Culled by Judy Garrison From September 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
Mrs. Jay VanBenschoten and dauter [sic], Sophie, have returned from a trip to Asbury Park, Seaside Heights and the Sesqui Centennial at Philadelphia.
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The pastor of the M. E. church will preach a special sermon Sunday morning on the general theme “Has the time come to lower our ideals?” Service at 10:45.
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An Old Home Day will be held on Saturday, September 4, under the auspices of Andes Business Club on the polo grounds. There will be sports and quoit pitch in the forenoon. At noon you can try your luck at catching the greased pig. At 2 o’clock the ball game between Andes and Downsville will open and will be well worth seeing. The Andes Band will furnish music. Come and meet your friends.
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The school bus from Shavertown is carrying 20 students from there and along the Tremperskill.
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Andes Theatre
Saturday, September 11— Madge Bellamy, Charles DeRoche, Wallace MacDonald in Love and Glory. A drama for the entire human race. A story and a memory that will never die. A picture that was a great sensation in New York. See the maddened charge of the Moorish horseman over the burning sands. See the Moorish commander standing over the lone French bugler. See him order the captive to sound the French retreat. See the bugler of Algiers raise his bugle, smiling to his lips, and then see what happened. A picture for the entire family.
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There will be a Klan meeting on Monday evening, September 20, on Palmer Hill.
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Former Congressman John D. Clarke of Delaware county was nominated for member of congress from the 34th district defeating his opponent the present incumbent, Harold S. Toller, by a plurality of nearly 2000 in the district. Mr. Clarke carried the counties of Delaware, Otsego and Chenango while Mr. Tolley carried only his home county of Broome.
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Albert Ruff has sold his farm on Palmer Hill to his nephew, William Ruff, from the town of Colchester and he has taken possession. This is the former Roney farm.
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The top has been put on a section of the stone road on the Tremperskill this week. This gives a county aid highway completed from Andes nearly to Pleasant Valley, a distance of about five miles. The base is in as far as the Shaver Hollow road.
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Dr. Thomas Padrone, of Cuba, was in Andes on Tuesday. An excellent baby food, made under his formula, is manufactured in the plant of the New Andes Creamery Inc.
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Purchased Flying Machine
Don Cowan, son of the late Thomas Cowan on Palmer Hill, has purchased a flying [machine] and last week drove it from Long Island to Margaretville. He is the first in Delaware county to own a plane. This week he had the misfortune to damage the plane. While making a flight something went wrong and he landed none too gently in a cabbage patch on the Margaretville fair grounds.~