March 1918 - 100 Years Ago "In That Thriving Town"

Late winter in Bovina saw damage to the Dry Milk Plant, which was behind the creamery, and some illness that closed some of the local schools.

March 1, 1918
• George Cable is having a furnace in his residence.
• Hilson Bros truck resumed its trips to Delhi on Monday afternoon. It was the first to make the trip.
• H.W. White of Delhi, and the men at the Dry Milk Plant worked all Friday night making repairs. The frost had thrown all of the shafting out of line.
• Two of the smoke stacks on the Dry Milk Plant were blown down by the high wind Tuesday. H.W. White of Delhi is expected Thursday to raise them back into position.
• The primary department of the Bovina Center school re-opened Monday. Miss Kathryn Reynolds is still ill and Rev. Thos E. Graham is the teacher. It is expected he will teach until April 1st.

March 8, 1918
• Rev. H.K. Galloway has purchased an automobile thru the agency of Russell Archibald.
• An entertainment for the benefit of the Red Cross will be given in town hall on Thursday evening the 7th.
• Scarlet fever has again broken out uptown and the school in the Maynard district was closed for a week, but reopened on Tuesday. Frank Rice, who lives with Ernest McKee, was taken down with the disease Saturday.

March 15, 1918
• Frank Miller is now employed in the Center creamery.
• The Red Cross realized $27 from the entertainment last Thursday evening at the hall.
• Miss Jennie E. Miller has been repairing her house below the village for a new tenant.
• John R. Aitkens and Arnold VanDusen were at Oneonta on Tuesday trying for chauffeurs licenses.
• Hilson Bros have purchased a new auto truck of larger capacity than their present truck. It has not yet been received.
• Mr. Hotaling has sued Mr. Eaton, the manager of the lumber camp on Dickson Mountain. It will come before Justice T.C. Strangeway on Thursday.
• H.A. Ayers, who for several years had been the buttermaker at the Center creamery, left Monday for Grove City, Pennsylvania, where he will take a special course for a few weeks and will then enter the employment of the United States government.

March 22, 1918
• Alex Myers has been presented with a solid gold hunting case watch by his niece Miss Lizzie Huber, of Delhi.
• Alex Myers left Tuesday morning for Endicott, where he will assist his son Frank Myers at the painting trade.
• The lawsuit that was to have been held at the town hall last Thursday was postponed until Wednesday of this [week]. [This probably is the case mentioned the week before, Hotaling vs. Eaton.]

March 29, 1918
• The Dry Milk Company truck arrived Tuesday and will be used in hauling their produce to Delhi.
• New slate blackboards have been installed in the school houses in the Bramley and Maynard districts.

Wielders of the Birtch - Teachers Engaged for Bovina Schools for 1918-19

The Bovina Town Board of Education elected the following teachers on Wednesday for school year 1918-19:

Biggar Hollow – Margaret Whitson
Ed Coulter district – Mable Mark.
Lake Delaware – Marjorie Lee.
Pink Street – Lois Ormiston.
Butt End – Jessie Stewart.
Maynard – Jean Hume.
Bramley – Hazel Russell
Miller Avenue – Nellie Miller.
Coulter Brook – Edith Liddle.
Bovina Center – Rev. Tho E. Graham, principal, and Ruth Ormiston, Primary.
Hobbie – Susie Crosier