Here's what life was like in Bovina 100 years ago this month, as reported in the pages of the Andes Recorder:
May 1, 1925
• Mrs. Lucy Coulter is spending a few days at New Kingston.
• John Blair has had a bathroom installed in his residence.
• William J. Storie was a caller at the County Seat last Thursday.
• Sloan Archibald has had a new porch built onto his residence.
• Henry Campbell, of Walton, and assistants are doing some carpenter work at John Aitkens.
• Mrs. Bell MacPherson, who has been at Walton for several months, is visiting her sons here.
• Miss Anna Dickson and Harold Curren, from Cornell University, spent over the weekend here.
• Thos C. Strangeway and William C. Russell have had concrete sidewalks laid in front of their residences.
• Lloyd Ormiston and family, who have been visiting his mother here, have moved from Goshen to Hudson.
• Miss Mabel Thomson, who was called home several weeks ago by the illness of her mother, Mrs. Dixon Thomson, has returned to her school duties at Winsted, Connecticut.
• William Armstrong is having an addition built onto the kitchen of his residence. He will also have a bathroom installed. James T. Aitken and Barton Jackson, of Andes are the carpenters.
• Rev. F.N. Crawford is absent attending the meeting of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian church at Topeka, Kansas. There will be no preaching service at the U.P. church on Sabbath.
May 8, 1925
• Mrs. Mary Ann Russell is ill at her home at the Butt End.
• Mr. and Mrs. John Hilson were at the County Seat Tuesday.
• Mrs. John Aitkens is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Flynn, at Pepacton.
• Jack Myers, of Springfield, Mass., spent over Sabbath with his parents here.
• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are William R. Miller and another to David C. Worden, $95.
• Misses Kate and Freda Miller spent over Sabbath with their sister, Mrs. Otis McCumber, at Andes.
• John Aitkens is having a veranda built along the front of his residence – the former Kennedy place.
• George Fuller, son of Ferris Fuller, formerly of this place, died recently in Pennsylvania, leaving a wife and eight children.
• Miss Margaret Atkin, aged 81, and a native of Bovina, died from apoplexy at the county home April 29. She was a daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Blair) Atkin.
• Hon. John D. Clark was in town last Wednesday. At the Center school he planted a tree on the school ground. Each scholar was given a small white pine to take home and plant. [This is Congressman John D. Clarke, who was born in Hobart in 1869. He served in congress from 1921-1925. After losing reelection, he successfully ran again in 1926 and served until his death in 1933 in an auto accident.]
• Robert Robinson has sold the standing timber on his farm – the former Thos Forrest place – up Coulter Brook to the Merritt Lumber Company. The logs are being hauled to Margaretville by truck.
• Henry Halstead, who was born in Bovina 78 years ago, died from heart disease, at the county home April 27. He is survived by his second wife and by a son and daughter by his first wife. Burial was at the Flats cemetery.
• Elmer Hastings and daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Booth, of Saranac, visited his brother, Milton Hastings, a few days the past week. His daughter, Lulu, who is a trained nurse, and has recently recovered from diphtheria, met them at Kingston on their way home Wednesday and the party will go home via Buffalo and Niagara Falls with their auto.
• Monday while Will Haines was coming down the pitch at Alex Myers’, his team being attached to a lumber wagon, the bolt came out of the single whiffletree and let it hit the horse. The frightened team started to run but Mr. Haines managed to pull them into the ditch and got them stopped after going a few rods, and with the aid of James Ackerley got them unhitched without any damage being done.
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• Rev. Edgelow baptized the Edgelow and Bye babies last Sabbath.
• Rev. Edgelow and Harry Murray motored to Springfield, Mass. last Wednesday and returned home Thursday accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Edgelow and two children.
• Mrs. Alex Jardine attended the annual convention of the Albany Diocesan branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary at Schenectady last Wednesday and Thursday as a delegate from St. James branch.
May 15, 1925
• Mrs. David Currie spent Wednesday at Delhi.
• Ted Fuller, of Utica, was here over the week end.
• Mrs. Gideon Miller, of Hamden, spent Wednesday with relatives.
• Mr. and Mrs. George Polley, from Andes, were callers here on Sabbath.
• John Hilson is having the sidewalk along the front of his property re-laid.
• David J. Miller, of Walton, was here Wednesday looking after property interests.
• It is stated that the Yankee school district will be consolidated with the Maynard district.
• William Armstrong has received the appointment of census enumerator for the town of Bovina.
• Mr. and Mrs. John Laing and Frank Myers, of Endicott, spent over the week end with the relatives.
• Miss Bell V. Gladstone, of Walton, spent over Sabbath at the home of her nephew, C.S. Gladstone.
