Life in Bovina from 125 years ago, March 1901, as reported by the Andes Recorder:
March 1, 1901
• O.S. Nichols was in town Monday.
• Charles Johnson was in town Friday.
• W.D. Thomson was in town this week.
• John Storie was over at Andes Wednesday.
• Newman Knapp returned Monday from Oneonta.
• Will Foreman, of Bloomville, was in town Saturday.
• W.B. Scott and wife were in town from Delhi on Sabbath.
• Some of the boys attended the dance at Andes Friday night.
• Miss Jennie Campbell has been home for a short vacation.
• Mr. and Mrs. William Crosier and son were at Delhi Tuesday. [Mrs. Crosier was the former Jennie Isabella Archibald and the son was Harry Crosier, born in 1890. Jennie died in 1920, William in 1931 and Harry in Ohio in 1958.]
• T. Gordon and wife were at W.B. Scott’s above Delhi on Thursday.
• Wilson Raitt is moving to Hamden and will work for Combs brothers.
• Monday George Persons and John Lyon, of Delhi, were in this place.
• Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Irvine, of Federal Hill, were visitors here on Wednesday.
• Wesley Miller and wife, of Oneonta, were in this village the first of the week.
• John Kemp of Delhi, and Barna Johnson, of Andes, were in this place Saturday.
• Among those in town Saturday were Harvey Smith and Charles Whitmore, of Bloomville.
• The closing entertainment of the lecture course will be given by Dr. Willett’s on March 6.
• Richard Smith and wife returned on Monday from Walton, where they have been for about two months.
• J.W. Coulter went to New York on Thursday with Mrs. John Barker who will enter the hospital for treatment.
• Frank Graham has sold his place the Walter Graham farm near Lake Delaware, to his nephew, Francis Graham.
March 8, 1901
• Bovina has a case of measles.
• John Blair visited Delhi Monday.
• A.O. Butts was down at Delhi Monday.
• John E. Gladstone arrived in town Monday.
• Henry Kerr, of Almeda, was here on Thursday.
• M. Gerowe of Bloomville was seen in town Monday.
• J.D. Barnhart and G.D. Miller were at Andes on Saturday. [J.D. Barnhart probably is actually Jeremy T. Barnhart, who lived on Pink Street.]
• E.C. Smyth and John Aitkin were in town from Delhi Friday.
• Mrs. M.M. Boggs and son and Mae Liddle were at Delhi Friday.
• At Frank Graham’s sale near Lake Delaware, March 5, cows averaged $25 per head.
• Mrs. VanLeuvan, who has been nurse at R.A. Thompsons returned to her home in Delhi Monday.
• Recent real estate transfers in town were the heirs of John M. McNaught to Colin McNaught, $2,000.
• Dr. Phinney is ill with pneumonia and Drs. Wight and Gladstone of Andes were here in consultation Thursday.
• Mrs. Rebecka Ormiston widow of the late James Ormiston, died last Thursday at the home of her son, Thomas at Glencoe, Maryland of complications following the gripe. She was 77 years old and had been a resident of Bovina the major part of her life. The remains were brought here and the funeral held in the United Presbyterian church Saturday, Rev. Samson officiating. Interment was made in the Bovina cemetery. [Mrs. Ormiston was the former Rebecca McFarland, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca McFarland.]
March 15, 1901
• Dr. Gladstone was here Saturday.
• Ad Maxwell was in town Monday.
• Peter McGregor was in town Friday.
• David Draffin was down at Delhi on Saturday.
• Mrs. John Barker has returned from New York City.
• Alex Hilson and John Blair were at Delhi Thursday.
• Mrs. John Oliver and son are visiting at Deposit.
• William Bryden has moved onto the Benj Tuttle farm.
• D.M. Coulter and son were in town Friday from Andes.
• Mrs. R.W. Scott and daughter returned from a visit at Walton Tuesday.
• A.T. Strangeway has been appointed a Notary Public for the term ending March 30, 1903.
• Drs. Miner, Gladstone, Gates, Ormiston attended the funeral of Dr. Phinney here Wednesday. [The doctors included Henry Gates and William Ormiston. I haven’t been able to determine who the other doctors were.]
• Frank Graham has moved from the farm recently sold by him, back to the village and occupies rooms in the old Gow house.
• It is hoped by Bovina people that our efficient supervisor John A. Irvine, may be the next chairman of the Board of Supervisors. He is a hard working and painstaking member and would make an excellent chairman.
Dr. Phinney Dead
Sabbath evening this community was called upon to mourn the loss by death of Dr. L. Phinney, at the age of 51 years. He was born in Greene county and in the fall of 1883 he located in Bovina Centre, succeeding Dr. William Telford, Jr., who died a short time afterward. Before coming to this town he practiced in New Kingston. He graduated in 1879 from the New York Medical University and was regarded one of the best physicians in this vicinity. He leaves a widow and a son and a daughter to mourn his loss.
Dr. Phinney was a man who always attended to his own affairs and never meddled with the affairs of others in any way. Always ready when called for to help those in need of a physician and his place will be hard to fill. Perhaps no man in town had fewer people who had anything to say against them than Dr. Phinney had. And wherever he went he won many warm friends all of whom regret his demise with pneumonia. The funeral was held on Wednesday at 11 o’clock in the United Presbyterian church.
His mother also died Sabbath about the same time. [Phinney’s wife was the former Mary Archibald. She died in 1927. His mother, the former Mary Carter, died two days before her son in Freehold in Greene County.]
March 22, 1901
• Dr. Rabuck and wife were in town Friday.
