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

The pages of the Andes Recorder from 125 years ago reported the following happenings in the town of Bovina in May 1902.

June 7, 1901

• George Miller was in town Friday.

• Peter Gerry is a[t] lake Delaware for a few days.

• Rev Samson will be absent next Sabbath at Newburg.

• Arch Dickson, of Gladstone Hollow, was seen in town Saturday.

• George T. Russell and wife were at the County Seat on Monday. [George’s wife was Jennie Miller.]

• Bert White and S.T. Goodman were in this place from Andes Saturday.

• Elliott Thompson and son, William, were at Downsville Memorial Day.

• Joseph S. Raitt, of Walton, has been renewing old acquaintances in town.

• Will Fredenburg and G.D. Miller were among those at Delhi Monday.

• Mrs. Frank Myers has been at Alex. Myers’ taking care of his wife who has been ill.

• We understand that the mail route from Bovina to Bloomville has been let to Milton A. Doig.

• Communion services will be held in the United Presbyterian church the fourth Sabbath in June.

• W.H. Maynard is dealing quite extensively in horses and now has 16.  He is preparing to build a large horse barn.

• B[erry].S[haw]. Miller is attending the State Encampment G.A.R. at Rochester this week, taking J.K. Penfield’s place as commander of England Post.

• The Town Insurance company has adjusted the loss on W.J. Archibald’s house caused by the damage from being struck by lightning, at $15.

Professor Rutland Coming

Professor Rutland, the reliable optician and eye specialist, will be at the following places during the year to wit Andes, last Monday in each month. Hamden, last Tuesday of each month. Bovina Centre, last Wednesday of each month. Delhi, last Thursday of each month. Bloomville, last Friday of each month. Hobart last Saturday of each month. 

The Professor’s success even in in the most difficult cases has been phenomenal. We take from the Hobart Independent to wit: “Professor Rutland who successfully fitted so many with glasses last season in Stamford, Davenport and Kortright will be here each month. Of the 230 Prof fitted at the above named places not one [illegible] they are changed free of charge when required. This is recommendation in itself of the highest order. What he has done for others he can do for you. Give him a call. 

June 14, 1901

• Commissioner Gow went to Stamford Tuesday.

• Putting on screen doors is the order of the day.

• Frank Myers was in town the first of the week.

• Frank Graham was at South Kortright Tuesday.

• James T. McFarlane is building a new wagon house.

• William Archibald is building an addition to his barn.

• Elliott Thompson has traded his horse for a top buggy.

• Robert R. and John E. Gladstone were in town Monday.

• W.G. McNee and William Crosier were at Delhi Monday.

• Mrs. John A. Irvine and Mrs. George Cable were at Delhi Wednesday.

• Woodburn & Smyth set a monument for James B. Thompson Tuesday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Murray were visitors here Monday from Andes.

• Born on Saturday, June 8, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bouton, a daughter. [This was a daughter named Mildred. The Boutons would have at least eight other children.]

• Jay Frisbee D.D.S. of Andes, was in town Wednesday.  He now makes regular trips here.

• Cards are out for the marriage of William R. Hoy, of this place, to Miss Hays, of Oil City, Pa., June 20.

• John L. Gordon and wife of New York city arrived in town Tuesday for a vacation.  He is a policeman at Old Slip precinct station. [John was the son of Thomas Gordon.]

• Saturday morning the seven weeks’ old child of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Felton died with pneumonia after an illness of only two or three days.

• At the commencement of New York University last week Robert E. Bergman, of this town was awarded the second Sandham oration prize.

• Wilber W. McNair closed his labors as teacher in the Butt End district last Friday.  He gives good satisfaction and has just completed his second year in that district.

• Sabbath afternoon Robert Gerry at Lake Delaware had a narrow escape from injury.  As he came out of the gate onto the highway at the Gerry residence, the hub of his dog cart was struck by an automobile running at a high rate of speed, overturning the cart, and throwing Mr. Gerry out.  In falling he struck on his shoulder injuring it somewhat.  The footman who was with him had his leg badly bruised.

June 21, 1901

• Doctor Gladstone was in town Saturday.

• James Donohue was in town Monday.

• Mrs. Agnes Miller went to Hobart Saturday.

• William E. Hastings visited Delhi Saturday.

• David Craig, of Andes, was in this place Friday.

• Postoffice Inspector Wheeler was in town Tuesday.

• George Stott was in town Wednesday from Cabin Hill.

• Robert McNair, of Andes, was a visitor here Monday.

• William Crosier, wife and son were at Delhi, Tuesday.

• John Smith and son, of Walton have been visiting in town.

• John G. Russell and wife went to Oneonta, Wednesday.

• W.E. Northrup has been working at the Methodist church.

• Frank Miller and sister, of Andes, were in town Monday.

• Mrs. Mary Phinney expects to be absent from home next week.

• Leonard Sloan and John Hilson were at Bloomville Saturday.

• Thomas M. Spiers and W.B. Moore of Andes, were in town Monday.

• Alex Hilson and wife and son, James, went to New York city on Friday.

• A reception is to be held at Douglas Davidson’s Friday night for Milton R. Hoy and bride.

• Bovina is to have an old fashioned Fourth of July celebration this year.  Particulars later.

• John G. Laing, formerly of this place, is now foreman of a gentleman’s farm at West Nyack, N.Y.

• Preaching in the United Presbyterian church Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:45 and on Saturday at 1:15.

