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September 18, 2025

185 YEARS AGO

September 21, 1840

135 YEARS AGO

If your hay crop is large and you wish to feed it out on the farm, call at Dr. James’ when you come to the Fair, and have your horse’s teeth put in order. Chris Post says that his horses eat three times the amount they did before he had their teeth floated.

Ladies Cloaks—You certainly must buy you a new cloak this fall, for B.F. Murdock & Sons are offering them cheaper than ever. They have an elegant stock to select from, and feel confident that they can please all, both as to quality and price.

September 19, 1890

110 YEARS AGO

During the summer numerous repairs have been in progress at Hartwick Seminary, Otsego County’s oldest institution of learning which opens for the fall term Tuesday, October 5. A basement has been put under the south wing and the toilet with tub and shower baths placed there. A new cesspool has been dug and connected with the new basement. All the rooms on the third floor, both wings, have been wainscoted and sides and ceiling covered with beaver board and painted in pleasing colors. New hard wood floors have been laid. The same has been done on the second and first floors of the south wing. New doors have been hung and casings repaired where damaged. Window sashes likewise. The roof with eave troughs have been repaired and painted.

September 15, 1915

60 YEARS AGO

At the annual meeting of the Upstate Home for Children, held at the Home in Milford Center, the membership present approved a change in corporate powers and purposes to permit operation of a home for mentally retarded children of ages 8 through 18 at entry. The change is subject to court approval as well as approval of the State Department of Social Welfare and the State Commissioner of Education.

September 15, 1965

35 YEARS AGO

Mother Nature’s kind ministrations to her children in the form of raindrops and the plucky fielding of “Little Egypt” Reid for the Cat Town Scholars, combined to defeat the Cardiff Giants by a 9-5 tally on Sunday, bringing an end to the regular season town ball schedule at The Farmers’ Museum. It was in the second hand that the stakes were loaded for “Slick” Reese of the Cardiff Giants who caught one with the meat of the bat and sent it high and deep in the direction of the General Store. The ball entered the top of a tree and began a slow descent through the limbs before dropping into the waiting palms of “Little Egypt” Reid who gathered the object to her bosom as a mother would a favored child.

September 19, 1990

20 YEARS AGO

A whole roasted pig, coleslaw, baked beans, and dessert will be featured at a benefit dinner for the Fly Creek Historic District initiative. Sponsored by the Fly Creek Area Historical Society, the dinner will be served at the Fly Creek Grange on Cemetery Road from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 24. The pulled pork, a donation from Portobello’s of Fly Creek, will be slow-roasted on the Grange lawn. The cost is $7.50 for the meal.

September 16, 2005