135 YEARS AGO: The Local News: The Kniskern boy, sentenced to the Rochester Industrial School for theft, escaped from the custody of officer Butts while on his way to that place. The lad jumped from a train running at the rate of forty miles an hour. No clue yet to his whereabouts.
Many of the pupils of the Normal School are boarding themselves on the club plan. Rooms are hired, usually for four, and arrangements made with the landlady to do…
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110 YEARS AGO: About fifty girls were present at the Woman’s Club Saturday afternoon for the organization of a “Little Mothers League” for instruction in the duties of mothers designed to make them helpful to their mothers and capable when older grown. The organization of the League was undertaken by the Girls’ Welfare Committee of the club of which Mrs. Edson J. Farley is chairman. The class selected Miss Mildred Thurston as President and Miss Mabel Phelps as Secretary. The…
110 YEARS AGO: Commandments of the Road for Automobilists: The National Council of Industrial Safety asks all automobilists to obey to the letter these ten commandments of the road: Don’t run fast into or across main highways. Don’t take blind curves too fast. Don’t run on the wrong side of the road. Don’t pass street cars when passengers are boarding or leaving. Don’t fail to sound your horn before passing other vehicles. Don’t forget that a car or a person…
110 YEARS AGO: The Wilber National Bank has, some weeks since, installed and has been operating one of the latest and most improved Burroughs statement machines – a device that approaches as near to a mechanical book keeper as is easily conceived, and is a marvel to all who have witnessed its operations. With it the bank has daily a statement sheet of each active account, posting and adding all deposits made and subtracting all checks paid by the bank…
135 YEARS AGO: One curious effect of the mild weather of the past three months has been to “obliterate,” in the minds of many, the idea of winter. People are often heard speaking of “last fall,” when further inquiry develops the fact that January is meant. So, too, events of February are referred to as spring. There has been no true Boreal weather and the mind unconsciously has adapted itself to the fact. What the next few weeks may bring…
110 YEARS AGO: It has been rumored about the village for several days that Allen Gallup was running for Village President. It was a mistake—he was galloping. When the votes were counted on Tuesday, it was found that Mr. Gallup has been elected by a majority of 142 over W. Dean Burditt, who was running for the third time. In 1913, Mr. Burditt’s majority was 202 and in 1914 it was 114. This tremendous turning of the tide is proof…
90 YEARS AGO: Prospects for a good season at Camp Deerslayer and gains in membership were reported at the meeting of the Executive Board of the Otschodela Boy Scout Council. Estimates received from eight of the 36 units in the council showed that the camp on Otsego Lake will have its largest year in attendance. The Council went on record as being opposed to the Neustein Bill which seeks to regulate camping. The Council believes that the regulations would make…
110 YEARS AGO: Trainmen on a Delaware & Hudson freight train early yesterday morning found the mangled remains of a man lying beside the tracks about a mile north of the station at Cooperstown Junction. Company officials were immediately notified and a special train was made up to go to the spot where the body was found, carrying along Coroner E.J. Parish and the representative of a local undertaking firm. The remains were brought to Oneonta. From papers found in…
90 YEARS AGO: Milk consumption habits of the population of upstate New York will be surveyed by 18 colleges and normal schools to broaden the base of knowledge upon which the state is striving to increase consumption of fresh milk. Oneonta Normal is among those which will assist. Harold D. Leslie, director of the Bureau of Milk Publicity, has announced that the survey will be the most extensive ever made of the consumption of milk and dairy products. A similar…
135 YEARS AGO: In the United States, according to tables recently compiled, there were 50,025 persons killed and 53,427 seriously injured as a result of trespassing upon railways between the years 1901 and 1910. In Great Britain during the same period, there were 4,434 persons killed in like fashion and 1,315 injured. The difference, the startling difference even after taking into account the difference in population—seems to be that in Great Britain the laws against railway trespassing are strictly enforced,…