February 1926 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

Here’s what happened in Bovina 100 years ago in February 1926, as reported in the pages of the Andes Recorder.

February 5, 1926

• Paul Fuhrman has had electric lights put in his barber shop (this barber shop was at the building that was later owned by Clayt and Florence Thomas and now is owned by Tom Hetterich).

• Andrew Kaufman, of Kingston, was a recent caller in town.

• Robert Robinson and son, John, were Franklin visitors Tuesday.

• Margaret Gordon is home from the Albany Teachers College on a vacation.

• Mort Case is spending the winter at Walton at the home of Mrs. Bertha Miller.

• Mrs. Lucy Coulter has been helping care for her sister-in-law, Mrs. James Ward, at Franklin.

• Mrs. John McCune was called to Andes last Thursday by the illness of her niece Isabelle McNair.

• There was a large attendance at the Minstrel show Tuesday evening and it was well worth going to see.

• Thirty years ago January 29th, Rev. W.L.C. Samson was installed as pastor of the Bovina U.P. church.

• Mrs. A.S. Banker has returned home from Pine Hill, where she was caring for her people, who were ill.

• Robert Doig, of Delhi, was a visitor at T.C. Strangeway’s on Tuesday. His sister, Nettie Doig, returned home with him. 

• Homer Burgin, who had an operation in New York a few weeks ago for hernia, is recuperating at the home of his mother, Mrs. Ida T. Burgin.

• J. Frank Brown, who moved here from Bovina Center during the fall, is to move from Bridge street to house on Delaware Avenue vacated by Mrs. P. Danchy – Delhi Express.

• Rev. Octavius Edgelow, rector of the St. James church at Lake Delaware, is visiting his son, Dr. Arthur Edgelow at Springfield, Mass., and receiving medical treatment. Rev. Grant had charge of the services last Sabbath.

February 12, 1926

• Mrs. Robert R. Gladstone was at the County Seat on Monday.

• Louie Baker, employed at the up-town creamery, was a visitor at Andes last Saturday.

• The schools of the town were closed last Thursday and Friday, the teachers being at Stamford attending a conference.

• Ice is being hauled from the lake on the Thomas Mabon farm to Delhi for the Sheffield plant.  It is 14 inches in thickness. [This is Cole’s or Silver Lake.]

• Supervisor William J. Storie was at Delhi on Monday evening attending the meeting for organization of board of supervisors.

• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are Addie E. Cowan and others to Millard Russell and wife, $1; Millard Russell and others to Addie Russell Cowan, $1.

February 19, 1926

• John H. Hilson has had a radio installed.

• Ray Thomson, who was operated on for appendicitis a few weeks ago at Delhi, is home.

• Mrs. Everett MacPherson and Mrs. Thomas Fuller both fell on the ice and each broke an arm.

• John S. Burns in upper Bovina and Gaylie Hafele up Coulter Brook, have had radios installed.

• Miss Grace Cranston, of Andes, who has been at John Aitken’s, is now working at Wm. T. Miller’s.

• Miss Dorothy Sloan, daughter of the late Leonard Sloan of this place, graduated this week from a New York hospital as a trained nurse.

• Mr. and Mrs. Jas A. Thomson, both natives of Bovina, celebrated the 25th anniversary of their marriage at their home above Delhi village February 6. [Mrs. Thomson was the former Margaret Foreman. They would live to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 1951. James died in 1957, Margaret in 1961.]

• Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thomson, Mrs. Robert R. Gladstone, Mr. and Mrs. Leon VanDusen attended the funeral of W.C. Oliver at Andes on Saturday.

• The Young Women’s Missionary Society and the Good Cheer Sabbath School class gave Mrs. William T. Miller a sunshine box and Vallentine postal shower one day last week.

In the estate of Robert R. Gladstone late of Bovina, the estimate is $2,500 real and $2,500 personal.  The wife is given the life use.  At her death one-half goes to his brother-in-law James W. Thomson and then to his three children; the other half goes equally to the three brothers of deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Dennis, celebrated the 55th anniversary of their wedding on February 7, at their home, Glenwood, on the Richmond road Williamsburg, Virginia.  Miss Louise Dennis, a sister and the only guest at the wedding now living, was present, and also all of their children.

Mr. Dennis is a native of Bovina, and for many years conducted the Dennis grist mill.  Around a quarter of a century ago he went to Virginia.

February 26, 1926

• Gaylie Hafele was at Walton on Friday.

• Mrs. Jane E. Hastings, who has been ill, is able to be around again.

• Mr. and Mrs. Alex Thomson and Ray Parsons were Delhi Callers on Friday.

• Norton Forrest and Eugene Chase each had the misfortune to have a horse die recently.

• Mrs. Isaac Mitchell underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Delhi hospital last Thursday.

• Harry Robinson, Mrs. Elliott Thomson and Miss Mary Thomson spent a few days at Binghamton.

• Mrs. Thomas Ormiston and son, Edwin, attended the funeral of her grandson, who died with appendicitis. [This grandson was Paul William Ormiston, wo died in Goshen in Orange County on February 19, 1926. His parents were Wendell and Lillian Haller Ormiston.]

• Mr. and Mrs. Leslie More, of Hamden, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Doonan, of Delhi, spent Sabbath at Robert Robinson’s.

• Appraisal of the property of the late Robert R. Gladstone was made Friday. H.C. Burgin and Frank Miller were the appraisers.

• On Sabbath morning, February 28, the United Presbyterian congregation will vote on the question of continuing its special separate support of Dr. N.B. Whitcomb as medical missionary to Egypt. About 6 ½ years ago the congregation pledged themselves to pay $1,500 annual for his support for his first term of 7 years and that time has nearly expired.

Bovina Realty

Two Fine Farms Sold During the Past week

Charles A. McPherson has sold his farm on the state road at what was formerly known as Bovina Valley, to Miss Angelica L. Gerry and gives possession April 1.  The sale does not include the personal property.  The farm is known as the Christopher Strangeway place.  Mr. McPherson has purchased of William Archibald the former Scott farm at the stone arch bridge at Bovina Center.  Mr. Archibald will move to the Hilson house until he can build a new house on the Methodist church lot, which he purchased a few years ago when the Methodist society disbanded.