January 1922 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

Here's what was happening in Bovina 100 years ago this month, as reported in the Andes Recorder:

January 6, 1922

• The village school opened Tuesday, after the holiday recess.

• Mrs. George Baldwin, Miss Caroline Dickson, C.L. Dickson and Miss Jane Hilson left via Delhi, Tuesday morning for New York City, to resume their different labors.

• Dorothy Bergman, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bergman, in upper Bovina, was operated upon at the Delhi hospital last Thursday afternoon for appendicitis.

• Charles Boggs has finished his job as cheesemaker at the Bovina Center Co-Operative Creamery and returned to Andes.  Walter Wilson is the new cheese maker.  The company now getting the milk is the Delaware Cheese company.

Bovina Boy in Luck

William H. Irvine of Seattle, Wash. is to leave there about the middle of January for a trip to China, Japan, and the Philippine Islands, going as director of ceremonies for the Shriners, to put on initiations.  He will be away nearly two months and anticipates a fine trip of sight seeing in these foreign countries.  Mr. Irvine is the eldest son of the late John A. Irvine of Bovina. [He was the brother of Isabell Russell.]

January 13, 1922

• The ice harvesters have been at work this week filling the creamery ice house.

• Bovina had a young blizzard Wednesday and a snowfall of about a foot.  It was piled in drifts.

• Miss Louise Dennis had a sale of household goods Tuesday.  After a visit with relatives in Walton she will go to Virginia to live with her brother, John P. Dennis.

January 20, 1922

• Hilson Brothers are busy taking their annual inventory.

• Fletcher Davidson was at Hamden on Tuesday with C.S. Terry’s household goods.

• William C. Russell has sold his farm above the village of his son, Alfred Russell.

• Frank Myers, of Endicott, is here papering in the new house of Thos C. Strangeway [This is now the home of Jim and Peg Hilson].

• In Bovina Center there is no scramble to be postmaster and it looks as if the office would go begging.

• C.S. Terry, who recently sold his interest in the garage at this place, moved to Hamden this week. [This later was the garage of Clayton Thomas, then Wayne Gallant and then Heinz Bernecker.]

• Mrs. F.W. Hyatt, who has been at her former home in Yonkers for the past four months, returned home Wednesday.

• James Ackerley fell down the cellar stairs at his home in the lower part of the village last Thursday and fractured two ribs.

• Mrs. James D. Calhoun and her mother, Mrs. Kate Barnhart, have moved from the latter’s farm up Pink street, to the house recently purchased in the upper part of the village [now the Len and Ann Cairns home].  The son, Wilford Barnhart, has taken the farm.

January 27, 1922

• Robert Smith has moved into Will Hoy’s small tenant house.

• Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hoy on January 19, a son – William.

• Fred Thomson has been tearing down the old Methodist parsonage this week preparatory to erecting a new bungalow. [Note: he remodeled the building but did not tear it down. This is now the home of Chuck and Betty McIntosh.]

• Mrs. George Stanton died of tuberculosis January 19, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Bergman, in upper Bovina, aged 77 years. Her maiden name was Mary Leal.  She is survived by her husband, two sons and three daughters; also one brother, John Leal, of Delhi, and two sisters, Mrs. Robert Fletcher, of Stamford, and Mrs. Matilda Stoutenburg, of Delhi.  Burial was in the Bovina Center cemetery Monday.