Bound Volumes
October 30, 2025
185 YEARS AGO
When the polls are open, vote yourself and then look out for the rest. Be at hand all day, and if there be a democrat missing start out after him. Possibly he may be backward with his seeding and unable to lose the time required to go to the place of voting. Send him along and work for him yourself. Do anything that is fair and honorable to get out the voters. Bear it in mind that the Democrats never have lost the contest when they all turned out to the election. Don’t forget this! Some men station themselves at the ballot box, on the day of the election, to brow beat and overawe poor men, who may happen to be in debt to them. Democrats! Will you suffer this thing to be done? No, you must never tamely bend to the tyrant oppressor’s yoke! You must be permitted to vote as precisely as you wish. Stand at the polls until the ballot box is closed, and see that the infirm Democrats are not kept away from voting by the crowd. Men are employed in some places to block up the polls and keep the Democrats away. Watch well that the way is kept clear.
October 26, 1840
110 YEARS AGO
Levant W. Seeger, the County Superintendent of the Poor, says that in his opinion there will be no necessity, for several years, of erecting new buildings at the County Farm. While it is true that the administration building was erected in 1826 and is therefore of somewhat ancient architecture, Mr. Seeger believes that with good management and the further development of some of the ideas that he has put into practice for convenience the old building will last for many years yet. This is welcome news to the taxpayers, who have been told year after year of the urgent necessity of more modern structures.
October 27, 1915
85 YEARS AGO
Five men registered with the Cooperstown Area draft board had their numbers drawn in the lottery. They are: Clifford E. Harrington, Mt. Vision, 1st #158; Frank Joseph Kavic, Jr., Schuyler Lake, 2nd #192; Morgan James Bunn, New Lisbon, 19th #105; Joseph James Gomiller, RD 3 Cooperstown, 41st #188; Norman Stanley Walter, Garrattsville, 46th #120. Some 4,881 men between the ages of 21 and 35 have registered for the first peacetime draft in the nation’s history.
October 30, 1940
60 YEARS AGO
Clyde S. Becker of this village will retire after more than 52 years in the banking business, all of them spent with the National Commercial Bank and Trust Company of Albany and the predecessor of its Cooperstown office, the Second National Bank. He joined the firm in 1913 as a messenger and file clerk. After spending the winter in Florida Mr. Becker said he plans to devote more time to his longtime hobby of dealing in and repairing antique clocks. He has about 70 such clocks in his collection, the oldest of which is an English lantern clock which he said is about 300 years old.
October 27, 1965
20 YEARS AGO
Cooperstown High School will host two quiz teams this year. “I’m very excited about this year,” said Quiz Team advisor Tom Good. “We’ve never had two teams before. Five seniors comprise the “A” or varsity team – Captain Rob Orenstein, Chris Leon, Will Carrius, Melanie Garcia and Sarah Harley. The sixth team member will be either Marissa Kaplan or Audrey Henkels. “I try to keep gender equality,” Good said. There are three boys and three girls on each team. Quinn Hoffman, Zack Mahlum, Becky Fisher, Xenia Rudenko and Wes Honnicker are on the second team.
October 28, 2005
