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{"HeadlineLight 14 Italic"/}25 years ago
Oct. 10, 1984
Wilber National bank will hold a Grand Opening of its Cooperstown office at 62 Main St., on Saturday, Oct. 13.
Festivities, which include a ribbon cutting ceremony and tours of the banking facility, will begin at 2:15 p.m. A reception will follow at the Veterans Club located adjacent to the bank.
The address of 62 Main St., in Cooperstown was once the location of the Second National Bank of Cooperstown (Begun in 1853 as the Bank of Cooperstown). The office was renovated in 1892.
The interior and exterior of Wilber Bank's Cooperstown office have been restored. It now resembles the former Second National Bank of Cooperstown office as it was in the late nineteenth century.
The opening will have an old fashioned flavor to accent the new office's nineteenth century setting, officials said.
{"HeadlineLight 14 Italic"/}50 years ago
Oct. 10, 1959
Mrs. Charles W. Collins, Cooperstown, was guest speaker at the DAR meeting held Thursday at the home of Mrs. Earle P. Elmore, Draper Street.
Mrs. Collins introduced by Mrs. Ellis H. Whitaker, regent, gave a historic sketch of the Oneonta chapter entitled, "Sixty and Two" in celebration of Oneonta's Year of History.
Dividing the history into decades from the founding date of June 2, 1897, with particular emphasis on the last ten years, Mrs. Collins recalled the DAR's patriotic efforts in both World Wars.
Mrs. Collins also commented on the nine volumes of cemetery and biographical records now at the research library of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, which were compiled while Mrs. Emerson Bull, Oneonta, was state chairman of genealogical records.
The Oneonta chapter has had three centenarians and at present there are seven members who have belonged to the DAR 50 or more years.
Assisting Mrs. Elmore were Miss Madalyn Leitzell, Mrs. Bull, Miss Elsie E. Potter, Mrs. William B. Mason, and Mrs. Charles F. Huntington. Mrs. Roscoe Briggs presided at the tea tables.
