November 1924 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

Here's what life was like in Bovina 100 years ago this month – November 1924

November 7, 1924

• Colin McNaught is having concrete stable put in his barn.

• Rema Hobbie, up-town, will have a furnace oinstalled in his residence.

• Mary Little, of Andes, spent over the week end with her aunt, Mrs. Geo Russell.

• Mrs. Hazel Flynn, of Pepacton, is a guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Aitkens.

• Lauren Dickson, who is in a law office at Saratoga, came home to vote and is remaining for a few days.

• William S. Gordon, who is a student at Pratt’s Institute, Brooklyn, was home from Friday until Tuesday.

• The Margaretville Chorus gave an entertainment here last Friday night under the auspices of Willing Workers.

• Mrs. and Mrs. Wilbur Archibald motored to Ithaca last Friday and on Saturday attended a football game there.

• Miss Elizabeth Jay, of Jefferson, Iowa, visiting in town. Her maiden name was Downie and she left Bovina 48 years ago.

• The Woman’s Missionary Society served an India tea at the home of Rev and Mrs. F.N. Crawford on Tuesday afternoon. The sun of $20 was realized.

• Rev. Boyd White, of Walton, preached in the Church of the Covenanters last Sabbath, exchanging pulpits with the pastor, Rev. A.M. Thomson.

• The operation of Mrs. D.C. Worden at Delhi last Thursday morning for the removal of a goitre was a success, and she expects to be able to come home in a short time.

• Mrs. James Burnett, of Syracuse, who will be remembered as Bell Thomson, is in the hospital at Oneonta. She was taken ill while on a visit with relatives at South Kortright, and was taken to the hospital.

Bovina Team Located - Horses of Fritz Burger Found at Gilboa by State Troopers

Some three weeks ago Ed York, who had hired to work for Fritz Burger on the Armstrong farm in Bovina, hitched Mr. Burger’s heavy black team to a rubber tire wagon and stated that he was going to Harpersfield after his wife.  He failed to reach his destination and there was no trace of him.  After a few days the case was put in the hands of the state troopers and this week the team and outfit(?) was located at Gilboa, where the team had been sold for about $200.  No trace of the man has been found.

November 14, 1924

• Ed Henderson is spending the week in New York City.

• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Archibald, of Franklin, are visiting relatives in town.

• Supervisor Wallace B. Smith is in Delhi attending the sessions of the board.

• Arthur Coulter, son of Frank A. Coulter, has been compelled to quit school on account of illness.

• Mrs. James Lunn, of Lake Delaware and grandson, Frank Hoag, are visiting her son, John Lunn, at Ithaca.

• Frank Kaufman, of Kingston, is a guest of his sisters, Mrs. Dixon Thomson, and Mrs. William Armstrong.

• Mrs. Charles Hafele and Mrs. Alex Jardine are visiting Dr. Jardine Hafele son of the first named, at Dutton, Canada.

• Cows brought low prices Wednesday at A.W. Baker’s auction, on the Fred Johnson farm.  Mr. Baker and family expect to spend the winter in Florida, going by auto.

• Friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Burgin, to the number of about 70, made them a surprise visit on Monday evening, November 10 on their 15th anniversary of their marriage.

Was Native of Bovina – from our Bovina correspondent

Mrs. James Burnett, formerly of Bovina, died in the Oneonta hospital Friday morning, November 7, from a cancer. Her maiden name was Bell Thomson, being a daughter of the late David Low Thomson. Her age was about 62 years. Burial was at Delhi.

Bovina Farmer Shoots Self – James Monroe Committed Suicide on Monday in Bedroom of home

James Monroe, a farmer living on the former James Russell place a short distance above the Butt End in upper Bovina, committed suicide about noon on Monday, November 10, by shooting himself through the head with a rifle.

Mr. Monroe had been putting concrete floor in the basement of his barn and was being assisted by his son, Henry Monroe. He had appeared to worry over the matter. Another thing that seemed to have a depressing effect and weigh on his mind was taxes. He had paid his school tax and had expressed a fear that he would not have money enough to pay his town taxes. 

After finishing his dinner Monday he went to his bedroom on the ground floor. Soon afterwards the report of a gun was heard. The family rushed to the room and found Mr. Monroe lying apparently dead. He had raised the window and set the gun with the butt on the ground and placing the muzzle against his head had fired it by means of a stick pressed agains the trigger. The bullet entered the left side of his head near the eye but was not instantly fatal, and he did not die until 5 o’clock that afternoon. He never regained consciousness.

Deceased was about 59 years of age and his early life was spent with the “Stone House” Thomson’s. He was twice married, his first wife being a Coulter. By this union four children survive, viz: Henry, in Bovina; James Wilson, in Schenectady; Martena in Delhi, and Mrs. Lou Joslin in Bovina. A few years ago he married Mrs. Yager of Catskill. 

November 21, 1924

• William S. Redmond was a Stamford caller Monday.

• Mr. and Mrs. James Mabon were at Andes on Thursday.

• Mrs. Alex Hilson and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Russell moved into their new houses Tuesday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hoy and children, of Frasers, visited his parents here Wednesday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Slan Archibald spent over the week end with his son, Russell Archibald, at Delhi.

• Misses Mary Keeley and Alice Frayer, of Delhi, spent Saturday as the guests of Margaret Gordon.

• Mrs. D.C. Worden, who recently underwent an operation at Delhi for goiter, returned home last Wednesday.

• The Whitcomb Circle held an oyster supper in the U.P. church parlor last Friday night and the receipts were $40.

• A number of the entertainment course was held Tuesday evening. The entertainer was Miss Plume McIntosh.

• Miss Louise Dennis, who is with her brother, John P. Dennis, in Virginia, was given a postal shower on her 80th birthday, which was November 16.

• Courtney Currie, who a few weeks ago had an operation for appendicitis, was out for the first Wednesday.  He was given a post card shower November 14, on his 18th birthday.

Dr. Thomson Coming to Bovina

Dr. William Thomson, who recently located at Delhi, has leased a room in the former John Hastings house and commencing December 1, will be in Bovina Center one day in each week.

Bovina Woman Injured

Mrs. George Decker fell Friday evening while going to Alex Myers’ who lives across the street, and had the misfortune to dislocated her hip.  Dr. Goodrich is in charge of the case and Mrs. Lucy Coulter is the nurse.

Ministers Meet in Bovina

The Catskill Mountain Clerical Association held their November meeting in the U.P. church on Monday. Only seven out-of-town ministers were present. Rev. W.C. Robinson, of Delhi, conducted the question box. Other speakers were Rev North of Walton, and Rev. R.L. Mauterstock, of Pine Hill.

Bovina’s Tax Budget

The Delaware County Supervisors have ordered the following sums levied against the taxable property of the town of Bovina;-

Town audits……………$1,400.56

Cert of Indebtedness No. 4……..1,100.00

Interest on same……66.00

Cert. of Ind. No. 6 and Int…..836.00

Library fund………..100.00

The sum of $105 was levied against the taxable property of the Bovina Center Fire District

November 28, 1924

• Students are home for the Thanksgiving vacation.

• Union Thanksgiving services were held in the U.P. church.

• Rev. F.N. Crawford was at South Kortright on Wednesday attending an installation.

