Here’s what life was like in Bovina 100 years ago in November 1926, as reported in the pages of the Andes Recorder:
November 5, 1926
• John Thomson was a Delhi visitor Monday.
• William Gordon, of Albany, was home to vote.
• Benson LaFever and Milton Liddle went deer hunting.
• Mr. and Mrs. Ted Fuller, of Utica, were in town Tuesday.
• Mrs. Fred More, of Hobart, has been visiting her sister, Mrs. John Blair. [Mrs. More was Eleanor Miller and Mrs. Blair was Elizabeth Miller. They were half sisters, the daughters of John Thomas Miller.]
• Frank Myers and wife, of Endicott, visited his people here the first of the week.
• David Liddle and wife and Milton Liddle and wife visited Colin Reside at Shavertown on Sabbath. [David was the father of Milton. Mrs. David Liddle was Margaret Reside; Mrs. Milton Liddle was Myrtle Hinkley.]
• Mrs. (Dr.) Scott, of Davenport, was in town this week calling on friends and former acquaintances.
• Mrs. Margaret Davidson’s Sabbath School class held a banquet in the U.P. church parlors last Saturday.
• John Storie, who was injured some time ago, by an auto and has been in the Delhi hospital, came home Friday.
• An auto accident in the Center on Monday caused a lot of excitement. No one was seriously injured but the car was a total wreck.
• James Lain, of Montana, who purchased the William B. Smith farm, took possession Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Smith will spend some time visiting. [This was Jim Lane, not Lain.]
• A reception was held at the home of Jas W. Thomson last Friday evening, for Rev. A.M. Thomson, pastor of the Church of the Covenanters, and his bride.
• Mrs. John McCune’s Sabbath School class held a Hallowe’en masquerade social in Hillis’ Hall last Friday evening. There was a large crowd and all had a good time.
Bovina Farm Sold
A.E. Luckhurst has sold his farm in Bovina, and all the personal property to Grace Cousins, and she sold the personal property at auction Thursday. This farm will be better known to the older generation as the Jim and Joe Dean farm. In former days three Dean brothers lived on farms adjoining each other. Of the other two, one is owned by Len Smith and the other by Guy Rockefeller.
Bovina Woman Dies
Mrs. James E. Hastings, aged 79 years, died Thursday morning, October 28, at her home on the Hastings homestead in Bovina. Her maiden name was Ellen Cunningham and she was a native of Ulster county. Her husband died about a year ago. She survived by two sons, William and Charles Hastings, of Walton, and two daughters, Mrs. David Worden, of Bloomville, and Mrs. James Barnhart on the homestead in Bovina. The funeral was held Saturday.
Broke Collar Bone
Wilford Barnhart, living up Pink street, in Bovina, had his collar bone broked last week. He was driving a horse on a road cart when the harness broke and he was thrown backwards from the seat.
November 12, 1926
• Little Francis Decker is improving slowly.
• Mr. and Mrs. Sloan Archibald have gone to Delhi on a visit. [Mrs. Archibald was the former Jennette Ellen Hoy, Sloan’s second wife. His first wife died in 1911.]
• Fred Henderson was a business caller at Treadwell on Tuesday.
• Jack Myers went to Endicott on Tuesday, to spend the winter.
• John McCune, clerk at the Russell store, is on the sick list, suffering from a bad cold.
• Mrs. Martha Russell is in New York City visiting her brother, Attorney Ernest Bergman.
• Mr. and Mrs. James Barnhart were at Colliers on Tuesday to see her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller. [Mrs. Barnhart was the former Dora Hastings. Mrs. Miller was Elizabeth Hastings.]
• Supervisor William Storie is attending the annual meeting of the Board of Supervisors at Delhi.
• Charels Thomson, of Middletown, has been with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Thomson.
• Mr. and Mrs. Willard Gow, of Endicott spent over the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas A. Gow. [Mrs. Willard Gow was formerly Agnes Casey. Mrs. James Gow was formerly Willamina Archibald. Willard would predecease both his parents, dying in 1937 at the age of 42.]
• Some one entered John Thompson’s garage one night last week and topok the wheel and tire from his truck, and also his tools.
