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HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 27, 2014 125 Years Ago There was a good attendance of the leading taxpayers of the village at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on Tuesday evening, when a petition asking that a wooden block pavement be laid in Oneonta was presented. Several gentlemen present spoke in favor of the adoption of wood pavement. A committee composed of T.W. Stevens, D.F. Wilber, G.R. Shearer, A.C. Moody, and Albert Morris was appointed to investigate as to the…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 4, 2014 125 Years Ago The third annual meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Otsego County was held in the M.E. Church at Milford, June 19th and 20th. The Superintendent of Unfermented Wines reported that, of the 22 churches responding to inquiries, eighteen used unfermented wine, and of the four using fermented wine, at least one had been the cause of the fall of a reclaimed man, who at tasting wine at communion, aroused his…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 11, 2014 125 Years Ago The Free Baptist Society has let the contract for the erection of their new church to Briggs & Miller. Work has commenced and the contract requires it to be completed by May 1, 1890. The building will be of brick, veneered, and extend 66 feet on Main Street and 84 feet on Maple Street. The main floor will contain five rooms, a library, study, infant classroom, a lecture room 40 x 26…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 25, 2014 100 Years Ago Charles A. Scut, age 23, of Harpersfield, Delaware County, was the victim of swindlers in the City of Albany which he visited, taking with him the sum of $250 and returning with only 15 cents to his name. On Wednesday night Scut made the acquaintance of Nellie Condon and became thoroughly enamored of the young woman. The two went to 43 Hudson Avenue where Scut remained in residence for several days. There,…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 17, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Charleston, South Carolina – The Polly, Capt. Daniel, came in on Saturday from the fishing ground, off the bar. Whilst lying there, she was spoken with by the schooner Nancy, Capt. Holland, 14 days from La Guayra. Capt. H. informed, that the Earthquake, which happened at Carraccas, on the 25th of March, was one of the most destructive that has been known since that of Lisbon; he said that more than three…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 31, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Financial matters – Congress has made appropriations for the support of government for the year 1812, passed February 26, 1812, for $1,264,412.54. Congress has passed a bill appropriating fifty thousand dollars for the relief of the sufferers by the late earthquake at Venezuela. The president is empowered to purchase provisions to that amount and cause them to be exported to Carraccas. The Treasury Department statement of the probable application during the year…

BOUND VOLUMES, June 28, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – Ran Away – From the Subscriber, on the 25th of June, instant, a servant boy, by the name of Stephen Scudder, aged 18 years, the sixth day of April last. It is expected he will enlist into the United States Army at Otsego. I forbid all persons harboring or trusting him on my account; any person apprehending him, and returning him back to me, shall have one cent reward and…

BOUND VOLUMES, July 26, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – Five Dollars Reward! Ran away from the subscriber on the 19th instant; A Negro man, named Thomas, about 18 years of age, nearly six feet high, very large feet, and a scar under one eye. Whoever shall return said Negro to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward and all necessary charges. James Morehouse, Maryland, July 20, 1812 July 25, 1812 175 YEARS AGO Mr. Poinsett, Secretary of War and…

BOUND VOLUMES, August 16, 2012 175 YEARS AGO State Lunatic Asylum – The commissioners for locating a site for the State Lunatic Asylum, have purchased a farm in Utica, consisting of 125 acres, at an expense to the state of $10,000, which sum has been paid from the Treasury. The location is believed to be a very favorable one, and as the same farm sold one year ago for $100,000, there is very little doubt that the locating commissioners have…

BOUND VOLUMES, August 23, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Reprinted from the London Courier – “America knows not that the vigor of the British Empire increases with the necessity of exerting it – that our elasticity rises with the pressure upon us – that difficulties only make us more firm and undaunted – that dangers only give us the additional means of overcoming them. It is in such a state of affairs, in such a great crisis, that a nation like…