December 2, 1921
• Dr. Frisbee of Andes, is organizing a singing class in town.
• The heavy rains of Monday was followed by a heavy sleet storm.
• John H. Hilson and family spent Thanksgiving at Frank Dickson’s on the Little Delaware.
• Alex Myers is engaged in putting the priming coat of paint on Thos C. Strangeway’s new house.
• Plans are under way for a Community Christmas Tree to be held in the U.P. church on the evening of December 23.
• The second number of the entertainment course was held Saturday night – Warren Colsten, impersonator and entertainer.
• Mrs. James D. Calhoun has purchased of Hale Elliott what is known as the Thomas Hoy place at the upper end of Bovina Center [this is now the home of Len and Ann Cairns].
• On Thanksgiving day the Misses Kate and Frederika Muller had a dinner party and the table was graced with violets picked in their own yard.
Bovina Church Property Sold
Methodist Church and Parsonage Disposed of at Auction Saturday
The Bovina Methodist Episcopal church and parsonage was sold at auction at Bovina Center on Saturday, November 26, having served its usefulness.
The parsonage was purchased by Charles Hafele for his son, Gailie Hafele, for $1,025. The church property was bid off by William Archibald for $775. Mr. Archibald will retain the land and D.C. Worden takes the church building which will be torn down. Thus passes an old landmark, which for many decades has stood on the eminence with its spire pointing to the heavens.
The seats were purchased by the Pleasant Valley Methodist church and Charles Hafele purchased the pulpit and organ. The furnace was sold to Mrs. Dixon Thomson for $2. The memorial windows were reserved.
Methodism in Bovina dates from the time when Alex Brush, the second settler in the town, was a local preacher, preaching in his own house and others. Rev. William Jewett was the first regular pastor and from 1812 until 1849 services were held in houses, barns, school houses and groves. In 1849 – 82 years ago – the present edifice was built and was dedicated August 22 of that year.
December 9, 1921
• Charles Hafele, who purchased the Methodist parsonage, has sold the same to Fred Thomson for $1,125, making $100 on the deal.
• Walter Ringhold, former superintendent of the Gerry estate at Lake Delaware, is bargaining for the purchased of the Dennis house and lot in the village. He desires to engage in bee keeping.
• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are Vernon S. Beckwith and wife to Ernest Houck, $5,000. Mr. Houck purchases the half interest of his partner in the former Brown farm in southern Bovina.
Delaware Co Term of Court
Late Monday afternoon a jury was obtained and the case of Anthony Banuat vs. Jean Muller was opened. This is a matter of assault, Muller, the defendant, having been indicted by the last grand jury. The parties are from Bovina and the alleged assault was made while the plaintiff was endeavoring to collect a school tax in the fall of 1920. The jury returned a verdict of guilty in the 3d degree.
December 16, 1921
• The children are practicing for the exercises to be held in connection with the Christmas tree to be held on the evening of December 23.
• The singing school is progressing nicely under the leadership of H.W. Frisbee, of Andes. Last Friday evening there was an attendance of 42.
• James Ackerley has purchased from Don Northrup, of Colchester, the old house and lot adjoining the residence of Alex Hilson in the village. Mr. Ackerley will either tear the house down and erect a new one or re-model the present structure.
Delaware Co Term of Court
In the Bovina case of Anthony Banuat against Jean Muller, assault in the 3d degree, Judge McNaught fined Muller $50 and 6 months in penitentiary. The prison sentence was suspended and he is to report monthly to the Judge.
December 23, 1921
• Mr. and Mrs. William O. McDivitt have moved to Cleveland, Ohio.
• Bovina was visited by a high wind last Saturday night but no serious damage was done.
• Bovina in former years has been not noted for its low taxes, but this year it is anything but low.
• Lauren Dickson, who is attending law school at Yale, is home for the Christmas holidays.
• Mrs. Gustave Lifgren is visiting in New York City. Miss Mary Ackerley accompanied her to consult Dr. Lorenze, the Austrian surgeon.
• Claude S. Terry has sold his interest in the garage business of Terry & Davidson to Henry Monroe and the new firm will be Davidson & Monroe.
• Bovina had a double wedding last Thursday evening, December 15. The contracting parties were Miss Viola Russell and Winifred Barnhart, both of this town, and Alfred Russell, of Bovina, and Miss Katherine Oliver, of Delhi. Mrs. Russell is a granddaughter of the late Walter Amos of southern Bovina.
• James C. Mabon had a narrow escape last Saturday from having all of the fingers on his right hand cut off by his buzz saw. He had been sawing up the trees from his sugar camp broken down by the recent ice storm, and had only two more cuts to make on the last stick when the saw caught his glove. He jerked the table back but not quick enough to prevent the saw cutting a gash into the back of everyone of his fingers between the first and second joints.
December 30, 1921
• Mrs. Elizabeth Irvine has been under the doctor’s care the past week, but is now improving.
• James Ackerley, who recently purchased the Northrup house, has begun the work of re-modeling.
• Henry Monroe has rented rooms in part of Mrs. Thomas Gordon’s house and will move in Saturday.
• Mr. and Mrs. John Coulter, of Yonkers, and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Oliver, of Harpersfield spent Christmas at John Northrup’s.
• Mrs. Scovel and three children, from near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Decker.
• Miss Jennie M. Hastings came Friday to visit her brother, Milton, and on Saturday, accompanied by Miss Lily Happy, she went to Saranac, to visit her brother.
• A large crowd attended the Christmas tree and exercises held last Friday evening at the U.P. church. After the program Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus appeared and gave out the gifts.
• The remains of Violet Hewitt, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hewitt, of Margaretville, were brought here Saturday for burial. The child died December 21, in the hospital at Kingston following an operation for appendicitis.
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