Culled by Judy Garrison From October 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
Education comes high. The fall tax of Hilton Memorial High School is $14 on the thousand, which is higher than last year. There will be another tax of probably like amount next spring. Twenty years ago the tax was under $10 and the high school registration was double what it is now and students were just as well fitted for the battle of life as now and were more practical. [ED.: These complaints sound familiar!]
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John Pardee of Hamden had his left hand terribly mutilated recently while cutting corn on his farm in Terry Clove. The cutter became clogged and in trying to clean it out his fingers were completely severed, only the stub of the hand being left. [ED.: Farming injuries continue to this day to be a big occupational hazard.]
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Walter B. Gladstone has gone to Cortland county to purchase cows for the Delaware County market. [ED: He was a cattle dealer. Do we still have these?]
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Harold Hall, the five or six year old son of Harrison Hall who lives on the old Soper farm in Bovina sustained a severe cut just below the eye Sabbath morning. The lad had started for Sabbath School at Lake Delaware and while going through the fields between his home and his uncle Ellsworth Tuttle’s he fell in a corn field and a corn stubble made a severe wound just below his eye. He was taken to the home of his grandfather, Frank Kinch in Delhi and the doctors feared that he might lose the sight of the eye. Through the kindness of Miss [Angelica] Gerry a specialist came from Albany, and he gave assurance that the eye could be saved. The lad broke his arm a year or two ago and an older brother broke his arm a few weeks ago.
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Miss Letha Gladstone, who had been ill for several months from tuberculosis, passed away at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Philip Rside on Wednesday, October 10, at the age of 21 years. [ED.: People, including the young, were still dying from tuberculosis in 1923.]
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James Darling died on Thursday, October 4, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Andrew Little in Fall Clove, at the age of eighty three years. He was born in the city of Glasgow and came to this country when a small child with his parents, who lived for a time in New York city, and afterwards came to Fall Clove and bought the farm now owned by William Darling. In 1870 he was married to Margaret Whyte, who died in 1920.
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The death of James Darling marks the passing of the old settlers of Fall Clove. The funeral was held at his late home on Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Cleland. Interment was in Fall Clove Cemetery, in which he always took an active interest, it being due largely to his efforts that the cemetery was incorporated, and the new fence erected and otherwise fixed up in the last few years.
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A misunderstanding seems to exist concerning the rights of the public to the use of books from the Public Library. There will be no charge to anyone either outside the village or in, for books from the Library, which will be open to the public before winter.
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On October 15, 1873, Barna Johnson and Elizabeth D. Bohlmann were united in marriage and their fiftieth anniversary occurred on Monday of this week. The couple were on a visit to the home of Ms. Hugo Gorsch, in New York, the sister of the bride of half a century on this anniversary date, and when they sat down to breakfast were each surprised to find $50 in gold at their plates. In addition to this there were numerous telegrams of congratulation on the rounding out of a half a hundred milestones together and wishing them many more anniversary days.
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Mrs. Martha Roberts, of Westfield, Otsego county, shot and probably fatally injured Benjamin Josetovich, a Romanian, last Friday. Last spring she sold her farm to Josetovich and there was to be a division of the crops. Friday forenoon Mrs. Roberts and her brother-in-law, William Roberts, went to the farm and to the field where Josetovich and his three sons were digging potatoes and demanded a division. Josetovich replied that he did not have them dug yet but if they would return at 4 o’clock and they would divide. This did not seem to satisfy them and Roberts hit one of the boys with a gun and then handed it to the woman and it is stated told her to do her duty and she fired the shot which hit the victim in the right side. Bail was fixed at $10,000 each and both the man and woman are in jail.
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In 1896 there were only 300 motor cars registered in the United States. In 1925, thirty years later, the number will be in excess of 16,000,000.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Graham, of Delhi, entertained about 40, from Andes, Delhi and Perch Lake at their cottage last Friday night. A bounteous supper was served. Professor Stanley and Postmaster Oles, of Delhi, read an original poem. The Delhi party presented the host and hostess with a chest of silver.
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When the Supreme Court now in session in Delhi opened Tuesday morning Judge Kellogg took his place on the bench wrapped in his toga. So far as is known this is the first appearance of the toga in a Delaware county court.~