Guilford was shocked and grieved when it became known late Thursday afternoon of the terrible accident, that caused the death of Coach Nicholas Buffo's small six-year-old son at their home in Cobleskill. As he left the school bus, which had come to a stand still to discharge its students, he was struck by a car and instantly killed. Mr. Buffo has tried all fall to find suitable rooms, so as to bring his wife and two small sons here, where he serves as coach in the Guilford Central School. Mr. Buffo had just arranged to have the large apartment in the Sarah Keller home on Main street and plans were completed to move to Guilford on Saturday. Mr. Buffo left immediately for his home. The sympathy of the entire community, the school and the faculty go with Mr. and Mrs. Buffo in their great sorrow. Flowers and a purse were sent to them from their friends in town, and flowers from the faculty and the athletic teams. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Jan. 11, 1945]
Dr. William Shields Myers, retired chemist and educator, died here Wednesday at his home, Stonehenge. He was 78. Mr. Myers was a director of the Chilean Nitrate Commission for the United States, serving from 1901 to 1926. An authority on soils and crop production, he was joint author with the late Prof. E.B Voorhees of a plan for systematic development of agricultural education in Mexico which was adopted by the Mexican Government. An associate professor of chemistry at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., from 1893 to 1901, Mr. Myers had been a member of the university board of trustees since 1902 except for a five-year period form 1907 to 1912. He was mayor of New Brunswick from 1904 to 1906. Dr. Myers was born in Albany and was graduated from Rutgers College, New Jersey, in 1889. Then studied in Berlin under Professor Hoffman and also in Munich. Later he went to University College in London where he worked for a year with and under Sir William Ramsey. For the last 24 years Mr. Myers was a member of the managing commission of the New Jersey State college of Agriculture. He was the author of "The Cult of Incompetence," "Philosophies of Government" and "Christian and Barbarian," published in 1939, as well as numerous works on crop cultivation and soil nutrition. He was a founder of the "Journal of Soil Science," a periodical. He was a life Fellow of the London Chemical Society and was a life member. He was a charter member and life member of the Chemists Club of New York and of the Authors Club of London. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Annie Lambert Myers, and a son, William Lambert Myers. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Jan. 18, 1945]
Bernhardt Anderson, aged 34, died at Binghamton [Broome Co., NY] recently of shock and compound fractures of the legs suffered Nov. 7 when a small stove exploded at the farm home of his father near Afton [Chenango Co., NY]. A Pennsylvania Railroad freight engineer, Mr. Anderson was visiting his father, who had just purchased the farm. The victim was building a fire of soft coal in the stove and the explosion resulted from an accumulation of gas. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Jan. 18, 1945]
On Wednesday of last week, says the Deposit Courier, a little daughter of Mr. Erastus Mills, living on Dry Brook, about four miles from Cannonsville [Delaware Co., NY], aged four years, was instantly killed. She had gone to the pig pen and climbed up to see the little pigs, when a stone boat near by which was turned up on one side, tilted over, striking the back of her neck and breaking it. She had been absent from the house but a few minutes when, being missed, her mother went to look for her and found her dead. [Bainbridge Republican, May 27, 1876]
On Sunday, May 29th, says the Bainbridge Review, Thomas Welch, a section hand on the A.&S. Road, was drowned in the river about two miles east of the village. Deceased slipped from a dam into a deep hole below, and not being able to swim, although several men were standing near, drowned almost without an effort for his life. Daniel Campbell was rowing a boat a little way off, but being deaf, could not be summoned to his rescue. [Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, June 8, 1870]
The funeral of Mrs. Della Dunne, which was held from the Baptist church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, was largely attended and there were many beautiful floral tributes. Mrs. Dunne was born in Dinwiddle county, Virginia, 45 years ago, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson. when only 12 years old the family moved to New York. Early in life she became the wife of David H. Dunne and most of her married life has been spent in New Jersey and New York. In April 1925. Mr. Dunne bought the old Beverly place on the road between here [Unadilla, Otsego Co., NY] and Sidney and with his family moved there from Paterson, N.J. For the past three years Mrs. Dunne has been a patient in the tubercular hospital at Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] where she passed away Sunday morning, Jan. 11. The officiating clergyman at the funeral was Rev. Mr. Pope of Norwich and he was assisted by Rev Mr Williams of Harpursville. Burial in Greenlawn cemetery. Besides her husband there remain to mourn her loss her father, William Johnson of New York city; one brother John A. Johnson of Jamaica, L.I., and ten children. [Unadilla Times, Jan. 30, 1931]
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