HOMETOWN HISTORY, February 15, 2013

125 Years Ago
The Local News – The tower of the Episcopal Church is to cost $1,895, and will be carried up 31 feet in stone and nine feet of galvanized iron – a total of 40 feet. The top finish square will consist of a battlement and pinnacles with crockets at the corners, and on one of the pinnacles a cross.
February 1888

100 Years Ago
Engineer Frederick G. McAdam of Oneonta was caught between his own moving engine and the caboose of a train he was pushing up Richmondville Hill Tuesday afternoon about 1:30 o’clock and was so severely injured that he died less than an hour later in St. Peter’s Hospital at Albany.
February 1913

80 Years Ago
“Are we going to fight to prevent repeal of the 18th amendment, or are we going to let the wets have what they want and then try to regulate it?” Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, New York State W.C.T.U. president and veteran prohibition campaigner, demanded in an address at the First Methodist Episcopal church in Oneonta last Friday.
February 1933

60 Years Ago
Jim Catella, Oneonta’s Director of Civil Defense, is concerned with the real lack of interest in the city on the part of its citizens to volunteer for civil defense activities. It is about time that we face the fact that bombing attacks on our cities are a distinct possibility.
February 1953