• Cards are out for the marriage of Miss Jennie Gladstone to William E. Hastings, on Wednesday, June 26.

• Among our citizens at Delhi Monday were Mrs. Phinney and son, Irving, and daughter Margaret, Robert Fiero and Peter Robinson. 

• John Blair, John Gordon, Howard McPherson, E.C. Burgin, Dr. Seacord, and W.L. Moore went to Mud Lake Tuesday on a fishing trip. 

• A lady named Brush is visiting in town this week.  Brushland was named after [Alexander] Brush, who resided on the farm now owned by W.A. Hoy.

June 28, 1901

• Will McPherson was in town Tuesday.

• John Boyd was in this place on Tuesday.

• Rev. T.M. Slater returned home Friday.

• Alex Hilson returned from the city Friday.

• Elmer Hastings was at Oneonta on Friday. 

• W.T. Black and wife were up from Delhi Sabbath.

• William Roger’s family have arrived at their summer home at Lake Delaware.

• Rev. Samson was at Andes Tuesday evening, where he gave the commencement address.

• Leonard Sloan moved to Bloomville the first of the week, where he will work in the creamery.

• Miss Elliott, of Otsego County and a lady from Oneonta have been visiting at Thomas Miller’s.

• The degree of D.D. has been conferred by the University of Wooster, Ohio, on Rev. W.P. Miller, formerly of this town.

• Miss Jennie J. Campbell, of this place won the free trip to the Pan-American Exposition offer by the Delaware Express.

• Professor D.D. Kyle assisted Rev. Samson at communion services last Sabbath and at preparatory services Friday and Saturday.

• Mrs. Andrew Anderson, of Andes, was here Saturday. Her daughter Miss Bina, who has been here some time returned home with her.

• At the last communion services five new members were received into the United Presbyterian church – three by certificate and two by profession of faith.

• At the home of J.L. Coulter Wednesday evening occurred the marriage of Miss Jennie Gladstone and William E. Hastings. The knot was tied by W.L.C. Samson in the presence of a large company. [Mr. and Mrs. Hastings had one daughter. He died in 1932 and Jennie died in 1936. They were each 63 years old when they died.]

• Last Thursday a cooperative company was organized in the upper part of the town and a creamery will be built on the Andrew T. McFarlane farm.  About 30 dairies have been secured.  The trustees elected were Andrew McFarlane, George T. Russell and Alex Burns, who will also act as a building committee.  The contract for the building and apparatus has been let to F.B. Floyd for $4,350 and it is to be ready for business by September 1. [This was known as the uptown creamery and was on Bovina road just south of what is now the Schumann property.] 

• Next week Thursday Bovina will celebrate the Fourth of July in grand style.  Prizes to amount $25 are offered.  R.E. Bergman will deliver the oration.  The events will consist of quoit contest, 440 yard dash, running broad jump, bicycle race, shot put, 100 yard dash, potato and sack race, smoking contest, running high jump, greased pig, throwing hammer, ball game.  A basket picnic will be held in M.D. Miller’s grove.

June 1926 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

 

Life on the streets and roads of Bovina 100 years ago this month from the pages of the Andes Recorder.

June 4, 1926

• Mr. and Mrs. James Laing, of Meridale, have been visiting relatives in town. 

• Mrs. Alex Hilson is having her residence painted. Alex Myers is doing the job.

• Miss Angelica L. Gerry has arrived at the Gerry summer home at Lake Delaware.

• Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers, of Endicott, spent over Decoration day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Myers.

• William A. Hoy, who has been suffering from nervous trouble, was taken to the hospital at Binghamton last Friday for treatment. [Hoy survived whatever this issue was, dying in 1940.]

• Gideon Miller and wife, of Hamden, and Walter L. Gladstone, wife and daughter, of Walton, were among those in town on Sabbath.

• William Tuttle, who died at East Delhi, May 26, was born in Bovina on the farm now owned by Ellsworth Tuttle in Tuttle Hollow, 76 years ago. [This was just off Lee Hollow.]

• In the village of Bovina Center there are now living only 22 persons who were living there 45 years ago, and of these only seven were then adults, the others being young children. 

• A considerable number of the members of the R.P. church went to Walton on Sabbath to unite with Walton R.P. congregation in a pre-synodic conference. A meeting of the synod of denomination opened Wednesday.

Bovina Cauliflower Growers

Organize, Elect Officers and Adopt By-Laws for Shipping Association

A committee representing the cauliflower growers of Bovina met at the home of W.B. Smith at Bovina and drew-up a set of by-laws which will govern the activities of the Bovina Cauliflower Growers Co-operative Inc. Those present were W.B. Smith, E. J. De Silva, A.M. Thompson, M.D. Liddle, M.F. Russell and Claude Erkson representing the growers. W.J. Birdsall Department of Farms & Markets, Albany and C.G. Bradt, Farm Bureau Agent, Walton.

The purpose is to make savings in transportation and marketing. Membership will be open to all producers of cauliflower within the territory of operation which will include all growers about the Delhi shipping point. Upon joining the grower must pay a membership fee of three dollars and agree to abide by the by-laws. The association will market it under the name of Mount Pisgah Brand. A grader and loader will be employed during the shipping season only. 

June 11, 1926

• David Liddle and wife were with Andes relatives Thursday.

• Born to Mr. and Mrs. William C. Burns, June 4, a daughter. [This was Kathryn Elizabeth Burns. She married Jack Messina in 1947 and died on Long Island in 1996.]

• Grade examinations are being held this week at the Bovina Center school.

