Culled by Judy Garrison
From June 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 family of Robert Parish on the Tremperskill is under quaratine [sic] for scarlet fever.
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Memorial day was quietly and appropriately observed in Andes. The rain interfered to quite an extent to the number in the parade and at the services, and it caused a change of the program….The reading of the Gettysburg address was followed by the address by Rev. Stanley U. North of Walton. It was a masterpiece of eloquent patriotism, breathing the spirit of peace, and filled with sound reasoning and counsel, fitting alike to old and young. Only four civil war veterans were present, viz: Andrew Anderson, S.T. Goodman, Peter Boyes and Ephriam Hall.
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A new 5-cent postage stamp was issued by the Postoffice Department May 29 in honor of John Ericsson, designer and builder of the Monitor the first “ironclad” used by the Union forces during the Civil War. The stamp is issued in commemoration of the unveiling of a statue of Ericsson in Washington, D.S., by the Swedish crown prince.
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Albert M. Hebberly, an expert landscape gardener who came from Boston to Lake Delaware a few weeks ago and was in charge of the beautifying of the grounds of Miss Angelica Gerry’s new summer home, near the lake, died very suddenly Friday Morning, May 28…..Mr. Hebberly was 52 years of age and is survived by one son and one daughter.
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Delhi Man Whose Wife Eloped With Boarder Gets Judgment
Another chapter in the domestic and financial affairs of Charles E. Shaw of Delhi was written Tuesday, when at an adjourned term of the Delaware trial …a verdict was given in favor of Shaw against his former wife, Alice H. Shaw, now the wife of William H. Backus, a former boarder in the Shaw home, to whom she was married in the west….According to Shaw his wife invested the money [$500.10] in a bond which she appropriated to her own use and took with her when she took “French leave” of Shaw and Delhi…
It is announced that the several cases in which Shaw and wife were involved, including the suit in which he recovered $4,000 for the alienation of the wife’s affections, have all been decided by the appellate division, to which they were appealed, the verdicts all being sustained and the several motions for new trials denied.
The coldest June 4 in 50 years was experienced in New York State. There was a frost in Andes.
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Leyden Smith on Dingle Hill had his right arm badly injured Saturday while cranking his Ford. It backfired and he was hit on the arm twice but fortunately no bones were broken.
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Trinity Sunday, May 30, was the fortieth anniversary of the ordination of Rev. Octavius Edgelow to the priesthood and also his last Sunday as the rector of St. James Church at Lake Delaware. The special preacher on Sunday at St. James was the Rv. Wallace Gardner, rector of St. Paul’s church, Flatbush, Brooklyn, and Cannon of Long Island Cathedral, Garden City.
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Chauncey Stewart Has Purchased the Business of Aaron Stern
Aaron Stern, who for 52 years has been identified with the business life of Delhi, has sold his stock of dry goods and men’s furnishings to Chauncey Stewart, who had been clerk in the store for 14 years. He will also try to buy the store from Dr. Mendel. Mr. Stern came to Delhi in 1874 and for twenty years was in the employ of Mendel Bros., becoming a partner in the firm in 1894 and purchased the business in 1900.
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It is expected that Fleischmanns will have three fish markets, four meat markets and several fruit and vegetable stores this coming season.
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The James McLean country place at South Kortright, which the heirs have recently given to the Church Mission to Help, an organization of the Episcopal church in New York city, was informally opened on Sunday, June 6….The home will be maintained as a vacation and rest place for working girls of the metropolis. [Ed.: I’m guessing that the term “working girl” does not mean sex worker here, rather simply girls who are employed, but I could be wrong. The McLean Estate mansion was later used as a girls camp and a Phoenix House rehabilitation facility.]
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Andes and vicinity was visited by a heavy frost on the morning of June 20 and many gardens were badly damaged.~