Culled by Judy Garrison from July 1916 issues of
The Andes Recorder
With commentary by Jim Andrews
Mrs. Frank Terry of Downsville, who although she has reached the allotted three score and ten, is learning to drive the car. [Jim Andrews: Imagine!! A 70 year old woman driving a car!!!]
Linn Bruce, Jr., who is in the service of the Union Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Denver, Colorado is east on a vacation and expects to remain in Andes during July. [JA: M. Linn Bruce, Jr. was Buffy Calvert’s uncle.]
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One of the fool laws passed by the last legislature is that requiring physical instruction of all pupils in the public schools for at least twenty minutes on each day of school. The time in the schools is now more than taken, especially in the smaller high schools, and these schools cannot afford to ire an additional teacher. The New York school system is getting worse every year, the schools being run not for the benefit of the masses, but for about 1 per cent. [Ed.: The protests against the benefits accruing to the 1% were certainly different in those days!]
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Russell Archibald, owner of the old Gazette building in Delhi, is soon to transform it into a moving picture house with a seating capacity of 250. [Ed.: I was only aware of the building in the ‘70s when it was no longer in use, and many hoped it would be sold and restored as a working theater. That was not to happen.]
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The Recorder, while believing in the putting down of the liquor traffic, has no use for the Anti-Saloon League and the methods used by its superintendent. If you do not agree with him on every question his method is to heap abuse upon you and shout vile names at you. Foul means more often than fair appears to be his motto. [JA: Andes was a “dry” town from the 1870s through the early 1950s. “Dry” meant no liquor could be sold at an establishment within the town limits. It’s amazing that the Hotel survived all those years without the added benefit of serving alcoholic beverages.]
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A.D. Liddle, the Andes barber, was at the Boys’ Camp Monday and in 5 ¾ hours did 53 haircuts. [JA: A.D. Liddle—referred to as “Barb” Liddle–had his barbershop in the old Town Hall (Tin Horn). I dug up a picture of him snoozing in front of the shop on a lazy afternoon. The barber pole was actually stripes painted on one of the porch posts.]
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Just now he is having a severe case of belly-ache because Congressman Fairchild did not support the Hobson and Webb-Kenyon bills in congress. Neither bill had the support of men like Bryan and other temperance leaders and even the Prohibition candidate would not support them. The amendment would have given every man the right to operate his own little private “still” and make his own booze….
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[From our Shavertown correspondent.) Mr. and Mrs. John Autin were taken suddenly ill Monday after eating canned chicken, which caused ptomaine poisoning. Dr. Faulkner was called and both are recovering. Miss Laura Ballantine is home from Newark, N.J., where she was teaching in summer school. The school has closed on account of the infantile paralysis epidemic. [JA: Polio ran rampant in the early part of the 20th century. My uncle contracted polio at the age of about 3. It severely weakened one leg and he wore a cumbersome brace for his entire life. My grandmother thought he had picked it up from a stray cat. His cause of death at age 77 was listed as “post-polio syndrome”. Late in life his internal organs weakened due to the polio he had suffered as a child. There was no effective treatment for polio, nor was there a vaccine at that time. And once the muscles were weakened there wouldn’t be much improvement.]
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Misses Kate and Ella Reynolds returned Monday from a visit at East Branch and the latter has the six rattles from a rattle snake killed by a friend during their stay there.
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Earl Worden was the youth who took carbolic acid at Oneonta and the fact that he mixed it with beer saved his life.
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About a month ago J. W. Brown, the Blacksmith, injured his hand and since then has hardly been able to use it. On Sabbath he went to Downsville and a physician there found a bone out of place. After two at tempts to get it back the physician succeeded and now the hand is improving.~