Bound Volumes

October 9, 2025

110 YEARS AGO

October 6, 1915

85 YEARS AGO

Where Nature Smiles—Sunday morning, at the 11 o’clock service at the Methodist Church, a special service of re-enlistment will be observed. A bulletin and order of service will be used and there will be special music. Miss Margaret Smith will sing as a solo number “My Task.” The service is part of a month of rally services being observed in this church.

George Tillapaugh left on Tuesday afternoon for Syracuse where he took a plane for Cincinnati, Ohio. There he will attend the annual meeting of the National Select Morticians which is in session at the Netherlands Plaza Hotel this week.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Gregory Lippitt have moved into their new house on Nelson Avenue.

October 9, 1940

35 YEARS AGO

Thanks to the generosity of Jane H. Patrick, a Trustee of the hospital and a member of the Bassett Board of Directors, six new Lifeline units have been purchased. Patrick had requested that all donations made in memory of her late husband, Selwyn Patrick, go toward the purchase of Lifeline units. The Bassett Lifeline is a personal response system which connects Bassett’s Emergency Service department with subscribers through a telephone-based communications system installed in their home. Currently, 170 elderly and disabled people are Lifeline subscribers.

October 10, 1990

20 YEARS AGO

Village Sewer Board Chairman Ted Peters headed for Albany on Wednesday, October 5, to tell a gathering of village mayors, town supervisors, clerks, treasurers, administrators and sewer board members about wastewater management in Cooperstown. Peters has been dealing with wastewater issues and the village’s sewer infrastructure for the past 31 years, and he has chaired the Sewer Board since 1975. “I think it’s quite an honor for Ted to be asked to present a talk about our sewer system to other village officials from around the state,” Stuart Taugher, village trustee, told his colleagues at a board meeting last month.

October 7, 2005