• George Lifgren and wife, of New York City, were recent guests of his parents. 

• Anthony Banuatt, on the former Oliver farm, is having his buildings painted.

• Robert Russell, of Johnson City, spent a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Russell.

• Fred Henderson, who was operated upon at the Delhi hospital a few weeks ago for appendicitis, was able to come home Wednesday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Percy Kaufman and daughter, of Yonkers, were recent visitors at the home of his brother, Kenneth Kaufman. 

• William T. Miller, Miss Bell Miller, Mrs. Sloan Archibald, Grace Cranston and George Story were among those at the County Seat on Monday. 

• Mrs. Estella Oliver, mother of Mrs. Fred Thomson, continues seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Martin, in Cannonsville. [Mrs. Oliver was the former Stella Dumond. She died a little over a year after this appeared in the news, in November 1927.]

• Rev. Elmer Russell and wife, of Superior, Nebraska, have been visiting his mother, Mrs. Hamilton Russell. He preached in the R.P. church on Sabbath morning. 

Former Bovina Man Bankrupt

Herman S. Russell of Delhi has filed a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities of $2,904 and no assets. The creditors include James A. Gow and Mrs. Carrie E. Doig, of Bovina Center, $100 each; Chris Woolheater, of Kellys Corners, $664; Morristown State Bank, Morristown, South Dakota and Keldron Lumber Company of Keldron, South Dakota, $435. [Herman was the brother of Cecil H. Russell. In 1920, he was living in North Dakota but by 1926 was in Delhi. He was in Delhi until around 1950. He died in 1971.]

June 18, 1926

• Mrs. Gideon Miller, of Hamden, was a caller here Wednesday. [Born Christiana Esther Northrup, she married Gideon in 1899. She was widowed in 1935 and remarried in 1938. She died in 1960.]

• A.P. Lee has sold his entire dairy of cows to W.D. Ceas, the Bloomville dealer. 

• The Good Cheer Sabbath School class will hold a picnic Friday at South Kortright.

• Students of the Bovina Center school enjoyed a picnic Thursday at Perch Lake.

• Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell were at Delhi last Thursday to see her sister, Mrs. Blish, of South Kortright, who was in the hospital. 

• Rev. H.K. Galloway, a former pastor of the U.P. church here, who has been at Buffalo, has become pastor of the North Hill U.P. church at Akron, Ohio.

• Mrs. John Blair and Mrs. George Decker have gone to Long Island to spend two weeks with their daughters. Mrs. Blair is at Manhasset and Mrs. Decker at Glen Cove. [Mrs. Blair was Lib Miller Blair. Her daughter was Helen Thomson, who was teaching on Long Island. Mrs. Decker I believe was the former Ada H. Tompkins and the daughter probably was Viva Decker.]

• L.D. Terry, who for several years has lived in the “cottage” on the Gerry estate at Lake Delaware, has purchased the Farrington farm above Delhi village, and moved thereto this week. 

• Mrs. Thomas Gordon spent over the week end with her son, William S. Gordon, in Brooklyn. He graduates this week from Pratt Institute and has taken a position with the New York Central Railroad. [Mrs. Gordon was the mother of long time Delhi Social Studies teacher Margaret Gordon.]

• A union meeting of the Woman’s Missionary Society and the Young Woman’s Missionary Society was held last Thursday with Mrs. C.S. Gladstone. Dr. and Mrs. N.B. Whitcomb missionaries home from Egypt on a furlough, gave interesting talks.

• The Bovina Co-Operative Fire Insurance Company have adjusted the loss on the house of John Campbell at $1,000 and $500 on contents. An assessment of $2.50 per thousand has been made on policy holders to pay the loss. Mr. Campbell will rebuild at once.

Bovina Woman Dies Suddenly

Mrs. Alphonso P. Lee died suddenly at her home on the Lee homestead in Bovina about 6 o’clock Saturday morning, June 12. She had been suffering from rheumatism for a few weeks and Friday was taken with a heart attack and a physician called and he ordered her to rest. Saturday morning while getting breakfast she was taken with a poor spell and died in a few minutes.

Her maiden name was Van Keuren and she was twice married, her first husband being a Stewart. Her age was around 67 years. Burial was at Dunraven on Monday. 

June 25, 1926

• There are at present around ten cases of measles in town.

• Children’s day exercises were held at the U.P. church last Sabbath.

• Jack Myers and friend were here on a fishing trip over the week end.

• Mrs. Bertha Miller and daughter of Walton, spent over the week end at W.T. Miller’s

• About 40 ladies spent an enjoyable day Friday with Mrs. Walter McDivitt at South Kortright.

• Miss Margaret Gordon arrived home Friday from the Albany Teachers College for the summer vacation.

• Mrs. John Hilson and daughter, Louise, James Hilson and John Blair were County Seat visitors Wednesday.

• Mrs. and Mrs. John Storie and son, George, W.T. Miller, Miss Bell Miller and Mrs. Sloan Archibald were Delhi visitors Monday.

• Miss Beatrice Hoy is at home of her sister, Mrs. Harold Robinson, at Bainbridge. Mrs. Robinson recently underwent an operation for gall stones.

• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are Eugene Quick and wife to John H. Hilson and another $1. Bovina Cemetery Association to Thomas A. Archibald, $1.

• Miss Emily Archibald, who has been teaching at Lake George, is home for the summer. Miss Caroline Dickson, who taught at Rutland, Vermont, is also home.