• The thank offering of the various missionary societies of the United Presbyterian church amounted to $540 this year.

• Edward Charles Parsons, of Bovina, and Miss Esther Agnes Tweedie, of Walton, were married by Rev. F.C. Davidson, November 17.

• The case of Edward Lifgren, which came up Justice T.C. Strangeway’s court Monday, was adjourned to Friday.  Young Lifgren is charged with maltreating a five months calf by pounding it with stones and it died later.  Lifgren is said to have been angry because the calf is alleged to strayed onto his father’s lawn from farm of Mr. Hadley across the road on the former Andrew Thomson farm.

This Day in Bovina for October 2024

 

Here's the compilation of the Town of Bovina Historian Facebook page entries for October 2024:

103 years ago today, on October 1, 1921, Jennet Isabella Doig died. She was born in 1867 in Gladstone Hollow and spent her entire life in the area. She was the daughter of William S. Doig and Margaret Miller. About a year earlier, according to the Andes Recorder, she had gone to Albany and "submitted to an operation and a portion of the stomach was removed." She had gone back to Albany a few weeks before her death, but they determined nothing further could be done. She had gotten as far as her sister's house (Mrs. Milton McFarland) in Delhi where she died. She is buried in the Bovina Cemetery.

Fifty years ago today, the October 2, 1974 Stamford Mirror Recorder carried this article listing new books at the Bovina Public Library: 

142 years ago today, on the evening of October 3, 1882, as later reported in the Stamford Mirror's Bovina column, "Some of our young men amused themselves by running horses through Brushland…." The action was "severely condemned by people generally…," partly because it was done "while people were on their way to Miss Meade's entertainment…" There also was damage to Dr. Telford's fence and several people were injured. "It is to be hoped that such a thing may not occur again."

176 years ago today, the October 4, 1848 issue of the Delaware Gazette carried this ad for Cement Pipes, noting that two Bovina farmers, James Coulter and Isaac Aitkins, were using such pipes.  

144 years ago today, the Bovina column of the October 5, 1880 Stamford Mirror reported that "Dr. Dickson purchased a building lot of Rev. J. Kennedy, adjoining A.F. McPherson. Which of the fair ones are interested in that transaction?" This lot is where within the next year the building that is now the Brushland Eating House was constructed.

203 years ago today, on October 6, 1821, Nancy Armstrong Miller was born, the daughter of John Armstrong and Isabella Coulter. She married John Thomas Miller in 1849. They would have six children, one of whom died in infancy. Nancy died in 1868, leaving five children, ranging from 14 to 2 years old. Her last surviving child was Elizabeth, known later in life as Lib Blair. Lib died in 1965 when she was just shy of 99 years old. And in the interest of full disclosure, Nancy Miller is my three greats grandmother. This picture is of her four daughters, Nancy Belle, Mary Alice, Helen Jane and Elizabeth Janette. Nancy is on the right and is the ancestor of some of the Burns in Bovina (as well as my great great grandmother). I think Lib Blair is on the left, with Mary Alice at the bottom and Helen Jane at the top.   

126 years ago, the October 6, 1898 Andes Recorder Bovina column reported that "George Forman, who lives at Abram Brandow’s, while out hunting recently, found Alex. Hilson’s money drawer which was taken from his safe when his store was robbed." It was found in the area of East Bramley Mountain Road. The robbery had taken place over a year and a half earlier in March 1897.

Sixty years ago today, the Bovina column of the October 8, 1964 Delaware Republican-Express reported that "Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ryder of the Bronx spent the weekend at their summer home here." This is now the home of Dario and Briana Riera. Here's a picture taken by Russ Ryder of his wife Dot with Eleanor Archibald and Mary Archibald, watching the Bovina Sesquicentennial parade: 

136 years ago today, the October 9, 1888 Stamford Mirror reported that "D.J. Miller, of Bovina, has filled a 70-ton silo, the first one in that town."

195 years ago today, on October 10, 1829, Andrew Archibald, the ancestor of the Archibalds in Bovina, died at the age of 83. He was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1745. He married Grace Hart in Scotland in 1778 where their children were born. Andrew is buried in Bovina in the Associate Presbyterian Church cemetery at Reinertsen Hill Road.

119 years ago today, the Delaware Gazette for October 11, 1905, reported that "Dr. Young of New York has purchased the practice of Dr. Rabuck, Bovina Centre, and taken possession. He will occupy Dr. Rabuck's furnished apartments in J.W. Coulter's house for the present. Dr. Rabuck will not practice for a time on account of nervous trouble." For more information on Drs. Rabuck and Young, visit the Bovina History Blog at http://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-succession-of-physicians-bovina.html.

204 years ago today, on October 12, 1820, this bill was submitted for the surveying of the town of Bovina. The total was $67, though it appears that there is a math error, since the total written looks like $77. The bill includes $2.25 for rum for the surveyors.

Fifty-three years ago today, the Bovina column of the October 13, 1971 Stamford Mirror Recorder, written by Beatrice Thomson, noted that "The Women's Discussion Group will meet Wednesday, Oct 20 at 8 pm at Linda Kulaski's home. The topic for discussion will be Planning-As It Relates to Our Community. All women in the community are welcome to attend."

161 years ago today, on October 14, 1863, Robert Dysart died on Folly Island, South Carolina of typhoid fever while serving in the 144th NY Infantry. More information about Robert can be found at the Bovina NY History Blog at http://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/12/illegitimate-child-of-robert-dysart.html

150 years ago today, on October 15, 1874, as later reported in the Delaware Gazette, "Mr. Alexander Liddle, of Bovina, was using his new horsepower thresher at the barn of Mr. John O. Liddle, of Andes, in feeding the machine his right hand came in contact with the knives of the revolving cylinder, and was instantly torn into shreds, as high as and above the wrist. Amputation of the arm was rendered necessary, and was performed the same evening by Drs. Wight and Crawford, while the patient was narcotized by ether. - Mr. Liddle was able to ride home the next day, and at last accounts was doing as well as could be expected." This Alexander Liddle likely was the son of John O. Liddle. Alexander was a Civil War veteran. He would survive this accident 44 years, dying in 1918 at the age of 78.

Ninety-three years ago today, the Bovina column in the October 16, 1941 Delaware Republican included this item: "Mr. and Mrs. Alex Myers are spending the week in Endicott, N.Y. and Mrs. Arthur Decker [is] the "Hello" at the telephone office here."

Edward O'Connor was born 205 years ago today, October 17, 1819, on what is now Russell Hill. The family farm was located in the town of Delhi when O'Connor was born but a few months later would become part of the newly created town of Bovina. He was the son of Francis O'Connor and Fanny Calder. Edward was involved in the Anti-Rent War and was convicted and sentenced to hang for the shooting of Undersheriff Osman Steele in Andes in 1845. His sentence was commuted to life in prison and within a couple of years he was pardoned by the governor. O'Connor left New York in 1862 and died in Michigan in May 4, 1863. More on O'Connor may be found in the Bovina NY History Blog at http://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/05/stories-from-bovinas-cemeteries-what.html.

204 years ago today, on October 18, 1820, Adam Kedzie died in Bovina at age 31.  On December 6, his wife Mary, administratrix of his estate, along with his two brothers, James and William auctioned off Adam's horses, cattle, sheep and farming utensils at a public auction.  Mary died in 1830.

