December 4, 1925
• John Aitken’s jr. is on the sick list.
• Gilbert Banker motored to Pine Hill on Friday.
• Frank Coulter and family were Delhi visitors Tuesday.
• Mrs. Carrie Doig is visiting her brother in Walton.
• The Thank Offering at the U.P. church amounted to $528.
• A.P. Lee is preparing to erect a modern barn on the Lee homestead.
• From a supper the Young Woman’s Missionary Society cleared $32.70.
• Elmer Hastings, of Saranac Lake, is renewing acquaintances in town.
• Mrs. Walter G. Coulter had her toe severely injured when a soap stone fell on it. [This is Margaret Strangeway Coulter, mother of Ruth Coulter Parsons and Celia Coulter.]
• The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Benj Schofield made them a visit Monday evening.
• Harry Robinson and Miss Mary Thomson were at South Kortright on Tuesday. [This might be Harry Robertson, not Robinson, but I’m not sure.]
• Mr. and Mrs. Arnold VanDusen, of Oneonta, spent Sabbath with his parents here.
• Mr. and Mrs. James A. Gow spent over Thanksgiving with their sons in Endicott.
• Robert E. Thomson and wife and Norton Forrest spent Thanksgiving at George Cable’s in Delhi.
• It is reported that Mr. Miner, who has been living in the A.B. Phyfe house, will move to Big Indian.
• Mr. Smith, who has been on Barney Johnson’s farm in the upper part of the town, has moved to John Blair’s farm.
• Frank Drake has moved from the Dickson house to the A.W. Baker farm uptown, known as the Fred Johnson place.
• Owing to the absence of the pastor there will be no preaching in the U.P. church on Sabbath. Sabbath school at 12 o’clock.
• Edgar Lee, who has a position as a pharmacist in Buffalo, spent over the weekend with his father, John B. Lee in Tuttle Hollow. [Edgar became a successful pharmacist in Delhi, running Lee’s Pharmacy for many years. His daughter Lucile would marry Willard Frisbee.]
• Mrs. Lucy Coulter spent Thanksgiving with her son Ward Coulter, at Walton, and also attended the 30th anniversary of the marriage of her brother, William Ward at Colchester Station.
• Mrs. Dixon Thomson and Mrs. Wm Armstrong received word Monday that their brother, Frank Kaufman, died in Kingston on Sabbath, November 29. Death was due to shock. He was connected with the Kaufman ice cream business.
• Professor Leon Taggart and family, of Oneonta, Frank Dickson and family, from Little Delaware, were at T.C. Strangeway’s on Friday. Mrs. Dickson remained until Monday to help care for her mother, who is confined to her bed with grip poisoning.
Had Delicate Operation
Wm. H. Irvine, a Former Bovina Boy, Has Operation for Tumor on Brain
William H. Irvine, a former Bovina boy, now a business man of Seattle, Washington, is improving in St. Mary’s hospital at Rochester, Minn, after an operation for tumor at the base of the brain, performed on November 26. He was on the operation table three hours and went through a very painful and trying ordeal, only a local anesthetic being used so that he was conscious during the entire time. A partition of the skull over and above the tumor was removed and a quantity of the fluid drained from the tumor, but the tumor itself was not taken out. The surgeons hope by radium and x-ray treatment to dry up the tumor in time, but think it will likely continue to fill up with the fluid may have to [be] drained several times before recovery is complete. When the section of the skull that was removed was replaced a small opening was left over the spot where the tumor is, before the flesh and skin were replaced. This will allow easy drainage of the tumor without the severe operation that was performed last week. [Bill Irvine recovered enough to make a trip back east a year later. He had a second operation in 1928 but sadly, it was all for naught. He died in 1929 at the age of 41.]
December 11, 1925
• Mr. and Mrs. Loron Maxim visited his mother at Fleischmanns on Sabbath.
• Born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Rockefeller, Thursday morning, December 10, a son. [This was Bill Rockefeller. He married Marge Thomas and passed away in 2005.]
• Robert Robinson was at Andes on Tuesday attending the funeral of his sister-in-law.
• Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Gladstone and daughter attended church at Andes on Sabbath evening.
• Thomas Miner, who has been employed at the dry milk plant, moved to Big Indian on Tuesday.
• Mr. Hoyt, who has been living on the James Henry Dean farm for past two or three years, is very low with cancer of the stomach.
• Mrs. M.M. Wright, who teaches in the Armstrong district, had an exciting experience Tuesday morning. In coming down the hill on the state road from Andes her car skidded on the slippery road and went around and into the ditch. One tire was torn off. Fortunately Harry Robinson came along and put on another tire for her and helped her get righted.
Resolutions on the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor Raitt
The Women’s Missionary Society of Bovina Cener desire to pay this tribute of love and respect to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor Raitt, wife of John Raitt, ruling Elder in this congregation for a great number of years.
In the passing of Mrs. Raitt we have had taken from among us, and from our membership one who was truly a saint of Israel.
She was a Charter member of the Women’s Missionary Society; quiet and unassuming in her nature but always interested in the activities that were for the building up of Christ Kingdom at home in the mission fields. Her long life of over ninety years was truly a benediction and the fragrance of it remains with us.
