A Week with Bovina People - April 1901 - 125 Years ago from the Andes Recorder

 

Life on the streets and roads of Bovina 125 years ago from the Andes Recorder

April 5, 1901

• Dr. Ormiston was in town Saturday.

• F.C. Armstrong was at Delhi Saturday.

• Gideon Miller was over at Andes on Sabbath.

• William Miller, of Walton, was here on Friday.

• Frank Gowanlock visited the County Seat Tuesday.

• Smyth, the marbleman, was up from Delhi Monday.

• The Misses Palmer visited relatives at Hobart last week.

• Wednesday at D.J. Miller’s sale heifers averaged $27.50.

• W.D. Thompson, hardware agent, was in this place Tuesday.

• Samuel Cowell and Daniel Shaw, of Delhi, were in town Friday.

• At James Mitchell’s sale last Friday the heifers averaged about $27.

• William Richardson and wife returned from Margaretville, Tuesday.

• Arthur Neish has moved to Lake Delaware and will work on Gerry’s farm.

• John, son of E.L. Coulter, is sick with the measles and a number are exposed.

• Quite a number from out of town attended Mrs. W.R. Miller’s funeral Friday.

• Dr. Rabuck has been appointed as health officer to succeed the late Dr. Phinney.

• David Draffin has moved from Thos. Ormiston’s farm to rooms in the old cooper shop building.

• John Blair, Frank Graham, Elliott Thompson and Elmer Hastings attended the Smith sale at Hamden Thursday.

April 12, 1901

• Mrs. Adolphus Banker is at G.D. Miller’s.

• Will Robertson, of Andes, was here Monday.

• A.O. Butts was at Andes and Delhi Saturday.

• Alex Hilson went to New York city Monday to purchase new goods.

• Misses Kate and Frederika Muller were at Andes Saturday and Sabbath.

• B. and C.B. Johnson and John Kemp were in town Tuesday and Wednesday.

• Miss Jennie Hastings has been home from the Oneonta Normal school for a few days.

• Rev. Williams started Monday to attend the annual Methodist Conference at Yonkers.

• Commissioner James A. Gow and F.C. Armstrong were among those at Delhi Saturday.

• Among those in town Wednesday Adam Scott, of Delhi, and Wesley Miller, of Oneonta.

• Mrs. G.J. Dickson went to New York city Friday to buy her stock of millinery goods.

• Oliver Dickson and sister have moved from Delhi to their farm on Pisgah for the summer.

• Miss Anna Phyfe has been home from teaching at Dogeville, for the Easter vacation.

• Supervisor Irvine and Assessor Cable went to Delhi Thursday to meet with the State Assessors.

• Rev. and Mrs. William Brown, of Mundale, were guests at Rev. Samson’s the first of the week.

• Miss Jennie Campbell is home from Hobart for a vacation. She has been offered the same position there for another year.

• The mail route has Bovina and Bloomville, via, Bovina Centre, has been awarded to James O’Donohue for $370 a year.

• At the missionary meeting Wednesday evening in the United Presbyterian church parlors, the receipts were something over $40.

• John Dennis, son of J.P. Dennis, is home from the Hahneman Hospital at Park avenue, 67 and 68 streets, New York city, where he underwent an op for the removal of a bunch over his right eye.

A Good Showing

During the past year the Bovina United Presbyterian congregation contributed for Missions and Church Boards through Presbytery’s Financial Agent, $1,491. Other contributions for Missions by Ladies Missionary Society, Junior Missionary Society, Christian Endeavor Society, Sabbath School and individuals amounted to $638, making a total of $2,129 for Missions. Total for all purposes for year ending April 1st, 1901, $4,0o85, of which the Sabbath School contributed $656.

April 19, 1901

• David Sloan went to Delhi on Thursday.

• Ad Maxwell was in this village Wednesday.

• judge grant was in this place Wednesday.

