This Day in Bovina for July 2026

Here's the monthly compilation of the entries from the Town of Bovina Historian Facebook page:  

144 years ago today, on July 1, 1882, the Delaware Republican reported that "Andrew Brown, of Bovina, has been making a six weeks trip through the west, visiting his sons in Iowa and relatives in Michigan. He returned last Saturday." Andrew was born in Bovina in 1816. He was married twice and was the father of about 15 children, many of whom died in childhood. The sons he was visiting in Iowa were likely James and Andrew, sons from his first marriage. Andrew died a little over a year after his trip west in November 1883 from blood poisoning caused by a hog bite.

Forty-six years ago today, the July 2, 1980 Stamford Mirror Recorder included this item in the Bovina column, written by Ann Cairns: 

138 years ago today, the Bovina column of the July 3, 1888 Stamford Mirror reported that "Henry Brush, of Wisconsin, son of Alex. Brush a former resident of this town, is visiting relatives here." I think this is John Henry Brush, son of Alexander Brush, Jr and his second wife Janet Murray. Henry was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1863.

200 years ago today, on July 4, 1826, was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Bovina, like many communities, held celebrations of this event. More information about the Bovina celebrations can be found at the Bovina NY History blog at http://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2015/08/celebration-at-bovina-1826.html It also was on July 4, 1826 that founding fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died. 

145 years ago today, on July 5, 1881, as later reported in the Stamford Mirror, "during a heavy storm of wind and rain, just before night, while Duncan Ballantine's team was being driven home from Strangeway's to Andes, a poplar tree was blown over and one of the limbs struck just between the team and the driver, breaking the wagon pole off, but doing no injury to either the man or the team, while the top of the tree struck in front of and around the team."

Eighty-six years ago, on July 6, 1940, as announced in the Delaware Republican, "the appraisal of the estate of the late William T. Miller.." was held. The appraisers were John Thompson and Maurice Hall. Miller died the previous month in Bovina at the age of 70. He was a widower, his wife having died in 1926. He was the last surviving child of Michael Miller and Sally (McCune) Miller. And he was my great great uncle. 

 

143 years ago today on July 7, 1883, as later reported in the Stamford Mirror, George Cable won the Bovina glass ball shooting match. "This badge is a gold one of beautiful design, and is contended for at each meeting by members of the club." Glass ball shooting originated in the mid 1860s.

Eighty-three years ago today, the Bovina column in the July 8, 1943 the Delaware Republican reported "Funeral services for Mrs. Everett Jocelyn, who died at the Delhi Hospital on Thursday night, were held at the home here on Saturday afternoon…Burial was made at Halcottville. Mrs. Charles Hyatt and sons Ralph and Everett of New York City attended the funeral but had to return to New York on Saturday evening as both boys are in the armed services and had only a 24-hour leave." Mrs. Jocelyn was born Martha Drace and was 17 years older than her husband. They were married in 1910. Everett was her second husband.

Forty-one years ago today, the July 9, 1985 Daily Star carried this article about Enid Carter, who was retiring as a home economics teacher. 

Ninety years ago, the July 10, 1936 Binghamton Press reported on the plans to flood "eighteen hamlets" as part of New York City's plan to use water from the East Branch of the Delaware. The article noted that "beginning at Little Delaware, establishment of a reservoir would flood out the Hook and Bovina Center."

Walter Coulter was born 209 years ago on today July 11, 1804, on the family farm on Coulter Brook Road. He was the son of Francis Coulter and Nancy Glendenning and would spend his whole life in Bovina, farming on what is now Seedorf Road.  He married Margaret Storie in 1823.  They would have 12 children, of whom four would die before reaching adulthood.  His wife died in 1864.  Walter died in December 1876 after having been declared insane a few months before.

150 years ago today, the July 12, 1876 Delaware Gazette reported the tragic death of Edward Seacord on July 3, who "was fatally injured by the falling of heavy timbers on his head from the loft of his barn." The article went on to report "Mr. Seacord was engaged in re-silling his barn, in company with four other persons, at the time. The heavy sleepers of the upper-loft, on which there was about a ton of hay, became loosened, probably by the spreading of the frame, and fell, injuring Mr. Seacord so that he survived but about one hour after the accident. The skull was no doubt fractured, as, after being restored to consciousness, vomiting followed until his death."

105 years ago today, on the morning of July 13, 1921, as later reported in the Andes Recorder, "Charles A. McPherson was coming to the creamery" when "the hold back strap broke on the Myers pitch and let the wagon onto the horse." He was able to stop the horse near Hilson's store. The paper noted that he did this "without colliding with any of the numerous teams and no damage was done."

115 years ago today, on July 14, 1911, as later reported in the Andes Recorder "… a terrific hail storm swept over the greater part of the town of Bovina and did much damage. Corn was stripped of leaves, oats and buckwheat were irreparably damaged. Gardens were in some instances nearly ruined. The storm lasted nearly half an hour and the hail was like peas. Heaps of them remained unmelted the next morning. Lightning struck a maple tree at J.W. Coulter's."

108 years ago today, July 15, 1918, as later reported in the Andes Recorder, "Herbert White, of Delhi, was here … making repairs to a machine at the Dry Milk plant." This image of the creamery was taken by Jim Hilson in 1943. The Dry Milk Plant is the building with the smokestacks just behind the main creamery. 

This chauffeur license image of Earl Miller was taken by Delhi photographer Harold McMurdy in the late 1930s. Chauffeur licenses were required for anyone driving for hire or as part of their job. Today this is known as a Class E license in New York. Earl Miller grew up on what later became Suits-Us Farm, the son of John M. Miller and Bertha Anderson. He was a veteran of the first World War. Earl lived in the lower Hudson Valley later in his life and died in Walton in 1955 at the age of 68. Image courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association. 

125 years ago today, on July 17, 1901, John Phyfe died in Bovina at the age of 83. He was born in Fofar, Scotland and came to Bovina in 1843. John was a tailor by trade and had held the office of Justice of the Peace for many years. He was buried in Bovina.

117 years ago today, on July 18, 1909, Mrs. Thomas Downie died at her home in Cleveland, Ohio. As later reported in the Andes Recorder, "she had been in failing health for some time." The paper also noted that "Mr. and Mrs. Downie were former residents of Bovina, but went west many years ago." Mrs. Downie was born Janet Downie in Scotland and was a first cousin of her husband. She was married to Thomas in 1866 in Bovina. They left for Cleveland later that year. Janet is buried in Cleveland.

