THE WAY WE WERE
Culled by Judy Garrison
From April 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
The trout season will open Saturday.
H.D. Archer has leased the Oliver feed store, which adjoins his own.
Hilton Memorial High School closes Wednesday for a ten days’ Easter vacation.
Mrs. Mary J. Gill was in New York City last week buying her spring millinery. [Ed.: The millinery business must have declined significantly since cloche hats, rather than the huge decorated ones, were now in style.]
Miss Polly Dix and Miss Marguerite Fowler will spend the Easter vacation on a trip to Burmuda [sic] Ed.: [Even though Bermuda was a favorite locale for vacations and honeymoons in this decade, editors apparently still didn’t know how to spell it!]
Major J. I. Webb of Walton, who has established a reputation as a weather prophet, looks for a late spring and a cool summer this year. Major Webb bases his forecasts upon observations on the conditions prevailing at the time of the sun crossing the line on its journey northward.
Professor Ralph Alexander who has been principal of the high school at Hartwick, Otsego County, the past three years, had accepted a similar position at Margaretville for the ensuing year at a salary of $2,500. [Ed.: Any one want to adjust this to present-day dollars for inflation?]
It is suggested that all bootleggers be shot, instead of arresting them. [Ed.: This editor sure doesn’t mince his words!]
Two talks on Social Hygiene and Keeping Fit will be given in Andes Theater on Wednesday, April 21, by Dr. Arthur R. Guerard of the State Department of Health. There is no charge to these talks. The Meeting for women and girls of 14 and over will be at 3 o’clock p.m. and the subject is “A Healthy and Happy Home, or Facts Plus Ideals.” In the evening at 7:30 there will be a talk for men and boys of 14 or over on “How to Keep Well and Live Straight and Clean.: This talk will be followed by a moving picture to illustrate the meaning of the subject. [Ed.: If sex education is part of the curriculum, the words are certainly not said out loud. Could “family planning” be on their agenda?]
Mrs. William T. Hyzer will move to Walton next week. She was unable to obtain rooms in Andes and so leaves town. [Ed.: The more things change….]
On January 1, 1926, there were 479,000 fewer people on farms than one year before. In the past 45 years about one-fifth of the farming land of New York State has gone out of production.
The bill to prohibit marriages of children under 14 years of age has been before senate and assembly and is now before the governor.
It is reported that a number of out-of-town fishermen were at Tunis Lake Wednesday using various unlawful methods to catch the trout.
Wednesday, April 21, was the first springlike day, following weather of only 10 above zero the morning of the previous day. This is said to be the lowest with a single exception of any April 20, in over 30 years.
Hon, John Robert Smith, who was born at Roxbury and spent his boyhood with Jay Gould and John Burroughts, died at Eagle Grove, Iowa recently, aged 87 years. In 1881 he went west and engaged in the cattle business and owned 5,300 acres of land in U.S. and Canada. For 15 years he was cashier of the State bank at Eagle Grove and for six terms treasurer of the city.
Dr. J. Tissot, professor of general physiology at the Paris natural history museum, says that cancer is a form of mildew, and that medicines or serums are ineffective. [Ed.: AI tells me that “while fungi like Candida can be present in tumors, and certain molds produce cancer linked toxins, the notion that cancer is a fungus is a persistent, medically inaccurate myth.]
Bankers do not favor a proposal to change the size of United State paper money, as proposed by the treasury department in Washinton. It is proposed to issue the new bills about two and five-eighths’ inches wide by six and one-quarter inches long, to replace the present bills, which are seven inches by three. The treasury officials estimate the government would make a big saving on paper and printing. Such a change, however, in the opinion of local financiers, would create confusion in handling, and would throw out of order modern methods found efficient for handling large quantities of bills, with speed and accuracy.~