Culled by Judy Garrison

 From November 1918 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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Miss Gertrude Miller and Miss Edith Campbell, who are teaching on Long Island, are home their schools being closed on account of influenza.

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Entire families have the influenza and can procure no help. People who have thus far escaped the disease, avoid infested houses as they would the plague.

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Dr. Chas. L. Wakeman, accompanied by his wife, went to a New York on Sabbath to procure his outfit for the army. He returned home Tuesday and expects to be called soon.

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Burt W. Heimer, of No. 421 Court street, left Binghamton October 23, to enter the service of “Uncle Sam.” Mr. Heimer has passed a written and oral examination in New York city for the important work of getting supplies to Pershing. He will be located permanently at an Atlantic port, to supervise the loading of transports and the inspection of goods before they are finally stowed in the holds of the ships going to France. For several years Mr. Heimer held the important position of space buyer and contract agent for the Wylie B. Jones Advertising Agency of Binghamton. His work brought him in close touch with the biggest newspapers and advertising concerns in the world, and he is considered well qualified for the job he is undertaking for the United States Government.

It is expected that he will qualify for a Captain’s or Major’s commission within the next six months. Mr. Heimer commenced his career in the office of the Andes Recorder. He is a grandson of the late Francis Heimer, of Andes, and is a son of Mrs. Harriet Heimer, of Walton. His many friends know that he will make good.

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If our good women knew the public record of Al Smith, Democratic candidate for Governor, would they vote for him? He is a Catholic, wants the state to support parochial schools, wants no restriction on Sabbath breaking, is in favor of repealing all temperance laws, has appointed men convicted of law breaking to office, in fact wants everything run wide open, and would Tammanyize the state. This is for men to read also, and then vote for Whitman. [Ed.: This one, the opinion of the local editor, is printed with the very local news.]

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Charles Laing found ripe and green strawberries on Sabbath while walking the railroad track.

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In order to save paper, (the amount we can have being cut 15 per cent) we cut the Recorder in half this week. [Ed.: At first I thought part of the issue was missing, but it was indeed half the usual size.]

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Byron Huggins and Harry Lakin were here Friday from Shavertown with cabbage raised by the first named. Mr. Huggins has three carloads to ship.

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Arch D. Liddle, the Andes barber, fell Saturday evening and dislocated his right shoulder. He was coming from High street carrying a basket of clothes and in cutting across Judge Bruce’s lower lawn was thrown by stepping in a hole.

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1. W.B. Satterley moved Wednesday from the Tremperskill to the house he recently purchased on High street.

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David P. Mayham, who had been in poor health for a year or more, died at the State hospital in Middletown….had resided in Andes for the greater part of his life. For a number of years he was boss on the old Andes & Delhi Turnpike, and for 12 years, although a Democrat, was superintendent of highways in the strong Republican town of Andes…The funeral was held Wednesday from his late home on Delaware avenue with interment in the lower cemetery.

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Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Oliver were called to Saugerties on Friday by the death of the wife of their son, Arthur Oliver, from influenza.

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1. M.Linn Bruce received a cablegram Wednesday from his son, Sergeant John D. Knapp, Co. E, 107^th Infantry, that he had been gassed and was in the Beaufort Hospital, Bristol, England. Sergeant Knapp was discharged from a British Base Hospital on September 27^th, where he had been for more than a month recovering from trench fever. A rapid firing gun squad of which he had charge was caught in a shell hole while advancing with the British in Flanders and forced to remain there for some time. They were finally rescued, but fever developed from exposure. He returned to his regiment in time to join in Pershing’s present drive to which the 27^th division had been transferred.

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Arthur Knapp, who has been in a camp in South Carolina, arrived home Monday and is the first Andes soldier to receive his discharge.~