For a number of years feebleness of body and distance from the place of meeting prevent her from meeting with us, but she always maintained her interest in the work, and what was and will be accomplished by her prayers and liberality will only be revealed in the future. In the closing of life, she could truthfully say;
It pays to live in Gods service
Faithfully day by day,
Cheerfully bearing the Chalis
Which shows to others the way.
To the only son and aged Brother we extend our sincere sympathy and commend them to Him who said; As one who his Mother comforteth so will I comfort you.
Mrs. Lucy Coulter, Mrs. Mary Gordon, Mrs. Eliott Thomson; Committee
[Mrs. Raitt had been widowed for many years. She had two children. Her daughter Anna predeceased her in 1910. She was the grandmother of John Raitt, who was Delaware County Historian and wrote several volumes of local history, including his “Ruts in the Road” series.]
December 18, 1925
• The Willing Workers made Mrs. W.B. Smith a surprise Monday.
• Mrs. Everett Joslin and Mrs. Hull are spending the week in New York City.
• Mrs. Walter McDivitt , of South Kortright, has been visiting in town a few days.
• Mrs. William T. Forrest, of Lake Delaware, is spending a few weeks in New York City.
• George Miller is improving his barn on the old Kinmuth place, re-siding it and making other repairs. [This was later the residence of Clark and Gladys Lay. George Miller was Clark’s maternal grandfather.]
• The second number of the Bovina lecture course was a lecture by Ward Flexington last Friday night.
• Mrs. William M. Armstrong, who has been ill several months, does not improve as her friends would wish.
• Supervisor Wallace B. Smith is in Delhi this week attending the closing sessions of the board of Supervisors.
• Mrs. and Mrs. Abram Foremeu and Mr. and Mrs. Ed McCumber, of Poughkeepsie, spent the weekend with their parents in town. [Foremeu might be Foreman but I’m not sure.]
• Mr. and Mrs. Collin Reside of Shavertown and Mrs. Bell Reside of Andes, were visiting their cousin Mrs. David D. Liddle, Tuesday.
• Mrs. Anna Ruff, formerly of this town, who lives in Delhi, has gone to Abescon, N.J. to spend the winter with her brother, M.H. White. [Anna was the widow of William Ruff, who died in 1912. Anna died in 1943.]
• Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Gladstone, who left Bovina about 16 years ago and went to Crested Butte, Colorado, have moved to Farr, Colorado, where another of the Fuel & Iron Co. mines is located. The altitude of their new location is about 2,000 feet lower.
Gerry House Started
Henry Connor, of Walton, has the contract for the cellar of the new house of Miss Angelica Gerry at Lake Delaware, and it must be finished in April. The location is on the highest point of the J.K. Russell place, the former Hogaboom farm. It is found the foundation is on solid rock and the stone blasted out will be used to build a road to connect with the stone highway running thru the original Gerry estate. [This was Ancram House, which stood until the early 60s.]
Bovina Boys at Cornell
Sheldon Budine, Walton; Howard Dickson, Delhi, and Hugh McPherson, Bovina Center, were the members of the team which represented Delaware at the State Poultry Judging contest at the Cornell Poultry show December 1-3. Their total score was 1,810 which gave them third place with Orange First and Chenango second.
Was Lake Delaware Girl
Mrs. Bertha Landon died at Great Barrington, Mass., December 3, from cancer. She was born at Lake Delaware and is a daughter of Charles A. Lee. Besides her father she leaves three daughters and two sons. Last spring she was granted a divorce from her husband Dr. F.D. Landon, a veterinary.
December 25, 1925
• Fred Thomson was a Delhi caller Monday.
• C.S. Gladstone and family were Andes shoppers Saturday evening.
• A Christmas tree and exercises were held at the U.P. church Thursday evening.
• Frank Palmer has moved from the Dickson big house to Arch Phyfe’s tenant house.
• Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Burgin visited her sister, Mrs. Harvey Robertson at Andes on Friday.
• William C. Russell, who had been helping his sisters in southern Bovina returned home Saturday.
• Mrs. and Mrs. Alfred Russell and children and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Russell were at Delhi on Monday.
• Paul Furhman has purchased the McCune house and lot for $1,250 and will open a barber shop in the old grocery building. [This was later owned by Florence and Clayton Thomas and currently is owned by Tom Hetterich.]
• John Northrup, who lives on what is known as the Margaret Hoy farm, underwent an operation for appendicitis at Delhi last Thursday afternoon.
• Mr. and Mrs. Millard Gow and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Gow, of Endicott, are here to spend over Christmas with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas A. Gow.
• C.J. Hoyt, who for about two years had been employed at Len Smith on the former James Henry Dean farm, died on Thursday afternoon, December 17, from cancer of the stomach. His age was about 60 years.
• Those home for the holidays are: Mabel Thomson, Winstead, Conn; William Gordon, Pratts Institute, Brooklyn; Margaret Gordon, Albany Teachers’ College; Jane Hilson, South Orange, J.J.; Caroline Dickson, Vermont; Professor and Mrs. Geo Baldwin, Spring Valley.
