Culled from September, 1907 issues of The Andes 
Recorder —- 100 Years Ago
THE NEWS IN AND ABOUT ANDES
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Events of a Week as Chronicled by the Man on the Street
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Thursday on the Andes branch there were five trains run each way.
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Tuesday at the George Davis sale on the Tremperskill, cows sold for from $12 to $18.
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Judge M. Linn Bruce and family, who have spent the summer in Andes, returned Tuesday to their home in New York city.
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The walk in front of the Big Store [Dickson’s at that time, now Cantina]. has been re-laid and the curbing reset.
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Tuesday George Polley narrowly escaped serious injuries. A piece of the machinery for the new plant of the Andes Creamery company was being unloaded and Mr. Polley was caught between that and an iron tank. He was injured across the chest and shoulders but no bones were broken.
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A number of people about the village complain of having wood stolen and one lady recently saw the thief at her woodpile. Someone is liable to get caught if they continue this kind of business.
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David Ballantine has sold his trotter to James Armstrong.
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Neatly painted sign boards, warning automobilists to reduce speed to ten miles an hour in the corporation, have been erected on the main thorofares leading into the village.
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Last Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carman went out for a few minutes leaving the doors unlocked and during their absence $15 was taken from a tin box. The party who took the money, it is stated, is known. [Their house is the present larger building of Delaware Trading.]
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SAFE CRACKERS IN ANDES
Burglars Enter Andes Postoffice in Early Hours of Wednesday Morning and Secure $600
….As a means of making their escape from town more quickly they went to T. S. Millers barn on upper Main street and stole his horse and wagon, and the horse was found on the Margaretville fair grounds early Wednesday morning without wagon or harness, but these were found later in a shed on the grounds.
The only person in town who heard the burglars was George Calvi, the young Italian shoemaker [in the present Mercantile store], who has his shop and sleeps in the rooms adjoining the postoffice, and he was so badly frightened that he did not give any alarm. According to his story the job was done about 2:30, while one man did the work, two kept watch, one being stationed near the Mungle building [now owned by Linda Jones]and the other at the barber shop [also in the Mercantile building].
For a day or two before the burglary three suspicious characters had been seen at Barton Jackson’s on Palmer Hill. The previous night one was at W.C. Oliver’s [yellow apartment building across from St. Anne’s] in the village and purchased provisions. He is described as a large man with the appearance of having only one arm, and wearing a dark suit of clothes with a slouch hat pulled over his face…..
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Purchased Choice Dairy
Thursday A.E. Liddle purchased the entire dairy of Carl McCune near Pleasant Valley, town of Andes. [Dot Andrews’ father. He lived at the head of Dibble Road—the present Comninel place.] The dairy, which numbers 25, is a very choice one. Mr. Liddle will sell the herd at auction at Bloomville on Friday, September 20.~