THE WAY WE WERE
Culled by Judy Garrison
From July 1926 issues of
The Andes Recorder
100 Years Ago
Cyclone Hits Andes
Andes was struck by a cyclone about 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon [in the July 23rd edition] and while it lasted only a few minutes a large amount of damage was done. Its equal was never seen here. In the village about a dozen of the large maples were blown down and many limbs torn off.
WEEK IN AND ABOUT ANDES
Events of a week as chronicled by
the Man on the Street
Next Sunday being the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence observance of the same will be held in the lower cemetery at 2:30 p.m. The U.P. and the Andes and Pleasant Valley M. E. Churches will have charge of the services. Judge M. Linn Bruce will preside. The address will be given by the Rev. Herbert Killinder. Music will be furnished by the Andes Band. Veterans of the Civil war, Spanish American war and the World War will attend in a body. All citizens are invited to join with the churches of the community in giving thanks to Almighty God for the blessings He has given to our nation. If the weather is unfavorable the services will be held at the M. E. Church.
The 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was very fittingly observed by Andes on Sabbath afternoon by exercises held in the lower cemetery.
The exercises were held at 2 o’clock and music was furnished by the Andes military band. Judge M. Linn Bruce presided and the constitution was read by Captain W. J. Howland. Prayer was offered by Re. G. A. Forbes, pastor of the U. P. church. The address of the occasion was made by Rev. Herbert Killinder, pastor of the M. E. church and was of a high order and a very fitting one for the observance of the day. The unanimous opinion of those whose good fortune it was to hear it was that the address was seldom excelled.
It is estimated that over 400 people were present and all felt that the exercises were very fitting and worthy of the occasion.
The Village Trustees are putting several small dams across the stream thru the village in order to make pools below [sic] them deep enough for use of the pumper in case of fire. Logs are being used.
The summer season at Tunis Lake Camp opened July 1. About 150 Jewish boys from New York City, with their overseers have arrived to spend their summer vacation. The camp has been enlarged this season.
The annual school picnic of the Weaver, Hollow, Winter Hollow, Palmer Hill, and Dunraven schools was held Wednesday at the Weaver Hollow Falls. A hundred were present.
There will be no moving pictures this week in the Shavertown Opera House, owing to other arrangements made for the theatre some time ago. Next week, July 16, Lorraine of the Lions, a story which deals with the life of a girl who was shipwrecked on a south sea isle, growing up among the beasts of the jungle.
Cyclone Hits Andes
Andes was struck by a cyclone about 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon [in the July 23rd edition] and while it lasted only a few minutes a large amount of damage was done. Its equal was never seen here. In the village about a dozen of the large maples were blown down and many limbs torn off. At the Central Hotel the shingles were torn off the greater part of one side of the roof and a chimney blown off and a tree was uprooted and blown on the varanda [sic] of the residence of Mrs. Geo. Liddle adjoining. The electric light wires are also down. The orchards of John Roney and George E. Miller below the village were damaged. No doubt much other damage has been done.
Robert Todd Lincoln, the last surviving member of the immediate family of Abraham Lincoln, died July 27 at his summer home at Manchester, Vermont, aged 83 years. He saw his father and Garfield assassinated and heard shot that killed McKinley.
The Primary Farce
A decade or more ago this country practically as a unit adopted the direct primary plan as a method of getting to the actual wishes of the people, and of doing away with corruption of the electorate. Results of recent investigations in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Illinois and elsewhere indicate that the expenses of primaries are much greater than were the caucus expenses of an earlier era; and that the result is not better so far as fairness in selection of candidates is concerned. Evidently the thing needed is common honesty on the part of the electorate. Formerly the unscrupulous [sic] voter sold his vote at the November election. Now he sells it twice—for the primaries, and again in November; and apparently there are enough of his class to influence if not carry the election