Culled from October, 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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Friday morning the first frost to injure vegetation appeared. Wednesday morning there was a second frost severe enough to form a thin ice. [This appeared in the 10/4/1907 issue.]
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William Dickson, who for several years has bottled the milk from his dairy and peddled it about the village, discontinued the business October 1.
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Friday evening about 50 of the friends of Miss Beula Wight made her a surprise part at her home in southern Bovina. Dancing was indulged in.
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Elmer Ackerly had a narrow escape Monday while working on the improvements on F. S. Angell’s house on the Gray Mountain. Raymond Slade was hunting in that vicinity and a charge from his gun lodged in the front of the house and scattering shot fell like hail about Mr. Ackerly, and three struck him in the back and passed thru his clothing but did not enter the body. Hunters should use more care as to the direction they shoot.[Ed: Ethel Edwards (now 102), who grew up on Dingle Hill, remembers walking on Gray Mountain with friends when she was 17 or 18. She recalls that Marian Angell would drive her horse and wagon to Arena to shop (Arena had a barber shop, two grocery stores, a doctor, and a blacksmith where she could have her horse shod. Presumably she would drive down Angell’s Road onto Dingle Hill.) Barbara Cole recalls her mother, Mrs. Hazel Oliver, talking of Mrs. Angell driving her buggy into town in the evening with lanterns lit. Later Barbara would take her children up to Gray Mountain—way up the hill behind the family farm-for walks. There was an old foundation there and people would dig the dumps, she recounts.]
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Miss Antoinette Shaver died Wednesday, October 16, at the County Alms House, aged 81 years. She was born in the town of Andes and resided in the vicinity of Shavertown until about 15 years ago when she was taken to county house. She was born deaf and dumb.
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Alex Liddle started Wednesday with a drove of cows for Dutchess county.[This was the only way, certainly in the days before railroads, for a farmer to get his herd to market to sell it.]
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Thieves entered William H. Reynolds’ barn above the village and stole ten bushels of potatoes.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Muir, of Stamford, former Andes residents, left Monday for Miami, Florida where they will spend the winter. [This was before the founding of Miami Beach in 1915. In 1896 Henry Flagler brought his railroad, the Florida East Coast Railroad, which had earlier extended only as far as Palm Beach, into Miami, then wilderness, and began to develop the town.]
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Excursion From Andes.
October 22, the Delaware & Eastern in connection with the U. & D. will fund an excursion to New York city at special low rates. Train leaves Andes at 7:50 a.m., and the fare for round trip is only $4.20. This is a rare opportunity to see the sights of the Metropolis. Tickets are good returning on any regular train before mid-night on October. 28.~