Miscellaneous Items

Thomas Newton

Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 10, 1877

 

Thomas Newton and wife of the town of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], are spending the sinter in our place [Binghamton, Broome Co., NY].  We would further add that it is the first time that Mr. Newton has ever left your town with any pretentions to keeping house and he was 84 last November.  He was born in what is now Bainbridge, and lived in said town longer than any other man or woman, living on the same farm over 83 years and always within one and a half miles from his birth place.  He is quite smart, walks to the neighbors, carries in his wood, waits upon himself in general and reads common print without the aid of glasses.  He never missed voting at a presidential election since his age would allow him to vote, casting his last vote for Gov. Hayes, under whose administration he hopes to live for the next four years

 

Republican Nominees, Chenango County, NY

About 1905

 

 

Chenango County Republican nominees for Important Offices

Edgar A. Pearsall, Oxford                    George L. Page, Greene              Walter A. Shepardson, Otselic

     [For Assemblyman]                                 [For Sheriff]                                   [For County Clerk]

 

 

Eleanor's Cautiousness Saves Life

Bainbridge News & Republican, August 3, 1944

Some years ago, when air travel was very young, Walter H. Beech, now president of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, was at a New York airfield watching a passenger plane warming up.  there was a chill wind and storm clouds hung low.  Beech walked up to the pilot, "You aren't going to take off into that storm, are you?" he asked.  The answer was a emphatic "Yes."  "But you can't make it in this kind of weather," Beech advised.  "I'm the guy who flies the planes," snapped the pilot, "and I say I can."  "I'm the guy who builds them," Beech answered, "and I say you can't."

 

Of the several passengers only one--a tall woman--rose from her seat and alighted.  "I'm willing to take the word of the man who builds them," she smiled, and she stood with Beech watching the plane take off into the murky sky. The trip was never completed.  The plane crashed, killing both pilot and passengers.  And the one who was saved by the warning--Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.