• Professor and Mrs. Leon Taggart and sons, Thomas and William, of Oneonta, were over the week end guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Strangeway.

• Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Gruber and dauter [sic] and Mr. and Mrs. John Nicohols of Worcester, spent Sabbath with Mrs. John Nicholos of Worcester, spent Sabbath with Mrs. John Thomson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols. 

Down the Delaware in a Canoe – From our Bovina correspondent

Frederick Muller and Laurits Neilson spent from Saturday to Monday with their classmate, William S. Gordon. They had a canoe shipped to Delhi and made the return trip down the river to their home near Trenton, N.J.

Bovina Farm Sold

The Arthur Hoy farm up Pink street was sold at executors sale Monday and was purchased by Gustave Lefgrin for $30 above the mortgage, which was about $2,300. This was formerly the Aitken farm. 

A Week with Bovina People - May1901 - 125 Years ago from the Andes Recorder

Life in Bovina 125 years ago this month, as reported in the Andes Recorder for May 1901.

May 3, 1901

• W.J. Doig was over at Andes Tuesday.

• J.W. Blair was over at Andes Saturday.

• Frank Graham has purchased a horse.

• W.A. Hoy was at the County Seat Saturday.

• Fred Bramley made a trip to Delhi Monday.

• Miss Alice Oliver returned from Deposit Friday.

• County Clerk Black and wife were in town Tuesday.

• David Sloan has returned to his home in Colorado.

• H.S. Graham and Dr. Ormiston were up from Delhi Monday.

• Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy T. Barnhart, April 25, a son.

• Emile Northrup of Colorado was in town Monday and Tuesday.

• Frank Gowanlock and J.W. Archibald visited Delhi Saturday.

• Rev. Welsh and wife, of Oneonta, have been guests at Rev. Samson’s this week.

• A.T. Strangeway and daughters Misses Maggie and Libbie were down at Delhi Saturday.

• Mrs. Phinney has received the $2,000 insurance in the Phoenix company on the life of the late husband, Dr. Phinney.

• Among recent real estate transfers in town were James W. Coulter and wife to James H. and W. David Amos $300. 

• Dr. J.D. Frisbee, of Andes, was in this place Wednesday doing dental work.  He expects to visit this place every two weeks.

• Friday the remains of Thomas Wight were brought here for burial.  He died in the Binghamton State Hospital April 24, with pneumonia, aged 53 years.  He had only been in that institution one week.

• John A. Irvine had a narrow escape from serious injury Saturday.  He was driving a horse belonging to Mrs. Wm. Forrest hitched in with one of his and they started to run away, he caught it by the head and in some way his foot became tangled in the lines and whiffle trees and he was dragged some distance but escaped without serious injury.

• Miss Nancy Miller died Monday morning at the home of her brother in law, Robert Biggar in Coulter Brook in the 69th year of her age.  She has been ill with the measles and this was followed by a shock which proved fatal.  The funeral was held Tuesday at 12 o’clock from the house, Rev. Slater officiated and interment was in the Bovina Centre cemetery.  

May 10, 1901

• Mrs. Samson visited Bloomville on Tuesday.

• Elmer Hastings was at Bloomville Tuesday.

• Miss Kate Muller visited at Andes over Sabbath.

• James McWilliams was at Delhi on Thursday last.

• John W. Blair and W.L. Ruff were at Delhi Thursday.

• Ad Maxwell and S.A. Birdsall were in town Wednesday.

• Several new cases of measles have developed this week.

• George Knapp was in this place on Monday from Andes.

• Saturday David Oliver and Francis Graham were at Delhi.

• Hugh Adair was in town from Delhi Thursday of last week.

• W.R. Doig and Robert E. Thompson were at Delhi Friday.

• Alex Hilson and Rev. Williams visited the County Seat Friday.

• Rev. Welsh and family returned to their home in Oneonta Tuesday.

• E.J. Turnbull and Charles Carman, of Andes, were among those in town Tuesday.

• D.L. Thompson has moved to Stamford, where he will reside for at least the next six months.

• Re. Samson and Elder F.C. Armstrong attended the meeting of Presbytery at Walton Tuesday.

• H.S. Murray of Andes, was at Ed Scott’s Monday making some changes in his water system, connecting the pipes with a vat at the barn for cooling the milk, etc.

• Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Miss Leona Thompson, of this town to Rev. Marvin J. Thompson, of Delhi, at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. D. Lyle Thompson, May 15. Mr. Thompson has just completed his course at the Seminary and will be ordained and installed as pastor at the Gilchrist Memorial church May 31.

• Andrew G. Thompson, one of Bovina’s substantial farmers, died at his home near Tunis Lake, Friday, May 3, with the measles in the 67th year of his age.  He was born in the upper part of this town and in the winter of ’67-’68 he married Miss Anna King, who with five sons and a daughter survive him.  In the spring of 1868 he moved onto the farm where he resided at the time of his death.  The funeral was held at 11 o’clock Monday from his late residence, Rev. W.L.C. Samson officiating.

May 17, 1901

• H.G. Bramley visited Delhi Friday.

• B.S. Miller visited the County Seat Friday.

• Francis Graham was over at Andes on Friday.

• Thomas M. Spiers was in town on Wednesday.

• George Miller was in town from Andes on Saturday.

• F.R. and J.W. Coulter were visitors at Delhi Tuesday.

• Gideon Miller visited his parents at Andes on Sabbath.

• W.H. Liddle and wife were visitors in town Wednesday.