• HJ Hewitt was up from Delhi on Sabbath.

• Henry Raitt of Walton was in town Thursday.

• Smyth, the marbleman, was here on Thursday.

• Rev Williams returned from conference Monday.

• R. A. Thompson was over at Bloomville Wednesday

• David Oliver has traded horses with William Lambert.

• Alex Hilson returned from New York City Monday.

• Fred Bramley now drives a new wagon – one of J.W. Blair’s.

• Adolphus Banker of Grand Gorge was in town over Sabbath.

• Leonard Sloan and Ken Russell were among those at Delhi Monday.

• Thomas Ormiston has hired Albert Craig and wife to work his farm for him.

• Elisha Maynard, a former resident of this town, has moved from Hobart to Stamford.

• A number from out of town attended the funeral of William Lee Forrest Wednesday.

• Highway Commissioner Doig has sent out cards to the overseers of highways notifying them of a change in the road law.

• Tuesday and Wednesday Thomas Gordon and E.M. Norton appraised the medicines and other goods of the late Dr. Phinney.

• Francis Coulter is suffering with gangrene in his foot.  The doctors thought it advisable to amputate the foot, but Mr. Coulter would not consent to it.

• An epidemic of measles is raging in town, and nearly everyone who has not had them is either sick with them or has been exposed. Most of them were exposed at church.  Dr. Rabuck is kept very busy, it is stated that up to Wednesday night there were 55 cases, and more coming.

Monday William Lee Forrest died very suddenly. He and his father-in-law John Lunn were shingling, when he complained of not feeling well and Lunn told him he had better get down and go to the house, and he said that he couldn't. Lunn took hold of him and he fell over onto the roof. Chas Tuttle and James Boyd happened to be passing and came to Lunn’s aid. A rope was procured and Mr. Forrest lowered from the roof and carried to the house, but he only lived a few minutes. It is thought that he had an apoplectic shock.

Mr. Forrest was born on the farm now occupied by Robert R. Scott and was in his 45th year. He married Miss Mary Lunn 22 years ago, and she with a son and a daughter and his mother survive him. His father, Robert Forest, died in 1884, also dying suddenly.

The funeral was held Wednesday at 12 o’clock, from his late residence in Coulter Brook, Rev. Samson officiating. 

April 26, 1901

• James G. Seath was in town over Sabbath.

• David Oliver visited his son at Hamden Friday.

• W.T. Miller was at Andes the first of the week.

• A.E. Liddle was in town Monday from Andes.

• George Jobson, of Roses Brook, was here Monday.

• J.W. Blair and daughter visited at Delhi Friday.

• James Foreman and wife were at Delhi Friday.

• Frank Miller was in town Wednesday from Andes.

• Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy Warren were in town Saturday.

• Mr. and Mrs. A.O. Butts were down at Delhi Saturday.

• Rev. Williams and Alex Hilson visited the County Seat Friday.

• James G. Seath and David Sloan visited Hobart the first of the week.

• Dr. Seacord and Francis Graham made a trip to the County Seat Monday.

• We understand that D.L. Thompson has rented the “Rosemont” at Stamford.

• Mrs. A.S. Banker and son, Marion, returned to their home at Grand Gorge Saturday.

• W.W. Hoy of Pennsylvania visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hoy here Friday.

• D.A. Oliver, formerly of this town, has been appointed street commissioner of Hamden village.

• Friday night Ezra Henderson, William Ward and Archie Coulter went to Livingston Lake fishing.  They had been there only a short time and had not yet secured any fish when they were pounced upon by officers Smith and Franklin and William Mason, and were arrested and taken to Delhi, when they settled by each paying $25.  Coulter and Ward had their heads cut open by being struck by the officers.

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

Here's what was happening in Bovina a century ago in April 1926, as reported in the pages of the Andes Recorder.  The big news was the demolition of the Bovina Methodist Church, which stood across from where the Community Hall now exists.

