A Week with Bovina People - January 1901 - 125 Years ago from the Andes Recorder

January 4, 1901

·         James Boyd was over at Andes on Friday.

·         Marion Robertson was at Andes on Tuesday.

·         Daniel Fletcher was in town on last Thursday.

·         G.D. Miller was at Rose Brook on Saturday.

·         William Scott was in town from Delhi on Sabbath.

·         G.D. Miller was at Walton the fore part of the week.

·         Mr. and Mrs. George Gladstone visited Walton last week. [This likely was George Gladstone (1843-1927) and his wife Helen Strangeway (1844-1916).]

·         John A. Irvine and W.L. White are candidates for supervisor.

·         Thomas and Frank Miller were at Delhi the first of the week.

·         Robert McCumber, of Stuben county is a guest at William Crosier’s.

·         A son of David Liddle who has been ill with pneumonia is improving. [This likely was Milton Liddle, who would have been 11 at this time. Milton died in 1960 on his 70^th birthday.]

·         Bert Elliott was taken with pneumonia last week, but is now some better.

·         The receipts of the night cap social at Peter McNair’s Monday night were about $17.

·         Monday morning School Commissioner Gow mailed 67 letters at the Centre postoffice.

·         Communion services will be held in United Presbyterian church the third Sabbath of January.

·         John A. Irvine was at Delhi the first of the week attending the special meeting of the county legislature.

·         The records of the town clerk’s office show that during the year 1900 there were 11 births, 4 marriages and 12 deaths in the town of Bovina.

·         Rev. Minch, of Delhi, gave his lecture, (illustrated), on “Gettysburg” last Thursday evening. The lecture and views were excellent, but the audience was not very large. Colonel Cormack was also present and gave a talk on the monument. Receipts amounted to $13.25. [Colonel Robert Cormack was a Civil War veteran who worked for many years to get the soldier’s monument erected on Courthouse Square in Delhi. Sadly, he died in 1903 before the monument was built but his efforts ultimately succeeded with the unveiling in 1906.]

 

January 11, 1901

·         Dr. Gladstone was in town Friday.

·         Alex Hilson was at Delhi Thursday.

·         Rev. Samson was at Delhi Tuesday.

·         James Archibald was at Delhi Friday.

·         Rev. Slater and wife arrived home on Friday.

·         Oliver Dickson was seen in town on Tuesday. James Graham was in town Monday from Andes.

·         A.O. Butts and wife went to Oneonta Thursday.

·         Gideon and B.S. Miller were over at Andes Wednesday.

·         Mrs. Alex Hilson, son and daughter were at Andes Friday.

·         Mrs. William Crosier and son, Harry visited Margaretville Thursday.

·         The week of prayer is being observed in all three of the churches this week.

·         Mr. and Mrs. George Liddle and Miss Fronia Jackson visited in town Wednesday.

·         The old soldiers were entertained at G.D. Miller’s last Friday evening, and were well waited upon by the hostess assisted by Mrs. William Armstrong.

·         At the annual meeting of the United Presbyterian congregation on Monday John Irvine and W.H. Maynard were elected trustees; James A. Gow, sexton; William Hastings and Frank Miller, ushers.

·         Bert Elliott died Monday morning with pneumonia, at Francis Coulter’s in Coulter Brook, and the funeral was held Wednesday afternoon, his pastor, Rev. Williams, of the Methodist church in this village, officiating.

·         The annual meeting of the Bovina Town Insurance company was held on Tuesday and Douglas Davidson and Lancelot Thomson were elected directors to succeed themselves and T.C. Strangeway to succeed Michael Miller. At a meeting of the directors, J.W. Coulter was elected president and R.F. Thomson, secretary.

 

January 18, 1901

·         Burns’ anniversary January 25. [This is a reference to the Scottish poet Robert Burns.]

·         W.J. Doig had a horse die Saturday.

·         Elliott Thomson went to Downsville Saturday.

·         George T. Russell made a trip down to Delhi Monday.

·         Henry Coulter, of Margaretville, was in town Saturday.

·         Duncan Campbell, of Andes, was in this place Monday.

·         Robert R. Gladstone was in town on Monday from Andes.

·         Dr. Seacord and David Draffin were at Delhi on Saturday.

·         Robert Fiero and John Blair were at the County Seat Thursday.

·         G.D. Miller and Lancelot Thomson were over at Andes Saturday.

·         William S. Thomson and James Liddle were at Delhi Wednesday.