• John M. Miller made a trip over to Bloomville Saturday.

• George Elliott and Robert Liddle were in town Monday.

• Mrs. Phinney has sold her horse to E.C. Smuth, of Delhi.

• Mrs. W.W. Hoy and children have been at John R. Hoy’s.

• A few new cases of measles have developed in town this week.

• W.T. Miller and wife and Miss Bell J. Miller were at Delhi Friday.

• David Oliver and Mrs. John Oliver and son visited Andes Tuesday.

• David Liddle and Andrew T. Doig are attending court as grand jurors this week.

• Kenneth McKenzie, grandson of the late Dr. McKenzie of this town, died oat Port Ewen, May 5.

• J.W. Coulter is building an addition onto the house recently purchased from D.L. Thompson.

• William Bennett (colored) has moved his family from this town back to Meredith street, Delhi.

• Rev. Marvin J. Thompson and Miss Leona J. Thomson were married at noon Wednewsday, May 15, Rev. Samson officiating. 

May 24, 1901

• Thomas Gordon is on the sick list.

• Thomas Miller visited Andes Wednesday.

• William Rogers was in town Wednesday.

• Dr. Phyfe, of Delhi, was in this place Tuesday.

• G.D. Miller and wife were at Bloomville Tuesday.

• Andrew Finkle, of Shavertown, was in town Tuesday. 

• Several new cases of measles have developed this week.

• A.O. Butts was at Davenport last week for a few days.

• David Currie was home from Delhi Friday and Saturday.

• Robert Campbell, of Andes, was in this place Wednesday.

• E.T. Gerry’s new team at Lake Delaware weighs 3,200 pounds.

• John Archibald and wife, of Halcott were visitors here Thursday.

• Thomas H. Johnson had one of his big team horses die Tuesday night.

• J.W. Archibald has gone to Griffin Corners to work at the carpenter trade.

• Rev. Marvin J. Thompson preached in the United Presbyterian church last Sabbath evening.

• No memorial services will be held here this year, but the graves of the fallen heroes will be decorated as usual.

• Rev. W.L.C. Samson will preach the Memorial sermon in the 2d Presbyterian church at Delhi Sabbath evening May 26.

• Among those at Delhi Tuesday were James A. Liddle and wife, May Liddle, May Thompson, E.J. Scott and wife, Mrs. Archie Maynard, and Mrs. W.H. Maynard.

• Following are the delegates and alternates from the United Presbyterian Sabbath School to the Sabbath school convention to be held at Franklin, May 28 and 29: Mrs. W.L.C. Samson, Miss Libbie Strangeway, Mrs. Elliott Thompson, Miss Bell Strangeway, Mrs. James A. Gow, Miss Mary L. Thompson. Alternates-Mrs. James L. Coulter, William H. Maynard, Mrs. Thomas Miller, Miss Maggie D. Strangeway, W.E. Hastings, Miss Jennie E. Miller. 

May 31, 1901

• Dr. Seacord was over at Andes Tuesday.

• John Glendenning was in town Friday.

• John Blair was down at Delhi Saturday.

• Will Crosier was a Delhi visitor Saturday.

• Marshall Thompson was at Andes Wednesday.

• S.T. Good man was here from Andes Saturday.

• T.S. Miller and Ed Gladstone were in town Tuesday from Andes.

• Woodburn & Smyth have erected a monument on the Phinney plot.

• Fred Thompson and James McFarlane were among those at Delhi Monday.

• Truant officer B.S. Miller has been visiting the schools in town the past week.

• Miss Libbie Strangeway is teaching school in the Gilchrist district in Elk Creek.

• J.W. Coulter is now occupying the house recently purchased of D.L. Thompson.

• Of the memorial sermon preached by Rev Samson at Delhi last Sabbath evening, the Gazette says, “Mr. Samson is a very entertaining speaker, and his sermon was appropriate and highly spoken of.”

• Rev Samson and wife were at Delhi Sabbath evening where he preached the Memorial sermon. On Sabbath he preached a fine Memorial sermon in the United Presbyterian church from Exodus 15:3, “The Lord is a man of war.”

• At E.T. Gerry’s place, at Lake Delaware considerable building is to be done this summer. A new barn is to be erected, the plans of which are being furnished by a New York architect.  The contract has already been let for a dairy house 16 x 30 feet and also a hog house, etc., to W.T. Hine, of Delhi and the mason work has already been commenced by Gray Bros.

May 1926 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

From the pages of the Andes Recorder for the Month of May 2026

May 7, 1926

• From a recent sugar social the Willian Workers realized $25.

• Jack Perry was moved from Andes to the Dickson big house.

• Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers, of Binghamton, spent from Friday until Tuesday with his parents and he tried his luck at fishing.

• Mr. and Mrs. James Mabon and Mrs. Thomas Gordon attend the funeral of their Uncle, John Jack, at Delhi on Monday.

• Mrs. Lancelot Thomson is confined to her home with lumbago. Her niece Mrs. Gideon Miller, was up from Hamden to see her Monday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Alex Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Thomson and Norton Forrest attended the funeral of Joseph S. Forrest at Andes last Thursday.

• In the Bovina Center school district the same teachers have been hired for another year, viz: gilbert Banker as principal and Mrs. Leon VanDusen in primary department.

• The newly elected officers of the uptown Laurel Band society are Robert Erkson, president; Helen Parsons, vice President; Bernice DeSilva; secretary; Glenn Hobbie, treasurer.

