Life on the streets of Bovina 100 years ago this month from the pages of the Andes Recorder:
September 4, 1925
• Mary Chase, of Endicott, is a guest at James Mabon’s.
• Mrs. A.T. Doig is visiting her brother, E.F. Thomson, at Walton.
• Mrs. A.S. Banker and G.D. Miller are spending a few days with her people at Pine Hill.
• Attorney Lauren Dickson, of Binghamton, is spending a week at the Dickson home here.
• Robert Scott, a native of Bovina, died at Jamacia, Long Island, September 1, at the age of 82 years.
• Misses Margaret Archibald and Jeannette Forman, of Delhi, spent over the week end with Bovina relatives.
• Miss Jane Archibald, who is attending business school at Poughkeepsie, spent a few days with her parents last week.
• Ralph Barnhart moved this week to the house in the upper part of Bovina Center, purchased recently of Charles Russell.
• Mr. and Mrs. Thos C. Strangeway are spending a few days at the home of their son-in-law, Professor Leon Taggart, at Oneonta.
• Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burns and family, of Kingston, are spending the week with his father, J.D. Burns and his brother and sister.
• Lester Hoy moved this week from Delhi and took possession of the farm which he recently purchased of his father, William A. Hoy. [This is now the home of Tim and Tamara McIntosh.]
• Millard Blair, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Blair, was married September 1, at Seattle, Washington. The newly weds are enroute east on a wedding trip. [His new wife was Octavia Mescher.]
• The Bovina town picnic was held on Thursday of last week. Addresses were made by Attorney Ernest Bergman, of New York, and H.W. Harper of Walton.
September 11, 1925
• Miss Caroline Dickson teaches this year at Rutland, Vermont.
• Mrs. James Monroe has moved to rooms in part of Geo S. Mable’s house at Delhi.
• Miss Emily Archibald has gone to teach on Lake Champlain the present school year.
• A young son of Harrison Hall on the Soper farm, is ill with what is feared is infantile paralysis. [I'm not sure which child this is. Harrison was the father of Harold and Clifford, who both lived in Bovina, but he had several other children.]
• Misses Jane Hilson and Mary Flansburg have gone to East Orange, N.J. where they will teach the coming year.
• The Bovina Center school opened on Tuesday with Gilbert Banker as principal, and Miss Edith Liddle primary teacher.
• Miss Jenet Laidlaw has entered the Cortland Normal School and Helen Gladstone goes to the Oneonta Normal School.
• William Crosier will dispose of his household goods and go to Steubenville, Ohio, and make his home with his son. [He would spend the rest of his life there, dying in Ohio in 1931.]
• A goodly number of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Storie made them a surprise visit at their home below the village, the occasion being the tenth anniversary of their marriage.
• S.F. Ferris, of Albany, was here over the week end, and Mrs. Ferris and child, who have been spending the summer here, returned home with him. Mrs. Ferris will be remembered as Bessie Boggs.
Native of Bovina
Mrs. William Yeoman died at the home of her son, W.B. Yeoman, at Pines, near Walton, August 30, aged 86, of a shock of apoplexy. Her maiden name was Hannah Elizabeth Dibble. She was born in the town of Bovina and was the daughter of Thomas and Nancy Dibble. She married the late William Yeoman May 8, 1855, and spent her married life in the town of Delhi, removing with her son and family to Walton three years ago. She is survived by the son, W.B. Yeoman, a daughter, Mrs. J.S. Williams of Delhi, two grandchildren, Dr. F.D. Landon of Great Barrington, Mass., and Mrs. C.H. Millspaugh of Middletown, also one sister, Mrs. Walter Hammond of Delhi.
September 18, 1925
• Mrs. William T. Miller underwent an operation at the hospital in Delhi on Tuesday.
• Miss Hannah Coulter has returned from visiting her sister and other relatives in New Kingston.
• Mrs. Wilber Archibald commenced her duties Monday as teacher in the high school at Fleischmanns.
• Mrs. Marshall Thomson, of Manhasset, Long Island, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Blair.
• Rev. W.C. Samson, a former pastor, will be present at a weeks’ meetings at the U.P. church, opening on October 6.
• The truck of Milton Hastings went to Syracuse this week, taking Junior Project work for Delaware county to the State fair.
• Millard Blair and bride, of Seattle, Washington, arrived in Bovina last Saturday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Blair.
• A heavy storm of rain accompanied by a high wind, passed over Bovina on Saturday evening and numerous trees were blown down.
• Miss Mary Thomson, of South Kortright, is at the home of her brother, Elliott Thomson. As executor of the estate of William M. Johnston, she has sold the farm at South Kortright and the new owner is in possession.
Severely Burned
Saturday a girl employed in the kitchen at the summer home of Robert L. Gerry in southern Bovina, was very severely burned while singeing a chicken.
September 25, 1925
• Miss Mary Thomson has been at Oneonta a few days the past week.
• Miss Margaret Gordon went to Albany this week to enter the Teachers College.
• William S. Gordon returned to his studies at Pratts Institute in Brooklyn this week.
• Mrs. Mary Gordon went to Delhi on Thursday to care for Miss Sarah Dean an aged woman.
• The school fair for the town of Bovina was held Wednesday. The exhibits were very fine.
• Miss Hannah Dumond, of Stamford, was a recent guest at Jas Ackerley’s and Fred Thomson’s.
• William Archibald has been having his residence at the stone arch bridge treated to a new dress of white.
• J.D. Burns and daughter, Mrs. Howard McPherson, and MRs. Fred Thomson were at Oneonta on Tuesday.
• Benson LaFever has moved from the tenant house on James Boggs’ farm up-town, to part of their house in the upper part of Bovina Center.
• Miss Margaret Downie, daughter of the late Thomas Downie, formerly of Bovian, died September 17, at Cleveland, Ohio, where she was a teacher in the public schools.
• Kester Signor, well known here, and who some time ago sustained a broken leg in an automobile accident near Penton, has gone to New York to have the leg attended too.
• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are Henry G. Bramley to Elizabeth Bramley, $1; Chas J. Russell and wife to Ralph Barnhart $1; Wm. A. Hoy and wife to Lester T. Hoy $1.
• The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Millard Blair gave them a surprise party on Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Blair left Tuesday to return to their home in Seattle, Washington, going via New York and Virginia.
• Rev. D. D.H. Elliott, general secretary of the Forward Movement of the Covenanter church in United States, opened a series of evangelistic meetings in the R.P. church Wednesday evening. R.A. Steetlet, of Pittsburg, will lead the praise services.
Hand Injured
Jay Waterman, who is employed on the Gerry estate at Lake Delaware, had his hand caught in a clay pigeon trap last week. The tendons of one finger were severed and he was at the Delhi hospital a few days for treatment.