112 years ago today on October 19, 1912, as later reported in the Catskill Mountain News, "'Billy Reed of Bovina was arrested on the charge of public intoxication and sentenced … to 30 days in Delhi jail…" The paper went on to note that this "must seem like going home to Billy." Reed appeared in the 1910 census for Bovina, listed as a servant in the home of Frank and Agnes Coulter.

109 years ago today, the October 20, 1915 Delaware Gazette reported the following: "The body of James D. Boyd, late of Bovina was brought here from New York last Friday for interment. He went to New York four weeks ago and was operated on for gall stones and seemed to be recovering until last week when he died, Thursday. A widow and three grown daughters survive, also four sisters, Mrs. Albert Strickland and Miss Flora Boyd of Delhi, Mrs. E. Coan of Bloomville, and a brother F. M. Boyd of East Meredith. His age was 63 years. The remains were taken to Bovina Center Saturday where the funeral and burial took place." James was 62 years old at his passing.

Eighty-one years ago today, the Bovina column in the October 21, 1943 Delaware Republican-Express carried this item: "Pfc. Clark G. Lay of the 79th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Command, Manchester, Conn., is spending a 13-day furlough at his home here."

135 years ago today, the October 22, 1889 Stamford Mirror had the following item: "Alexander White, an extensive farmer at Belle Plaine, Iowa, has been visiting friends in Bovina, it being nineteen years since he was home last. He expects to bid his aged mother a last farewell. She is the oldest lady in Bovina, being upwards of ninety years of age. In return home, he expects to visit, in Chicago, his cousins, the Rev. John Graham's sons." Mrs. White, born Anna Graham in Scotland in 1799, survived her son's visit by almost 4 years, dying in 1893 when she was 94.

147 years ago today on October 23, 1877, “the Hogaboom Bros., of Bovina, started a drove of cattle, sheep and calves … through to Rondout.”

Ninety-five years ago today, on October 24, 1929, as later reported in the Bovina Center column of the Delaware Republican, "Adam Laidlaw and family, Mr. and Mrs. Humbert of New York were at Howe Caverns on Thursday."

115 years ago today, on October 25, 1909, as later reported in the Catskill Mountain News, "Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Gladstone and Mr. and Mrs. William J. Doig of Bovina Centre were guests at the home of James Coulter on Wednesday [in Margaretville] while enroute to Colorado where they will reside hereafter."

130 years ago today, the October 26, 1884 issue of the Andes Recorder reported in its Bovina column that "R.A. Thompson has had his house painted in colors. Alex. Myers and William Sloan were the artists."

An ad dated October 27, 1877, 147 years ago today, was created announcing a Cider press at Johnsons mill. It appeared in the November 22, 1877, Andes Recorder.  

Seventy years ago today, the October 28, 1954 Delaware Republican-Express reported that "Former Bovina Pastor Dies." Rev. W.L.C. Samson, who had been pastor of the Bovina UP Church from 1895 to 1906, died "in Pittsburg, Pa., where he had preached until he was past 90." After he left Bovina, he was in California until 1914 then moved on to Pittsburgh. 

104 years ago today, October 29, 1920, William J. Storie hosted a Halloween Party. This is the invitation received by my grandmother, Anna Bell Calhoun.  

189 years ago today, a notice dated October 30, 1835 was posted in the Delaware Gazetter: "Application will be made to the next Legislature of the State of New York, by the Directors of the Bovina Subscription Library, for an act of incorporation." It was signed by Adam Scott, Samuel Gordon and Andrew McFarland.

113 years ago today, on October 31, 1911, as later reported in the Andes Recorder "The Hallowe'en pranks were not as numerous as usual.  Will Thomson's livery sign appeared at Wm. Crosiers' and one of his wagons found its way to the platform at Wat Coulter's mill."

A Week with Bovina People - October 1899 - 125 Years ago from the Andes Recorder

Here’s what was happening in Bovina 125 years ago, October 1899, from the pages of the Andes Recorder.

October 6, 1899

• A number are going to sell milk.

• Anson Barnhart was in town Monday.

• Monday night apples were frozen hard.

• Alex. Hilson started Monday for New York city.

• Irving Phinney was home from Walton over Sabbath.

• Porter Dean was in town last week looking after cows.

• William Crosier has hired Robert A. Thomson to draw milk.

• Thomas Ormiston and family started Tuesday for Maryland.

• John Coulter and wife, of Davenport, were here Monday.

• William Bramley and family were up from Delhi Thursday.

• Frank Miller and sister, Carrie, visited at Delancey last week.

• Born to Mr. and Mrs. D.C. Worden on Friday, September 29, a son.

• “Champ” Worden has quit threshing as his cleaner was entirely spoiled.

• Ferris McPherson had a cow killed by lightning last week while in the pasture.

• Rev. Walter Strangeway preached on the United Presbyterian church on Sabbath evening.

• Next Sabbath communion services will be held in the United Presbyterian church, and Rev. E.M. Milligan will assist.

• The Reform Presbyterian congregation think of discarding their old stoves and putting in a furnace to heat their church.

• Dr. Seacord went to Washington, D.C., last week and was accompanied by Fred Arbuckle and Delos Landon who will enter the veterinary college.

• James Hastings and wife returned last Thursday from a months’ visit in Minnesota.  Mr. Hastings enjoyed his first trip out of his native county.

• Some of those were at Delhi Friday were, William Maynard and wife, Mrs. Alex. Myers, Mrs. Robert Thomson, Mrs. Edwin Scott, son and daughter, Mrs. Sloan Archibald and son Russell, Mrs. Andrew Thomson and family.

• The Andes & Delhi Telephone Company have finally allowed Alex. Hilson to go onto the main wire direct without having to be switched on, and we understand Mr. Hilson is to answer all calls on the line when Mr. Strangeway is not in the main office.

• Last week’s Gazette contained a letter stating the great change in things as compared to what they were sixty or seventy years ago.  In the item in which the writer states that in the fall butter buyers came around and bought the butter his memory must have played him tricks.  In those days butter buyers were as “scarce as hens teeth”, and butter had to be hauled to Catskill and they had to take just what they could get for it, perhaps 10 or 11 cents and if left unsold some got six cents per pound, and yet those are the good days that are gone and we hope they may never return.

October 13, 1899

• Hugh Adair was in town Friday.

• Dr. Houyck was in town Tuesday.

• James Seath arrived in town Thursday.

• Abram Northrup was in town Monday.

• William Cooke is at Delhi as a juryman.

• Walter McDivitt was down at Delhi Monday.

• Thomas Gordon has commenced housekeeping.

• Thomas H. Liddle was here from Andes Saturday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Close were over at Andes Thursday.

• Whooping cough has made its appearance in this locality.

• Rev. E.M. Milligan left Monday for his home in Sewickley, Pa.

• Caleb Monroe and Andrew Close were in town from Andes Thursday.

• Communion services were held in the Reformed Presbyterian church on Sabbath.

• Mrs. Otis McCumber and daughter, of Andes, were guests at Mrs. Muller’s on Thursday.

• Thomas Hoy has rented his farm to John and Peter Robson and gives possession March 1, 1900.

• George Hughes and wife and Charles White and wife were guests at John R. Hoy’s Monday evening.