• A.E. Luckhurst, who recently sold the James and Joseph Dean farm will retire from farming, and will probably located in Delhi.
• The wife and daughter of Fred W. Monkmeyer, architect on the Gerry estate at Lake Delaware, will spend the winter in California.
• Mr. and Mrs. McDugal, of Syracuse visited Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McKee this week. Mrs. McDugal was Hazel Russell before her marriage.
November 19, 1926
• Mrs. Mary Gordon, of Delhi, was in town over the week end.
• Senator and Mrs. Peter Gerry spent the past week at Lake Delaware.
• Mrs. Estella Olliver and son were here from Harpersfield on Wednesday.
• The total offering of all missionary societies of the U.P. Church was $632.
• One of the men employed in the saw mill had one of his fingers taken off Monday while sawing.
• The board of supervisors have ordered the sum of $105 levied against the Bovina Center fire district.
• Mrs. Fletcher Davidson and mother, Mrs. Ormiston, visited at Robert G. Forman’s at Walton recently.
• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are: William B. Smith and ano. to James M. Lane, $1; William Smith and wife to James M. Lane, Sr., $1.
• Rev and Mrs. T.M. Slater are visiting in town. He was a former pastor of the Reformed church. He gave a lecture in the U.P. church Monday evening in the interest of the Bible Society.
• The heavy rain and wind storm Tuesday did quite a little damage. Part of the roof was torn off on John Burn’s house and some of the roof off the house on Will Miller’s farm. Also part of the roof on A.E. Hadley’s barn.
November 26, 1926
• Supervisor and Mrs. Wm T. Black, of Delhi, were callers in town on Sabbath.
• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are Jane E. Hastings to John Aitken and another $1.
• Miss Jane Hilson came home Tuesday from South Orange, N.J. to spend over Thanksgiving.
• Quite a number of Bovina teachers attended a conference in Binghamton, last Thursday and Friday.
• Miss Helen and Elizabeth McDivitt of South Kortright were visitors in town the first of the week.
• Mr. Stevens went to Beacon on the Hudson on Monday to enter hospital for an operation on his neck.
• The Good Cheer Sabbath school class will give a pancake supper at the church parlors from 5:30 to 9.
• Mr. and Mrs. James A. Gow left on Tuesday for Endicott to spend over Thanksgiving with their sons.
• Mr. and Mrs. John Henry, Mrs. John Burns and Mrs. Fred Thomson motored to Kingston last Thursday.
• The frame is up for the first story of Wm Archibald’s new house on the former site of the Methodist church.
• Pines Brook Walton Basket ball team defeated the Bovina Center team Tuesday evening in a hard fought game.
• Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Thomson and Norton Forrest took dinner on Thanksgiving at the home of George Cable in Delhi.
• Mr. and Mrs. William Irvine, from Seattle, Washington, spent over Thanksgiving with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Irvine.
• Raymond McNair and family, of Binghamton, spent the week with his sister, Mrs. John McCune. His mother returned home with them.
• Mrs. Robert R. Hanmer, of Union Grove, is at the home of her sister, Mrs. Fine Hunt, helping care for her father, Mr. Haines, who is 95 years of age.
• Milton Stratton and family, who for about seven years have been at Miller Homestead Farm, have gone to Montrose, Pennsylvania. They will be succeeded by Robert Miller.
• Amounts ordered levied against the town of Bovina are as follows: Town audits, $1,063.40; certificates of indebtedness, $.083; interest on same, $48.74; compensation insurance, $350; rent of street lights, $450, and library fund, $100.
Native of Bovina Dies
Henry M. Archibald Passed Away at Home in New York City
Henry M. Archibald died at his home in New York City on Saturday, October 30, 1926.
He was born in the town of Bovina about 77 years ago and went to New York City about 56 years ago and had since resided there. He, however, made frequent trips to the town of his nativity. He was a son of the late William Archibald and Margaret MacDonald and is survived by a sister, Mrs. M.M. Boggs, of Albany, and a brother James Archibald, of Ilion; also by two daughters, Mrs. Agnes F. MaGill and Mrs. Irene L. Craddock, and a son, Harry L. Archibald, all of New York City.