• Joe Adee, of New Kingston, who purchased the farm of J.D. Burns, took possession Monday. Mr. Burns at present is stopping with his daughter, Mrs. Howard McPherson.

• Miss Mary Thomson, who recently purchased a house at Oneonta, went to that place Tuesday to take up her residence. Mrs. Elliott Thomson accompanied her to remain for a few days and help her get settled. 

May 14, 1926

• David J. Miller, of Walton, visiting relatives in town.

• Mrs. James Boggs is confined to her home up-town by illness.

• John Northrup recently visited his daughter, Mrs. Will Oliver, in Harpersfield.

• Earl Fisk at Lake Delaware, has the foundation in for a new barn to replace the one burned last year.

• Charles Thomson, of Endicott, was with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Thomson over the week end.

• The Beacon Light Sabbath School class will hold a visiting social in the church parlors on Friday evening, May 14. 

• Owing to the absence of the pastor, Rev. A.M. Thomson, at Newburgh, there were no services at R.P. church last Sabbath.

• Mrs. Eliza Barnhart, who spent the winter at John Quinn’s at Lake Delaware, has gone to Sidney Center for the summer.

• Frank Dickson and family and his sister, from Little Delaware, and Leon Taggart and family, of Oneonta, were here on Sabbath.

• The estate of Agnes Rockefeller, late of Bovina, is estimated at $3,000 personal. To Tessie Corbin, a sister, is willed $500; residue divided equally between four sons. 

• Mrs. Dixon Thomson, Mrs. Fred Thomson, Mrs. William Redman and Miss Carrie Dumond attended a Home Bureau meeting at Thomas D. Russell’s in Glenburnie last Saturday.

• Will Oliver, a Bovina boy, who has been with B.&.B. creamery at West Harpersfield, is now manager of the B.&.B. creamery at Margaretville. He also recently passed the examination for licensed milk tester. 

• Teachers hired for next year in Bovina are: Biggar Hollow, Forrest Owen; Coulter district, Mrs. Homer Burgin; Coulter Brook, Marion McPherson; Miller avenue, Elizabeth Strangeway; Pink street, Ruth Coulter; Butt End, Beatrice Hoy.

May 21, 1926

• Thomas A. Raitt, of Andes was in town Monday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Barnhart spent Sabbath with her people at Jefferson.

• Mrs. Robert Corcoran underwent an operation for appendicitis at Delhi last Thursday. 

• Mrs. Nettie Coe has gone to Batavia, Illinois, to spend a month with friends and relatives.

• Misses Kate and Fredi Muller spent over the weekend with their sister, Mrs. Otis McCumber, at Andes.

• Mrs. Andrew T. Doig, who had spent the winter with her brother, E.F. Thomson, in Walton, has returned to her home here.

• The interior of the Bovina Center Co-Operative Creamery is being painted. Harvey Reynolds, of Andes, is doing the work. 

• Mrs. James W. Thomson, Mrs. John Thomson, Mrs. John A. Russell and Mrs. Adam Laidlaw attended a missionary convention of the R.P. church.

• In the town of Bovina the county aid highway designation is Bovina Center toward Maynard school house. Available funds are $2,680; balance from 1925 $1,023.21

• Charles H. Hastings has moved to Walton, where he has the agency for the New York Life Insurance company. Until last fall he had been in Alberta, Canada, for some years.

BOVINA WOMAN DIES

Mrs. William T. Miller Passed Away at Her Home After Long Illness

Mrs. William T. Miller died at her home on Pink Street on Wednesay evening, May 13, after a long illness from cancers. She underwent an operation last October and continued to improve until January when she was taken worse and continued to fail from that time.

Her maiden name was Mary J. Bogs, a daughter of Thomas R. Boggs and Jane (Archibald) Boggs and was born in Bovina November 25, 1871. She was married November 7, 1897, and besides her husband is survived by her aged parents, a brother, James Boggs, and three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Ormiston and Calla Boggs, in Bovina, and Mrs. Robert Foreman, of Walton. 

The funeral which was largely attended was held from the house Saturday afternoon with Rev. F.N. Crawford officiating, assisted by Rev. Thomson. Interment was in the Bovina Center Cemetery. 

May 28, 1926

• William Wilson recently had his tonsils removed.

• Mrs. Lancelot Thomson, who has been ill for several weeks, is reported slightly better.

• There is no preaching at the Church of the Covenanters, on account of the absence of the pastor, Rev. Thomson. 

• Rev. F.N. Crawford is attending the meeting of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian church at Sharon, Penn.

• Jean, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson was ill the first of the week, threatened with appendicitis, but is now better.

• Fred Henderson, secretary and treasurer of the Bovina Center Co-Operative Creamery company, underwent an operation for appendicitis Saturday and is doing well.

• Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, who have been working for John Blair on his farm, will move to Arena and conduct a boarding house. Mr. Blair has hired Charles Miller, of Downsville, who comes June 1. 

Bovina Fish Club

In order to protect some of the Bovina streams the Bovina Fishing Club has been organized with the following officers: George Johnson, president; Wallace B. Smith, secretary; Everett DeSilva, Charles F. McPherson, Eugene Chase, Henry Monroe, directors. They have leased the stream rights from Bovina Center to the upper end of the town.

April 1926 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

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. 

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

 

Life in Bovina from 125 years ago, March 1901, as reported by the Andes Recorder:

March 1, 1901

• O.S. Nichols was in town Monday.

• Charles Johnson was in town Friday.

