Here's what was happening in Bovina a century ago in April 1926, as reported in the pages of the Andes Recorder. The big news was the demolition of the Bovina Methodist Church, which stood across from where the Community Hall now exists.
April 2, 1926
• The frame of the Methodist church was taken down Monday. [March 29]
• John Nichols has gone to Jefferson for a visit of a few weeks.
• Howard Coulter and Carl Hamilton, of Andes, were here Friday.
• Miss Beatrice Hoy, who teaches at Bovina, will return another year.
• David Liddle, Arthur Coulter and Norton Forrest were County Seat callers Friday.
• Miss Margaret Gordon is home from the Albany Teachers College for a ten days’ vacation.
• Misses Jenet and Margaret Laidlaw have gone to New York City to spend over Easter with friends. [Janet and Margaret were sisters, daughters of Adam and Emma Laidlaw. Janet died in 1931 at the age of 25. Margaret married James A. Hoy and was the Bovina Town Clerk for many years. She died in 1981.]
• William J. Archibald has leased the farm of Hilson Bros and purchased their dairy of tested cows.
• Professor and Mrs. Leon Taggart and son, Thomas, of Oneonta, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Strangeway.
• Howard McPherson will have numerous improvements made to his house in the lower part of Bovina center – changing partitions, fitting up a bathroom, etc.
• The newly elected officers of the Women’s Missionary Society are Mrs. Douglas Davidson, president; Mrs. Jennie Hoy, vice president; Mrs. R.E. Thomson, secretary; Mrs. Elliott Thomson, treasurer; Mrs. C.S. Gladstone, thank offering secretary; Mrs. T.C. Strangeway, magazine agent.
April 9, 1926
• Miss Nettie Doig, of Delhi, is with her sister, Mrs. T.C. Strangeway.
• Mrs. William C. Laing, of Andes, is visiting her niece, Mrs. Alex Hilson. [Mrs. Laing was the former Isabella Anderson.]
• Millard Russell has purchased a new Chevrolet sedan from Howard Coulter of Andes.
• Mrs. William T. Miller does not improve much and is now under the care of a nurse. [Mrs. Miller, the former Elizabeth Hastings, would last about another year, dying in August 1927.]
• Thomas A. Raitt and Miss Bell Elliott, of Andes, attended church here on Sabbath.
• Miss Mabel Thomson, who teaches at Winstead, Connecticut, is spending her Easter vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Thomson.
• Everett Joslin has purchased and moved to what is known as the small Dickson house opposite Lancelot Thomson’s. The reported price is $300.
• Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Thomson and Mr. and Mrs. Will Puffer, of Hobart, were visitors at Dickson Thomson’s on Sabbath, it being her birthday.
• Miss Agnes Thomson, of New Kingston, who on December 17, underwent an operation at Delhi for gangrenous appendicitis, was able to return home last week.
• The Hard Maple Lumber Company, who are cutting logs up Coulter Brook, will locate their saw mill back of the Hastings feed store, adjoining the Pink street road.
• The Methodist church which was torn down last week, was built in 1849 and cost only $1,397.50. It was built of native pine and hemlock and would have stood another 77 years. D.C. Worden will reconstruct it for a barn on the Ormiston farm.
April 16, 1926
• Albert Russell has had a hot water system installed in his residence.
• Miss Gladys Worden, who teaches on Long Island, has been ill with the measles. [Miss Worden married Maurice Hall in 1927. They farmed in Bovina for about two decades, then moved to Ithaca. Maurice died in 1974, Gladys in 1997.]
• Alex Myers, our painter and paper hanger is doing some work in Andes this week.
• Mr. and Mrs. James Rutherford, of Pepacton, spent Sabbath with her father, J.D. Burns.
• Robert A. Thomson, of Hobart, who has been helping John Thomson has returned home to work on the roads.
• There was a large attendance at the William Archibald sale last Thursday. The cows and young cattle averaged about $65.
• Petrolmen George Decker and Howard McPherson and their gangs have commenced working on the State road.
