Bound Volumes

August 31, 2023

135 YEARS AGO
It was a double chime ringing at Christ Church on Wednesday afternoon last. We do not know that the same interesting event ever before occurred in the history of our village—a double wedding, which naturally, claimed almost undivided attention and interest. Walter H. Bunn, Jr., and Grace H. Farmer, Clarence W. Davidson and Gertrude A. Bunn, all residents of Cooperstown were the happy couples united in marriage.

August 31, 1888

110 YEARS AGO
The establishment of a brewery in the old Fenimore Mills at Phoenix Mills is the present plan of the Cooperstown syndicate composed of Martin Moakler, James J. Byard, Jr., W.D. Burditt and Jay D. Wilson, which purchased the real estate of the old Phoenix Mills for $3,900 at the auction sale last Thursday. It is their idea to incorporate and begin the operation of a brewery there this fall.

August 20, 1913

85 YEARS AGO
Among the members of the Cooperstown Community Band and their instruments are: Trumpet players—Samuel Nile, Donald White, Carl Gus, Edward McShane, Albert Harp, and Benjamin H. Lewis who has served as band director since 1929; Altos—Arthur and Thomas McShane, Peter Mason; Bass—Erdie Washburn, George Clarke; Clarinet—Carl Phieffer, Harold Hitchcock, Stanley Nojero, Tony Volience, Robert Hubble, John Albrecht, Harry Halstead, and Kenneth Eaton; Baritone—Robert Jones, Stewart Wooley; Snare drums – Lee Furlong, Bernard Dibble; Bass Drum & Cymbals —Albert Therekauf; Tenor Saxophone—William Quaif; Trombone—Livingstone Barker, James Scott, Matthew Gleason, James Yule, Floyd Dibble, Peter Hagen; Piccolo—Steber Kerr. The organization has $4,000 invested in instruments and a $2,500 music library.

August 31, 1938

60 YEARS AGO
The third annual boat gala of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce was held at Three-Mile Point Saturday afternoon. Highlights of the affair were a two-hour water ski show staged by the Titus Lake Ski Devils of Jefferson, and a boat parade. Taking first prize in the boat parade was a two-boat entry representing the Monitor and Merrimac of Civil War fame. In the Monitor were James B. Gallagher and Richard Currey. The crew of the Merrimac was made up of William Crain, David Gallagher and Gary Shove. They received a $25 U.S. Savings Bond donated by First National Bank of Cooperstown.

August 28, 1963

20 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Bat Company, a local institution since 1981, has been named the Otsego County Chamber’s Small Business of the Year. The business is owned by Donald and Sharon Oberriter.

August 29, 2003