177 years ago today, the July 19, 1849 New York Tribune reported on several Anti-Rent meetings in the Delaware County area, including one in Bovina.  A resolution was passed at this meeting, that read in part: "That we consider the tenants the only true possessors, and that our possession should never inure to the benefit of the landlord who fraudulently imposed his leases upon us; and that, in order to bring this cause speedily to an issue, we call upon those who have it in charge to forward the aforenamed suit as speedily as possible, in order to determine us in our course and quiet the minds of so large a community." The resolution went on state that "we, the injured, defrauded and oppressed people will wage perpetual warfare against that accursed system, until it is eradicated root and branch, and call upon every well-wisher of society, every lover of liberty, and every officer wielding influence, either Executive, Legislative or Judicial, to aid us in the just cause we have commenced."

124 years ago today, on July 20, 1902, Bovina was hit with a heavy storm. John Blair, on the farm now owned by Jack Burns, sustained the greatest damage.  Evergreen and other trees were torn up.  G.D. Miller's butcher shop was literally torn to pieces.  The Andes Recorder reported that "In the village trees were blown down and some of the school house roof and chimney were smashed. In other parts of the town there was also a lot of damage."

Fifty nine years ago today, July 21, 1967, a cloud burst caused considerable damage to the roads on Bramley Mountain. As later reported in the Walton Reporter, "Clark Lay, Bovina highway superintendent and his men, had a big job of replacing water courses along the road and restoring driveways, but early this week he was pretty much on top of the job with a big assist from county highway workers who turned out to help him Monday."

128 years ago today, the July 22, 1898 Bovina column of the Andes Recorder reported that "The weather the past week has been very close and hot. Rain is much needed." The Bovina correspondent also noted that "some have finished haying, and have a big crop. Most of the barns are not large enough and stacking has had to be resorted to."

Eighty-seven years ago today, on July 23, 1939, as later reported by the Delaware Republican, "Craig Banuat and sister, Miss Mary and Mrs. W.J. Storie and daughter, Rae, left….on a motor trip to California. They expected to spend Monday night with Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoy in Oil City, PA."

It was 50 years ago today, July 24, 1976, that the Town of Bovina celebrated the nation's  Bicentennial. Pictures and the story of the day are in my blog at https://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2016/07/bovina-celebrates-bicentennial-of.html  

This undated view shows what is now County Route 6 less than a mile from the Bovina Center hamlet. The house and barn in the image are still standing, so you should recognize this the next time you are traveling from New Kingston towards Bovina Center! 

Eighty-nine years ago today, on July 26, 1937, Courtney Currie (1906-1977), who worked at the Bovina Center Co-operative creamery, had his arm broken twice at the wrist.   He worked in the dry milk plant and caught his sleeve in a piece of machinery at the plant.  Courtney was in the hospital until August 14.

123 years ago today, on July 27, 1903, as later reported in the Andes Recorder, "David F. Hoy and family started ... for their home in Ithaca.  Mr. Hoy’s duties as registrar will soon engage his time, preparing for the opening of Cornell University." More about David Hoy is on my blog at https://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/10/david-fletcher-hoy-give-my-regards-to.html

115 years ago today, the July 28, 1911 Bovina column of the Andes Recorder reported that "Richard Smith, for many years a shoemaker here, died recently in California." Smith was born in England in 1827 and came to the United States in 1852. He was in Bovina for many years and didn't go to California until late in life. He and his wife went to Walton in 1905 to visit their children. Richard went to California at the end of 1905 to spend the winter. At some point, his wife followed. She died in California in 1908. Richard died in Santa Ana, California on July 11, 1911.

139 years ago today, on July 29, 1887, Charles Loughran Dickson, better known as Loughran Dickson, was born, the son of Dr. Gilbert Dickson and Jane Loughran Dickson. He was 25 when his father died in 1912. Loughran was appointed the postmaster for Bovina Center in 1915. He continued to be the postmaster even after he left Bovina to go to Yale Law School. He was living in Binghamton working as an attorney when he died suddenly in October 1927. His mother was appointed as acting postmaster the day after his death. Loughran is buried in the Bovina Cemetery.

Seventy-two years ago, on July 30, 1954, as later reported in the Catskill Mountain News, "The Ladies Auxiliary of the Bovina Fire department, who marched for the first time wearing their new uniforms at the Old Home day in Unadilla July 30, were honored by receiving first prize in appearance. This is Peg Robson modeling the new uniform. 

Eighty-seven years ago today, on July 31, 1939, as later reported in the Delaware Republican Bovina column, "Misses Marjorie Russell and Eleanor Burns and nephew and Rev. H.H. McClellan went to New York on Monday afternoon. They expect to attend the World's Fair. Miss Russell will go to Manhasset, L.I. to visit Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Thompson. The others will go on to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. after which they will attend the New Wilmington Missionary Conference." Eleanor Burns later became Eleanor Archibald when she married Marvin Archibald. 

This Day in Bovina for May 2026

 

Seventy-one years ago today, on May 1, 1955, as later reported in the Stamford Mirror-Recorder, "Mr. and Mrs. Merle Galusha and sons of Scotia attended church services [in Bovina] and were dinner guests of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Craig Banuat. Other callers at the Banuat home on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spraig and son, Willard of Andes." Merle would die in the crash of Mohawk Airlines Flight 450 in 1972.

 

174 years ago today, on May 2, 1842, the town of Bovina issued several liquor licenses, including this one for John Seacord and Thomas Secord, "to sell strong and spirituous liquors and wines to be drunk in his present dwelling house.." The 'dwelling house' likely was the Secord hotel, which stood across from the end of what is now Maple Avenue.  

144 years ago today, the May 3, 1882 Delaware Gazette carried this notice for an interest meeting for a railroad that would have gone through Bovina. Nothing came of this particular idea - at least as far as Bovina was concerned. 

Ninety-two years ago today, the May 4, 1934 Delaware Republican carried this Bovina column.  I'm not 100% sure where the baseball diamond mentioned in the column was located, but seems very likely it was on the field next to the Bovina Center school (now the Bovina Public Library).  

