Culled from June 1909 issues of The Andes Recorder
100 Years Ago
By Judy GarrisonWEEK IN AND ABOUT ANDES

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Events of a Week as Chronicled by
the Man on the Street

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Tuesday evening the village trustees voted to sprinkle the streets this summer. Water will be pumped into a storage tank by a ram for use in the sprinkler. [Jim Andrews: I would imagine that in those days the streets would have to be sprinkled every day to do any good. They should try that on High Street now!!]
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Improvement Continued-Tuesday masons commenced work on the wall that Harry Dowie is having built between his property and the Andes cemetery. The stone are shipped in on the railroad. The high bank adjoining the highway will also be graded. [JA: I believe that the wall was dedicated in 1904. This could be the wall at the top of the hill. Harry Dowie’s house was the Contrini house {Ed.: now owned by Bobbi & Mark Howell} above the newer part of the cemetery. The wall has held up quite well and only recently began to deteriorate to the point where parts of it needed to be replaced. Harry donated the materials and labor to construct the entire wall. Interestingly enough, his grave has an impressive spire monument in the Dowie lot, but the death date was never sandblasted in.]

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Robert R. Gladstone was seized with acute indigestion Wednesday, causing him to drop to the floor, but is improving.

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THE WHITE RIBBONERS
Close Session in Andes on Thursday
In round table by Mrs. Seaberry she said women should have the ballot because men do not know how to dig out the dirty corners. [Ed.: !!] A knowledge of food values and scientific cooking is good temperance education. A look into many a workingman’s dinner pail explains why about 2 p.m. he feels that he must step “around the corner” to the saloon.

[Ed.: following is another excerpt from a W.C.T.U. news item]

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The Delaware county W. C. T. U. Institute opened in the Methodist church at Andes Wednesday morning with the familiar hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers.”….Paper by Mrs. Mallory, of Hancock, “Why a Total Abstinence Pledge?” Because of heredity of appetite for intoxicants, and because girls who never touch it, do not become drunkards. [JA: Interesting. I believe that Andes was “dry” from the 1870’s until the 1950’s.]

The first paper of the afternoon was by Mrs. Bates, of Walton, “The White Slave Traffic” which was along the line of work in the Purity department. The workings of this traffic were explained, the legislation against it referred to, and the fact brought out that mothers should instruct and warn their daughters against this hidden danger.
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Wednesday, Thomas Bouton purchased of David Ballantine, what is known as the Union Hall block in the village of Andes, and the price paid is stated to be $2,250. Immediate possession was given.

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Eight Year Daughter of W. C. Liddle Has Narrow Escape Friday
Friday forenoon Ruby, the eight year old daughter of Walter C. Liddle on the Tremperskill, was severely burned. That morning Mrs. Liddle was indisposed and had gone upstairs to lay down, and Mr. Liddle was away with the milk. ……from the sudden flaming up of what was in the stove her dress caught fire. The child’s screams awakened her mother who rushed down stairs and found the child’s clothing on fire. Fortunately a pail of water stood at hand and seizing this she dashed it over the child and extinguished the flames. D. L. Bruce, who had started on a fishing trip, was passing just at this time, telephoned from Albert Slade’s for a doctor and then returned and assisted Mrs. Liddle in applying grated potatoes to the burned parts and alleviated the child’s suffering until the doctor arrived…..

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Mrs. (Dr.) James A. Gladstone has purchased the house at the head of High street, which they have occupied for several years, from the estate of her mother, Mrs, Nancy Ballantine. The price paid has not been definitely learned. We understand that Mrs. Gladstone will make numerous alterations and improvements to the property [Buffy Calvert: Amy Ballantine Gladstone had lived there since 1896. She did, in fact, make great improvements to her house the following year, as did her sister Lillian (Mrs. Matthew Linn Bruce) to her mother’s house next door on Main Street which they purchased from the estate.]

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Thieves Secure 15 Hens and 50 Chickens at Will Wight’s
Some time between dark Saturday night and daylight Sabbath morning, thieves visited Will Wight’s and made a big haul of poultry. They unlocked the door of Mr. Wight’s hen house and secured fifteen hens and re-locked the door and took the key, which they had found under a stone near the door, away with them….No noise was heard during the night by any of the family and if it was local talent, the question is what could they do with so many chickens in order that their contemptable (sic) work would not be discovered, unless they had outside confederates to make way with the spoils.

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Monday 9,000 fingerling trout were received from the Margaretville hatchery and placed in the streams in the vicinity of Andes village. Tuesday 3,000 more were received.~