April 2, 1926

• The frame of the Methodist church was taken down Monday. [March 29]

• John Nichols has gone to Jefferson for a visit of a few weeks.

• Howard Coulter and Carl Hamilton, of Andes, were here Friday.

• Miss Beatrice Hoy, who teaches at Bovina, will return another year.

• David Liddle, Arthur Coulter and Norton Forrest were County Seat callers Friday.

• Miss Margaret Gordon is home from the Albany Teachers College for a ten days’ vacation.

• Misses Jenet and Margaret Laidlaw have gone to New York City to spend over Easter with friends. [Janet and Margaret were sisters, daughters of Adam and Emma Laidlaw. Janet died in 1931 at the age of 25. Margaret married James A. Hoy and was the Bovina Town Clerk for many years. She died in 1981.]

• William J. Archibald has leased the farm of Hilson Bros and purchased their dairy of tested cows.

• Professor and Mrs. Leon Taggart and son, Thomas, of Oneonta, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Strangeway.

• Howard McPherson will have numerous improvements made to his house in the lower part of Bovina center – changing partitions, fitting up a bathroom, etc.

• The newly elected officers of the Women’s Missionary Society are Mrs. Douglas Davidson, president; Mrs. Jennie Hoy, vice president; Mrs. R.E. Thomson, secretary; Mrs. Elliott Thomson, treasurer; Mrs. C.S. Gladstone, thank offering secretary; Mrs. T.C. Strangeway, magazine agent. 

April 9, 1926

• Miss Nettie Doig, of Delhi, is with her sister, Mrs. T.C. Strangeway.

• Mrs. William C. Laing, of Andes, is visiting her niece, Mrs. Alex Hilson. [Mrs. Laing was the former Isabella Anderson.]

• Millard Russell has purchased a new Chevrolet sedan from Howard Coulter of Andes.

• Mrs. William T. Miller does not improve much and is now under the care of a nurse. [Mrs. Miller, the former Elizabeth Hastings, would last about another year, dying in August 1927.]

• Thomas A. Raitt and Miss Bell Elliott, of Andes, attended church here on Sabbath.

• Miss Mabel Thomson, who teaches at Winstead, Connecticut, is spending her Easter vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Thomson.

• Everett Joslin has purchased and moved to what is known as the small Dickson house opposite Lancelot Thomson’s.  The reported price is $300.

• Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Thomson and Mr. and Mrs. Will Puffer, of Hobart, were visitors at Dickson Thomson’s on Sabbath, it being her birthday.

• Miss Agnes Thomson, of New Kingston, who on December 17, underwent an operation at Delhi for gangrenous appendicitis, was able to return home last week. 

• The Hard Maple Lumber Company, who are cutting logs up Coulter Brook, will locate their saw mill back of the Hastings feed store, adjoining the Pink street road.

• The Methodist church which was torn down last week, was built in 1849 and cost only $1,397.50.  It was built of native pine and hemlock and would have stood another 77 years. D.C. Worden will reconstruct it for a barn on the Ormiston farm.

April 16, 1926

• Albert Russell has had a hot water system installed in his residence.

• Miss Gladys Worden, who teaches on Long Island, has been ill with the measles. [Miss Worden married Maurice Hall in 1927. They farmed in Bovina for about two decades, then moved to Ithaca. Maurice died in 1974, Gladys in 1997.]

• Alex Myers, our painter and paper hanger is doing some work in Andes this week.

• Mr. and Mrs. James Rutherford, of Pepacton, spent Sabbath with her father, J.D. Burns.

• Robert A. Thomson, of Hobart, who has been helping John Thomson has returned home to work on the roads.

• There was a large attendance at the William Archibald sale last Thursday. The cows and young cattle averaged about $65.

• Petrolmen George Decker and Howard McPherson and their gangs have commenced working on the State road.

