Bound Volumes, Hometown History

October 2, 2025

110 YEARS AGO

Paper ballots and not voting machines must be used for submitting the proposed new state constitution to the voters at the election on November 2. The decision was rendered as an opinion by Attorney General Woodbury in response to inquiries by Secretary of State Hugo. However, the voting machines may be used for voting upon the two constitutional amendments authorized by the legislature, including referendum or woman suffrage and a $27,000,000 bond issue to complete the barge canal.
Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States, announced tonight, his engagement to Mrs. Norman Galt of Washington. No date for the wedding has been fixed. It probably will take place in December at the home of the bride-elect. Mrs. Galt is the widow of a well-known business man of Washington, who died eight years ago, leaving a jewelry business which still bears his name. She has lived in Washington since her marriage in 1896. She is 38 years old and was Miss Edith Bolling, born in Wytheville, Virginia where her girlhood was spent and where her father, William H. Bolling was a prominent lawyer.

October 1915

90 YEARS AGO

A WPA project for preservation of the archaeological history of the Upper Susquehanna during the period of the Red Man has been submitted to the Works Project administration’s district office at Binghamton. Approval of the project was given by Frank Patterson of Springfield Center, Otsego County WPA Director, after a conference with city officials and members of the Huntington Library board. Estimated to cost $7,344, the project will provide about one year’s work for a crew of ten men, including a director, clerk and eight laborers. The estimated cost includes a truck to transport the men and materials to different sites. According to plans, the group will map the county so far as archaeological work is concerned. Sites will be excavated for the purpose of uncovering artifacts.

October 1935

30 YEARS AGO

Soccer Hall of Fame officials are awaiting results of a survey that will put a dollar figure on the impact of soccer-playing visitors to the Oneonta area. In the end the survey should show that the Soccer Hall of Fame has been and could be a great boon to the area, bringing people in who stay in motels, eat meals and visit other sights. Rob Robinson, executive director of the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, said the National Soccer Hall of Fame is a “hidden jewel.”

October 1995

20 YEARS AGO

October 2005