November 1917 - 100 Years Ago "In That Thriving Town"

November 1917 saw the wedding of Anna Bell Barnhart to James Calhoun. The wedding was over shadowed by the death of the groom’s father, Daniel Calhoun, the week before.

November 2, 1917

·       Rev H.K. Galloway will occupy the pulpit of the United Presbyterian church on Sabbath.

·       From a chicken Pie Supper at the town hall last Friday evening the V.I.S. realized $43.75

·       Mrs. Charles Heller went to New York on Monday to enter a hospital for treatment.  Miss Louisa Dennis accompanied her.

·       Hale G. Elliott has moved to the Robert Hoy house, which he recently purchased.  Frank Miller has moved to the rooms vacated by Mr. Elliott in H.C. Burgin’s house.

·       Mrs. John A. Russell started Wednesday for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where she will be matron of an Old Ladies Home, which is under the charge of the R.P. church.

·       Harry Martin, who went from Bovina two years ago to become manager of the dry milk plant at West Harpersfield, left Monday for Mexico, N.Y., to assist in establishing another plant.  He expects to be away six weeks.

High Water in Bovina

The rain on Monday night caused the Pink Street brook to rise so much that the foot bridge on Main street was swept down against the arch bridge and about totally wrecked.  Harry Robinson’s family were taken out of their house at 4 o’clock in the morning in a lumber wagon.  Wood was carried away and several hens were washed out of Gideon Miller’s hen house.

November 9, 1917

·       Ellsworth Tuttle motored to Dunraven on Monday.

·       The total number of votes cast in Bovina on Tuesday was 204.

·       The Dairyman’s Testing Association held a meeting at Fireman’s Hall on Tuesday.

·       The seventh of the series of live stock demonstrations will be held at William J. Storie’s below Bovina Center on Thursday, November 15, beginning at 10 a.m.

Thought he was Smart

            Last Friday night Leland Tuttle went to a social at the home of William T. Russell in Bovina, going in their Franklin car.  When he went to go home the car would not move.  Investigation showed that some miscreant had been into it.  The wiring was all torn out and all the damage possible had been done to the interior.  The car had to be hauled to a garage and it required over a day to put it back in running order.

The same column reported the unexpected death of Daniel Calhoun on November 7. It noted that Daniel had not been sleeping well, so “he got up to sit in his chair and a little while later his wife found he had fallen from the chair and lay dead.”  The paper further reported that a “large number of Bovina folks motored to Andes for the funeral ...”  

November 16, 1917

·       William T. Russell has purchased a Reo five passenger car.

·       Everett DeSilva was on the Beaverkill last week on a hunting trip.

·       Harold Smith and wife have moved into the house on the (Stone House) Thomson farm located in upper Bovina.

·       About 50 farmers attended the stock demonstration at Wm J. Storie’s on Thursday.  A speaker from Cornell was present.

·       The directors of the co-operative creamery held a meeting Tuesday evening to fix the price to be paid the patrons for October.

·       Frank Kinch has rented a half interest in his farm (the Soper place) to his son-in-law, Aaron Harrington, and they will work it on shares.

·       David Worden, a native of this town and who for the past six years has been living at Pipestone, Minnesota, has returned to Delaware county and taken possession of the C.L. Roberts farm near Bloomville, having purchased it last spring.

·       Miss Annabelle (sic) Barnhart of Bovina, and James D. Calhoun, of Andes, were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s mother.  Mrs. J.T. Barnhart on Pink street, at noon on Wednesday, November 14.  The ceremony was performed by Rev. G.A. Forbes of Andes, assisted by the Rev. Thos E. Graham, of Bovina.

In Andes column

            Wednesday, while James Graham and family of Gladstone Hollow, were returning from the Calhoun-Barnhart wedding in Bovina, a blade of the fan became loosened and before the engine could be stopped had torn a hole in the radiator.  He managed to run [the] car to Andes.

November 23, 1917

·       John A. Irvine transacted business at the County Seat on Tuesday.

·       John R. Aitken has moved from the Arch Phyfe house in the upper part of the village to W.S. Thomson house on the Dennis corner.

·       Henry Rockefeller, who has been driving the Gerry truck at Lake Delaware, left Thursday for a New York city, where he has a job in a garage during the winter.

·       The Village Improvement Society will hold a “Country Fair” and bazaar November 30, at the town hall.  There will be a merry-go-round and various amusements – all the latest fair ground games and side shows. Come all and help light the lights.

Did Not Like Farming

            Albert Esch and family who about a year ago purchased the Arbuckle or Robert Jardine farm just over the town line in Glenburnie, will give up the farm and return to New York City.  Ed Fuller, of Pepacton, will move onto the farm.

Bovina Will Call Pastor

            A meeting of the United Presbyterian congregation will held at the church on November 30, to moderate a call for Rev. H.K. Gallaway.

November 30, 1917

·       A number of Bovina people went to Delhi last Friday to see the soldier boys off.

·       Hale Elliott will move up-town and work at the Bovina Co-Operative creamery in the near future.

·       Come to the County Fair on Friday evening.  Admission 5 and 10 cents.  The band will furnish music.

·       Robert G. Thomson returned home Monday and reports that Mrs. Thomson shows some improvement.

·       Mrs. Charles Heller has returned from New York city, where she has been in a hospital for treatment.

·       Mr. Watson has been here transacting business in relation to the new library that is to be built under the provisions of the will of James W. Coulter.

·       The Village Improvement society will hold a “Country Fair” and bazaar November 30, at the town hall.  There will be a merry-go-round and various amusements-all the latest fair ground games and side shows.  Come all and help light the lights.

Bovina Farm Sold

            Eugene Storie has sold his farm on the hill toward Kortright to a foreigner and will move to Hobart, where he will work in a creamery. [The ‘foreigner’ was Frank Schablowski.]

Cut Hand on Buzz Saw

            Russell Boggs had his hand cut on a buzz saw while sawing wood at Alex Burns’ Wednesday.  He was tightening a burr when the wrench slipped and his hand went onto the saw cutting it to the bone.  It required two hours for Dr. Whitcomb to dress the wound.