Culled by Judy Garrison From September 1913 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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James Armstrong, who two years ago sold his farm in Gladstone Hollow to Harold Hyzer and moved to Andes village, has purchased the farm again and expects to move into it October 1. Mr. Hyzer contemplates moving to Arena. [Ed.: Does anyone know if he is the Hyzer for whom Hyzer Hill Rd. is named?]
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The Town Board met Tuesday and designated Union Hall, Andes, as the polling place in Dist. No. 1, and Tompkin’s hall, Union Grove, in Dist. No. 2. A petition with 73 names was presented asking that the place of voting for the second district be changed from Union Grove to Shavertown, but as the petition was not a majority of the district no change was made. The district may be allowed to vote on the question. [Ed.: Polling places get demolished, and in some cases so do the villages they are in. These days determinations of polling place changes are no longer made by petition or vote.]
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Next Tuesday is Primary Day, when the county and towns are put to hundreds of dollars of useless expense. [Ed.: The editor certainly doesn’t limit his opinion giving to editorials.]
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This year 1913 has been a record-breaker for killing frosts. June 9, a frost damaged crops and with the dry weather following cut short the hay crop, and early fall frosts now do thousands of dollars damage.
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The frosts of last week were followed by a genuine freeze Sabbath night, in which ice a quarter of an inch thick was formed. Monday morning [Ed.: September 15th] the temperature in places about Andes dropped to 22 degrees above zero. As a result corn, late buckwheat and all garden stuff was practically destroyed over a wide area.
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The year will be remembered as the worst known in many years, and as the year with only 90 days summer.
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John Clement, who had been in a very feeble condition for some time, died at his home on the Tremperskill…aged 77 years…the greater part of his life was spent in Andes. In 1867 he went to California by way of Nicaragua and stayed a year, returning by the Isthmus of Panama…~