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

From the pages of the Andes Recorder for the Month of May 2026

May 7, 1926

• From a recent sugar social the Willian Workers realized $25.

• Jack Perry was moved from Andes to the Dickson big house.

• Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers, of Binghamton, spent from Friday until Tuesday with his parents and he tried his luck at fishing.

• Mr. and Mrs. James Mabon and Mrs. Thomas Gordon attend the funeral of their Uncle, John Jack, at Delhi on Monday.

• Mrs. Lancelot Thomson is confined to her home with lumbago. Her niece Mrs. Gideon Miller, was up from Hamden to see her Monday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Alex Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Thomson and Norton Forrest attended the funeral of Joseph S. Forrest at Andes last Thursday.

• In the Bovina Center school district the same teachers have been hired for another year, viz: gilbert Banker as principal and Mrs. Leon VanDusen in primary department.

• The newly elected officers of the uptown Laurel Band society are Robert Erkson, president; Helen Parsons, vice President; Bernice DeSilva; secretary; Glenn Hobbie, treasurer.

• Joe Adee, of New Kingston, who purchased the farm of J.D. Burns, took possession Monday. Mr. Burns at present is stopping with his daughter, Mrs. Howard McPherson.

• Miss Mary Thomson, who recently purchased a house at Oneonta, went to that place Tuesday to take up her residence. Mrs. Elliott Thomson accompanied her to remain for a few days and help her get settled. 

May 14, 1926

• David J. Miller, of Walton, visiting relatives in town.

• Mrs. James Boggs is confined to her home up-town by illness.

• John Northrup recently visited his daughter, Mrs. Will Oliver, in Harpersfield.

• Earl Fisk at Lake Delaware, has the foundation in for a new barn to replace the one burned last year.

• Charles Thomson, of Endicott, was with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Thomson over the week end.

• The Beacon Light Sabbath School class will hold a visiting social in the church parlors on Friday evening, May 14. 

• Owing to the absence of the pastor, Rev. A.M. Thomson, at Newburgh, there were no services at R.P. church last Sabbath.

• Mrs. Eliza Barnhart, who spent the winter at John Quinn’s at Lake Delaware, has gone to Sidney Center for the summer.

• Frank Dickson and family and his sister, from Little Delaware, and Leon Taggart and family, of Oneonta, were here on Sabbath.

• The estate of Agnes Rockefeller, late of Bovina, is estimated at $3,000 personal. To Tessie Corbin, a sister, is willed $500; residue divided equally between four sons. 

• Mrs. Dixon Thomson, Mrs. Fred Thomson, Mrs. William Redman and Miss Carrie Dumond attended a Home Bureau meeting at Thomas D. Russell’s in Glenburnie last Saturday.

• Will Oliver, a Bovina boy, who has been with B.&.B. creamery at West Harpersfield, is now manager of the B.&.B. creamery at Margaretville. He also recently passed the examination for licensed milk tester. 

• Teachers hired for next year in Bovina are: Biggar Hollow, Forrest Owen; Coulter district, Mrs. Homer Burgin; Coulter Brook, Marion McPherson; Miller avenue, Elizabeth Strangeway; Pink street, Ruth Coulter; Butt End, Beatrice Hoy.

May 21, 1926

• Thomas A. Raitt, of Andes was in town Monday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Barnhart spent Sabbath with her people at Jefferson.

• Mrs. Robert Corcoran underwent an operation for appendicitis at Delhi last Thursday. 

• Mrs. Nettie Coe has gone to Batavia, Illinois, to spend a month with friends and relatives.

• Misses Kate and Fredi Muller spent over the weekend with their sister, Mrs. Otis McCumber, at Andes.

• Mrs. Andrew T. Doig, who had spent the winter with her brother, E.F. Thomson, in Walton, has returned to her home here.

• The interior of the Bovina Center Co-Operative Creamery is being painted. Harvey Reynolds, of Andes, is doing the work. 

• Mrs. James W. Thomson, Mrs. John Thomson, Mrs. John A. Russell and Mrs. Adam Laidlaw attended a missionary convention of the R.P. church.

• In the town of Bovina the county aid highway designation is Bovina Center toward Maynard school house. Available funds are $2,680; balance from 1925 $1,023.21

• Charles H. Hastings has moved to Walton, where he has the agency for the New York Life Insurance company. Until last fall he had been in Alberta, Canada, for some years.

BOVINA WOMAN DIES

Mrs. William T. Miller Passed Away at Her Home After Long Illness

Mrs. William T. Miller died at her home on Pink Street on Wednesay evening, May 13, after a long illness from cancers. She underwent an operation last October and continued to improve until January when she was taken worse and continued to fail from that time.

Her maiden name was Mary J. Bogs, a daughter of Thomas R. Boggs and Jane (Archibald) Boggs and was born in Bovina November 25, 1871. She was married November 7, 1897, and besides her husband is survived by her aged parents, a brother, James Boggs, and three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Ormiston and Calla Boggs, in Bovina, and Mrs. Robert Foreman, of Walton. 

The funeral which was largely attended was held from the house Saturday afternoon with Rev. F.N. Crawford officiating, assisted by Rev. Thomson. Interment was in the Bovina Center Cemetery. 

May 28, 1926

• William Wilson recently had his tonsils removed.

• Mrs. Lancelot Thomson, who has been ill for several weeks, is reported slightly better.

• There is no preaching at the Church of the Covenanters, on account of the absence of the pastor, Rev. Thomson. 

• Rev. F.N. Crawford is attending the meeting of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian church at Sharon, Penn.

• Jean, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson was ill the first of the week, threatened with appendicitis, but is now better.

• Fred Henderson, secretary and treasurer of the Bovina Center Co-Operative Creamery company, underwent an operation for appendicitis Saturday and is doing well.

• Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, who have been working for John Blair on his farm, will move to Arena and conduct a boarding house. Mr. Blair has hired Charles Miller, of Downsville, who comes June 1. 

Bovina Fish Club

In order to protect some of the Bovina streams the Bovina Fishing Club has been organized with the following officers: George Johnson, president; Wallace B. Smith, secretary; Everett DeSilva, Charles F. McPherson, Eugene Chase, Henry Monroe, directors. They have leased the stream rights from Bovina Center to the upper end of the town.