• J.L. Hughes is at S.G. Bramley’s touching up his fine residence where it needs a new dress of paint.

• Miss Louisa Dennis and Mrs. G.J. Dickson were in New York last week purchasing millinery goods.

• Among those in town Friday were Andrew Franklin and John K. Russell, of Delhi, and William D. Thompson, of Rondout.

• Four new members were admitted to the United Presbyterian church last Sabbath, two by certificate and two by profession.

• Leonard Sloan has moved from the rooms in Strangeway’s store building to the rooms in the Gow house recently vacated by David Draffen.

• Rev. Milligan preached an excellent sermon Sabbath evening on the four anchors cast out of the ship when Paul was shipwrecked; they were faith, repentance, thankfulness and obedience.

• The Reform Presbyterian congregation continue to push the improvements about their church, relaying the walk, ditching , etc., and when they get their new furnace in running order will have everything in good shape.  They will also raise up the church in order to get better drainage.

• James, son of Alex. Bryden near Lake Delaware, died in Fall Clove last Friday of spinal meningitis.  He had ridden his bicycle over there and was quite warm and this may have had something to do with his illness.  The funeral was held from his home Monday at 11 o’clock, Rev. W.L.C. Samson, officiating, and the interment made here.

October 20, 1899

• E.J. Turnbull was in town last Wednesday.

• E.C. Dean was up from Delhi on Sabbath.

• Ira Worden was see in town on Monday.

• G.D. Miller was at the County Seat Saturday.

• John K. Russell, of Delhi, was here on Thursday.

• John Blair started Tuesday for Kingston with stock.

• Miss Jennie Miller has been visiting relatives at Hobart.

• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gordon were at Delhi on Monday.

• Register or you cannot vote. Saturday is your last chance.

• Henry Rice and son were in town Wednesday from Delhi.

• Richard Smith arrived home Monday from a visit to Walton.

• David Ballantine and wife, of Andes were in this place Monday.

• Rev. T.M. Slater started Monday for Sterling Valley, this state.

• Mrs. Elizabeth Hewitt has been visiting her son Hamilton J., at Delhi.

• Hamilton J. Hewitt and wife were in this place from Delhi on Sabbath.

• Monday J.L. Hughes began painting Dr. G.J. Dickson’s drug store in colors.

• A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brandow at Bloomville, October 7.

• Mrs. Frank Gowanlock and Mrs. Alex Myers were over at Andes on Wednesday.

• Among those at Delhi last Wednesday were, John Oliver, wife and son, James A. Gow, and A.C. Seacord.

• Henry S. Murray and Frank Crispell were at W.C. Russell’s Monday, where they have had a big job of putting in water pipe.  

• John W. Bramley died early Thursday morning with diabetes, age 81 years.  He was born and always lived in this town and was one of our most extensive and best farmers.  He leaves a widow and four children – three sons John G, William and Fred and one daughter, Mrs. E.C. Dean.  The funeral will take place on Saturday at 11 o’clock from his late residence.

October 27, 1899

• F.R. Coulter was at Andes Thursday.

• Miss Ida Glendening was in town Sabbath.

• Elmer Close and wife were at Andes Tuesday.

• Elliott Thompson was at Andes last Thursday.

• Robert A. Thompson visited Delhi Thursday.

• E.S. Washburn and wife visited at Union Grove.

• G.D. Miller was at Walton Friday and Saturday.

• Ed Hanlon and Charles Spiers were in town Friday.

• Frank Myers has been visiting his son, Alex Myers.

• Bert Gladstone, of Andes, was in this place Friday.

• Miss Lillian Miller, of Andes, was in town over Sabbath.

• James Muir, of Andes, was seen in this place Wednesday.

• T.W. Miller, of the Andes Recorder, was in town Saturday.

• William Aitkins and family visited at John G. Russell’s Friday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Miles Bramley, of Walton were in town over Sabbath.

• B. Shaw Miller and Charles Hilton, of Andes, were in town Tuesday.

• Robert R. Gladstone and Ed Gladstone were in town Tuesday from Andes.

• Mrs. J.L. Hughes, of Andes, was a guest at Mrs. Amos Northrup’s Saturday.

• Work on the stone work on Reformed Presbyterian church is progressing rapidly.

• Rev. Alex Bramley was here the past week, called her by the death of his brother, John W. Bramley.

• John G. Laing and bride visited in town from Wednesday to Saturday when they left for their home in Madison, N.J.

• Frank R. Coulter has sold the steam heater in his residence to Mr. Chamberlain, of Margaretville, who has removed the same.

• Peter McNair, with a gang of men, is employed at grading and leveling up the grounds in the cemetery at North Kortright.

• John G. Laing and Miss Laura Reynolds, of Hurleyville, Sullivan county, were married at that place Wednesday, October 18.

• There was no preaching in the Reformed Presbyterian church on Sabbath owing the absence of Rev. T.M. Slater and the repairs on the church.

• Mr. Halsey, the creamery man is anxious to locate a skimming station at the Centre, and has made Wilson Scott an offer for land near the proposed railroad track.

• The total registration this year is 321, the same as last year. The board appointed James A. Gow and John W. McCune poll clerks, and Robert E. Thompson and Arthur D. Hoy ballot clerks. 

October 1924 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

 

Here's what life was like in Bovina 100 years ago this month – October 1924

October 3, 1924

• Adam Cunningham spent the weekend with his family at Treadwell.

• Calvin Russell and sister, of Syracuse, are visiting their mother here.

• Miss Kate and Freda Muller spent over the week-end visiting at Bainbridge.

• Mr. and Mrs. G.D. Miller attended the funeral of her brother, A.S. Banker, at Andes on Monday.

• Mrs. and Mrs. John Blair are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Marshall Thomson, on Long Island.

• Mrs. Arthur D. Hoy will hold a sale next week and will move to William Hoy’s tenant house in Bovina Center.

• Edward Gladstone, who recently sold his farm in Gladstone Hollow, has moved into G.D. Miller’s house.

• Mr. and Mrs. George H. Miller have gone to Washington D.C. to be present at the unveiling of a monument to world war veterans.

• Mr. and Mrs. G.D. Miller, who are past the four score mark, will spend the winter with their sister-in-law, Mrs. A.S. Banker, at Andes. [Mrs. Miller, the former Mary Jane Banker, would die at here sister-in-law’s in early December.]

• Bovina was visited by a flood Tuesday and much damage was done to roads.  The tenant house of W.A. Hoy was surrounded by water and Mrs. Hitchcock had to be carried out.  The water pipe of Will Burns, below the village, crosses the stream about 10 feet above the bed and this was damaged.  

October 10, 1924

• Misses Kate and Freda Muller spent Saturday at Walton.

• Gerdon [sic] Coulter and family, of Delhi, were callers in town on Sabbath.

• Miss Calla Boggs has been at Walton visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert Forman.

• Mrs. Ray Thomson, of upper Bovina, had her tonsils removed recently at the Fox hospital in Oneonta.

• Miss Edna Russell, daughter of W.T. Russell, recently underwent an operation at Oneonta for the removal of tonsils.

• Mr. and Mrs. William T. Russell, Mrs. Jas W. Thomson and Mrs. Fred Thomson were Oneonta visitors last Saturday.

