HOMETOWN HISTORY, October 4, 2013 125 Years Ago The Local News: Miss Minnie Wilbur of Portland, Connecticut lost her pocketbook containing $15 in cash and valuable papers, upon the Oneonta fairground the last day of the fair. She had very little hopes of ever seeing it again, but advertised her loss and the pocketbook was returned by a Mrs. Hotaling who found it. The old “Indian Mound” on Walling’s Island, a mile above the village, the wonder for generations of…