150 Years Ago
December 19, 1866 — Messrs. Dwight & Jerome Eggleston have rented the room adjoining their saloon, under the Lincklaen House, and fitted it up for an eating room. They have now ample accommodations for furnishing oyster suppers, etc., to private parties-and the boys know how to do it.
125 Years Ago
December 17, 1891 — Four young men from town felt uncommonly funny last Friday night so they boarded a wagon from Fenner driven by two boys, rode across the railroad to the fountain, stopped the horse, demanded a treat, turned the wheels back, unhitched the horse and guyed the boys generally. The boys claim that money was demanded but none was taken. Then the town boys came home laughing and the country boys went home sad and discouraged. The next morning the wind blew the other way and when Fenner arrived in town mad and rampant, our town boys had a sudden faintness. Ten dollars seemed cheap enough for the fun and now when you mention the “highway robbery” o’ last week, four town boys have errands across the street.
100 Years Ago
December 21, 1916 — Dr. David W. Parp of the State Board of Charities, who recently inspected the Children’s Home at Peterboro, recommends several additional conveniences including flush toilets and adequate drainage, dormitory space, single beds to replace the double ones now used, hair brushes for children, change in dietary, doors for entrances to fire escape, mangle for laundry, metal ceiling for boys’ playroom, electric lights and a greater supply of playthings.
He regards the fire protection poor and the sanitary arrangements as primitive and a disgrace to any charitable institution. He says the children’s clothing is adequate and praises the library facilities.
50 Years Ago
December 21, 1966 —
A New Look At Lincoln – Mrs. Dorothy Riester, nationally famed sculptor and designer of Cazenovia, sketches the face of Abraham Lincoln prior to starting work on a nine-foot statue of the sixteenth President that will be a feature of the new office of the Lincoln National Bank & Trust Company to be opened early next year at MONY Center. The sketching enables Mrs. Riester to get the “feel” of the facial planes in a semi-abstract way and to select the most dominant features that would reveal Lincoln’s character.
Years Ago is compiled by Erica Barnes. She is a contributing writer for The Cazenovia Republican with a degree in history and communications from Flagler College. She compiles the column from the archives of the Cazenovia Public Library. It is written in the style of the time.