• W.D. Thomson was in town this week.

• John Storie was over at Andes Wednesday.

• Newman Knapp returned Monday from Oneonta.

• Will Foreman, of Bloomville, was in town Saturday.

• W.B. Scott and wife were in town from Delhi on Sabbath.

• Some of the boys attended the dance at Andes Friday night.

• Miss Jennie Campbell has been home for a short vacation.

• Mr. and Mrs. William Crosier and son were at Delhi Tuesday. [Mrs. Crosier was the former Jennie Isabella Archibald and the son was Harry Crosier, born in 1890. Jennie died in 1920, William in 1931 and Harry in Ohio in 1958.]

• T. Gordon and wife were at W.B. Scott’s above Delhi on Thursday.

• Wilson Raitt is moving to Hamden and will work for Combs brothers.

• Monday George Persons and John Lyon, of Delhi, were in this place.

• Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Irvine, of Federal Hill, were visitors here on Wednesday.

• Wesley Miller and wife, of Oneonta, were in this village the first of the week.

• John Kemp of Delhi, and Barna Johnson, of Andes, were in this place Saturday.

• Among those in town Saturday were Harvey Smith and Charles Whitmore, of Bloomville.

• The closing entertainment of the lecture course will be given by Dr. Willett’s on March 6.  

• Richard Smith and wife returned on Monday from Walton, where they have been for about two months.

• J.W. Coulter went to New York on Thursday with Mrs. John Barker who will enter the hospital for treatment.

• Frank Graham has sold his place the Walter Graham farm near Lake Delaware, to his nephew, Francis Graham.

March 8, 1901

• Bovina has a case of measles.

• John Blair visited Delhi Monday.

• A.O. Butts was down at Delhi Monday.

• John E. Gladstone arrived in town Monday.

• Henry Kerr, of Almeda, was here on Thursday.

• M. Gerowe of Bloomville was seen in town Monday.

• J.D. Barnhart and G.D. Miller were at Andes on Saturday. [J.D. Barnhart probably is actually Jeremy T. Barnhart, who lived on Pink Street.]

• E.C. Smyth and John Aitkin were in town from Delhi Friday.

• Mrs. M.M. Boggs and son and Mae Liddle were at Delhi Friday.

• At Frank Graham’s sale near Lake Delaware, March 5, cows averaged $25 per head.

• Mrs. VanLeuvan, who has been nurse at R.A. Thompsons returned to her home in Delhi Monday.

• Recent real estate transfers in town were the heirs of John M. McNaught to Colin McNaught, $2,000.

• Dr. Phinney is ill with pneumonia and Drs. Wight and Gladstone of Andes were here in consultation Thursday.

• Mrs. Rebecka Ormiston widow of the late James Ormiston, died last Thursday at the home of her son, Thomas at Glencoe, Maryland of complications following the gripe.  She was 77 years old and had been a resident of Bovina the major part of her life.  The remains were brought here and the funeral held in the United Presbyterian church Saturday, Rev. Samson officiating.  Interment was made in the Bovina cemetery. [Mrs. Ormiston was the former Rebecca McFarland, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca McFarland.]

March 15, 1901

• Dr. Gladstone was here Saturday.

• Ad Maxwell was in town Monday.

• Peter McGregor was in town Friday.

• David Draffin was down at Delhi on Saturday.

• Mrs. John Barker has returned from New York City.

• Alex Hilson and John Blair were at Delhi Thursday.

• Mrs. John Oliver and son are visiting at Deposit.

• William Bryden has moved onto the Benj Tuttle farm.

• D.M. Coulter and son were in town Friday from Andes.

• Mrs. R.W. Scott and daughter returned from a visit at Walton Tuesday.

• A.T. Strangeway has been appointed a Notary Public for the term ending March 30, 1903.

• Drs. Miner, Gladstone, Gates, Ormiston attended the funeral of Dr. Phinney here Wednesday. [The doctors included Henry Gates and William Ormiston. I haven’t been able to determine who the other doctors were.]

• Frank Graham has moved from the farm recently sold by him, back to the village and occupies rooms in the old Gow house.

• It is hoped by Bovina people that our efficient supervisor John A. Irvine, may be the next chairman of the Board of Supervisors.  He is a hard working and painstaking member and would make an excellent chairman.

Dr. Phinney Dead

Sabbath evening this community was called upon to mourn the loss by death of Dr. L. Phinney, at the age of 51 years.  He was born in Greene county and in the fall of 1883 he located in Bovina Centre, succeeding Dr. William Telford, Jr., who died a short time afterward.  Before coming to this town he practiced in New Kingston.  He graduated in 1879 from the New York Medical University and was regarded one of the best physicians in this vicinity.  He leaves a widow and a son and a daughter to mourn his loss.

Dr. Phinney was a man who always attended to his own affairs and never meddled with the affairs of others in any way.  Always ready when called for to help those in need of a physician and his place will be hard to fill.  Perhaps no man in town had fewer people who had anything to say against them than Dr. Phinney had.  And wherever he went he won many warm friends all of whom regret his demise with pneumonia.  The funeral was held on Wednesday at 11 o’clock in the United Presbyterian church.  

His mother also died Sabbath about the same time.  [Phinney’s wife was the former Mary Archibald. She died in 1927. His mother, the former Mary Carter, died two days before her son in Freehold in Greene County.]

March 22, 1901

• Dr. Rabuck and wife were in town Friday.

• David Oliver was down at Delhi on Monday.

• Peter Gerry was at Lake Delaware last week.

