HOMETOWN HISTORY October 22, 2020 150 Years Ago H.L. Luther and M.H. Bissell are barreling their stock of eggs for shipment to market. Luther has about 600 barrels and Bissell 350 barrels. The barrels hold from 70 to 75 dozen each, packed in cut straw. The business is increasing and will be pushed with great energy next season. Farmers can count their eggs a standard cash article with a sure market at a good price. Feed liberally, give good shelter,…
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HOMETOWN HISTORY October 15, 2020 150 Years Ago The complete census returns of Otsego County give the population at 43,982, an increase of 1,344 in five years. Harvey Baker has commenced building another house on Baker Street. Welcome Parish and Wm, Mickle have commenced building new houses on Centre Street. Others will soon follow. At the annual meeting of the Union Graded School, on Tuesday evening, W.W. Alton and S. Sullivan were elected Trustees for three years and N.I. Ford…
HOMETOWN HISTORY October 8, 2020 150 Years Ago The Oneonta Post Office is open for business from 7 o’clock a.m. to 8 o’clock p.m. On Sunday, from 9 to 9:30 a.m. and half an hour at Noon. Mails close as follows: First Railroad Mail East: 10 a.m.; Second Railroad Mail East: 4:10 p.m.; First Railroad Mail West: 11:15 a.m.; Mails for Morris Route: 11:30 a.m.; Mails for Laurens Route: 11:30 a.m.; Mail for Delhi via North Franklin, Tri-Weekly: 11:30 a.m.…
HOMETOWN HISTORY October 1, 2020 150 Years Ago Oneonta: T.D. Watkins has been surveying and laying out streets and lots on his farm west of Chestnut Street. W.W. Alton has bought the first building lot west of T.D. Watkins on Chestnut Street. This means another nice new house and that Alton has come to stay. Almost every day persons are inquiring for houses to let and for building lots. Persons who wish to rent or sell should advertise so that…
HOMETOWN HISTORY September 24, 2020 150 Years Ago Court Proceedings: At the Circuit Court last week at Cooperstown, Hon. Wm. Murray presiding, the following was tried: Charles E. Winn vs. James M. Winn. Action: To Recover Horse. The parties both reside in Oneonta. The horse was taken up and detained by defendant under the highway act of 1867. The plaintiff claimed the law to be unconstitutional. The court held otherwise and directed a verdict for the defendant. S.S. Burnside and…
HOMETOWN HISTORY September 10, 2020 150 Years Ago Local: A large number of seedy tramps of both sexes pass through this county daily. They are not afraid of padlocks and manage to get into cellars and outhouses with but little difficulty. Farmers had better rub the rust from their guns. L.H. Blend has the contracts for erecting elegant new houses for A.C. Moody and E.M. Vosburgh on Elm Street. The houses will be nearly alike and built on adjoining lots…
HOMETOWN HISTORY September 17, 2020 150 Years Ago Real Estate is unusually active in our village, and many houses are in progress and under contract. Oneonta is to be a railroad center, business is lively, and lots can be had at reasonable rates. We are to have the central round-house and repair shops of the A. & S. R.R., and probably their car and general machine works, all of which indicate growth of population and great increase of business. On…
HOMETOWN HISTORY September 3, 2020 150 Years Ago Oneonta and Area Items – Quoit pitching seems to be the popular game at the depot. Just received at the Crockery Store of J. B. Roberts, some fine plums and delicious grapes. The rain of Saturday night raised the brook on Dietz Street – the first it has run this summer. Our thanks is due to A.A. Whitcomb for a quantity of large tomatoes. A young man named John Bonfoy, who has…
HOMETOWN HISTORY July 3, 2020 150 Years Ago Wanted to Know!!! The whereabouts of a man who came to Oneonta and purchased a sewing machine on December 18, 1868, giving his note for it, and calling himself J.E. Wentworth, and claimed to reside four miles east of East Davenport, over east of Rattlesnake Hill. He was about five feet, nine inches in height, weighed about 175 pounds, was dark complexion, had dark eyes and dark whiskers, and was about 35…
HOMETOWN HISTORY June 26, 2020 130 Years Ago Local News – Monday morning about two o’clock, the residence of Hiram Osterhoudt, who lives about four miles from the village in the Town of Milford, was discovered to be on fire. The house, together with the furniture, provisions and wearing apparel of the family was destroyed, and the inmates themselves narrowly escaped. The loss was about $600, insured in the county. Strawberries, though selling on the street for ten cents per…
