Culled by Judy Garrison From March 1926 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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The coal famine in Andes was broken this week. H.D. Archer received a car of chestnut coal Monday.
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The head of a French hairdressers’ organization says “the end of bobbed hair is now in sight and it will last another year at the most.”
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Gasoline Combination Car Put Into Service on D&N
The new gasoline combination passenger-mail-express car for the Delaware & Northern railroad arrived last Wednesday and was put into service Monday.
The car was run from Philadelphia to Margaretville by Master Mechanic Walter Pattberg. At Kingston the Ulster & Delaware officials got aboard and rode as far as Pine Hill, and showed much interest in watching it climb that famed height.
The car is all steel. The body is made up on three compartments as follows: a fifteen foot space for railway postoffice, a fifteen foot space for baggage and express and a passenger compartment that will accommodate some thirty passengers.
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In “Snowbound” Whittier described the road breaking of a century ago:
“Down the long hillside, treading slow
We saw the half buried oxen go
Shaking the snow from heads uptost
Their steaming nostrils white with frost.”
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What would he have said could he have seen the modern snow plow attached to a caterpillar tractor moving about clearing the country roads?
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It is stated that if sheep raisers would have a few goats to run with the sheep, they would have little trouble from dogs. [Ed.: I wonder if Cyndi Wright would have a comment on this assertion, 100 years later.]
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Friday was the coldest night of the winter. Thermometers went down to 15 below zero. A thaw which came on Sabbath soon caught cold. [Ed.: this appeared in the March 12 issue.]
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Exceptionally cold weather for March has been experienced the past week, with thermometers down around zero or below every morning. [Ed.: From the March 19 edition.]
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Andrew T. Gibbs has purchased a six cylinder Willys-Knight automobile. Harold Bouton has purchased a Chevrolet coupe.
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Dairy farmers are rejoicing over the announcement that comes from Washington of an increase from 8 to 12 cents per pound in the existing tariff on butter. This increase was put into effect by President Coolidge acting under the flexible provisions of the tariff law which gives the President the right to raise or lower the tariff when in his judgement it is justified by conditions. [Ed.: I wonder which countries offered the most competition. Probably none to Delaware County.]
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Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Stuart and little child, of Corbett, were with her parents, Judge and Mrs. M. Linn Bruce, the first of the week. [Ed.: These are the parents of Buffy Calvert, yet to be born.]~