Life in Bovina 125 years ago this month from the pages of the Andes Recorder.
May 4, 1900
• Oliver Dickson was at Delhi Monday.
• George McNair went to Andes Saturday.
• W.J. Doig has sold a horse to Stephen Craft.
• Peter McNair and A.O. Butts have traded horses.
• Walter Biggar visited the County Seat Monday.
• David Oliver visited his sons at Delancy Monday.
• John Blair went to New York this week with stock.
• Fred Bramly and Lucy Jackson were at Andes on Sabbath.
• Otis McCumber and family were here from Andes over Sabbath.
• Truant officer, B.S. Miller is visiting the schools this week.
• Harry Swat and wife, of Treadwell were visitors here on Saturday.
• Mrs. R.A. Thomson and Mrs. Leonard Sloan visited the County Seat on Tuesday.
• Thomas Gordon and Maggie Coulter attended the funeral of Peter Scott at Delhi Tuesday.
• Communion services will be held in the United Presbyterian church the 1st Sabbath in June.
• Miss Lillian Miller and Mayme Lidle, of Andes, visited the former’s brother here on Saturday.
• James Ormiston took his household goods to Delhi Tuesday to ship them to Pennsylvania. Frank Miller, Herman Coulter, David Drafin (sic) each took a load.
• Professor Duncan C. Lee of Cornell University, third son of Dr. Lee formerly of this town, is mentioned among the possible Democratic candidates for governor this fall.
May 11, 1900
• John Blair went to Middletown Friday.
• William Ruff made a trip to Delhi on Monday.
• Fred Bramley was down at Delhi on Saturday.
• W.B. Scott, of Delhi, was in town on Sabbath.
• F.R. Coulter visited at the County Seat on Friday.
• Alex Hilson and family visited at Delhi Tuesday.
• Frank Myers visited his son, Alexander, here on Friday.
• Mr. and Mrs. John Blair visited her parents at Delhi on Saturday.
• Andrew Seacord and family and Miss Lulu Jackson visited Delhi on Saturday.
• James L. Ormiston and family started Monday morning for their new home near Philadelphia.
• Mrs. Thomas Gordon returned home from her father’s on Sabbath, where she has been for some time on account of the illness and death of her brother, Peter Scott.
• Schools in town observed Arbor Day at the Centre school under the management Mr. McCune and Miss Jackson, the scholars gave recitations and other exercises, and did well in every part.
• Thursday the New York Life Insurance Company, through their agent, presented Mrs. Walter Coulter with a check for $1,000, being pay in full of the policy which her late husband carried in that company.
May 18, 1900
• John Blair was at Delhi Tuesday.
• Thomas Dennis and lady were at Andes on Sabbath.
• Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Coulter were at Delhi last Thursday.
• Hom. D.L. Thompson was down at the County Seat Tuesday.
• Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Coulter visited the County Seat Tuesday.
• Miss Jennie Miller is absent visiting at Walton, and Allegheny, Pa.
• James Liddle and Charles McPherson were each at Andes Thursday.
• David J. Miller has sold his span of grey horses to Mr. Gladstone, of Downsville.
• David Oliver and Mrs. John Oliver and son were over at Andes on Tuesday.
• Reed Dumond and Robert Laing were among Andes visitors in town on Tuesday.
• B.S. Miller is absent this week attending the State G.A.R. Encampment at Utica.
• E.L. McNear, a government surveyor was up on Mt. Pisgah last week to make a survey with the object of removing some trees in order that an uninterrupted view may be had from Cooperstown.
May 25, 1900
• Frost Monday morning.
• Will Gladstone, of Downsville, was a visitor Tuesday.
• Walter McDivitt made a trip to the County Seat Friday.
• O.S. Nichols was in town Monday on telephone business.
• Kennedy Warren and wife were up from Delhi on Sabbath.
• Mrs. D.J. Miller and Mrs. J.D. Burns visited Delhi Friday.
• Colfax Livingston has been a guest at Rev. Samson’s this week.
• Rev. Andrew Archibald was a guest at De. Phinney’s on Sabbath.
• John Blair and daughter, Helen, were down at Delhi Saturday.
• Mr. and Mrs. George Gladstone visited relatives at Walton last week.
• Mr. and Mrs. G.D. Miller were at Delhi Tuesday and Wednesday.
• Will Collins, from the West, a son of James Collins, was in town Tuesday.
• Mrs. John M. Miller and Lizzie Burns were among Delhi visitors Friday.
• David F. Hoy, registrar, of Cornell University, and wife were at John R. Hoy’s over Sabbath.
• J.K. McDivitt was in town Saturday. He will give a lecture here on Friday evening, May 25.
• Wesley Miller and Mr. Briggs and their wives, of Oneonta, were at G.D. Miller’s the first of the week.
• Dogs have been making havoc with sheep in town. Friday night they killed six sheep and a lamb for Mr. Kinch on the Soper farm Sabbath night they killed a lamb for Ed Coulter, and Monday injured some for Thomas Archibald so badly that they will probably die.
• The following were the delegates to the Sabbath School convention at Delhi: Mrs. Elliott Thompson, Miss Mary Thompson, Mrs. Samson, Miss Maggie D. Strangeway, Will Hastings, R.E. Bergman. Alternates-Mrs. James L. Coulter, Miss Libbie Strangeway, Mrs. John Oliver, Miss Leona Thomson, T.C. Strangeway, Frank Miller.
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