• A woman representing Lord’s Day Alliance spoke at the United Presbyterian church last Sabbath.
• L.W. Thomson, of New York, is in town on a fishing trip. His wife is a daughter of the late Dr. Lee.
• Mr. and Mrs. Ed. D. Gladstone and daughter, Mary, and Miss Emily Archibald were at Andes on Sabbath.
• The Home Bureau met Tuesday with Miss Carrie Dumond. Fancy work was the matter under discussion.
• Mr. and Mrs. John Hilson and Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Doig attended the Larro dealers banquet at the Kingston hotel at Delhi, Friday evening.
• At the sale of the personal property of F.W. Hyatt on the D.J. Miller farm Wednesday cows sold as high as $100, but the average will be considerably less.
• Mr. and Mrs. Ward Fancher, of Kortright, spent Sabbath with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo H. Miller. Their little daughter, who has been staying here returned home with them.
• Lauren Dickson, who was admitted to the practice of law a few months ago and has been in an office in Saratoga, is now associated with the law firm of Couper & Terry in Binghamton.
• William H. Irvine, a member of the Fisher Flour Mills, of Seattle, Washington, who was east at Washington, D.C., on business, spent a short time with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Irvine on his way home. [William was the brother of Isabell Russell.]
May 22, 1925
• Wallace Hyatt has gone to New York City.
• John Armstrong is driving a new Chevrolet sedan.
• Grace Bramley has hired to teach at Union Grove for next year.
• George H. Miller is having his residence repainted. Alex Myers is doing the job.
• Miss Mary Kelley, of Delhi, spent over the weekend with her friend Margaret Gordon. [This likely was Mary Keeley, who taught fourth grade at Delaware Academy.]
• Mrs. T.C. Strangeway was taken ill on Friday with acute indigestion, but is now better.
• From the play Down in Maine last Friday evening the Missionary Society realized about $75.
• Mr. and Mrs. Galie Hafele spent the first of the week with her brother, Archibald Thomson, at Walton.
• Freeman Shaver, of Terry Clove, was here on Sabbath and his father George Shaver returned home with him.
• A play the “Minister’s Wife’s New Bonnet,” will be given Friday evening under the auspices of the King’s Daughter Sabbath School Class.
• Those from out of town of attend the funeral of Miss Jennie Miller on Monday, were Mr. and Mrs. James Foreman, Miss Margaret Archibald, Mrs. George Cable, Mrs. William Bramley, of Delhi, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sanford, of New Kingston.
LAST OF HER GENERATION
Miss Jennie Miller, of Bovina, Dies at Age of 84 Years
Miss Jennie Miller died at the County Home, on Friday, May 15, at the ripe old age of 84 years.
She was the daughter of the late David Miller who came to America from Scotland in 1816, and was born in Bovina and all her life had been spent in the town. She was a member of the U.P. Church and a great believer in missions.
The funeral was held Monday with interment in the Bovina Center cemetery.
May 29, 1925
• James Ackerley is painting his remodeled residence.
• Frank Miller and wife were at Andes the first of the week.
• Miss Ruth Teal spent from Saturday until Monday at Bloomville.
• Mrs. Julia McPherson has been confined to her home the past week by illness. [Mrs. McPherson was the former Julia Ann Fuller. Married to A. Fitch McPherson, she was widowed in 1903. Julia survived this illness, dying in 1933.]
• Miss Angelica Gerry, of New York, has arrived at her summer home at Lake Delaware.
• Miss Alice Frayer, of Delhi, spent over the week end with her friend Miss Margaret Gordon.
• Sabbath morning at the U.P. church the pastor preached a sermon especially for the children.
• Bovina real estate transfers recorded Bovina Cemetery Association to Fredrick Johnson, $35.
• Fritz Burger, who owns the Armstrong farm, returned to his home at Hackensack on Thursday.
• Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Russell attended the funeral of James Amos on Scotch Mountain last week.
• Edgar Lee, son of John B. Lee in Tuttle Hollow, has just completed a course in the Albany Pharmacy College. [Edgar became a successful pharmacist in Delhi, running Lee’s Pharmacy for many years. His daughter Lucile would marry Willard Frisbee.]
• Charles Cheney has his household goods advertised and with his family will return to his former home in Nebraska.
• Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Russell, Mrs. Elizabeth Irvine and Mrs. Douglas Davidson were County Seat visitors on Monday.
• Mrs. Thomas Gordon accompanied Homer Covert and daughter Edna, to Brooklyn last Friday and remained until Monday, visiting Wm. S. Gordon and Don Covert, who are attending the Pratt Institute.
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