• Rev. F.N. Crawford and Elders T. C. Strangeway and W.J. Storie attended the meeting of Delaware Presbytery at Andes on Tuesday. 

• William Archibald is moving to the Hilson house and Charles A. McPherson is moving from the Strangeway farm to the Scott farm purchased of Mr. Archibald.

• Earl Tuttle, the 11 year old son of Ellsworth Tuttle in Tuttle Hollow, broke his leg just above the ankle recently by jumping from the wood house roof while playing. 

April 23, 1926

• Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Barnhart spent a few days recently with her people at Jefferson.

• Elmer Hastings, who has spent the winter with his brother, Milton Hastings, returned to his home at Saranac last Thursday.

• Miss Mary Thomson, who has been staying at the home of her brother, Elliott Thomson, has purchased a house in Oneonta.

• Mrs. Alex Hilson and son, James, were at Andes on Saturday, taking Mrs. W.C. Laing, who had been visiting here, to her home.

• A home talent play, the Ghost Breaker, was given in the hall Wednesday evening for benefit of William Workers and was well attended.

• Arthur Hamilton has been re-elected school superintendent for the towns of Bovina, Harpersfield, Kortright and Stamford, for a term of five years.

• How’s this for April 20? Tuesday morning Norton Forrest left his car standing in front of Cecil Russell’s store for a few minutes and it froze up. 

Bovina Farm Sold

J. Douglas Burns has sold his farm, located near Bramley mountain to Joe Adee, of New Kingston. The sale includes the personal property and the price is $7,000. The farm is probably in the best state of cultivation of any farm in the town. Mr. Burns purchased the farm of the late Alex Hoy 44 or 45 years ago. 

EIGHTY YEARS YOUNG

Mrs. Ann Bouton of Lake Delaware, Reaches Four Score Years

Saturday, April 10th, was the 80th birthday of Mrs. Ann Bouton of Lake Delaware and thirty of her friends gathered at home of her daughter, Mrs. Roscoe Brown, to celebrate. A lovely afternoon was spent and delicious refreshments were served. She was the recipient of many gifts, including a beautiful bouquet of red, white and pink roses, a potted plant, candy, dish, handkerchiefs, maple syrup and sugar. The presence of Mrs. Belle Bailey of Bloomville, one of her oldest friends, added much to the joy of the occasion. [Mrs. Bouton was the former Mary Ann Gillie. Born in 1846, she lived to be 91. Mrs. Brown was Lillian May Bouton. She died in 1945.]

April 30, 1926

• Mrs. Bertha Miller of Walton is visiting in town. [Bertha was the widow of John M. Miller, who owned what later became Suits-Us Farm. Bertha was widowed in 1920 and moved to Walton not long after the death of her husband.]

• Kenneth Kaufman is driving a new Studebaker coach.

• Archibald Thomson and sons of Walton were visitors at Sloan Archibald’s on Sabbath.

• Miss Mary Ormiston of Oneonta has been visiting her aunts, Mrs. Ormiston and Mrs. Myers.

• Mrs. Thomas Cowan of Palmer Hill, who was taken ill at the home of son, Millard Russell, is improving. [Mrs. Cowan was born Adalaid Coulter. Her first husband, Francis Russell, died in 1910. She was widowed again about six weeks after being ill at her son's. Addie would pass away in 1951.]

• Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson, Mrs. Elliott Thomson and Miss Mary Thomson were Oneonta visitors Saturday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Harold Robinson of Bainbridge spent Sabbath with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hoy.

• Miss Margaret Storie who spent the winter in Hobart with her nephew, Eugene Storie, has returned to her home here. 

• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are DeWitt Sharpe to Bertha Sharpe $1 Frederick Johnson, Exr. Of (cemetery) to Geo VanDusen $1.

• It is probable that the mail route will soon be changed from Bloomville and come from Arkville by the Andes and Delhi. Much better service would result, mail being received not only but twice daily.