Culled by Judy Garrison From July 1923 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
After September 1, it will be unlawful for gypsies or others to tell fortunes in this state.
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Last Thursday night J. E. Stanley had a narrow escape when near Walter C. Liddle’s on the Tremperskill, and as a result his auto is without top or windshield. A telephone pole had broken and allowed the wire to sag where it crossed the highway so that when Mr. Stanley came along it was just high enough so that it caught the windshield and top and tore them off. Mr. Stanley escaped by ducking his head and it just grazed him.
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A car driven by a son of Robert Mable on the Little Delaware went into the brook at Oliver Liddle’s, just out of Andes village, as a party of four were returning home from the dance Thursday morning. In the fog the driver missed the bridge. None of the occupants of the car were injured but the car was damaged.
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Gladstone & Hanlon advertise Colgate products this week. The originator of the Colgate soap business was a resident of Fall Clove in early life.
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Two automobile accidents occurred on the Andes-Delhi state road at William L. Clark’s on Sabbath.
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In one accident a Lexington car from Tunis Lake was coming down and a Ford driven by Albert Shaver, of Shavertown, and in which was also his sister, was going up. Neither driver appeared to want to give any road and the result was a collision. Both cars changed to opposite sides of the road—the Lexington landing in the ditch and the Ford went over the bank. No one was injured but both cars were badly damaged. The same day Miss Mary Davis was coming to her home in Andes Village driving the horse of R. A. Ruston and her wagon was hit by an auto and the axle broken. [Ed.: Aside from troubles with steering mechanisms offering their own dangers, drivers appear to have been challenged over issues of road decorum.]
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Wilfred W. Fry, of Camden, N.J., son-in-law of the late F. W. Ayer, has announced that plans are under consideration for the remodeling of Ayrmont, the large Ayer summer home at Meredith, to transform the building into a new Meredith Inn. Meredith Inn was destroyed by fire in March 1922. While its patronage was largely drawn from Philadelphia and New York, the hospitality of the inn was often enjoyed by Delaware county people.
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Sherman Redmond, who is in the employ of Frank Liddle on the Tremperskill above Shavertown, died on July 21, after an illness of about twenty-four hours with convulsions. It is stated that while at work in the hayfield it was his custom to drink large quantities of strong cold tea. This was made in a copper pot from which the leaves were only dumped occasionally, new tea being added and the old re-boiled. It is also stated that he had drank some cider. Dr. Wakeman who was called diagnosed the trouble as poisoning. His age was 54 years and he formerly resided at Arkville.
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Mr. and Mrs. George E. Boyd, of Jersey City, N.J. are making their annual sojourn in Andes and are stopping with his comrade of the civil war, Andrew Anderson.
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The drought, which for the past month had parched the fields, delayed the growth of grain and vegetable crops and dried up springs never before known to be dry, was broken last Friday evening when there was a rainfall of 1.8 inches. To this is now added rainfalls on Saturday, Sabbath and Tuesday. The rainfall for the entire month of July previous to last Friday evening was only one inch. ~