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.
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