• Mrs. Thomas Ormiston has been on the sick list the past week. It was feared that she might have to submit to an operation. [This likely is the former Margaret E. Boggs. She would survive this crisis and live for almost 42 more years, dying in July 1966 three months shy of 100.]

• A number of our young people attended a birthday party at Watagua Falls for Miss Helen Gladstone on Tuesday evening.

• Mrs. Peter McNair, who has been here for some time, returned to Binghamton on Saturday. Her daughter, Mrs. John McCune, accompanied her and remained over Sabbath.

• Mrs. and Mrs. Burnett, of Syracuse, and Mrs. Walter McDivitt, South Kortright, were visitors here on Sabbath. Mrs. Burnett will be remembered as Bell Thomson.

• Miss Susan Campbell, who has been spending the summer in Andes, has been with Bovina relatives the past week. She expects to return to California the last of the month. [Miss Campbell was the daughter of Alexander Campbell and Agnes Miller. She would die in California in 1942 at the age of 77.]

October 17, 1924

• Mrs. John Burns, in upper Bovina, is on the sick list.

• Miss Mary Kelley, of Delhi, was a visitor here Saturday.

• F.W. Hyatt went to New York City on Thursday for a visit.

• Mrs. Otis Todd has been visiting her daughter at Roxbury.

• The Doig reunion was held at the home of Howard McPherson last Saturday.

• Mrs. Fred Thomson spent a few days last week with Miss Mary Thomson at South Kortright.

• DeWight Hitchcock, who has been occupying Will Hoy’s tenant house, moved to South Kortright this week.

• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are Bovian Cemetery Association to Robert A. Thomson and another $35.

• Mr. and Mrs. G.D. Miller went to Andes on Thursday and will spend some time with their sister-in-law, Mrs. A.S. Banker.

• William Burns, who owns what is known as the David Miller place below the village, is having the main part of the house raised up and made two story.

• Rev. T.N. McQuoid, of Schenectady, is preaching at the United Presbyterian church each evening this week. Communion services will be held on Sabbath.

• Otis Todd, who has been employed by Mr. Berger on the Armstrong farm for the past fifteen months, has completed his work. Edward York has taken his place.

• Sheffield Smith applied the brakes on his car too suddenly Tuesday while coming up the road above Will Storie’s and the car was thrown into the fence. The car was somewhat damaged. 

Chevrolet and Cow Collide – From Our Bovina Correspondent

Clarence LaFevre [sic] at South Kortright on Sabbath with his car collided with a cow belonging to Will Nesbitt. The cow was little injured, but the Chevrolet had to be towed home.

October 24, 1924

• There was a snow squall Tuesday afternoon.

• Mr. and Mrs. Everett Joslin spent the past week with their daughter, Mrs. Charles Hyatt, in New York.

• Ralph Hillis, George Storie and Benson LaFevre [sic] have returned from the North Woods, but failed to get a deer.

• The burning out of the chimney on George Russell’s house Monday created a little excitement, but aside from blackened paper no damage was done.

• Communion services were held at the United Presbyterian church last Sabbath, bringing to a close the series of meetings. There was an accession of ten to the membership, nine by profession and one by certificate. 

• Herman Weiss, aged 78 years, died at his home up Coulter Brook on October 20. He was a native of Germany and about three years ago came to Bovina and purchased a farm from Walter McDivitt – the Robert Biggar place. The burial was in Bovina Center cemetery. 

• William McCune, who is employed by Fred Bramley, was stricken Friday morning while milking, with what is believed to have been a shock. He had just gotten up from a cow when [he] fell over unconscious. He was carried to the house and a physician summoned. He remained unconscious for several hours. 

• George Burgin, the five month’s old son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Burgin, died in the hospital in New York on Friday, October 17, following an operation for the removal of a tumor at the outlet of the stomach. The funeral was held on Monday with Rev. Edgelow officiating. Burial was in Bovina Center cemetery. 

Midnight Fire in Bovina

Large Barn on Former Ed Scott Farm Destroyed Thursday Night

The large barn on the former Edwin Scott farm near the Butt End in the Town of Bovina was destroyed by a fire about midnight last Thursday night.

The farm is now owned and occupied by Eugene Chase and the family knew nothing of the fire until aroused by the insistent ringing of the telephone.  At about the same time J.H. Johnson’s saw the reflection on the sky and gave the alarm in that section.  When first discovered the entire roof was in flames and when Mr. Chase got to the barn he could not save even the team of horses and two cows that were in the barn.  The only thing that the large crowd that soon gathered could do was to see that the house close by did not get on fire.

The cause of the fire is a mystery.  Fortunately, his dairy of cows were in the pasture.  The two burned would not stay out of his cauliflower patch.  

The loss is a heavy one. It is stated that there was an insurance of $3000 in the town company.  

October 31, 1924

• A.P. Lee was an Andes visitor the first of the week.

• Born to Mr. and Mrs. Millard Russell, October 21, a son.

• A concrete floor is being put in the Up-Town Co-Operative

• A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tittsworth on October 15.

• Bishop Nelson recently confirmed a class of twelve at the St. James church at Lake Delaware.

• Mrs. L.B. Hilton, of Walton, was a guest of her cousin, Mrs. G.J. Dickson, on Sabbath.

• Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Archibald, of Warren, Penn, are visiting her mother, Mrs. G.J. Dickson.

• Ed Kinch and family and Harvey Kinch, of Walton, were guests at Geo H. Miller’s on Sabbath.

• Mrs. Samuel Copeland and son, of Pittsburg, Penn., and Mrs. Wilson McFarland, of Delhi, were visitors in town on Monday.

• Miss Mary Thomson, who was injured in an automobile accident at Oenonta last week, is still in the hospital and unable to walk yet.

• Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Thomson spent over the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Martin at Cannonsville. The two women were sisters.

• Courtney Currie, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at Delhi a few weeks ago, has so far recovered as to be able to come home.

• Mrs. Charles Fleasch, of Unadilla, was a caller here Monday. She is the daughter of the late James A. Scott, who was a native of Bovina. 

• In order to pay fire loses the directors of the Bovina Co-Operative Fire Insurance Company have made an assessment of $4.60 on the thousand.

• Mrs. Thomas Ormiston was operated on last week at the home of her brother-in-law, Dr. Ormiston, at Delhi for appendicitis, and is making good recovery.

• Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gladstone and two daughters and Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Gladstone motored to Walton on Saturday and spent the day with their brother Walter L. Gladstone.

• The Bovina Cow Testing Association has been organized with the following officers, viz: James Boggs, president; John S. Burns, vice-president; Frank A. Coulter, secretary and treasurer.

Bovina Woman Has Operation – From Our Bovina Correspondent

Mrs. D.C. Worden, who for some time has bene suffering from a growth on her neck, making breathing difficult, was taken to the hospital of Dr. William Thomson at Delhi, Wednesday, for an operation Thursday morning. [Mrs. Worden would die a few months later in March 1925.]

Bovina Concert

On November 7th at 8 pm, there is to be a first class concert by a chorus of forty-eight voices given in the Town Hall in Bovina Center. This chorus work was given recently in Margaretville in the Galli-Churci Theatre to a full house. It is given by the Margaretville Methodist church folk. The admission is 50 and 35 cents. It will pay everyone to attend who can possibly do so. You are invited to come, enjoy a good chorus and a number of selections by the orchestra that is to be with the chorus. 