Fifty-five years ago today, on May 5, 1971, Mary Burns Lounsbury died at the age of 57. Born in Bovina in 1913, she was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Burns and the sister of Agnes Burns. She married Harold Lounsbury in 1938. They lived for many years on the Burns family farm at the end of Crescent Valley Road. This undated image shows Mary with her parents, John and Elizabeth Burns, her sister Agnes with her husband Bob Burns (right) and at the left is her husband Harold.  

154 years ago today, on May 6, 1872, the Bovina Board of Excise met to review applications for licenses to sell liquor. No applications were presented. It likely is at this point that Bovina became a 'dry town' and would stay so until after the end of Prohibition.

194 years ago today, on May 7, 1832, a Bovina storekeeper created this page in his ledger for various sales to Bovina citizens. Items included tobacco, hayseed, silk, tea and calico. Morgan Livingston, who owned a chunk of Bovina as landlord, bought an axe. The 'Dr' after each name means debtor. Most of the payments are by cash but it looks like Sopher Peleg was making a payment (the 'Cr' after his name probably means credit) in butter. We do not know where this store was located because we cannot determine who kept the ledger - we only know that it was in Bovina. It possibly was a store kept by James Cowan, which stood where Russell's Store now stands. 

 

Ellen McBurney was born 200 years ago today, May 8, 1826, the daughter of Francis McBurney and Margaret Boyd. She married Andrew Boyd and would have 11 children, most of whom made it to adulthood. She was widowed in 1879 and died in February 1893. She is buried in the Bovina Cemetery.

129 years ago today, in its May 9, 1897 edition, it was noted by the Andes Recorder that five brothers were seen at the same church in Bovina. What made this so remarkable was that the youngest was over fifty years old. The paper did not note what family this was, though it could be the Miller family. At this time, the six sons of William Miller still were alive and all lived locally. Here is a picture of the six brothers. What five attended church we don't know, but William lived in Walton, Walter in Delhi and Berry Shaw in Andes. Thomas, Michael and Gilbert all lived in Bovina. 

These images of E. Ray Thomson were taken by Delhi photographer Harold McMurdy in the late 1930s and in 1940. Ray was born in Bovina in February 1895. His mother was Cora J. Thomson. Who his father was isn’t clear. On Ray's birth record, his father is recorded as Archie VanBramer, who was married to Cora in September 1894. Ray is recorded as Ray VanBramer, though later 'Thomson' is inserted in the record. When Ray was about a year old, Archie kidnapped him from his grandparents, William and Jenette Thomson, and kept him for several weeks before returning him of his own accord.  Ray was raised by his maternal grandparents, because his mother Cora was sent to the Middletown Insane Asylum when he was quite young (she died there in 1910). He was known by then as Ray Thomson. When he was married in 1916, he's Eldred Ray Thomson on the certificate and his father is recorded as "not known, adopted son."  He lived in Bovina into the 1930s, then moved to Delancey and finally in Unadilla, NY, where he died in 1975. Images courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association. 

Eighty-two years ago today, the May 11, 1944 Delaware Republican Express carried this Bovina column. 

115 years ago today, on May 12, 1911, the Bovina column of the Andes Recorder reported that "A child was recently born to Rev. and Mrs. Robb, in China, where he is a missionary. The mother was formerly Jennie J. Campbell of Bovina." The child was a daughter, Jean Robb. Jean later married Patrick Perrone in Los Angeles. She died in LA in 1989.

Sixty-one years ago today, Bovina column in the May 13, 1965 Delaware Republican-Express reported that "The prize fisherman of the season is John Robson who caught a six pound-12 ounce trout over the week-end."

Sixty-five years ago, on May 14, 1961, as later reported in the Bovina column of the Delaware Republican Express, "We were all pleased to see Mrs. Lena Lounsbury at Church Sabbath Day, she has been in Schenectady the past few months helping care for an invalid." Lena was the mother of Harold Lounsbury. She died in 1963.

146 years ago today, the May 15, 1880 issue of the Delaware Republican reported on an article they had published called "Woman's Work in the Church," by "Mrs. Knox of New York City." The paper pointed out that the article "will attract especial attention from the fact that Mrs. Knox was a Delaware county woman, daughter of Rev. James Douglas, for many years pastor of the Bovina Associate Reformed Church, (whose doctrines were not in accordance with the views there announced,)…Mrs. Knox has also take a very prominent part in works for temperance reform, and in many other ways practically exemplified the benefits arising from the course she advocates."

Eighty-six years ago today, the Bovina column of the May 16, 1940 Delaware Republican reported that "Little Nancy Brooks spent the week-end with her great-aunt, Mrs. John Hilson and family." Nancy was the daughter of Dean Brooks and Marian Isabella Dickson. Marian's mother was Margaret Bell Strangeway, sister of Helena Hilson. Nancy was born in Delhi in 1936. Married in 1957 to Loring Hulslander, she died in Montana in 2013 and is buried in Springville Township, Pennsylvania, where she grew up.

139 years ago today, on May 17, 1887, the Stamford Mirror reported in its Bovina column that "John Hilson is improving his house by removing the old sash from the windows, and replacing them with a more modern style, each sash containing two large panes of glass."

 

In 1946, Delhi photographer Bob Wyer took a series of aerial pictures around Bovina in a plane piloted by Eddie Davidson. This is the Don Boggs farm, which later became the Howard Conklin farm, on Reinertsen Hill Road. Image courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association. 

The Andes Recorder reported 115 years ago today in its May 19, 1911 Bovina column that "There is some talk of putting in a pond on John Blair's farm on the Oliver brook and stocking it with trout." This farm is now the Jack Burns farm at the foot of Bramley Mountain. If the pond was stocked it was not reported in later editions of the paper.

 

Seventy-seven years ago today, on May 20, 1949, as later reported in the Catskill Mountain News Bovina column, "The latest to buy a new car is George Storie with a Dodge sedan. Vincent Rosa is taking over the car recently owned by Storie."

 

Seventy-eight years ago today, on May 21, 1948, the Bovina column of the Catskill Mountain News reported that Mrs. Mary Gordon, who received a bad fall down a flight of stairs at her home last week, is slowly recovering. She is still lame and sore." Mary was the widow of Thomas Gordon, who died in 1921, and the mother of Delhi social studies teacher Margaret Gordon. Mary died in 1953.

