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HOMETOWN HISTORY, February 1, 2013 125 Years Ago The Local News – The directors of the Delaware & Hudson Company had a gorgeous car made for their own use, at a cost of $25,000. It was heated by a new system, which was intended to supersede the present method. The car stood Saturday forenoon near the Green Island shops and William Burt of Albany was in charge. He raked up the fire to get a higher temperature in the car,…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, February 8, 2013 125 Years Ago The Local News – The electric light company have decided to construct a building and supply their own power. A lot on Prospect Street opposite the freight house has been secured from Moody and Gould, and work will soon commence upon a new brick building 60 x 80 feet. Four steam engines will be used, for which steam will be furnished from a 250-horsepower boiler. A duplicate set of arc and incandescent…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, March 8, 2013 125 Years Ago The season 1888 opens with the biggest real estate deal yet recorded for Oneonta in the purchase by Geo. I. Wilber, from A.C. Lewis, of all remaining to the latter of the old Ford place, 156.75 feet on Main Street, at about $30,000. This includes the east half of the Union Block, 22.5 feet, a fine four-story brick building, store on the street and three flats above – as well as a…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, March 15, 2013 125 Years Ago The bright, spring-like weather of Friday and Saturday last, a warm sun shining on bare ground, was succeeded by a dark day Sunday, and that night began the heaviest snowfall of the season. The wind came up with the day, and the dry, powdery snow still falling, drifts formed very quickly. The scene on Main Street Tuesday morning was Arctic enough – nothing in sight but great heaps and long reaches of…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, April 19, 2013 125 Years Ago When the whistle blew on Tuesday noon, in recognition of the signing of the school bill, Detective Bissell’s St. Bernard dog Ben thought there was a fire, as did plenty of others. Ben sprung from the stoop on Dietz Street and started on a wild run for the Lewis hose rooms, the company he travels with. He stopped on Main Street, and seeing that the boys were not running for their cart,…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 24, 2013 125 Years Ago The Local News – An order for steel rails for the Oneonta Street Railway Company has been placed with the Johnston Steel Rail Co. of Johnstown, PA. The rails are expected here in about three weeks. The capital stock of the street railroad company is $20,000, not $15,000, as stated last week. Reuben Reynolds and Fred Wilcox are among the largest stockholders. The Guy Table Company has changed its name to the…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 28, 2013 125 Years Ago Over the hill to the poor house – Mrs. Adelia Tobey, widow of the late Zacheus Tobey, formerly of Morris, aged 65 years, was on Saturday taken to the poor house by overseer Beach. She was formerly in good circumstances having, to use her own words, “everything that heart could wish.” Mr. Tobey owned a splendid farm of 160 acres ten miles from the village of Morris. There are five children of…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 19, 2013 125 Years Ago The Local News – Congressman Wilber is largely interested in the street railroad now being built. There is, as is generally known, no love lost between the Irish and Italian laborers. Said one old Irishman on receiving his pay Saturday night: “Mr. Wilber is the mon. There is not a dombed Eye-talian on the jawb. We can elect him to any office.” From the annual report of the state factory inspectors it…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 2, 2013 125 Years Ago Woman’s Work: What we need in literature are pens radiant with idealism. We need preachers who will behold the invisible glory of their Creator and bring it back to us. We need artists who will see the divine light in nature and so depict it upon the canvas that we shall perceive its beauty. We need, too, women who will be proud of woman’s place and woman’s work. It is the function…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, September 13, 2013 125 Years Ago Most of the stores owned by our Hebrew merchants were closed last Thursday night and they and their families observed the inception of the Jewish New Year. Thursday was the first day of Fishri, the first day of the year 5649, according to the reckoning of the Jewish calendar, and from then until after the tenth day of Fishri ensues the most solemn period of the year. Rosh Hashohah, day of remembrance,…