October 1925 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

October 2, 1925

• Wednesday at John W. Blair’s sale of cows no big prices were received.

• Wilber Doig is moving this week to the farm which he recently purchased on Elk Creek.

• Mrs. Gideon Miller, of Hamden, spent over the week end with Mrs. Andrew T. Doig.

• Hilson Brothers have sold their entire dairy of Holstein cows to W.D. Ceas.  They will buy tested cows.

• William A. Hoy and Jas Ackerley are trial jurors drawn from Bovina for October court. None were drawn for the grand jury.

• Mr. and Mrs. Frankl Brown, who for several years have been employed on the farm of John Blair, are moving to Delhi this week. 

• Ted Fuller has rented what is known as the Armstrong farm, to Alfred Johnson, from near Arkville, who has taken possession.

• Mrs. Estella Oliver, who has been with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Thomson for some time, has gone to visit her son, William Oliver, at North Kortright.

• At the Republican caucus Saturday there was a spirited contest for collector between Mrs. Alex Myers and Mary Bouton, and the first named won by only one vote.

BOVINA NOMINATIONS – Republicans and Democrats Willing to Serve the Dear People

Below are the nominations made by the Republican and Democratic parties in the town of Bovina.

Republican – William J. Storie, Supervisor; D.G. Currie, Town Clerk; Isabelle Myers, Collector; John W. Storie, M.T. Hastings, Thomas C. Strangeway (vacancy), Justices of the Peace; Walter G. Coulter, Town Superintendent Highways; David Draffin, Assessor 4 years, William J. Archibald, Assessor 2 years, William C. Russell (vacancy) Assessor 2 years; D.D. Liddle, Overseer Poor; H.C. Burgin, School Director.

Democrat – Wallace B. Smith, Supervisor; John W. McCune, Town Clerk; Jennie I. Hoy, Collector; James A. Boggs, Howard McPherson, Rema M. Hobbie (vacancy), Justices of Peace; Guy C. Rockefeller, Town Superintendent Highways; George Decker, Assessor 4 years, Howard Campbell, Assessor 2 years, Charles Fuller (vacancy) Assessor 2 years; Evertt Jocelyn, Overseer Poor; Frank T. Miller, School Director.

October 9, 1925

• Mrs. David Oliver, of Hamden, was a recent visitor in town.

• Mr. and Mrs. Sloan Archibald were County Seat visitors Tuesday.

• Ralph Hillis, our garage man, was at Binghamton on Saturday.

• Robert G. Thomson has rented rooms in Delhi and will move from Frasers.

• Dr. Leonard Thomson, of Connecticut was here the first of the week to see his father.

• Senator Peter G. Gerry spent last Wednesday and Thursday at his Lake Delaware estate.

• Mrs. Georgie More, of Stamford, and Mrs. Ella Benjamin, of Liberty, are visitors here.

• Mrs. J.A. Thomson, of Delhi, called on her cousin, Mrs. Walter Wilson, on Sabbath.

• Mr. and Mrs. Ray Thomson and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Parsons were Delhi callers Saturday.

• Mrs. H.L. MacWhirter was here on Tuesday from Andes calling on Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Gladstone.

• Lewis Baker attended the Cobleskill fair last Thursday and the Binghamton fair on Saturday.

• Miss Angelica L. Gerry, who has spent the summer at Lake Delaware, returned to New York this week.

• Rev. W.L.C. Samson, of Pittsburg a former pastor, is preaching at revival meetings in the U.P. church.

• William Archibald sold his entire dairy this week to Gladstone Brothers, of Andes.  He will restock with tested cows.

• John W. Blair has secured Mr. and Mrs. Rowe, of Hobart, to work for him on his farm, and they moved the past week.

• Miss Jennie Bigger has returned to her home in Bovina Center after helping Ray Thomson during the cauliflower season.

• Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey McFarland and Mr. and Mrs. Milton Liddle and daughter left this week for Jamestown on a vacation.

• Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Rusgrove, of Terryville, Connecticut, are guests of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parsons, in Upper Bovina.

• William Crosier, who sold his household goods last Thursday, has gone to Steubenville, Ohio, to make his home with his son, Harry Crosier. [William was a widower. He stayed with his son until his passing in 1931.]

Aged Bovina Man Dead

Frank C. Armstrong died at the home of his son, William Armstrong, October 7, at the advanced age of 87 years. He was a native of Bovina and much of his life was spent in the town. For the past few years he had resided in Walton, returning to Bovina the past summer.

He was three times married, his first wife being Nettie Burns, his second Mrs. Brown and his third Mrs. Neidig. He is survived by the son at whose home he died and a daughter, Mrs. Ted Fuller, both by his first wife.