130 years ago today, May 22, 1896, the Otsego Farmer (Cooperstown) carried the following item: "An exchange has it that in the town of Bovina, Delaware county, there are more abandoned farms than there were in all Delaware County ten years ago. This fact is interesting for the reason that Bovina has been called the leading dairy town in the county."  A couple of weeks later, another item appeared in the Otsego Democrat further disparaging Bovina's farms, reporting that the town "suffers more severely than its neighbors from the general agricultural depression. There are no railroads and no manufacturing industries within its limits. On the other hand there are a large number of abandoned farms in the town."

Sixty-eight years ago today, the May 23, 1958 issue of the Catskill Mountain News published an article under the headline "Bovina WAC Earns Recruiting Citation." The WAC was "Sgt/1c Helen I. Johnston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. George Johnston of Bovina Center." She was enrolled in a "Women's Army Corps enlisted recruiting course at For Benjamin Harrison, Ind." The paper went on to report "Sgt Johnston was in competition with 38 of the recruiters stationed through the United States. She earned the award by achieving an average of 85 percent for the course." More about Helen and her remarkable career in the Army can be found on my blog at https://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2022/01/bovina-ex-pats-command-sergeant-major.html

133 years ago today, the May 24, 1893 Delaware Gazette reported that "Work has commenced for the foundation for the new school house in Bovina Centre." This is the building that is now the Bovina Public Library.  

Eighty-eight years ago today, on May 25, 1938, as later reported in the Delaware Republican, "Mrs. George Miller died…at her home [in Bovina]." Born Ida Kinch, she was married to George Miller and had three children, daughters Maude and Nellie and son Clark. Clark was killed in World War I. She was survived by her husband and two daughters. Ida was the maternal grandmother of Clark Lay.

 

The Andes Recorder reported 133 years ago today in its May 26, 1893 issue that "Richard Johnson of Bovina this season made 318 gallons of heavy maple syrup from 700 trees. This is equal to 2,544 pounds of sugar."

 

Seventy-seven years ago today, the Bovina column in the May 27, 1949 Catskill Mountain News reported that "Paul Rosa is moving this week to his new home on Pink street road which he recently purchased of Gene Vandenbord."

 

These pictures were likely taken by Grace Coulter Roberts when she was teaching at the Bovina Center school in the 1940s. I recognized several of the children, including my uncle George LaFever, Bobby Boggs, Patty Boggs, Marge Thomas, Dick Roberts and Bob Burns. Let me know if you recognize anyone else. These images were shared by Joe Riebling. His wife, Susan Roberts Riebling, is Grace's granddaughter. 

Angelica D. Gerry, the daughter of Elbridge Gerry and Louisa Livingston, was born 155 years ago today on May 29, 1871. She built a summer home at Lake Delaware known as Ancrum and also was instrumental in the building of St. James Church.  

121 years ago, on May 30, 1905, as later reported in the Andes Recorder, baseball teams from "Lake Delaware and the Hook battled for supremacy on the diamond Tuesday at the Centre and the score was 12 to 4 in favor of the former."

131 years ago today, the May 31, 1895 issue of the Andes Recorder in its Bovina column included the following item: "Sylvester McFarland, who left this town over twenty years ago, and who had not been heard from since, suddenly made his appearance in town a few days ago." McFarland was born in Wisconsin in 1843 and died in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1914 and is buried in Meredith, NY. He was a prison officer in Massachusetts. It is not clear when he lived in Bovina. His father, James McFarland, was a Bovina native.

A Week with Bovina People - December 1900 - 125 Years ago from the Andes Recorder

 

December 7, 1900

• Vern Dumond was at John Oliver’s on Sabbath.

• W.B. Scott was in town from Delhi on Sabbath.

• Alex. Archibald passed through this place on Sabbath.

• John Miller’s hired man is seriously ill with pneumonia.

• A daughter of Richard Fuller has been visiting in town.

• Bovina’s tax rate this year is $7.72 on each thousand assessed.

• Adam Scott and wife were up from Delhi the first of the week.

• Miss Jennie Campbell was home from Hobart over Thanksgiving.

• Born on Tuesday, December 4, to Mr. and Mrs. Milton Doig, a son.

• Rev. Samson attended the meeting of the Presbytery at West Kortright Tuesday.

• Alex. Johnson, a brother of the late Thomas Johnson, has been visiting in town.

• Thomas Gordon is in Delhi assisting B.F. Gerowe with the laying of the taxes, etc.

• Elder T.C. Strangeway attended the meeting of Presbytery at West Kortright this week.

• G.D. Miller was at Pine Hill Tuesday attending the funeral of a child of Adolphus Banker.

• Robert Foreman and Miss Dora Boggs were married Wednesday evening at home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Boggs, in upper Bovina at 7:30 o’clock, Rev. W.L.C. Samson officiating. Over 100 guests were in attendance and many valuable presents were received. A wedding trip was taken to Albany. 

Gordon-Rogers

Mr. and Mrs. T. Gordon and B.S. Miller returned last Saturday from New York, having been attending the marriage of John L. Gordon of the New York police force, and Miss Lizzie Rogers, daughter of William Rogers, of N. 41, East 62d street. The ceremony was attending by over 100 guests and took place in St. Vincent Ferrer’s church. The bride was attired in white silk, covered and trimmed with white and cream lace, and the groom in conventional black. They were attended by the bride’s brother, James, as best man and Miss Mamie Levy of Bridgeport, Conn, a cousin of the bride, as bridesmaid, also attired in white silk. The bride carried a magnificent bouquet of white roses and the bridesmaid one of pink roses. Afterwards a royal reception took place at the bride’s home, where tables were set for 105. The presents were numerous and valuable. The young couple have commenced housekeeping in their flat at No. 225 East 71st Street. 

December 14, 1900

• A.O. Butts was at Bloomville Sabbath.

• Charles Barker was in this place on Monday.

• R.A. Thompson went to Kingston Monday.

• W.G. McNee is ill at John Irvine’s with pleurisy.

• Rev. Marvin J. .Thompson arrived in town Monday.

• John Blair and Alex. Hilson were at Delhi Tuesday.

• R.A. Thompson and A.O. Butts have traded horses.

• Thomas Gordon and wife returned home from Delhi Monday.

• The musical entertainment Monday evening is said to have been very fine.

• Presiding Elder Germond preached in the Methodist church Saturday afternoon.

