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July 10, 2025
135 YEARS AGO
Will Retaliate: The Chinese Minister for the United States arrived at New York on the 7th inst. He said: “Unless the United States government repeals the law which excluded my countrymen from this country we shall treat Americans to a dose of their own medicine. I mean that we shall exclude citizens of the United States from the Chinese empire.” He said that the Chinese government has lived up to its treaties, and the United States government has disregarded them.
The Cooperstown Athletic Association, lately incorporated, has leased from Mr. Bunyan, the southeast quarter of the old Fair Grounds, which is now being graded and fenced, and put in proper condition for baseball, foot ball, tennis and all athletic games. A commodious grandstand will soon be erected. (Ed. note: The site referred to is now occupied by the Bassett Health Center Clinic parking area including portions of Atwell, River and Fair streets, and portions of the space upon which the original Bassett hospital was constructed in 1917-1919)
July 11, 1890
110 YEARS AGO
Republican Prosperity—Republicanism, as it is exemplified in this country by the party which bears its name, is the creation and distribution of prosperity and contentment by and through a select and superior group of the more “intelligent” and “financially able” men of the country. The Republican Party believes, and it practices the belief, that the so-called common people will be better off if the class referred to is so favored by legislation as to be able to dole out to the great majority a share of what is received. It is but entirely natural that such a policy of government should sometime bring into life a commercial aristocracy which should contain aspects gravely threatening the free institutions upon which the Government of the country was founded.
July 7, 1915
85 YEARS AGO
After being unoccupied for three days, three hours and thirty-five minutes, the Otsego County jail again had an inmate on Friday morning of last week. Carl Schmidt, age 38, of Brooklyn, who is a native of Germany and not a citizen of the United States was arrested in Oneonta on the charge of disorderly conduct, arraigned before Judge Sterling B. Harrington, City Judge of Oneonta, and sentenced to ten days in Otsego County jail. Schmidt was charged with talking against the government of the United States and calling its citizens very uncomplimentary names. Schmidt claims to have lost his passport.
July 10, 1940
60 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Indians’ amateur baseball club will continue with their Saturday matinee season program of competition at Doubleday Field against a team of semi-pros at 3 p.m., the nightcap of a doubleheader following the American Legion game between Cooperstown and Derby, Connecticut. Indian players include John Hendricks, Stu Collier, Carroll Munson, Jack Seiler, Doug Dickinson, Fran Weeks, Brian Truhn, Dave Lounsberry, Dick Haight, Mike Barlow, Len Talbot, Dave Hoyt, Dennis Kirk, Ed Weeks, Bill Warner, Robin Turner, and Bob Wright.
July 7, 1965
20 YEARS AGO
Charles Arthur Bateman, long-time Cooperstown civic leader, businessman, Otsego County representative, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, died unexpectedly on Friday evening, July 1, 2005, in his beloved garden at his home on Beaver Street. He was 84. Charlie was the proprietor of Mohican Flowers, a business he built up together with his daughter Carol Waller to employ 10 people. In 1979, Charlie successfully ran for the Cooperstown village board of trustees but was then appointed to the County Board of Representatives where he served 25 years.
July 8, 2005
