Culled by Judy Garrison From November 1915 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
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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The Recorder believes in temperance and hopes to be able to publish the fact that every town in Delaware county is dry. We do not favor the radical and unenforceable [sic] idea of the misguided Prohibitionist.
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Tuesday the voters of New York defeated Suffrage to Women by 175,000 majority. The proposed revised constitution was also snowed under. Suffrage was also defeated in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
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The Republicans have a safe majority in the State Assembly—Republicans 100; Democrats 49; Progressives 1. [Jim Andrews: This probably means that there is no threat of a Democratic takeover of the Assembly. Andes was a traditionally Republican town.]
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In Delaware county the Suffrage amendment was defeated by a majority of 1,536. The home district of Mrs. Cannon, the county leader, returned a majority of 33 against. [Ed. I found a reference to Mrs. Jenny Curtis Cannon of Delhi in a New York Times article from September of 1915. “Mrs. Cannon uses voter’s card index. Wife of ex bank president is Delaware County suffrage leader. Has up-to-date methods at headquarters in Delhi. Is a delight to speakers from this city. Suffrage leaders in New York City are watching with interest the progress of the ‘Votes for Women’ campaign in Delaware County and are hoping that other leaders in up-state districts will profit by the success attained by Mrs. Jenny Curtis Cannon of Delhi.”
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The open season for mink, skunk and muskrat begins November 10, and mink and muskrat may be taken until April 20, and skunk until February 10.
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Last spring Robert J. Reynolds, in Wolf Hollow, was bothered with woodchucks and set traps in two holes less than a rod apart and in these traps he caught 18 woodchucks. Besides these and within a radius of 40 rods he either shot or the dog killed eight more, making a total of 26 woodchucks that will destroy no more clover.
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Below is given the cost of sheep killed in the town of Andes the past year:
James Graham, fence viewer….$2.00
David P. Mayham, fence viewer..2.00
James Scott, sheep killed……….7.00
Harry Jackson, sheep killed……..6.20
Total……$17.20
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James W. Dickson has been supervisor of the town of Andes for fifteen years without a break. This far exceeds the tenure of office ever held by a supervisor in continuous service. [Ed.: Marty Donnelly has broken that record by serving for 18 continuous years.]
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Mable & Gill have moved their meat market from Mrs. Armstrong’s building on Delaware avenue, to Mable’s place at the foot of High Street. [JA: I’m assuming that Mrs. Armstrong’s building on Delaware Avenue was the former “Barbershop building,” now Marty Donnelly’s apartment building. It was owned by the Armstrong family, and I think I remember reading somewhere that a meat market was in there at one time. The Mable place at the foot of High Street is my house; however I never knew a meat market was on the premises. Wonder where they put it?…in the carriage house, perhaps. Remember, the Board of Health regulations weren’t very strict. I’ve seen pictures of the meat market that used to be in the old Town Hall building, and I wouldn’t eat any meat that was butchered there!!]~