Culled by Judy Garrison From May 1918 issues of The Andes Recorder
100 Years Ago
Week In and About ANDES – Events of a Week as Chronicled by
the Man on the Street
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At a meeting of the Dairymen’s League in Andes last Saturday the matter of farmers using oleomargarine came up and the State League will be urged to take the matter up with a view of stopping the use of oleo.
It is ascerted [sic] that two-thirds of the oleomargarine sold in the country to the retail trade goes to the farmers who skimp on milk and butter at home in order that they may take their products to the creamery…
Mr. Farmer, do you realize that when you buy oleomargarine you are cutting your own throat. Oleo is not as cheap as butter. Don’t believe it you say. Well, it is not. Butter has high food value, while oleo has practically none. Might as well use none and save the money for it is simply thrown away. It has been tested out on rats. The rats feed [sic] on butter thrived while those fed on oleomargarine starved to death. If farmers will not eat their own product how can they expect others to do so. [Jim Andrews: When oleo first came out it was a big deal. My father told of his mother having it on the table. It came white and you had to add the yellow color to it separately and blend it before using. They had been farmers, but I’m sure it was less expensive and that’s why they used it. I think my grandmother was a very frugal woman.]
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Thomas Gladstone died at his home on Delaware avenue in Andes village Monday morning, April 29, at the age of 72 years, 10 months and 19 days. Last winter Mr. Gladstone froze his foot in a trip to Bovina and later gangrene developed from diabetic conditions, causing his death. He was one of the 11 children of Walter Gladstone and Isabella Biggar and was born in Gladstone Hollow and lived there until five years ago, when he sold the home farm and moved to the village. He leaves three brothers, Walter and John A. Gladstone of Andes, George Gladstone in Bovina, and four sisters, Mrs. Margaret Palmer and Miss Isabella Gladstone in Andes, Mrs. Patrick Doig in Walton, Mrs. Lyon in Bainbridge. The funeral was held Wednesday with burial in lower cemetery. [JA: Without talking to the current Walter Gladstone, I wouldn’t be able to make the connection. However, assuming there is a connection—Walter’s father was also Walter –this Walter could have been his grandfather or great uncle.]
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Scott Brothers, in Fall Clove, recently sold R. B. McFarland on the Little Delaware a yoke of oxen that weighed 8,500 pounds. They were monsters.
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Florence Groat, of Delhi, indicted for forging name of Dr. C. K. Woods to prescriptions for morphine. Judge Davis sentenced her to six months in county jail under special medical and kindly care in the hope of curing her of the morphine habit. [JA: Since she was an addict and a woman, perhaps they treated her “kindly” while trying to cure her since she hadn’t committed a felony or killed anyone. ]
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James T. Aitken and William Anderson, who are employed as carpenters on a hospital for convalescent soldiers, located eight miles from Middletown, were home on Sabbath.
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Clean-up day next Monday. Have your rubbish set out in bags ready for the team.
[Ed.: Wouldn’t it be nice if our municipality would offer one spring-cleaning pick-up day of trash a year in the lighting district or water district (since we don’t have a village any more to demarcate our hamlet). As long as people separated and labeled their trash, of course. It could feel like a bit of recompense for those extra bills.] [JA: Up until the village was dissolved, we did have an annual spring clean up day and Howard Ruff would transport pretty much anything that was left at the curb. I remember him taking the old dryer that was in my house when I bought it.]
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The Federal Food Board has fixed 25 pounds as maximum amount that a consumer may obtain [of sugar] at one time, for home canning use, in addition to that for ordinary household use.
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A severe electrical storm accompanied by a heavy down-pour of rain and considerable hail swept over Andes,…and during the heaviest part of the storm it was almost as dark as night. The streams rose rapidly to bank high and in the village the water increased about a foot in five minutes and brought down a lot of drift material. [Ed.: Andes Flood Commission take note!] A ball of fire appeared to enter the house of William L. Clark on the Delhi road and visited most parts of the house but did no great damage. [Ed.: A full description ensues of the path of the bolt through the entire house.]
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Three housewifely duties: Use all potatoes you can, use all the butter, cream and milk you can; use as little wheat as you can, preferably none. [JA: The wheat went to support the war effort.]
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Dipping cabbage and cauliflower in a solution of lead arsenate before transplanting will aid in controlling the cabbage worm. A solution may be made by using two-thirds of an once or ten level teaspoonfuls to one gallon of water. [Ed.: So much for the health benefits of the backyard garden.]
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During a heavy storm that swept over Andes just before dark Saturday night, a maple tree in front of the old Hunting hotel property was struck and badly injured. The bolt went under the sidewalk and broke the heavy stones and the walk into numerous pieces.~