• David Oliver was down at Delhi on Monday.
• Peter Gerry was at Lake Delaware last week.
• Will Lambert was in town from Delhi Monday.
• Will Coulter was over from Andes Wednesday.
• W.A. Miller, of Delhi, was in this place Tuesday.
• Frank Myers visited his son, Alexander, here this week.
• Miss Bertha Phyfe was home from Delhi over Sabbath.
• Charles Connor, of Andes, was seen in this place Tuesday.
• Leonard Sloan went to Albany Tuesday to meet his father.
• Charles Kaufman, of Margaretville was in town Wednesday.
• Mrs. T. Gordon went to Delhi to visit her parents Wednesday. [Mrs. Gordon was the former Mary Richardson Scott, the second wife of Thomas Gordon. She was the mother of Margaret Gordon.]
• Wesley Miller and wife, of Oneonta, were visitors here Tuesday.
• There was a dance at Rob Robson’s at Lake Delaware Monday night.
• Mrs. John Oliver and son returned Monday from their visit at Deposit.
• Miss Mary Liddle, of Andes, was a guest at Frank Gowanlock’s this week.
• D.M. Coulter, Ed Hanlon and Chas Johnson were here from Andes on Friday.
• James Monroe was at Andes Monday after Miss Serena Connor, who will work for him this season.
• Postmaster Hilson is having locks put on the postoffice boxes this week in compliance with the law.
• Miss Jennie Gladstone, who for several weeks has been visiting at Shavertown, returned to this place Tuesday.
• Robert Hoy, son of Thomas Hoy, of this place, and Miss Fannie Elliott, of Margaretville, were married at that place Wednesday. [Sadly, this couple would have a short marriage. Fannie had two boys in 1904 and died two years later in 1906. Robert survived his wife by a decade, dying in 1916.]
• There is to be an entertainment at Strangeway’s Hall, Friday evening, March 22, for the benefit of the lecture course fund for 1901 and 1902.
• Dr. S.H. Rabuck, of Bloomville, has opened an office in the small building next to Mrs. Lauren’s Hotel and is now prepared to attend to all professional calls. Dr. Rabuck comes to us highly recommended as a physician and as a good man to have in a community and we extend him a hearty welcome.
March 29, 1901
• William Crosier was over at Andes Friday.
• G.D. Miller and wife visited Delhi Friday.
• James Archibald was at Andes on Wednesday.
• Oliver Dickson was up from Delhi on Monday.
• Elliott Thompson visited the County Seat Monday.
• Robert Hoy and bride arrived in town on Sabbath.
• Elisha B. Maynard, of Hobart, has been in town this week.
• Frank Gowanlock and wife visited relatives at Andes Saturday.
• Dr. S.H. Rabuck moved his medicines from Bloomville Saturday.
• Andrew T. Doig is in New York city this week purchasing goods.
• A.G. Strong and Andrew Franklin were in town Monday buying eggs.
• Thomas Miller and D.C. Worden were among those at Delhi Monday.
• T.H. Liddle and daughter, of Andes, were visitors in this place Friday.
• Peter and George McNair and John McCune went to Margaretville Monday.
• David Sloan, of Colorado, is in town and expects to remain about two months.
• Alex Hilson, John Blair, Dr. Seacord and Mr. and Mrs. David Draffin visited Delhi Monday.
• Henry Rotermond, of Margaretville, and a veteran of the civil war, was a visitor in town Friday.
• It is stated that after May 1st Dr. Rabuck will occupy a part of the D.L. Thompsons and also have his office there.
• John Kemp, of Delhi, and B. & C. B. Johnson, of Andes, were the members of the legal fraternity in town on Friday.
• F.R. Coulter and Wilson Scott have rented their farm (the old Russell farm) to John W. Northrup, who will take possession April 1.
• D.A. Oliver, formerly of this town has leased for one year of G.W. & H. Youmans their farm in Hamden village, getting possession April 1st. [This probably is David A. Oliver, who died in 1923.]
• On account of the worms killing so many of the maple trees some of our sugar makers who have usually hung 1,000 buckets, have not tapped at all this year.
• D.L. Thompson has sold his house and lot and hardware store in this village to J.W. Coulter, and will give possession May 1. It is rumored that Mr. Thompson contemplates locating at Almeda. [The hardware store later became the Bovina Public Library and is now the Bovina Museum.]
• Mrs. William R. Miller died very suddenly Tuesday night about 10 o’clock. She had just retired when she was taken with her heart and only lived about fifteen minutes. Her maiden name was Mary Laing and she was born in Andes in October 1856 and was married about 22 years ago. She leaves a husband and a son and daughter. The funeral will be held Friday at 12 o’clock in the United Presbyterian church.
• A difference of opinion having arisen between Thomas Ormiston and David Draffin, growing out of the renting of Ormiston’s farm, and the fact that the stock had been quarantined and also owing to Ormiston wishing to have Draffin vacate before his time had expired, because of his having a chance to sell the farm. Monday the entire matter was left to J.S. Kerr, J.P. Ganung and Frank Lomport, of Stamford, to arbitrate, and it is stated that these gentlemen decided that Mr. Draffin should receive back $40 of the $140 he had already paid Mr. Ormiston on the rent.
Auction
D.J. Miller will sell on Wednesday April 3, at 11 o’clock, at his farm near Bovina Centre, 37 two-year old heifers, fresh or soon will be, and one two year old bull. These are choice grade Jerseys. A credit of three months will be given. [This was David James Miller. He later moved to Walton and died there in 1945.]
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