Bound Volumes, Hometown History

October 15, 2026

90 YEARS AGO

Pledges totaling $3,374.50 were reported when workers in the financial campaign of the Neighborhood Association met at the Hotel Oneonta for breakfast yesterday. This is considered a very gratifying figure since only about 125 individuals were represented. Workers, committee chairmen and key men in the canvass of institutions employing more than 15 workers are urged to attend the breakfast this morning, if possible, and to make a final report at the Friday morning breakfast. There will be some final work done Saturday and possibly Monday. Indications were that the first of the larger institutions would qualify for the 100 percent cards showing that all employees had made some gift to the fund.

October 1936

70 YEARS AGO

Dr. and Mrs. LeRoy S. House, Colliscroft, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Susan Ford House, to Herbert Boyd Plantz of Olean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilber E. Plantz, Amsterdam. Miss House is a graduate of Oneonta High School and Elmira College, class of 1955. She is employed as a case worker for the Otsego County Welfare Department. Mr. Plantz is a graduate of Wilber Lynch High School, Amsterdam and St. Lawrence University. He served in the Air Force during World War II. He is employed by C.I.T. Credit Corp at Olean.

October 1956

30 YEARS AGO

The landscape in Meridale was irrevocably changed this week when bulldozers brought down some of the most familiar landmarks in the Delaware County countryside—the barns of Meridale Farms. The giant sales barn where buyers from all over the world looked over the famous farm’s prized Jerseys early in the 20th century; the 1900 creamery where the herd’s ultra-rich milk was processed into butter and cheese; and the “40” barn, which housed 40 cows and stood sentinel on a hairpin turn along Route 28, all fell before the wrecking machines.

October 1996

20 YEARS AGO

October 2006