HOMETOWN History

150 Years Ago Oneonta Business – A.C. Moody and E.M. Vosburgh have formed a co-partnership in the stove, tin, hardware and glass-ware business. They will remove April 1 to the building now occupied by Peck and Coats. They will buy hides, pelts, dekin and veal skins, rags, metals, scrap iron, old newspapers, old books and all other kinds of paper stock – in fact everything in the way of barter that a tin peddler can carry on his cart or ship by rail. We think the firm will do a lively business. All lovers of good coffee know that the fresh roasted and fresh ground article is always the best, and all such in this vicinity can now be accommodated either with the best Rio, Java, or Mocha with all their delicate flavors preserved. Call on Capt. Fox and see the machine. February 1869

125 Years Ago The Local News – Young David Alger was arrested last week for assaulting Tony the Italian peanut vendor on Broad Street when Tony refused to sell Alger any more cider. David was tried before Justice Scott who gave him 90 days in Albany. The special car of the United States Fish Commission was in town yesterday and left 500 yearling “VonBehr” or German brown trout for the Oneonta Fish and Game Association. The fish which were three to four inches long were placed in the Charlotte Creek. No one who saw the large audience at the theatre Saturday evening would have imagined that the cry of “hard times” had ever been heard in Oneonta. Hi Henry’s Minstrels, who gave a very satisfactory entertainment, reaped very substantial benefit from the crowded house, and as they traveled in their own car and fed and lodged themselves they must have carried out of town practically every dollar taken in. February 1894