This Day in Bovina for September 2024

Here's the compilation of the Town of Bovina Historian Facebook page entries for September 2024:

139 years ago today, on September 1, 1885, as later reported in the Stamford Mirror, "…a large crowd assembled on the farm of Robert Thompson to witness the trial of Andrew Johnson's new engine and thresher.  It worked to perfection and bid defiance to the wet sheaves of oats and rushed wildly on."

123 years ago today, on September 2, 1901, as later reported in the Delaware Gazette, "The Bovina and Elk Creek teams played a good game of baseball on the Academy grounds…notwithstanding the rather unfavorable weather. At the close of the ninth inning the score stood at a tie. Consequently, the tenth inning had to be played to settle the contest. It was closely contested, but the Bovina boys won the score, standing 10 to 9."

173 years ago today, James Renwick posted an ad dated September 3, 1851 to sell his farm: "The subscriber offers for sale the Farm on which he now resides, in the town of Bovina, containing about 180 acres. There are two good dwelling houses and three good barns and other out buildings. It is mostly fence with stone wall. Also, a large orchard of bearing apple trees - well watered and well calculated for a grain or dairy farm. Terms easy. For further particulars enquire of the subscriber. He would be willing to take a small farm in part payment." This farm was on what is now Pink Street, likely what later became Suits-Us farm. Renwick had leased it from the Livingston family since about 1822. It was a few years before he was able to sell it.

155 years ago today, the Delaware Republican reported in its issue for September 4, 1869 under the headline "Lightning Raid on a Sugar Camp" that "The lightning struck a Maple Sugar Camp belonging to Mr. John T. Miller, Bovina, felling some fifty trees."

Seventy-two years ago today, the Bovina column in the September 5, 1952 Catskill Mountain News reported that "Mrs. William Sellhorn Sr., accompanied by Mrs. William Sellhorn Jr., Monica and Renate Rabeler, grandchildren of the former Sellhorn, are leaving for New Bern, N.C. on Tuesday. They will return the two children to the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Rabeler Jr., after spending several weeks in the South. The Mrs. Sellhorns will visit here for some time before returning home."

Eighty-nine years ago today, the September 6, 1935 Catskill Mountain reported in its Bovina column that "Mr. and Mrs. Millard Russell, Mr. and Mrs. G.H. Russell attended the Syracuse fair on Tuesday."

118 years ago, the September 7, 1906 Catskill Mountain News carried this item under the headline "Dr. Lee Back to Bovina:" "Will Spend the Remaining Years of Hist Life There. Rev. James B. Lee, D.D., for thirty-two years pastor of the United Presbyterian church in Bovina Centre, previous to 1888, was given a farewell reception at Franklinville, where he has been since leaving Bovina, Wednesday evening of last week. Dr. Lee had contemplated for some time spending the remainder of his life among the Bovina hills and with Mrs. Lee will soon take up his residence there. He will occupy rooms in George Gladstone's house, better known as the Kennedy House." Lee died in 1914. 

138 years ago today, the September 8, 1886 Delaware Gazette reported that "The beautiful village in the town of Bovina, previously known as Brushland, will hereafter be known as Bovina Centre. Brushland was a misnomer for the place, for it was never a land of brush but always a land of cattle. We understand that it was through the personal efforts of Rev. Dr. Lee that the name has been changed from Brushland to Bovina Centre by the Postmaster General. We congratulate the inhabitants of our neighboring village on this change of names, for it certainly is much more appropriate." Brushland got its name from Alexander Brush, the first settler in what is now Bovina Center. Bovina Center was known as Brushland from 1849 to this reported change in 1886.

Eighty-one years ago today, September 9, 1943, the Delaware Republican Express carried this Bovina column: 

111 years ago today, on September 10, 1913, as later reported in the Delaware Gazette, "…a Downsville man named W.C. O'Brien, who was employed in the blacksmith shop of Gideon Miller, Bovina Center, suddenly fell unconscious while at work in the shop. He did not revive and died about two hours later." William O'Brien was 59 years old.

161 years ago today, on September 11, 1863, William McCune, trustee for Bovina School District Number 2 (Pink Street) signed this order to pay Elisabeth Colgan $18.12 for teaching in the school for a four month period.  

124 years ago today, the September 12, 1900 Delaware Gazette reported that "Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry has ordered the manager of his estate at Lake Delaware to have the public highway between Bloomville and Bovina Center repaired, he himself paying for the same, preparatory to his coming to his country seat at that place, which will be in the near future. It is his purpose to come over the Ulster & Delaware railroad to Bloomville and from there by carriage to Lake Delaware."

134 years ago today, the Bovina column of the September 13, 1890 Delaware Republican reported that "A.F. McPherson has leased the M. Dickson lot opposite A.T. Strangeway's store, and is building a blacksmith shop." A. Fitch McPherson was born in 1832 and was married twice. He died in 1903. McPherson is the great grandfather of Sandra Cole and Ruth Ann Avery.

160 years ago today, on September 14, 1864, Supervisor Alexander Storie issued this receipt to pay Miss Jeanette Wilbur for teaching in the District 11 school (Coulter Brook).

143 years ago today, on the afternoon of September 15, 1881, Mrs. Orr Sloan died at the home of her son-in-law, James Aitkin in Bovina Center, exactly one year after she was widowed. She was born Sarah Collins in Belfast, Ireland and was the mother of seven children, most of whom survived her.

132 years ago today, the September 16, 1892 Delaware County Dairyman reported some mischievous in Bovina, under the title "Bad Bovina Boys:"  "On Sabbath morning last a strange sight greeted the gaze of the Bovina people when they arrived at church. Perched up on the top of the church sheds was the wagon of one of Bovina's young men who had been on a visit to his lady, when his wagon mysteriously disappeared to reappear upon its lofty perch. Upon it were the words 'Here we are, Platner Brook.' How is she, Russy?"

190 years ago today, the September 17, 1834 Delaware Gazette had the following item: "Prolific - Mr. Robert Mitchell of Bovina, in this county, has raised, the present season, three calves from one cow. It is seldom that an instance of this kind occurs, particularly where the calves all live and do well, as in this case."

Fifty years ago today, the Bovina column in the September 18, 1974 Stamford Mirror Recorder reported that "Burns Brothers have donated an eleven week old calf to be raffled off as a benefit for the Bovina fire department. The winner may decide to have the calf cut and wrapped or on the hoof. Tickets may be purchased from any fireman for $1 donation. The drawing will be held at the "Oktoberfest” on Oct. 13 at Catskill ski slope."

135 years ago today, the September 19, 1889 Hobart Independent reported "Bovina is a great town for accidents happening to those who go 'sparking.' Recently, a young man, after bidding his sweetheart a fond adieu, fell down stairs. People in the neighborhood thought it was an earthquake, but it was only 150 pounds falling about ten feet."

121 years ago today, on September 20, 1903, as later reported in the Delaware Gazette, "Stephen Russell died at his residence…in the 82d year of his age. He had always lived in Bovina, being born in that town January, 1822. Mr. Russell was a very substantial farmer and one of the excellent citizens of the locality. His wife died a few years ago, but he is survived by a family of several children." The dates in the death notice are a bit off. Stephen's wife, the former Mary Armstrong, died only about a year and a half before he passed. The couple had seven children.

