Culled by Judy Garrison From August 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
Frank C. Chamberlain, proprietor of the Central Hotel in Andes, was very severely injured Wednesday afternoon by having been run over by a Ford car driven by Mildred Bouton. Mr. Chamberlain was down on one knee in the yard at the back of the hotel fixing the lawn mower, obvivious (sic) of danger. Miss Bouton backed the Ford from the barn of her brother George Bouton, adjoining the hotel to go to Fleischmanns after he sister, Pauline, and went into the hotel yard to turn around. In some manner she lost control of the car and after hitting an out-house with one fender struck Mr. Chamberlain and he and the lawn mower went under the car and he was dragged over a car length. One wheel passed over his shoulder and he was badly bruised. One side of his head was lacerated and there was a cut across the opposite cheek, evidently from the lawn mower. Both legs wee skinned, his hands injured, his lip cut, other bruises. He was resting comfortably Thursday. Miss Bouton was prostrated by the accident. In this auto age you are not even safe in your own back yard. [Ed.: I can’t help but observe that today’s newspaper accounts miss the storytelling quality and certainly the colorful chronicling of physical injuries like we read here.]
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William J. Reynolds, who had his leg injured last winter by an ice pike while employed by the New Andes Creamery Inc., has been awarded a compensation of $25.65.
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The sixth annual reunion of the Frisbee family, descendants of Gideon Frisbee, was held Thursday at the home of James Frisbee, Delhi. The house was built by Gideon Frisbee 122 years ago [Ed.: That would mean in 1804.] There were 80 persons present, from Athens, Pa, Franklin, Oneonta, Binghamton, Walton, Bloomville, Andes, East Meredith, Kortright, Bainbridge.
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Frank Farrington, Delhi and Judge L. F. Raymond, Franklin, addressed the gathering. Singing by Dr. Jay Frisbee, of Andes, featured, accompanied on the piano by Willard Frisbee. Officers elected were L. R. Frisbee, Oneonta president; Clark Frisbee of Bloomville, vice president; Mrs. Wyatt Frisbee, Delhi, secretary and treasurer. The next reunion will be held with James Murdock at Oneonta.
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Gault, the magician and illusionist, will be at Andes Theatre on Saturday night and give one full hour of entertainment in connection with movies. He has just completed a tour of Smalley and Shine Circuits and press reports on his showing have led us to believe that you will be well satisfied with his bag of tricks.
Downie Brothers brought their circus to Walton by way of Merrickville in 43 motor trucks on Tuesday, but at the under crossing of the O. & W. at Northfield the elephant trucks would not go thru. They were obliged to excavate the dirt road at that point and got thru in time for the evening show. The tents were up in time for the afternoon show but there were no seats or animals. The crossing was put in over 50 years ago and was large enough until these days of mammoth trucks. Recently a moving van was halted and had to go over the Northfield hill. [Ed.: What a pandemonium this word picture conjures up in the imagination. It reminds me of a chapter in a book recently read based on a real story, West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. Merrickville, even in the 1980s, and maybe now still, was a tangle of narrow dirt roads as far from anywhere as you can get. I recall being oriented myself when encountering a roughly hand-painted sign in the middle of nowhere with arrows pointing to Sidney, Franklin, Treadwell and Walton, the intention being to help the very lost traveler find his way to somewhere.] ~