210 YEARS AGO: Casualties at a Camp Meeting—Two young ladies, Rachel DuBois and Mary Hopkins, of Ulster County, attending a camp meeting near Newburg, in attempting to pass in a boat from the shore opposite the camp to a sloop that lay in the river, the boat proved leaky and was upset, when both were drowned. Two young men were in the boat when it upset, but were saved by swimming to shore. A man was killed at the same…
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110 YEARS AGO: The city council, at a special meeting held Tuesday evening passed a resolution directing the calling of an election for the purpose of voting on a proposition to appropriate the necessary funds for the purchase of a building and site for the Oneonta Public Library. The sum asked is $6,000. The rooms now occupied by the library are too small for its use. December 1915…
110 YEARS AGO: Evangelist Charles F. Barrett is coming to Cooperstown. The great union evangelistic campaign in Cooperstown, for which preparations have been going on for the past three months, will begin next Sunday evening...…
135 YEARS AGO: The amount of bounty paid by the Town of Unadilla on woodchucks’ tails amounts to $257 and some odd. At 10 cents the tail, it accounts for 2,570 hapless chucks that lost their tails and their lives...…
110 YEARS AGO: In Our Town—The following are the church preferences of the 2,091 persons interviewed in the recent church census made by the laymen of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches: Baptist, 452; Episcopal, 443; Methodist, 347; Catholic, 331; Presbyterian, 326; Universalist, 107; other churches, 25; no preference, 60. The Baptist Missionary barrels for Ellis Island will be packed on Thursday. Donations for the barrels may be sent to the church any time. November 17, 1915…
90 YEARS AGO: Principal Charles W. Hunt of the Oneonta State Normal School will lay before Governor Lehman’s budget committee a proposal for the acquisition by the state of a 25-acre plot west of the present campus upon the hill overlooking the city as a site for an athletic field. The plot is located west of Elm Street and extends from Arnold Avenue north to Sherman Avenue and over the hill nearly to Clinton Avenue. There are four houses included…
135 YEARS AGO: News of the recent arrival from Paris of a lense for the object glass of the 40-inch telescope that is to be made by the Clarks of Cambridgeport, for the University of Southern California, has contracted considerable attention. A great deal of light may be thrown upon some of the vexed questions concerning Mars, Venus, and the other planets by the new telescope. There are very puzzling appearances on their surfaces, some of which seem to demand…
70 YEARS AGO: A defective coal-heating system was found to be the cause of the deaths of Dr. and Mrs. Walter S. Packer, 29 West End Avenue, who were found dead in their home on Monday. Dr. Fisk Brooks’ Coroner’s report shows that the Packers died from the effects of coal gas poisoning. Their daughter, Janet, age 2, and a pet dog Cappy, escaped the deadly monoxide fumes and were unharmed. Dr. Packer was Director of the Regional Oneonta Poultry…
185 YEARS AGO: Died in this village of consumption, on the evening of the 24th, ultimo, Mrs. Phebe Tracy, widow of Mr. Elisha Tracy, in the 50th year of her age. She has long been a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and eminently adorned her profession with those Christian graces enumerated by the Apostle, among which patience and meekness shone with peculiar luster.…
90 YEARS AGO: Approximately 254 messages, exclusive of tests, have been sent over the police radio system since it was installed at headquarters in the municipal building in August, Chief of Police Frank N. Horton reported yesterday in his annual report to the Board of Public Safety. “Last year, in my annual report, I recommended that a two-way radio system be installed, as it would be of real advantage to this department,” Chief Horton said.…