• Will Lambert was in town from Delhi Monday.

• Will Coulter was over from Andes Wednesday.

• W.A. Miller, of Delhi, was in this place Tuesday.

• Frank Myers visited his son, Alexander, here this week.

• Miss Bertha Phyfe was home from Delhi over Sabbath.

• Charles Connor, of Andes, was seen in this place Tuesday.

• Leonard Sloan went to Albany Tuesday to meet his father. 

• Charles Kaufman, of Margaretville was in town Wednesday.

• Mrs. T. Gordon went to Delhi to visit her parents Wednesday. [Mrs. Gordon was the former Mary Richardson Scott, the second wife of Thomas Gordon. She was the mother of Margaret Gordon.]

• Wesley Miller and wife, of Oneonta, were visitors here Tuesday.

• There was a dance at Rob Robson’s at Lake Delaware Monday night.

• Mrs. John Oliver and son returned Monday from their visit at Deposit.

• Miss Mary Liddle, of Andes, was a guest at Frank Gowanlock’s this week.

• D.M. Coulter, Ed Hanlon and Chas Johnson were here from Andes on Friday.

• James Monroe was at Andes Monday after Miss Serena Connor, who will work for him this season.

• Postmaster Hilson is having locks put on the postoffice boxes this week in compliance with the law.

• Miss Jennie Gladstone, who for several weeks has been visiting at Shavertown, returned to this place Tuesday.

• Robert Hoy, son of Thomas Hoy, of this place, and Miss Fannie Elliott, of Margaretville, were married at that place Wednesday. [Sadly, this couple would have a short marriage. Fannie had two boys in 1904 and died two years later in 1906. Robert survived his wife by a decade, dying in 1916.]

• There is to be an entertainment at Strangeway’s Hall, Friday evening, March 22, for the benefit of the lecture course fund for 1901 and 1902.

• Dr. S.H. Rabuck, of Bloomville, has opened an office in the small building next to Mrs. Lauren’s Hotel and is now prepared to attend to all professional calls.  Dr. Rabuck comes to us highly recommended as a physician and as a good man to have in a community and we extend him a hearty welcome.

March 29, 1901

• William Crosier was over at Andes Friday.

• G.D. Miller and wife visited Delhi Friday.

• James Archibald was at Andes on Wednesday.

• Oliver Dickson was up from Delhi on Monday.

• Elliott Thompson visited the County Seat Monday.

• Robert Hoy and bride arrived in town on Sabbath.

• Elisha B. Maynard, of Hobart, has been in town this week.

• Frank Gowanlock and wife visited relatives at Andes Saturday.

• Dr. S.H. Rabuck moved his medicines from Bloomville Saturday.

• Andrew T. Doig is in New York city this week purchasing goods.

• A.G. Strong and Andrew Franklin were in town Monday buying eggs.

• Thomas Miller and D.C. Worden were among those at Delhi Monday.

• T.H. Liddle and daughter, of Andes, were visitors in this place Friday.

• Peter and George McNair and John McCune went to Margaretville Monday.

• David Sloan, of Colorado, is in town and expects to remain about two months.

• Alex Hilson, John Blair, Dr. Seacord and Mr. and Mrs. David Draffin visited Delhi Monday.

• Henry Rotermond, of Margaretville, and a veteran of the civil war, was a visitor in town Friday.

• It is stated that after May 1st Dr. Rabuck will occupy a part of the D.L. Thompsons and also have his office there.

• John Kemp, of Delhi, and B. & C. B. Johnson, of Andes, were the members of the legal fraternity in town on Friday.

• F.R. Coulter and Wilson Scott have rented their farm (the old Russell farm) to John W. Northrup, who will take possession April 1.

• D.A. Oliver, formerly of this town has leased for one year of G.W. & H. Youmans their farm in Hamden village, getting possession April 1st. [This probably is David A. Oliver, who died in 1923.]

• On account of the worms killing so many of the maple trees some of our sugar makers who have usually hung 1,000 buckets, have not tapped at all this year.

• D.L. Thompson has sold his house and lot and hardware store in this village to J.W. Coulter, and will give possession May 1. It is rumored that Mr. Thompson contemplates locating at Almeda. [The hardware store later became the Bovina Public Library and is now the Bovina Museum.]

• Mrs. William R. Miller died very suddenly Tuesday night about 10 o’clock.  She had just retired when she was taken with her heart and only lived about fifteen minutes.  Her maiden name was Mary Laing and she was born in Andes in October 1856 and was married about 22 years ago.  She leaves a husband and a son and daughter.  The funeral will be held Friday at 12 o’clock in the United Presbyterian church.

• A difference of opinion having arisen between Thomas Ormiston and David Draffin, growing out of the renting of Ormiston’s farm, and the fact that the stock had been quarantined and also owing to Ormiston wishing to have Draffin vacate before his time had expired, because of his having a chance to sell the farm.  Monday the entire matter was left to J.S. Kerr, J.P. Ganung and Frank Lomport, of Stamford, to arbitrate, and it is stated that these gentlemen decided that Mr. Draffin should receive back $40 of the $140 he had already paid Mr. Ormiston on the rent.

Auction

D.J. Miller will sell on Wednesday April 3, at 11 o’clock, at his farm near Bovina Centre, 37 two-year old heifers, fresh or soon will be, and one two year old bull. These are choice grade Jerseys. A credit of three months will be given.  [This was David James Miller. He later moved to Walton and died there in 1945.]