114  years ago today, the September 21, 1910 Delaware Gazette reported on "An Unhappy Matter" concerning a former Bovina resident. "Charles Oliver, with a very large family, recently moved from Bovina into a house on the rear of the Pitcher block [not sure, but likely this was in Delhi]. Their habits were soon found not very creditable. Sunday evening about a dozen chickens, two ducks and a saw were stolen from John Strangeways. Monday evening Sheriff Austin and Police Justice Hewitt went to the Oliver house. When they rapped at the door the light was put out. The sheriff demanded entrance and they were admitted. They found the saw, and the chickens were on the table. Oliver admitted that he stole the saw and five chickens but denied as to the rest. He is notorious for not being willing to work. In Bovina a notice was tacked on the door to move out or go to work, signed White Caps. It is said they are preparing to go to Walton. There are seven or eight children living, and it is said a dozen or fifteen have been born."

Seventy-one years ago today, on September 22, 1953, the Democrats and Republicans in Bovina held their primaries and selected these slates for town office.

Fifty nine years ago today, the Bovina column of the September 23, 1965 Delaware Republican Express reported that "Mrs. Jennie B. Elliott returned home with Mrs. Walter Campbell and her brother, Glen Dyer, on Sunday afternoon after spending the past ten days with relatives and friends in Gilbertsville, Walton, Bainbridge and Unadilla."

Sixty years ago today, the September 24, 1964 issue of the Delaware Republican-Express carried this article about the hiring of Gus Pelletier to teach English at Delhi Tech (now SUNY Delhi). 

154 years ago today, on September 25, 1870, Margaret Miller Doig gave birth to twin boys, James Lee and John Timothy Doig. Their father was William S. Doig. Margaret died when the boys were 23 years old. James Lee Doig married Emma Louise Smith in 1916 and died in 1953. John Timothy died in Detroit, Michigan in 1923. Both brothers are buried in Bovina.

116 years ago today, on September 26, 1908, as later reported in the Delaware Gazette, "there arrived in Delhi….from Montana, an antelope 3 months old. It appeared to have been well taken care of on its long trip and was quite a curiosity to a good many of our citizens, especially the children. It was sent to the father of Mr. Ed. Russell, in Bovina, on the Andes stage Monday morning."

167 years ago today, late the night before or early on September 27, 1857, as later reported in the Delaware Gazette, "the proceeds of a year's produce of the farm of John Bramley, of Bovina, was burned to the ground. It is believed to have been the work of an incendiary, but nothing has occurred to fix the crime upon any individual."

Sixty-seven years ago today, on September 28, 1957, Rev. David Hamilton Murray died in Hancock. The last surviving child of Bovina natives Henry Murray and Elizabeth Coulter, he was born in Andes in 1872. He married Jessie M. Cheney. Murray is buried near his parents in the Bovina Cemetery.

216 years ago today, on September 29, 1808, James Coulter was born, the last child of early Bovina settlers Francis and Nancy (Glendenning) Coulter. He also was the last surviving child of Francis and Nancy, dying in 1898 at the age of 90. He married Nancy D. Thompson in 1832. She predeceased him in 1891. They would have 13 children, six of whom survived their father. James and Nancy lost a son in the Civil War (Solomon) and another to tuberculosis (Andrew). [UPDATE: James was not the last-born child of Francis and Nancy Coulter. In fact, he was the fifth child out of nine that were born to Nancy. Thank you to Naomi Coulter Casali who caught this error.]

Seventy-five years ago today, the September 30, 1949 Catskill Mountain News reported that in Bovina, "Rains which have benefitted pastures, meadows and lawns have not been sufficient to raise water where springs and wells have gone dry."

A Week with Bovina People - September 1899 - 125 Years ago from the Andes Recorder

Here’s what was happening in Bovina 125 years ago, September 1899, from the pages of the Andes Recorder.

September 1, 1899

• Adam Maxwell was in this place on Monday.

• William Cooke visited in Colchester over Sabbath.

• Fred Johnson has returned from a visit to Sweden.

• Gilbert Bramley and family started for home Tuesday.

• Dr. Phinney visited his old home in Greene county this week.

• Alex. Hilson was at Delhi the first of the week taking in butter.

• John W. Blair and wife were at the Margaretville fair Friday.

• Rev. H.F. Brown returned home on Friday from his vacation. 

• William L. Ruff was judge of the cattle at the Shavertown fair.

• Irving Phinney will enter the Walton High School next term.

• Michael Miller has eight rowed corn that has stalks 12 ½ feet high.

• Will L. Clark and J.L. Strangeway were over from Andes Thursday.

• Thomas Ormiston and Alex. Burns were at the County seat Saturday.

• A large number from this place were at the Shavertown fair Wednesday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Fowler and Mrs. Herbert were over from Andes Tuesday.

• Mrs. George Cable and a daughter of Robert Feiro were at Andes Tuesday.

• John Elliott, of Glenburnie, and a son of George Elliott, of California, were in town Friday.

• James Robson and family and Robert Robson were at the Margaretville fair last Wednesday.

• A grand concert is to be held in the opera house at Bovian Centre, Friday evening, September 1st.

• It is reported that the place Thomas Ormiston was to have in Maryland has been filled by another man.

• Threshing is all the rage, D.C. Worden and Herman Thompson with their engine make things lively. 

• Mrs. Logan, Misses Helen Blair and Lulu Hastings have returned from a visit at Alexander Bailey’s at Delancey.

• Cards have been issued by Mrs. Amos Northrup for the marriage of her daughter, Christina E., to Gideon Miller, of Andes, on Wednesday evening, September 6, at 7:30.

• The following are the delegates top Sabbath School convention at Sidney next week: William Hastings, Mrs. Elliott Thompson, Mrs. James L. Coulter, Mrs. W.L.C. Samson, Miss Sarah Phyfe, Miss Mary L. Thompson. Alternates; James W. Thompson, D.L. Thompson, Misses Jennie Miller, Margie Strangeway, Lizzie Strangeway, Thomas Ormiston, T.C. Strangeway. 

September 8, 1899

• Frank Graham was in town Saturday.

• Thomas Gordon was down at Delhi Sabbath.

• William Black has commenced to sell milk.

• William Black was at the County Seat Thursday.

• J.K. McDivitt was in this place on Friday from Andes.

• Work on Archie Maynard’s new carriage house.  It is progressing.

• The Butt End school opened Tuesday with Bert McNair, of Andes, teacher.

• Alex Myers has just completed painting F.R. Coulter’s house on his farm.

• John Smith Arrived in town Friday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith.

• William Hastings took his Sabbath School class to Lake Delaware Saturday for a picnic.

• Thomas C. Strangeway has put a new foundation wall under his wagon house and is making other repairs.

• It is said that after telling him the deal was off, Thomas Ormiston’s man in Maryland now wants him to come.

• The village school will open next week with James A. Gow and Miss Gilchrist, as teachers for the present.

• John Blair, Peter McNair, Elliott Thompson and James A. Gow were at Hobart last Thursday to the convention.

• Dr. Phinney visited his old home in Greene county last week, returning on Friday. His father died while he was there.

• John L. Gordon, of the New York police force arrived in town Sabbath for a vacation and to renew old acquaintances.

