Bound Volumes
July 3, 2025
160 YEARS AGO
A Short Run—Peterson, whose escape from jail was noticed last week, had but a short run. He was captured by Mr. Loveland, hotel keeper at Otego, on Thursday of last week, in that town. Peterson had procured a six-shooter, which he had loaded in order to meet emergencies, and which he attempted to draw on Mr. L. But that gentleman was a little too quick and strong for him, and took the pistol into his own possession.
The trial of Jabez R. Weeks, of Hartwick, for the murder of Austin Scott, was closed on Friday night last, when the jury rendered a verdict of manslaughter in the third degree, and Judge Parker sentenced him to four years imprisonment in the State prison. It will be remembered that the affray occurred in Toddsville last winter, in the course of which Weeks stabbed Scott with a jackknife, producing death in two days – rum the cause as usual in such cases.
July 7, 1865
85 YEARS AGO
Local—For the first time in the memory of anyone in the village, the Otsego County jail is uninhabited. For several days, one prisoner has been incarcerated and he was released Tuesday morning. Now the doors are all unlocked and the inside of the cells are receiving a coat of paint. The lowest number of prisoners recorded previously was on March 23, 1937, when only three people were on the hill. The highest number ever recorded was on August 9, 1936 when the total swelled to 32.
July 3, 1940
60 YEARS AGO
Among the 98 students graduating from Cooperstown high school in the class of 1965 are Gary Duane Barnum, Sandra Jane Bliss, Clifford P. Brunner, James E. Dow, Gerald B. Ellsworth, Benn M. Goddard, Pamela K. Grady, David John Kull, Robert J. Laidlaw, John J. Michell, Wayne T. Moakler, Carolyn Ives Mook, William H. Murdock, Janet L. Potter, Nancy J. Powers, Jane Pugliese, Mary Rose Pugliese, Terence J.R. Pugliese, Polly Ann Rathbun, Jane Rees, David A. Sanford, John H. Schallert, John B. Sheffield, Claudia B. Smith, Patricia J. Taugher, John Lee Tedesco, Catharine Rhea Tennant, Jane E. Tipple, Edward B. Walker, Kathleen M. Winne, Margaret E. Winnie, and Frances Louise Zigon.
June 30, 1965
35 YEARS AGO
Seventy-one years after its initial involvement with the acquisition of the Phinney lot, the present site of Doubleday Field, for development as a baseball diamond, the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce is co-sponsoring a community involvement program with the village to paint the grandstand bleachers, first constructed in 1939. According to Chamber board member, Jeff Stevens an executive at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the bleachers have not been painted in more than 10 years. Stevens and village trustee Pamela Washburn are organizing volunteers to work on July 14 and 15, a Saturday and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The grandstand was constructed with steel and wood taken from an old fairgrounds grandstand.
July 4, 1990
20 YEARS AGO
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