Over
the next few months, the Bovina column regularly reported on the health of Mrs.
Robert G. Thomson. Mrs. Thomson, born Nelle Moore in Andes in 1884, was
suffering from uterine cancer. As you will see through the rest of 1917, her
health would not improve and she died in December.
July 6, 1917
·
The celebration of the Fourth commenced
here Tuesday evening.
·
The R.P. church will hold a social at the
Town Hall Friday evening.
·
Charles A. McPherson, on Bramley mountain,
has purchased a Saxon six automobile.
· Hale Elliott has purchased the Robert Hoy
house and lot in the upper part of the village. [This is now the home of
Leonard and Ann Cairns.]
·
Robert Hunt and wife and Frank Miller and
wife attended a picnic Tuesday at Eugene Storie’s.
·
Frank Kinch and family attended the Kinch
family reunion held Wednesday at Oneonta, making the trip in his new Ford car.
July 13, 1917
·
Thos Hoag had a good horse die Monday
morning.
·
Ellsworth Tuttle has a new Ford car and
will use it to haul his milk.
·
William S. Gordon has gone to James
Mabon’s for the haying season.
·
Mrs. R.G. Thompson has been quite ill the
past week but is improving.
·
Miss Bessie Kinch was in the village
Tuesday with her new car. It is a Ford.
·
Mrs. Hale Elliott left today to spend a
few days with her parents, Supt. And Mrs. L.R. Long, in New Kingston.
·
John Benjamin spent the Fourth at Kingston
and brought back several men to work for the farmers in haying.
·
Dr. Whitcomb took Miss Freda Muller to New
York Monday for medical treatment and perhaps an operation on the throat for
goiter.
·
Fred Govern, the little son of Mr. J.L.
and Mrs. Govern, of New York, who are visiting here, fell out of bed Saturday
and cracked his collar bone.
Bovina
Library Trustees
At a meeting held at Firemans hall
this week, Thomas Gordon, Andrew T. Doig and Walter G. Coulter, were appointed
trustees of the Bovina Library Association.
July 20, 1917
·
H.A. Ayres has a new Ford auto.
·
Rev. Thomas E. Graham drives a new Ford
car.
·
Mrs. Dickson, who has been quite ill, is
improving.
·
Mrs. William Storie who has been quite
ill, is gaining slowly [This is Vera Davidson Storie, who lived until 1967].
·
J.J.K. Russell is hauling some big stone
from Delhi for the cemetery vault. They
were shipped from Walton.
· Word has been received that Miss Freda
Muller, who went to New York last week, had undergone a successful operation
for goiter. [Freda would live until 1951, dying at the age of 75.]
·
Dr. Latcher, of Oneonta, was here Saturday
night to see Mrs. Jane Doig, who is ill at the home of her son, Milton, up
Coulter Brook. An operation is
contemplated on her neck. [Jane would only survive about another six months,
dying in January 1918 at the age of 78.]
July 27, 1917
·
Miss Nellie Miller has been ill from an
ulcerated tooth.
·
Frank Dickson, on the Little Delaware, now
drives a Ford.
·
Dog owners should hurry up getting their
licenses - $10 fine after July 31st.
·
Mrs. Robert G. Thomson is still confined
to her bed and shows little improvement.
·
William J. Crosier was taken quite ill
Sabbath night but is a little more comfortable at this writing. (Crosier recovered, dying in 1931.)
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