• Now that the conventions are over and a good ticket has been placed in the field, let every Republican help to support the nominees.

• Quite a number went to Andes Saturday to see the ball game. The boys came back feeling fine, as they had done the Arena boys up in fine shape. 

• William McPherson, son of Ferris McPherson of this town, has sold the Roscoe-Rockland Review to Rev. L.W. Hones and Henry Schrier of Roscoe.

• Miss Irene Forrest has secured a position as assistant teacher in the Grammar department of the Margaretville High School. She will also take some studies in the school besides.

• Miss Jane Stott died on Wednesday morning at the residence of Thomas Hilson, aged somewhere about 60 years.  She had been in poor health for a number of years previous to her death. [This Jane probably was the daughter of George Stott and Ellen Storie, but I’m not sure. Mrs. Thomas Hilson was Jeanette Orr Stott, another daughter of George and Ellen, but my records do not list this Jane. George and Ellen had a daughter named Jane in 1828 but she died before she was two years old. This Jane was born around 1834. It was not uncommon for families to name a child after a previous one that they lost.]

• Last Wednesday morning Miss Jennie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elisha B. Maynard, until a year or two ago residents of this town, now of Hobart, was married to Willard Dean at Oneonta by Rev. Welch. [Jennie was born in Bovina around 1864 and died in Binghamton in 1920. Willard survived her by 22 years, dying in 1942.]

September 15, 1899

• Our village school opened Monday.

• Robert R. Scott was at Delhi on Friday.

• Miss Jennie E. Hoy visited at Hobart last week.

• Dr. Schumann was in town Saturday from Delhi.

• John G. Russell was at the County Seat Saturday.

• Some from here are attending the Walton fair this week.

• William Clark, editor of the Delaware Express, was in this place Saturday.

• William Bramley, Alter Phyfe and wife were in this place from Delhi on Sabbath. 

• Walter D. Miller has been putting the slate roof on Archive Maynard’s wagon house.

• B.S. Miller returned Friday evening from the Grand Army Encampment at Philadelphia.

• Dr. Phinney has been at Delhi as a witness on the William Hunt and Alex Burn’s lawsuit.

• Henry Archibald and family, of New York city, have been visiting his mother and other relatives in town.

• The trouble in the Ed Coulter district has finally been settled and school opened Monday with E. Laidlaw, Jr, teacher. 

• James Hastings and wife started for Minnesota last week, where they will visit her brother, Charles Cunningham.

• Among those who we noticed in town Saturday were, Rev. George Gordon, Nelson Reynolds, William Hunt.

• Ferrington, of Hamden, was here on Saturday and bought six dairies of butter.  There are not many dairies left in town.

• Irving Phinney, Wilson and Chauncey McFarland have entered the Walton High School. Archie Coulter will go to Margaretville.

• Dennis Brothers exhibited fifty pair of fowls at the County Fair last week and did not miss a first premium on geese or goslings.  They received thirty first premiums and twenty seconds.

September 22, 1899

• Fall weather.

• James Boyd was at Delhi Saturday.

• Elmer Close visited the County Seat Friday.

• Last Thursday J.K. McDivitt was in town.

• Jennie E. Miller went to Walton on Monday.

• John Oliver was over at Andes on Saturday.

• Fred Bramley made a trip to Delhi Tuesday.

• A large potato crop is anticipated this year.

• John K. Russell and wife, of Delhi, were here Thursday.

• Thomas Gordon’s house is nearly ready for occupancy.

• William L. White was down at the County Seat Monday.

• Charles Tuttle and Oliver Dickson were at Delhi Saturday.

• Rev. Samson is attending the meeting of Synod at Walton this week.

• Michael Miller and grandson, Earl Miller, returned from the Walton fair Friday.

• Adolphus Banker, wife and son visited his sister, Mrs. G.D. Miller, over Sabbath.

• Dennis Brothers took 37 firsts and 14 seconds on poultry at the Walton fair last week.

• John L. Gordon returned to New York city Wednesday to resume his police duties.

• Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Swart, of Treadwell, visited in town Wednesday and Thursday.

• George McNair went to New York city Thursday, where he expects to get a job on the street cars.

• Henry Archibald, wife and granddaughter returned to their home in New York City Saturday.

• A number went to the Oneonta fair from here and report a fine fair with a good display and big crowds.

• Mr. and Mrs. Wells, of Albany, were visitors in town the first of the week. Mrs. Wells was a daughter of John F. Graham who lived near the Hook.

• Rev. Philip Germond, D.D. Presiding Elder of the Kingston District, will preach and hold the second quarterly Conference in the Methodist Episcopal church on Sabbath, September 24, at 2 o’clock p.m.

• A Mr. Dart, from Meridale, has rented the Bell farm below the Hook, possession given November 1.  Messrs. Graham and Covert, who now occupy it expect to move to the town of Andes.

September 29, 1899

• John Bramley is in poor health.

• Dr. Seacord was at Perch Lake on Tuesday.

• W.C. Russell was over at Andes on Tuesday.

• John Oliver and wife visited at New Kingston Friday.

• William L. White and Elmer Close were at Delhi Monday.

• Alex. Fowler and wife were in town on Sabbath from Andes.

• A Mrs. Hunger and two children are visited at Rev. Samson’s. 

• Rev. Samson returned from meeting of Synod at Walton Friday.

• Elmer Elliott and Ella Lee were over from Glenburnie on Sabbath.

• Thomas Ormiston has shipped his household goods to Glencoe, Maryland.

• Dennis Brothers talk of exhibiting their poultry at the fair at Binghamton.

• David Draffen is now in possession of Thomas Ormiston’s farm for one year.

• Douglas Davidson was at Walton last week attending a meeting of Synod.

• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller are visiting relatives at Garrettsville, Otsego county.

• John B. Whitson and wife, of Matteawan, were visitors at W.T. Black’s last week.

• Miss Belle Strangeway entered the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin Monday.

• Henry Murray and Frank Crispell were here Monday fixing water pipes for W.C. Russell.

• A musicale is to be held in Strangeway’s Hall, Friday evening, September 29.  Admission 15 cents.  

• Communion services will be held in the United Presbyterian church on the second Sabbath in October. Rev. E.M. Mulligan will assist the pastor.

• Philip Jencks, of West Oneonta, has been engaged to succeed James A. Gow as principal of the village school and will begin his duties October 9.

• Clarence Thomas and Miss Elizabeth Hoy were married at the bride’s home in Walton, Wednesday evening. Miss Hoy is a granddaughter of the late Peter Clark of Bovina. [Clarence and Elizabeth had five children and would be married just short of 50 years. Elizabeth died in June 1949, Clarence in 1958. They both died in Middletown, Pennsylvania, and are buried in Philadelphia.]

• An accident occurred at William S. Thomson’s, Coulter Brook, Friday afternoon.  D.C. Worden and Herman Thompson had just finished threshing and started to move their machine.  William S., hitched his team onto the cleaner and the hired man got on to drive and drove out onto the road, where the water tank wagon was tied on behind and when they started again this commenced to rattle and roar and frightened the horses so that they started to run and had gone but a short distance when the cleaner upset and was smashed so that it is probably useless and cannot be repaired.  The hired man was considerably shaken up, and the horses after they broke loose ran as far as W.T. Black’s.