·         James Elliott and Mrs. James Aitken were here from Andes Friday.

·         Robert Gerry was one of the ushers at the Vanderbilt-French wedding. [This is a reference to the wedding of Alfred Vanderbilt and Elsie French. Married on January 11, 1901, they had one son, who later became Governor of Rhode Island. Alfred and Elsie were divorced in 1908. Alfred remarried and died in the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915.]

·         Wesley Miller and wife, of Oneonta, were guests at G.D. Miller’s this week.

·         Schuyler Livingston, who resides in the west, has been visiting at Rev. Samson’s.

·         Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Thomson and Mrs. James Russell went to Walton on Tuesday for a visit. [Mrs. Thomson was the former Anna Smith. There are several James Russells to choose from, but this like was Rose Ann Doig, who married James Andrew Russell.]

·         W.L. White, Dr. Seacord and John Blair went to Kingston Monday, where the former has a lawsuit with a Pine Hill man.

·         W.G. McNee has so far recovered from his attack of pneumonia as to be able to come home from John Irvine’s on Monday.

·         William Fletcher, Thomas Doig and David Taylor and families attended the Taylor-Thomson wedding Wednesday evening.

·         John F. Taylor and Miss Elizabeth Thomson were married Wednesday evening at the home of the bride by Rev. T.M. Slater. [Elizabeth was the daughter of James B. Thomson. John and Elizabeth settled in Delhi and had a daughter, Leona. John died in 1944, Elizabeth about 20 years later.]

·         Commissioner Gow was at Roxbury last Thursday and Friday holding uniform examinations, and about seventy teachers were present.

·         Dr. James Hedley will lecture at Bovina Centre, under the management of the Fortnightly Club, Monday evening, January 21. This is expected to be [the] best lecture in the course. [James Hedley was a nationally known public speaker in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. Born in England, he settled in Cleveland. He died in 1916 while on a lecture tour in Oklahoma.]

·         The Sabbath School of the Reformed Presbyterian church recently elected Thomas Russell, superintendent; Alex. Thomason, assistant; Miss Thomson, assistant. In the United Presbyterian Sabbath School James Thomson was elected superintendent; Rev. Samson, assistant; James L. Coulter, secretary and treasurer.

 

Caucus

            The Republican electors of the town of Bovina are requested to meet in caucus at Strangeway’s Hall on Saturday, January 26, at 2 o’clock p.m. for the purpose of nominating a ticket to be supported at the coming town meeting. By order of Committee.

 

January 25, 1901

·         Dr. Ormiston was in town on Sabbath.

·         W.C. Oliver, of Andes, was in this place Monday.

·         William A. Miller was up from Delhi on Saturday.

·         There are a great many cases of the grip in this place.

·         Rev. Samson and wife visited Reb. Welch at Oneonta this week.

·         W.T. Black and wife were in town on Sabbath from the County Seat.

·         H.J. Hewitt was in town Monday as counsel in the Frank Smith case. [H.J. was Hamilton Hewitt, who was born in Bovina in 1872 but spent most of his life as a lawyer in Delhi.]

·         Constable Daniel Franklin, J., was in town on professional business the first of the week.

·         Rev. Williams preached at Andes on Sabbath, and Rev. Piper of that place preached here.

·         E.C. Burgin, F.R. Coulter, F.C. Armstrong, W.J. Doig are candidates for commissioner of highways.

·         Among those at Delhi Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Coulter, A.T. Strangeway, John, Samuel and Maggie Storie.

·         Among the recent real estate transfers in Bovina were J. Sinclair Archibald and wife to Thomas A. Archibald, $2700.

·         E. Geo Gladstone, J.L. Coulter and Alex. Myers and their wives attended the funeral of Mrs. Isabella Gladstone at Andes Friday.

·         Owing to the bad weather and the prevailing sickness among our citizens, the Hedley lecture was not very well attended Monday evening.

·         Mrs. R.A. Thomson is ill with pneumonia, and Mr. Thomson is threatened with the same disease. Dr. Miner, of Bloomville, was here Thursday in consultation with Dr. Phinney.

·         For some time William Bennett (colored), who lives in S.G. Bramley’s old house, has been causing trouble by not sending his children to school.  He had been warned of the consequences several time and had each time promised to send the children to school but they would only go a day or two and then stop again.  Wednesday, truant officer B.S. Miller, swore out a warrant for his arrest and he was taken before Justice White, where he plead guilty and after warning him that he would not be lot off easy on a second offence the Justice fined him $1.