past few years more than 2,500 spectators have attended the annual event.
March 29, 1939

50 YEARS AGO
John A. Sill was named president of the Cooperstown Rotary Club at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors, held at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown on March 19. Other elected officers included William H. Parsons, vice-president; George G. Tillapaugh, secretary; Melvin C. Bundy, treasurer, and Robert J. Smith, sergeant-at-arms. At the annual meeting of the club, held on March 10, Theodore Peters, Jr., Stewart A. Wheeler and Edgar Badgley were elected to the Board of Directors.
March 25, 1964

25 YEARS AGO
The National Association of Basketball Coaches recently named Michael Nelson of Cooperstown to the third team of the NABC All-America Division III Basketball Squad. Nelson played varsity basketball for four years at Cooperstown High School. CCS Coach Dick White said he believes Nelson is the first player from this area to be designated an All-American. Nelson was the top rebounder in Division III last year, playing for the Hamilton College Continentals.
March 29, 1989