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HOMETOWN HISTORY, April 25, 2014 125 Years Ago G.H. St. John, representing A.C. Couch, president of the Oneonta and Richfield Springs railroad company, made Oneonta a visit in the interest of the proposed railroad on Tuesday. It is a singular fact that notwithstanding both from the name of the company and the commercial importance of Oneonta the town would naturally be supposed to be one of the first places the projection of the line would visit. However, this was the…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 9, 2014 125 Years Ago The Arbor Day exercises in Oneonta were of a very interesting nature. At the school grounds on Academy Street the program included a prayer by the Rev. A.B. Coats, singing and recitations by the school children, and remarks by principal Bull. The members of the school board were present and also a large number of spectators. An oak tree some three inches in diameter was planted, and when it came to voting…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 16, 2014 125 Years Ago The postponed games of the Oneonta baseball club will surely be played next week Thursday and Saturday afternoons. The Cooperstown and Oneonta game will be the first one and Abbott will be in the box for the home team. The Saturday game between the Afton and Oneonta clubs will undoubtedly be the best game of baseball ever witnessed on the home grounds. On this day, the Oneonta team will be made up…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 30, 2014 100 Years Ago Mayor John P. Mitchel of New York City and Chief Engineer J. Waldo Smith of the New York Board of Water Supply, with several engineers, were in Prattsville and vicinity last week inspecting the Schoharie Valley watershed and considering plans for the construction of a second giant dam and reservoir to be built as an adjunct to the great reservoir now being completed at Ashokan on the Ulster and Delaware railroad. The…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 6, 2014 125 Years Ago A petition is being circulated asking the board of trustees to pave Main Street from Grove Street to the Silver Creek bridge; Broad Street from Main Street to the railroad; and Chestnut Street from Main Street to the westerly limits of the Windsor Hotel. The petition is being very generally signed by property owners and will be presented to the Board of trustees next Monday evening. The boundaries described above, it will…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 13, 2014 125 Years Ago That the people of Oneonta are thoroughly aroused over the street paving question, was shown by the large turnout of citizens at the meeting last evening of village trustees. A petition generally signed by property owners along Main Street was presented to the board, asking that the street be macadamized. The key to the situation appears to be with the street car company. If it will consent to pave between the tracks…

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…