• Rev. F.N. Crawford and Elders T. C. Strangeway and W.J. Storie attended the meeting of Delaware Presbytery at Andes on Tuesday.
• William Archibald is moving to the Hilson house and Charles A. McPherson is moving from the Strangeway farm to the Scott farm purchased of Mr. Archibald.
• Earl Tuttle, the 11 year old son of Ellsworth Tuttle in Tuttle Hollow, broke his leg just above the ankle recently by jumping from the wood house roof while playing.
April 23, 1926
• Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Barnhart spent a few days recently with her people at Jefferson.
• Elmer Hastings, who has spent the winter with his brother, Milton Hastings, returned to his home at Saranac last Thursday.
• Miss Mary Thomson, who has been staying at the home of her brother, Elliott Thomson, has purchased a house in Oneonta.
• Mrs. Alex Hilson and son, James, were at Andes on Saturday, taking Mrs. W.C. Laing, who had been visiting here, to her home.
• A home talent play, the Ghost Breaker, was given in the hall Wednesday evening for benefit of William Workers and was well attended.
• Arthur Hamilton has been re-elected school superintendent for the towns of Bovina, Harpersfield, Kortright and Stamford, for a term of five years.
• How’s this for April 20? Tuesday morning Norton Forrest left his car standing in front of Cecil Russell’s store for a few minutes and it froze up.
Bovina Farm Sold
J. Douglas Burns has sold his farm, located near Bramley mountain to Joe Adee, of New Kingston. The sale includes the personal property and the price is $7,000. The farm is probably in the best state of cultivation of any farm in the town. Mr. Burns purchased the farm of the late Alex Hoy 44 or 45 years ago.
EIGHTY YEARS YOUNG
Mrs. Ann Bouton of Lake Delaware, Reaches Four Score Years
Saturday, April 10th, was the 80th birthday of Mrs. Ann Bouton of Lake Delaware and thirty of her friends gathered at home of her daughter, Mrs. Roscoe Brown, to celebrate. A lovely afternoon was spent and delicious refreshments were served. She was the recipient of many gifts, including a beautiful bouquet of red, white and pink roses, a potted plant, candy, dish, handkerchiefs, maple syrup and sugar. The presence of Mrs. Belle Bailey of Bloomville, one of her oldest friends, added much to the joy of the occasion. [Mrs. Bouton was the former Mary Ann Gillie. Born in 1846, she lived to be 91. Mrs. Brown was Lillian May Bouton. She died in 1945.]
April 30, 1926
• Mrs. Bertha Miller of Walton is visiting in town. [Bertha was the widow of John M. Miller, who owned what later became Suits-Us Farm. Bertha was widowed in 1920 and moved to Walton not long after the death of her husband.]
• Kenneth Kaufman is driving a new Studebaker coach.
• Archibald Thomson and sons of Walton were visitors at Sloan Archibald’s on Sabbath.
• Miss Mary Ormiston of Oneonta has been visiting her aunts, Mrs. Ormiston and Mrs. Myers.
• Mrs. Thomas Cowan of Palmer Hill, who was taken ill at the home of son, Millard Russell, is improving. [Mrs. Cowan was born Adalaid Coulter. Her first husband, Francis Russell, died in 1910. She was widowed again about six weeks after being ill at her son's. Addie would pass away in 1951.]
• Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson, Mrs. Elliott Thomson and Miss Mary Thomson were Oneonta visitors Saturday.
• Mr. and Mrs. Harold Robinson of Bainbridge spent Sabbath with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hoy.
• Miss Margaret Storie who spent the winter in Hobart with her nephew, Eugene Storie, has returned to her home here.
• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are DeWitt Sharpe to Bertha Sharpe $1 Frederick Johnson, Exr. Of (cemetery) to Geo VanDusen $1.
• It is probable that the mail route will soon be changed from Bloomville and come from Arkville by the Andes and Delhi. Much better service would result, mail being received not only but twice daily.
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