Bound Volumes

November 9, 2023

110 YEARS AGO
Local—Some mysterious individual seems to have a mania for traversing the streets at night, disturbing the inhabitants of the village by running up on the doorsteps and leaving handbills and tracts attacking the Roman Catholic Church in general and the pope in particular. If these reformers have anything important to say, we would suggest that they hire a hall, or come around in the daylight.
Linn Pope of Toddsville has been feasting on Calarab figs since Friday last, he having guessed the nearest to the number of figs in the basket in the Mulkins’ Store window for four weeks past. There were 3,657 figs in the basket and Mr. Pope guessed 3,600.

November 5, 1913

85 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown high school gridiron season ended Friday afternoon when the Redskins fell to a powerful Oneonta high school eleven, 21 to 13. The traditional game between the two schools was played before a throng of 2,500 at the new Webb Island field. Trailing throughout the contest, and after Oneonta scored its last touchdown with less than two minutes remaining, the Redskins scored two touchdowns, the first drive starting with an aerial heave from star back Walt Eggleston to Jim Callahan. Bob Dodge then took the handoff on a reverse, smashed off right tackle and took it to the Oneonta twelve before going out of bounds. Two plays later Eggleston scored when Dodge passed to Callahan who lateraled to Eggleston. Eggleston dropkicked the extra point. The Redskins then recovered an Oneonta fumble and scored on a 35-yard pass from Eggleston to Callahan who took it in from the five.

November 9, 1938

60 YEARS AGO
Paul S. Kerr, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. announced the appointment of Ken Smith as Director of the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum. He covered baseball for the Hartford Courant while attending Trinity College and later became office boy for the New York Evening Mail. Smith has been with the New York Mirror since 1931 and covered major league baseball for 38 years. He helped to count ballots in the first election for Hall of Fame members in 1936 and attended the dedication of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1939.

November 6, 1963

35 YEARS AGO
Jennie Bailey Elliott celebrated her 100th birthday at Woodside Hall October 21. Mrs. Elliott was born on October 21, 1888 in Massena, the daughter of Frank and Anna Miller Bailey. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1910, majoring in music. She married Carl Elliott and lived in Massena until she was 94 before joining her daughter Jane Brayden in Cooperstown.

November 9, 1988