• Supervisor Irvine is at Delhi attending the meeting of the supervisors this week. 

• Mrs. W.J. Doig and Mrs. E. George Galdstone went to New York city Monday on the excursion.

• James Townsend and family have moved from the Samuel Adee farm to Covert Hollow, Hamden.

• Marshall Gladstone and Smith Hillis of Delhi, were in town Saturday doing some work for F.G. Bramley. 

• Winter weather is here and Monday morning the thermometer registered from 2 to 5 degrees below zero.

December 21, 1900

• A.A. Johnson visited Delhi on Tuesday.

• John Irvine was at the County seat Tuesday.

• John Blair and wife visited Delhi on Saturday.

• Commissioner Gow was at Stamford Thursday.

• James Armstrong was here Saturday from Andes. 

• John Storie was down at the County Seat Thursday.

• Dr. Seacord and Orrin Reynolds were at Andes Monday.

• Robert Laing was seen in town from Andes Wednesday.

• Mrs. Alex Hilson and son, John, visited Delhi Saturday.

• Mrs. Barnhart has been visiting her son, Jeremy Barnhart.

• E.F. Thompson, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, is in this vicinity.

• John Douglas and John Glendenning were up from Delhi Monday.

• Thomas Miller visited Walton and Norwich the first of the week.

• Mrs. William Crosier and Mrs. M.M. Boggs were at Delhi Saturday.

• Michael, Berry S. and Gilbert D. Miller visited Delhi Wednesday.

• A Christmas tree will be held next Tuesday evening in Strangeway’s Hall.

• Rev. Williams arrived home Tuesday after an absence of about a fortnight.

• W.W. Hoy, wife and children, from Oil City, Pennsylvania, are guests of his parents, Mr. and John R. Hoy in this village.

• Among those at Delhi Wednesday were Rev. Samson and wife, Mrs. J.I. Coulter, Miss Jennie Gladstone, Frank R. Coulter and wife, and Fred Thompson.

• Wesley Williams, who had been ill with pneumonia at John M. Miller’s died Thursday morning.  The remains will be taken to his home at Honesdale, Pennsylvania.

• Rev. Minch of Delhi, will deliver a lecture on the “Battle of Gettysburg” in Strangeway’s Hall, Thursday evening, December 27.  Admission 25 cents and proceeds for the benefit of the soldiers’ monument fund.

• William Strangeway died Saturday morning at his home on Federal Hill, near Delhi with heart trouble, and had he lived until January would have been 64 years old.  He was born in Bovina.  The funeral was held at his home Tuesday, his pastor Rev. Samson, officiating. Interment was made in the cemetery at this place.

December 28, 1900

• Bert Elliott was at Andes Tuesday.

• Charles Palmer was down at Delhi Friday.

• Robert Biggar was over at Andes on Monday.

• Mrs. James Boyd visited Andes on Tuesday.

• Leonard Sloan and wife visited Delhi Friday.

• William Coulter was here Wednesday from Andes.

• Arthur Burns is home from school at Kingston.

• The Centre school is enjoying a two weeks’ vacation.

• W.M. Johnson visited relatives at Walton last week.

• Mr. and Mrs. John M. Miller were at Delhi Friday last.

• Milton Hoy, of Oil City, Pennsylvania, is visiting his parents here.

• Robert Brown and Elliott Liddle, of Andes, were seen in town Saturday.

• John Smith, of Walton, visited his parents here the latter part of last week.

• Hon. E.T. Gerry has made J.W. Coulter a present of a very fine gold watch.

• Rev. John H. Lee has received and accepted a call at Columbus, Ohio, and will be installed sometime in January. 

• Hon. E.T. Gerry will build a large new barn with all modern improvements at his summer home at Lake Delaware.

• Some of those home for a vacation are, Miss Jennie Campbell, Misses Anna and Bertha Phyfe, Irving Phinney and Leslie McNee.

• Night Cap social will be held at the residence of Peter McNair on Monday evening, December 31, under the auspices of the Ladies Aid Society, for the benefit of the Methodist church.

• Alex. Crosier, A.O. Butts and Will Maynard have each put in a bid to carry the mail for the next four years from Bovina to Bloomville.  We understand that the bids range from about $390 up to $500.

• January 1.  J.W. Coulter who has for many years been manager at the Gerry summer home at Lake Delaware will retire and move to rooms in A.T. Strangeway’s store.  He will be succeeded by Mr. McWilliams who will institute many radical reforms.

December 1925 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

 

December 4, 1925

• John Aitken’s jr. is on the sick list.

• Gilbert Banker motored to Pine Hill on Friday.

• Frank Coulter and family were Delhi visitors Tuesday.

• Mrs. Carrie Doig is visiting her brother in Walton.

• The Thank Offering at the U.P. church amounted to $528.

• A.P. Lee is preparing to erect a modern barn on the Lee homestead.

• From a supper the Young Woman’s Missionary Society cleared $32.70.

• Elmer Hastings, of Saranac Lake, is renewing acquaintances in town.

• Mrs. Walter G. Coulter had her toe severely injured when a soap stone fell on it. [This is Margaret Strangeway Coulter, mother of Ruth Coulter Parsons and Celia Coulter.]

• The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Benj Schofield made them a visit Monday evening.

• Harry Robinson and Miss Mary Thomson were at South Kortright on Tuesday. [This might be Harry Robertson, not Robinson, but I’m not sure.]

• Mr. and Mrs. Arnold VanDusen, of Oneonta, spent Sabbath with his parents here.

• Mr. and Mrs. James A. Gow spent over Thanksgiving with their sons in Endicott.

• Robert E. Thomson and wife and Norton Forrest spent Thanksgiving at George Cable’s in Delhi.

• It is reported that Mr. Miner, who has been living in the A.B. Phyfe house, will move to Big Indian.

• Mr. Smith, who has been on Barney Johnson’s farm in the upper part of the town, has moved to John Blair’s farm.

• Frank Drake has moved from the Dickson house to the A.W. Baker farm uptown, known as the Fred Johnson place.

• Owing to the absence of the pastor there will be no preaching in the U.P. church on Sabbath. Sabbath school at 12 o’clock.

• Edgar Lee, who has a position as a pharmacist in Buffalo, spent over the weekend with his father, John B. Lee in Tuttle Hollow. [Edgar became a successful pharmacist in Delhi, running Lee’s Pharmacy for many years. His daughter Lucile would marry Willard Frisbee.]

