Here’s what happened in Bovina 100 years ago in March 1926, as reported in the pages of the Andes Recorder.
March 5, 1926
• Mrs. Hamilton Russell has been visiting her sons at Delhi. [Mrs. Russell was the former Margaret Doig and was the mother, among other people, Cecil Russell. She was widowed in 1921 and died in 1933.]
• Mrs. W.J. Storie and little daughter were Delhi visitors Wednesday. [This was Vera Storie and her daughter Ray, who later married Gene Vandenbord.]
• Mrs. Charles Lee spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Lawrence, at Arena.
• D.C. Worden, who purchased the Methodist church some time ago commenced tearing it down Monday.
• Elliott Thomson has sold his blacksmith to William Archibald who will use it for garage and storage purpose.
• Dr. George Pace, of Andes, has opened an office in rooms at Mrs. Douglas Davidson’s and will be here on Thursday of each week.
• The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Terry at Lake Delaware, was operated on last Wednesday at Delhi, for removal of tonsils and adenoids.
• On Sabbath the congregation of the U.P. church voted to extend for one year their support to Dr. Whitcomb as medical missionary to Egypt. The amount is $1,500 and vote was about two to one.
• Mr. and Mrs. M.H. Meigan, lately of Chicago, are visiting her father, John B. Lee, in Tuttle hollow. Next week they go to Iroquois Fall, Canada where he has taken a position as a chemist with a large paper company. [Mrs. Meigan was born Marjorie A. Lee. Her mother, the former Lucy Hall, died in 1919. Mrs. Lee died in Pennsylvania in 1987.]
Miss Mary A. Russell died at her home in southern Bovina on Friday, February 26, following a shock – the third she had suffered. She was born and her entire life of 68 years had been spent on the farm and in the same house where she died. She is survived by a brother, W.C. Russell, of Bovina, and a sister, Miss Eliza Russell. The two women had conducted the farm since the death of their brother, George Russell, two years ago. The funeral was held Monday from the Church of the Covenanters at Bovina Center with interment in the Center cemetery.
March 12, 1926
• Orson Russell, of Downsville, was a caller in town last week.
• The U.P. congregation expects to raise at least $2,270 for missions for 1926.
• The Bovina Center school was closed a few days this week owing to the illness of both teachers.
• Mrs. John Burns, Mrs. George Johnson and Mrs. Claude Erkson were recent visitors at Binghamton.
• Mrs. Elizabeth Bramley is at the home of her sister, Mrs. Thos Fuller, who broke her arm a few weeks ago.
• Alex Myers received word recently that his brother, Robert Myers, had suffered a shock at his home in California. [Robert survived this illness and died in California in 1930.]
• Edgar Lee, a pharmacist, who has been in Buffalo, has become assistant manager of the store of Harvey & Early at Olean.
• The dry milk plant at the Bovina Center creamery has been put in operation this week Cheese has been made all winter.
• Owing to the absence of Rev. F.N. Crawford there was no preaching last Sabbath at the U.P. church and there will be none next Sabbath.
• Mrs. George Decker fell on the ice Tuesday evening and struck on the same hip that she broke a year or two ago, but fortunately did not break any bones. [This likely is the former Ada H. Tompkins. She was widowed in 1939 and died in 1944.]
Estate of Jennie E. Miller, late of Bovina. Will admitted to probate and letters testamentary issued to William J. Story. Estimate $300 personal. Mina Wilson, Jennie Foreman, Margaret Archibald, Belle Burns, Margaret More, David Hoy, Jennet Archibald, Margaret Davidson and Elizabeth Blair are each willed personal articles.
March 19, 1926
• C.L. Dickson has been re-appointed notary public.
• Dr. Pace, of Andes, was here on Sabbath to see Mrs. Palmer, who has the grip.
• It is expected that there will be preaching in the U.P. church next Sabbath.
• Daniel Franklin has leased the Bovina Co-operative Creamery for another year.
• The Royal Lyceum Bureau has sold and entertainment course here for next fall and winter.
• Miss Edith Russell was operated on last week at the Delhi hospital for diseased glands of the neck.
• Lester Speidel of this place, and H. S. Marvin of Delhi, have been on a business trip to Wisconsin.
• Norton Forrest has purchased a horse from W.D. Ceas, to take the place of the one he had die.
• Mr. and Mrs. George Travers, of Hobart, have been stopping for a few days with her sister, Mrs. Milton Liddle.
• Charles Hastings, who returned from the west last fall expects to move his family to Walton. He is engaged in the insurance business.
• Mrs. Frank Dickson, of the Little Delaware, who had been caring for her mother, Mrs. T.C. Strangeway, who had the grip, returned home Friday.
• The Lake Delaware Community club held a social meeting Tuesday evening at the parish hall. Rev. T.C. Bookhout was the speaker and there was a moving picture entitled the Spirit of the U.S.A.
March 26, 1926
• The total school money apportioned to the town of Bovina this year is $4,764.74.
• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are Paul C. Fuhrmann and wife to William Fuhrmann and wife, $1.
• Robert E. Thomson, William Storie and Fletcher Davidson attended a telephone meeting at Andes last Thursday.
• William S. Gordon, a student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, is spending a ten-day vacation with his mother Mrs. Thomas Gordon.
• Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Moore, of Hamden, spent Sabbath with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robinson.
• The Congregational meeting of the U.P. Church will be held April 6 at 1 o’clock. Communion services April 4.
• Mrs. James Gow spent Monday at Delhi with her sister, Mrs. James Foreman.
• Mrs. Lucy Coulter returned home Sabbath after spending the winter with friends at Walton and Franklin. [Lucy was the former Lucy Ward. She married David Coulter and was widowed in 1917. She died in Franklin in 1934.]
