Hometown History April 6, 2023 135 Years AgoHiram F. McMullen, a car inspector on the N.Y.O. & W.R.R. was run over and killed at Sidney on Tuesday. The cars were unprotected by flags, and as McMullen was in the act of crawling under to reach the other side of the track, a train in charge of conductor Allen, backed in upon the cars, catching his left hand just as he placed it upon the rail, severing it at the wrist…
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Hometown History March 30, 2023 125 Years AgoPeople say prices are inflated now and that we are overdoing it. Such critics should have been here sixteen years ago. Why, there is any quantity of well-situated property in the central part of the town that doesn’t yet command the figure it was held at in 1872. The change of recent years, the advance in value, has been largely felt along Main Street, and in the outlying districts. Main Street frontages are…
Hometown History March 23, 2023 135 Years AgoA Big Fire in Oneonta Early This Morning — $50,000 More Gone to Blazes – At about five o’clock this morning people were roused from slumber by a din of whistles and clang of bells that made it tolerably evident a considerable fire was underway. Those who hurried into Main Street were speedily aware that the “wooden row” was again in for it. The fire appears to have been first discovered by men…
Hometown History March 16, 2023 135 Years AgoThe bright, spring-like weather of Friday and Saturday last, a warm sun shining on bare ground, was succeeded by a dark day Sunday, and that night began the heaviest snowfall of the season. The wind came up with the day, and the dry, powdery snow still falling, drifts formed very quickly. The scene on Main Street Tuesday morning was Arctic enough – nothing in sight but great heaps and long reaches of dazzling…
Hometown History March 9, 2023 135 Years AgoThe season 1888 opens with the biggest real estate deal yet recorded for Oneonta in the purchase by Geo. I. Wilber, from A.C. Lewis, of all remaining to the latter of the old Ford place, 156.75 feet on Main Street, at about $30,000. This includes the east half of the Union Block, 22.5 feet, a fine four-story brick building, store on the street and three flats above – as well as a large…
Hometown History March 2, 2023 110 Years AgoResident Manager Roberts of the Oneonta Theatre has closed a contract with C.C. Miller for a thorough rewiring of the theatre and the removal of all the lighting fixtures now in use in that playhouse, and the installation in replacement of complete and modern equipment that will be up to the minute. The new wiring will conform to the highest standards of safety and of the underwriters and will make the house doubly…
Hometown History February 16, 2023 135 Years AgoThe Local News – The tower of the Episcopal Church is to cost $1,895, and will be carried up 31 feet in stone and nine feet of galvanized iron – a total of 40 feet. The top finish square will consist of a battlement and pinnacles with crockets at the corners, and on one of the pinnacles a cross.We noted some time since that W.L. Scott of Norwich, a brother of Captain Walter…
Hometown History February 9, 2023 135 Years AgoThe Local News – The electric light company have decided to construct a building and supply their own power. A lot on Prospect Street opposite the freight house has been secured from Moody and Gould, and work will soon commence upon a new brick building 60 x 80 feet. Four steam engines will be used, for which steam will be furnished from a 250-horsepower boiler. A duplicate set of arc and incandescent dynamos…
Hometown History February 2, 2023 135 Years AgoThe Local News – The directors of the Delaware & Hudson Company had a gorgeous car made for their own use, at a cost of $25,000. It was heated by a new system, which was intended to supersede the present method. The car stood Saturday forenoon near the Green Island shops and William Burt of Albany was in charge. He raked up the fire to get a higher temperature in the car, when…
Hometown History January 26, 2023 135 Years AgoThe Local News: Evaporated apples have superseded the old-time dried apple. A dealer of this town has long had on hand some 18 barrels of dried apples, for which there appeared to be no sale. He challenged another dealer the other day to make him an offer for them, and accepted fifty cents a barrel. On examining the apples they were found as lively with worms as the average Italian is with fleas.…