• Mrs. Lucy Coulter spent Thanksgiving with her son Ward Coulter, at Walton, and also attended the 30th anniversary of the marriage of her brother, William Ward at Colchester Station.

• Mrs. Dixon Thomson and Mrs. Wm Armstrong received word Monday that their brother, Frank Kaufman, died in Kingston on Sabbath, November 29. Death was due to shock. He was connected with the Kaufman ice cream business. 

• Professor Leon Taggart and family, of Oneonta, Frank Dickson and family, from Little Delaware, were at T.C. Strangeway’s on Friday. Mrs. Dickson remained until Monday to help care for her mother, who is confined to her bed with grip poisoning.

Had Delicate Operation

Wm. H. Irvine, a Former Bovina Boy, Has Operation for Tumor on Brain

William H. Irvine, a former Bovina boy, now a business man of Seattle, Washington, is improving in St. Mary’s hospital at Rochester, Minn, after an operation for tumor at the base of the brain, performed on November 26.  He was on the operation table three hours and went through a very painful and trying ordeal, only a local anesthetic being used so that he was conscious during the entire time.  A partition of the skull over and above the tumor was removed and a quantity of the fluid drained from the tumor, but the tumor itself was not taken out.  The surgeons hope by radium and x-ray treatment to dry up the tumor in time, but think it will likely continue to fill up with the fluid may have to [be] drained several times before recovery is complete.  When the section of the skull that was removed was replaced a small opening was left over the spot where the tumor is, before the flesh and skin were replaced.  This will allow easy drainage of the tumor without the severe operation that was performed last week.  [Bill Irvine recovered enough to make a trip back east a year later. He had a second operation in 1928 but sadly, it was all for naught. He died in 1929 at the age of 41.]

December 11, 1925

• Mr. and Mrs. Loron Maxim visited his mother at Fleischmanns on Sabbath.

• Born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Rockefeller, Thursday morning, December 10, a son. [This was Bill Rockefeller. He married Marge Thomas and passed away in 2005.]

• Robert Robinson was at Andes on Tuesday attending the funeral of his sister-in-law.

• Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Gladstone and daughter attended church at Andes on Sabbath evening.

• Thomas Miner, who has been employed at the dry milk plant, moved to Big Indian on Tuesday.

• Mr. Hoyt, who has been living on the James Henry Dean farm for past two or three years, is very low with cancer of the stomach.

• Mrs. M.M. Wright, who teaches in the Armstrong district, had an exciting experience Tuesday morning.  In coming down the hill on the state road from Andes her car skidded on the slippery road and went around and into the ditch.  One tire was torn off.  Fortunately Harry Robinson came along and put on another tire for her and helped her get righted.

Resolutions on the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor Raitt

The Women’s Missionary Society of Bovina Cener desire to pay this tribute of love and respect to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor Raitt, wife of John Raitt, ruling Elder in this congregation for a great number of years.

In the passing of Mrs. Raitt we have had taken from among us, and from our membership one who was truly a saint of Israel.

She was a Charter member of the Women’s Missionary Society; quiet and unassuming in her nature but always interested in the activities that were for the building up of Christ Kingdom at home in the mission fields. Her long life of over ninety years was truly a benediction and the fragrance of it remains with us.

For a number of years feebleness of body and distance from the place of meeting prevent her from meeting with us, but she always maintained her interest in the work, and what was and will be accomplished by her prayers and liberality will only be revealed in the future. In the closing of life, she could truthfully say;

It pays to live in Gods service

Faithfully day by day,

Cheerfully bearing the Chalis

Which shows to others the way.

To the only son and aged Brother we extend our sincere sympathy and commend them to Him who said; As one who his Mother comforteth so will I comfort you.

Mrs. Lucy Coulter, Mrs. Mary Gordon, Mrs. Eliott Thomson; Committee

[Mrs. Raitt had been widowed for many years. She had two children. Her daughter Anna predeceased her in 1910. She was the grandmother of John Raitt, who was Delaware County Historian and wrote several volumes of local history, including his “Ruts in the Road” series.]

December 18, 1925

• The Willing Workers made Mrs. W.B. Smith a surprise Monday.

• Mrs. Everett Joslin and Mrs. Hull are spending the week in New York City.

• Mrs. Walter McDivitt , of South Kortright, has been visiting in town a few days.

• Mrs. William T. Forrest, of Lake Delaware, is spending a few weeks in New York City.

• George Miller is improving his barn on the old Kinmuth place, re-siding it and making other repairs. [This was later the residence of Clark and Gladys Lay. George Miller was Clark’s maternal grandfather.]

• The second number of the Bovina lecture course was a lecture by Ward Flexington last Friday night.

• Mrs. William M. Armstrong, who has been ill several months, does not improve as her friends would wish.

• Supervisor Wallace B. Smith is in Delhi this week attending the closing sessions of the board of Supervisors.

• Mrs. and Mrs. Abram Foremeu and Mr. and Mrs. Ed McCumber, of Poughkeepsie, spent the weekend with their parents in town. [Foremeu might be Foreman but I’m not sure.]

• Mr. and Mrs. Collin Reside of Shavertown and Mrs. Bell Reside of Andes, were visiting their cousin Mrs. David D. Liddle, Tuesday.

• Mrs. Anna Ruff, formerly of this town, who lives in Delhi, has gone to Abescon, N.J. to spend the winter with her brother, M.H. White. [Anna was the widow of William Ruff, who died in 1912. Anna died in 1943.]

• Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Gladstone, who left Bovina about 16 years ago and went to Crested Butte, Colorado, have moved to Farr, Colorado, where another of the Fuel & Iron Co. mines is located.  The altitude of their new location is about 2,000 feet lower.

Gerry House Started

Henry Connor, of Walton, has the contract for the cellar of the new house of Miss Angelica Gerry at Lake Delaware, and it must be finished in April.  The location is on the highest point of the J.K. Russell place, the former Hogaboom farm.  It is found the foundation is on solid rock and the stone blasted out will be used to build a road to connect with the stone highway running thru the original Gerry estate. [This was Ancram House, which stood until the early 60s.]