Home on Vacation

Dr. Norris B. Whitcomb, who went to Assiut, Egypt, six years ago as a medical missionary under the United Presbyterian board, has arrived at his former home in Walton on a vacation of fifteen months. Assiut is in upper Egypt, about 200 miles above Cairo. Mrs. Whitcomb and two children came home last April. For several years he was physician at Bovina. [Dr. Whitcomb would go back to Egypt and came back for another furlough in 1933. He returned to Egypt and died there in May 1935.]

October 16, 1925

• Ralph Barnhart is having changes made in his bath room.

• Mrs. A.S. Banker and son, Gilbert, spent Sabbath at Pine Hill.

• Norton Forrest is preparing to put water in his stables this fall.

• Thomas Van Deusen, of Walton was an over the week end visitor in town.

• Robert Robinson has purchased a drag saw from Thomas A. Raitt, of Andes.

• Mrs. Herbert Thomson and son, of Andes, were Monday guest of Mrs. Andrew Doig.

• Mrs. Ella Teneick and daughter, of Oneonta, were visitors at David Liddle’s the past week.

• Mrs. William Armstrong is confined to her bed. Miss Nettie Doig is attending to the household duties.

• Robert A. Thomas and wife, and William Puffer and wife of Hobart, were recent guests at William Armstrong.

• Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers and Jack Myers, of Endicott, spent of the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Myers.

• John Blair, John Hilson and William Archibald, who were at Vermont last week after dairies of tested cows, purchased 86.

• The Meetings at U.P. church the past week brought many visitors to hear Rev. W.L.C. Samson. We note among them Rev. and Mrs. Skinner. Mrs. William Hastings, Aaron Beams of Oneonta; Henry Campbell, wife and daughter, William Ward and family, of Walton; William Aitkens and wife, Mrs. Gideon Miller, Mrs. McNaught, of Hamden; William T. Black and wife, Geo Cable, Mrs. Robert Hunt, James A. Thomson and wife, Wilson McFarland; James Robinson and dauter, of Delhi; Andrew J. Thomson, of New Kingston; Marjorie Boyd and sister, of Pittsburg.

October 23, 1925

• The Bovina Public Library building is being re-shingled. [This is now the Bovina museum]

• Mrs. Hamilton Russell, who has been on the sick list is improving. [This was Cecil Russell’s mother.]

• Mrs. John McCune, who broke her arm several weeks ago, is able to be out again.

• Milton Liddle and family and Mrs. David Liddle were shoppers at Oneonta Saturday.

• William Crosier started this week for Steubenville, Ohio, to make his home with his son.

• A hollowe’en party will be held at the home of Everet DeSilva on Friday evening, October 30.

• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Strangeway and Miss Nettie Doig were visitors at Margaretville on Saturday.

• Edward Gladstone and family and Mrs. Robert E. Thomson were at Margaretville and Andes last Saturday.

• Mrs. Mary Corsier, who has spent some time here, returned to the home of her son in Philadelphia this week. 

• There was no preaching service at the R.P. church last Sabbath, owing to the absence of the pastor, Rev. A. M. Thomson.

• In the estate of Mary A. Russell late of Bovina, letters of administration have been issued to Erwin Russell. Estimate is $2,500 real and $2,750 personal. One son is the heir.

October 30, 1925

• Mrs. James Monroe, of Delhi, spent the week end in town.

• Mrs. Margaret Salton, of Delancey, is visiting her friend, Miss Margaret Storie.

• Mrs. Thomas Gordon, who is taking care of Miss Dean at Delhi, was home for a week, returning last Sabbath.

• Mrs. Bell McPherson, who has been in Walton the past year, is visiting sons, Everett and Charles McPherson.

• T. Montgomery, in upper Bovina recently had the great toe on one foot amputated by Dr. Thomson at Delhi.

• Mrs. Morehouse, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Loron Maxin, is visiting her son at Rock Rift.

• Floyd Rockefeller, who has been living on the Bryden farm, has purchased the Layman place at East Delhi.

• Twin sons were born on Saturday, October 24, to Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Davidson, of Bovina, at the home of J.E.W. Thompson in Delhi. One of the babies died. [The surviving baby was Alan Lloyd Davidson, who later served in World War II. He died in 2004.]

• Dr. N.B. Whitcomb, a former physician here, who has been a medical missionary in Egypt for several years, being sent by the Bovina U.P. church spoke at the morning service last Sabbath. Next Sabbath there will be a temperance sermon.

• The Beacon Light Sabbath school class will hold a Hollowe’en social in the church parlors October 31. On Election day there will be bake sale at Cecil Russell’s store. The Willin Workers will serve an oyster dinner in the church basement on Election day. 

Leg Re-Broken

Alva Shultis, of Meridale, who has been crippled for several months due to a broken and crushed leg, went to Pittsburg, Penn., this week and expected to have the leg rebroken and reset in order to straighten the foot. His wife accompanied him. The Shultis family were former residents of Bovina.