The Way We Were
Culled by Judy Garrison From October 1914 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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Robert L. Gerry, at his estate in southern Bovina, has started the work of building a concrete vegetable cellar and a store house and a tool house will also be built this fall.
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Pheasants are protected and must not be shot until October 1, 1916.
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Joseph Taylor who has conducted a pool room and ice cream parlor in the John Connor building, discontinued the business October 1st. [Jim Andrews: What is now Dorothy McArdle’s Apple Tree Realty office.]
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A light vote was cast in the Primary Election in Andes on Monday afternoon. The total vote in the town was only 80. By districts the vote was:
District No. 1–Republican 48; Democrat 8; Prohibition 1.
District No. 2—Republican 18; Democrat 3; Progressive 1; Socialist 1.
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Judge M. Linn Bruce has removed the iron fence along the sidewalk leading to High street, and has it up along Main street from the stream at Spiers’ to the Ballantine bank and from above the Bank past where the store stood to the corner of the cross street.
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Commissioner of Agriculture Calvin J. Huson has approved the plans for the first building to be erected for the Delhi Agricultural School. It will be known as the dairy building and be built of brick, with lecture rooms, cheese and butter rooms. A group for other buildings has been prepared. [Ed.: This is the beginning of what is now known as the Delhi College of Technology.]
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Dr. A. L Hyzer, formerly of Andes [JA: The road was named for the David Hyzer family who bought the former Charles Cappiello farm almost 100 years ago. Don’t know anything about this Dr. Hyzer.], who for the past thirteen or fourteen years has been engaged in the dental business at Downsville, will soon leave for Warren, Ohio, a city of 20,000 inhabitants, to practice his profession. His family will join him there next spring.
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The pupils of the Cabin Hill school district are certainly up-to-date and hustlers. So far they have collected 27,000 eggs of the tent caterpillar. [Ed.: Now that’s a use of child labor we can all approve of—useful to the community and fun for the kids.]
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The Delaware & Northern will take off the passenger train which it has been operating on the main line between Arkville and East Branch. [JA: It doesn’t appear that this was a permanent change since the D&N still had passenger service from Shavertown to Andes until 1924 – the large Muir trestle on the Geiger farm was filled in with dirt for safety reasons in 1918. The Andes branch separated from the main Arkville East Branch line between Union Grove and Shavertown, approximately in the vicinity of the bridge crossing the reservoir.]
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w. C. Oliver’s residence has been moved back from the street and placed in the center of his large lot, and will make a great improvement. The house, owing to its construction, was a difficult one to move, but the change of location was made without a hitch under the supervision of Willis Hubble, of Roxbury, who has had 25 years experience in moving buildings. The building had to be moved in a diagonal direction, but did not vary an inch when it arrived on the foundation and was the exact height above grade. [JA: This is the Paul Moore house which used to sit on the corner of the lot adjacent to the NBDC building. I had always wondered in what year it was moved. This large Queen Anne house had(s) two fireplaces with the lower exterior chimney moved with the structure. I’ve heard that the family continued to live in the house while it was being moved and that Mrs. Oliver could bake in the kitchen stove without the cake falling and that the move was so smooth that none of the clocks in the house stopped ticking!]
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Ed.: the following is an excerpt from a report of a new village ordinance, which makes me think we have it easier today with speeding violations in the hamlet of Andes:
It is hereby declared to be and shall be unlawful for any person or persons to be and shall be unlawful for any person or persons to drive any automobile or vehicle in or upon any of the streets of the village at a greater rate of speed that fifteen miles per hour. A violation of this ordinance shall be punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars and more than twenty five dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more that twenty-five days, or both fine and imprisonment. [italics ours].~