Bovina Boys at Cornell

Sheldon Budine, Walton; Howard Dickson, Delhi, and Hugh McPherson, Bovina Center, were the members of the team which represented Delaware at the State Poultry Judging contest at the Cornell Poultry show December 1-3. Their total score was 1,810 which gave them third place with Orange First and Chenango second. 

Was Lake Delaware Girl

Mrs. Bertha Landon died at Great Barrington, Mass., December 3, from cancer. She was born at Lake Delaware and is a daughter of Charles A. Lee. Besides her father she leaves three daughters and two sons. Last spring she was granted a divorce from her husband Dr. F.D. Landon, a veterinary. 

December 25, 1925

• Fred Thomson was a Delhi caller Monday.

• C.S. Gladstone and family were Andes shoppers Saturday evening.

• A Christmas tree and exercises were held at the U.P. church Thursday evening.

• Frank Palmer has moved from the Dickson big house to Arch Phyfe’s tenant house.

• Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Burgin visited her sister, Mrs. Harvey Robertson at Andes on Friday.

• William C. Russell, who had been helping his sisters in southern Bovina returned home Saturday.

• Mrs. and Mrs. Alfred Russell and children and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Russell were at Delhi on Monday. 

• Paul Furhman has purchased the McCune house and lot for $1,250 and will open a barber shop in the old grocery building. [This was later owned by Florence and Clayton Thomas and currently is owned by Tom Hetterich.]

• John Northrup, who lives on what is known as the Margaret Hoy farm, underwent an operation for appendicitis at Delhi last Thursday afternoon.

• Mr. and Mrs. Millard Gow and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Gow, of Endicott, are here to spend over Christmas with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas A. Gow.

• C.J. Hoyt, who for about two years had been employed at Len Smith on the former James Henry Dean farm, died on Thursday afternoon, December 17, from cancer of the stomach. His age was about 60 years.

• Those home for the holidays are: Mabel Thomson, Winstead, Conn; William Gordon, Pratts Institute, Brooklyn; Margaret Gordon, Albany Teachers’ College; Jane Hilson, South Orange, J.J.; Caroline Dickson, Vermont; Professor and Mrs. Geo Baldwin, Spring Valley.

A Week with Bovina People - November 1900 - 125 Years ago from the Andes Recorder

November 2, 1900

• John Hewitt was down at Delhi on Friday.

• James More, of Hamden, was here on Sabbath.

• Mrs. Thomas Miller was over at Andes on Friday.

• Peter McNair and wife were at Margaretville over Sabbath.

• George Bell, from Otsego county, was in town last Thursday.

• W.T. Black, the next County Clerk, was at Margaretville Tuesday. [William T. Black had served as the Bovina Town Supervisor from 1893-1898. As will be noted later in November in the Recorder, he moved from Bovina to Delhi because of his new duties. He would be county clerk until 1907. He continued living and working in Delhi until his death in 1938.]

• Mrs. Robert Mallory, of Hamden, visited her parents on Sabbath.

• John Taylor and Mrs. Colin McNaught visited Walton last week.

• Mrs. Robert Forrest and Miss Irene Forrest visited Delhi on Saturday.

• Marion Robertson and wife and David Oliver were over at Andes Saturday.

• Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hoy have returned home from their visit at Oil City, Pa.

• Rev. Levi Bird, from Scranton, Pa, gave a temperance address here Tuesday evening.

• Arthur How, Howard McPherson and Douglas McCune were at Bainbridge on Monday.

• Mrs. Elmer Hastings and Miss Jennet Ellen Hoy are spending the week in New York city seeing the sights.

• Among those in town Friday were Harvey Smith, of Bloomville, and Dan R. Liddle and Bert Gladstone, of Andes.

• Alex Hilson has placed gasoline lights in his store – four double burners and two single ones.  Rev. Samson has also placed a single burner in his house, which can be set on the table or carried around like a lamp.

November 9, 1900

• Dr. Gates was in town Monday.

• Alex. Hilson was at Delhi Thursday.

• James Gladstone was in town Wednesday.

• William Miller returned to Walton on Saturday.

• Frank R. Coulter and wife were at Delhi Wednesday.

• William Dennis has been visiting his brother, John P.

• Richard Smith returned from a visit at Walton Saturday.

• Some went to Walton Saturday to hear Senator Depew.

• Thomas Gordon went to Delhi Saturday after the ballots.

• Hon. E.T. Gerry returned to New York city Saturday.

• Gideon Miller, of Colchester, has been visiting in town.

• Mr. Swift of Scranton was in town last week buying butter.

• John Blair started Thursday with another drove for Kingston.

• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller visited in Otsego county this week.

• Dr. W.J. Phyfe and wife, of Delhi, were visitor here on Sabbath.

• Alex. Myers commenced Monday to paint G.D. Miller’s residence.

• J.L. Hughes has been painting F.R. Coulter’s new wagon house.

• Gideon Miller and wife spent Sabbath with his parents at Andes.

• Mrs. Kennedy Warren visited in town the latter part of last week.

• Wesley Miller and wife, of Oneonta, were guests at G.D. Miller’s on Thursday.

• At the sociable at G.D. Miller’s last Friday evening for the benefit of the Methodist church, amounted to about $19.

• Mr. and Mrs. William D. Thompson celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage Wednesday evening, November 7. [William would die in 1902, and his wife, the former Agnes Murray, in 1905.]

• On election day the ladies of the Methodist church served meals in A.T. Strangeway’s rooms and the receipts were about $15.

• Rev. Levi Bird, of Scranton, preached in the United Presbyterian church Sabbath evening.

• Colonel Copeland will deliver the first lecture in the course here on Tuesday evening, November 15.

• William Northrup and men of Walton, have been giving the Methodist church a new dressing of paint.

• Peter McNair has the contract to do a job of grading for Mr. Feder at Margaretville. The contract price is $1,550.

• Quite a number went to Delhi last Friday to hear M. Linn Bruce, and all were highly pleased with the speech. [Bruce, who had grown up in Andes, was elected Lieutenant Governor of New York for one term, 1905-06.]

• Last Thursday Drs. Gates, Phinney and McNaught performed an operation for appendicitis on, George, son of Jas. B. Thompson.  The operation was a difficult one, but the patient is doing as well as could be expected.  

