Culled by Judy Garrison  From August 1912 issues of

The Andes Recorder  100 Years Ago

 Week In and About ANDES

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

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With commentary by Jim Andrews

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Roy Davis, whose family, since the burning of the “Beehive” on the Tremperskill above Shavertown, have found shelter in another of Isaac Fletcher’s houses, was arrested Thursday charged with non-support of his family. Officer W. T. Hyzer found Davis near Pine Hill and brought him to Andes. When taken before Justice Walter Gladstone he plead guilty to the charge. The Justice fixed his bonds at $500, or failure to secure bonds to serve four months in Jail. Davis failed to secure bondsmen and about 11 o’clock Thursday night was taken to Delhi and turned over to Sheriff Austin. The family is destitute and is being cared for by the Poormaster.

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The residence of George Hotaling in Hotaling Hollow, two miles from Meridale was entered about 6:30 o’clock Wednesday morning Mr. Hotaling is a family who keeps a small grocery store. The robbery was committed when he went to the creamery with milk, a distance of about a quarter of a mile from his farm. When he returned he saw tracks of the intruders around the house and …discovered $1,200 was missing. He suspected Will Corwin, aged 19, who worked for him in haying and Corwin, who with a companion named Ford gave himself up, was held for grand jury. Ford was discharged. Hotaling lacks confidence in banks and keeps his money in the house. No trace of the $1,200 has been found.

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[Ed: This appeared the following week.]  Friday, Will Corwin, who was arrested last Wednesday, charged with the robbery of the home of George Houghtaling [sic] in Houghtaling Hollow, near Meridale, confessed to Sheriff Austin and implicated his uncle, Abraham Ford, known as “Pat” Ford, as planning the crime. According to Corwin, “Pat”, who worked for a man named Crandall, secured work for him during haying at Houghtaling’s in order to learn where the money was kept and when he was paid off the money was taken from an old felt boot, which was kept on the store.

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Corwin states that after breaking into the house and securing the money, he hid it in the woods on the way to the Crandall farm, and later he and “Pat” Ford took the money to Isaac Ford’s and secreted it between the siding and lathe of the house. Sheriff Austin went to the Ford home and found the spot where the siding had been removed, but there was no money there.

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The Sheriff then went to Crandalls and arrested “Pat” Ford and took him before Justice Bouton at Meridale. He waived examination and was held for the grand jury. On the way to jail Ford admitted guilt and stated that he had removed the money from the side of the house and buried it in a tin can at the foot of a tree on the Isaac Ford farm. The can was found where Ford stated he put it and in the can were $2,920 in bills, which were returned to Mr. Houghtaling.

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Saturday Corwin and Ford confessed to the Sheriff that $205 of the money would be found in the possession of Edna York at Isaac Ford’s and that sum was also recovered. Sunday they admitted that $160 was secreted in the ceiling of that home and it was also recovered. It is now stated the $3,330 was taken and that all but $15 has been recovered. The two men will have to remain in jail until the grand jury meets in October.

Under the provisions of the postoffice appropriation bill beginning September 1, no mail will be delivered on Sunday at any first or second class postoffice in the United Stated even if called for at the office. Only special delivery letters will be delivered.

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Dorothy, the 3-year-old child of Merton Signor on High street, narrowly escaped being drowned Monday by falling in John Connor’s watering trough. Jane Connor heard the noise made by the child splashing the water in its struggles after it fell in and going out to ascertain the cause found the child entirely under water in the trough. She hurridly [sic] got it out and just in time to save its life. Last spring the child fell in the mill pond and was only revived after much effort. [Jim Andrews: John Connor was the owner of the Connor Block, located where Hogan’s is now. Sounds like the three year old needed some supervision. John Connor, ten years later, set fire to the Connor Block and burned it to the ground. He was arrested for arson, jailed in Delhi where he later committed suicide.]

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The later rains have given the buckwheat in the vicinity, now in the zenith of blossom, a luxurious growth, and there is every indication that there will be an abundance of buckwheat cakes to grace the breakfast table next winter.

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Last Saturday, Judge M. Linn Bruce and party consisting of Mrs. Bruce, May Bruce, John Knapp, Professor Osgood of Columbia University, and Mrs. Osgood, and Donald MacWhirter climbed the heights of Mr. Pisgah – 3,450 feet. Upon leaving for the return trip they lost their bearings and went down the wrong side of the mountain. After going thru the woods for a considerable way they came out at John A. Irvine’s on Coulter Brook, Bovina, instead of at James Cairns’ where they had left the rig. John and Donald walked back for the team, but the rest of the party returned home in Alex Hilson’s auto. [JA: We need to remember that back in 1912, Mount Pisgah was dense forest and no ski trails had been cut, and getting lost would not be a hard thing to do.]  ~