• The whole number of votes cast in Bovina Tuesday were 262 a gain of 11 over four years ago.  There were two void ballots and 11 Prohibition votes.  Of the total vote McKinley received 190, a gain of 11, and Bryan 58, Odell 190, Sanchfield 56, and the remainder of the state ticket received the same vote as that of Governor.  On the county ticket Axtell received 166, Warner 78, Grant 165, Andrus 79, Smith 161, Kilpatrick 86, Black 197, Tway 50.

Bovina Lecture Course.

The Bovina lecture course is evidently going to be a grand success.  140 course tickets have been sold and seats secured.  Colonel L.F. Copeland will deliver the opening lecture November 15.  More money has been expended in securing the speakers and entertainments than ever before, and the course will be the best offered a Bovina audience. [Colonel Copeland of Harrisburg, PA was a noted Chautauqua and lyceum lecturer. Born in 1841, he died suddenly in July 1904.]

November 16, 1900

• W.J. White was at Andes Wednesday.

• Fred Bramley was over at Andes on Friday.

• Jennie Campbell was home over Sabbath.

• David Miller, of Delhi, is visiting his son, David J.

• John E. Gladstone was in town the first of the week.

• Mrs. Daniel McMullin was a visitor in this place Saturday.

• Andrew Franklin and George Persons, of Delhi, were in town Saturday.

• Leslie McNee and Arthur Burns went to Kingston Monday to enter school.

• Miss Alice Oliver went to Deposit Monday, where it is stated she will attend school.

• Among those at Delhi on Tuesday were W.T. Black, James Forman, J.B. Lee and John H. Hewitt.

• Wednesday at noon, Mina J. daughter of Alex Bryden and William Hogg [Hoag] were united in marriage, Rev. Samson, officiating. [They would have two children and were married until William’s death in 1944. Mina was 90 when she passed away in 1966.]

• Supervisor John A. Irving went to Delhi Monday to attend the meeting of the supervisors. John looks well to the interests of the town.

• Side walls are being built on the culvert across the deep ravene near Clark Hogaboom’s, and the roadbed has also been raised considerable.

• The amount of town audits this year is $294.37, and the amount of sheep audits agains the dog fund are $112.75. One man had $60 for sheep killed. 

• Saturday W.J. Doig started for Bloomville and when going up the pitch above R.A. Thompson’s one of his horses dropped down dead in the road.

• George Thompson, upon whom an operation for appendicitis was performed two weeks ago died Monday morning aged 15 years.  The funeral was held Wednesday.

November 23, 1900

• Peter Arbuckle was up from Delhi Saturday.

• William T. Black will move to Delhi next week.

• Archie Dickson was in town Friday from Andes.

• Barton Jackson was seen in this place Monday.

• Miss Maggie Archibald was a visitor at Andes Tuesday.

• Jacob Pintoff, of Philadelpia, has been town delivering fine enlarged pictures.

• Supervisor Irvine was at Delhi Monday and Tuesday attending a meeting of the Board.

• Otis McCumber, wife and daughter, of Andes, were guests at Mrs. Muller’s over Sabbath.

• Miss Linda Laing of Andes, who has been visiting relatives here during the past week, returned home Tuesday.

• The wife of William McPherson, son of Ferris McPherson of this town, died at Roscoe, November 14, with consumption. [This was the former Elizabeth Stott. She was born in 1863 and married William in 1891. She was the daughter of William and Mary (Neish) Stott. More about the Stott family https://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/07/stories-from-bovina-cemeteries-stott.html.]

• Are the Democrats now satisfied of what they saved out of the sheriff’s bills as against the bills of Youmans and Patterson? This is reform.

• Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Elizabeth Rogers to John L. Gordon, Wednesday evening, November 28, at 6:30 o’clock, in St. Vincent Ferres church, New York city. [The sad story about John Gordon is in the Bovina NY History Blog: https://bovinanyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/05/stories-from-bovina-cemeteries.html]

• The following list of grand jurors for this town have been selected by Supervisor Irvine: T.C. Strangeway, Jacob Bailey, R.A. Thomson, Andrew Doig, W.B. Smith, David Liddle, W.L. White.

• Among Bovina people at the County Seat Saturday, were Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Miller, Mrs. Pinney, Mrs. Mary A. Russell, F.C. Armstrong, Frank Brown, James Robson, Peter Robson two daughters. 

• James Foreman and Miss Jennie Archibald were united in marriage at the home of the bride in upper Bovina Tuesday, Rev. W.L.C. Samson officiating.  The couple took the afternoon train from Arkville for New York city where they will spend their honeymoon. [James and Jennie would be married until her passing in 1941. They had six children, three of whom survived to adulthood, including Isabella Foreman, who would marry Delhi doctor Orin Q. Flint.]

November 30, 1900

• John Blair was at Delhi Monday.

• F.R. Coulter visited Andes Friday.

• G.D. Miller has his house nearly painted.

• Jackson & Mason’s team was in this place Friday.

• Ward Coulter and mother were over at Andes Friday.

• Grant Maxwell and wife were in town on Sabbath.

• Mary Ann Dean has been visiting relatives in town.

• A.O. Butts and Alex. Thompson have traded trotters.

• Miss Lillian McNaught of Delancey, is visiting relatives in town.

• David J. Miller purchased a matched team of colts at Hobart last week.

• Union Thanksgiving services will be held in the Methodist church on Thursday.

• William T. Black moved his household goods to Delhi this week.  Bovina loses and Delhi gains a good citizen.

• The next entertainment on lecture course will be concert by the Norton Wald Musical company December 10.

• Thomas Gordon and wife and B.S. Miller attended the Gordon-Rogers wedding in New York City this week.

• The hall was well filled last Thursday evening to listen to Colonel Copeland in his lecture “Snobs and Snobbery.” [I don’t know the content of this lecture, but it appears it was a regular one given by Colonel Copeland around the country.]

• Rev. Robb, a former pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian church, who has been a missionary in China, is visiting in town. [Rev. William Robb was a missionary in China for much of his life, even after his marriage in 1907. In fact, Robb would die in China in 1929.] 

• Among recent real estate transfers in town was George W. Redmond to William Rogers, $950. Property is at Lake Delaware.

• Oliver Dickson and sister will move next month from their farm on Pisgah to Delhi to spend the winter, and will move back again in the spring. 

• The old soldiers were invited to John P. Dennis’ last Thursday evening, and spent an enjoyable evening together.  The inner man was well cared for and an excellent repast served. [Old soldiers is a reference to veterans of the Civil War.]