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

In June 1922, work was taking place on the 'Bovina State Road,' which is now County Route 6. A couple of new cars were seen in town and someone broke into Cecil Russell's store. 

June 2, 1922

• Alex Myers is painting the residence of Mrs. Hamilton Russell.

• Millard Blair and Lloyd Irvine of Seattle, Washington, are visiting their people here.

• The members of the American Legion put on the flags and decorated the grave of the veterans Tuesday.

• Congressman John D. Clarke and party of congressmen passed through Bovina on Tuesday morning enroute to Washington.

• G.D. Miller, who is the only surviving veteran of the civil war in Bovina, attended Memorial exercises at Delhi on Tuesday.

• William Burns, who is employed at the Center creamery, is off duty as a result of blood poisoning in his ankle. It came from a sting irritated by his rubber boot.

June 9, 1922

• Sheffiel Smith has a new Essex touring car.

• Two daughters of D.C. Worden, who live in Colorado, are here on a visit.

• Miss Jane Hilson, who has been taking a post graduate course at Columbia University, has arrived home.

• George Cable, who went to Bainbridge last year, has returned to Bovina and taken a job on the town roads.

• Ted Fuller has sold his farm, known as the Armstrong place, to a New Jersey man.  He will remain for a time and run the farm for the new owner.

• Friday evening the home talent play “Old Fashioned Mother” was well attended and the receipts for the Library was $78.  The play was repeated Saturday night but the attendance was small.

• Albert Titsworth, who has been living up town, has purchased the Pickwick house below Lake Delaware and will erect a modern dwelling.  This is known as the Franklin or McIntosh place.

• A lawsuit between James Ackerley and Harvey Wickham is set down for June 27.  The trouble is over a small building on the George Decker farm which Ackerley claims was his and was reserved when the farm was sold to Wickham.

• The contractors on the Bovina state road have leased the barn and garage of Harry Robinson in which to house the Italian workmen.  The contractors have also contracted to get stone from the quarry on the Ed Coulter farm.

June 16, 1922

• John McCune and assistants are at Stamford grading the grounds around the residence of Judge Andrew J. McNaught.

• DeGrath & Hogaboom, the contractors who will re-surface the Bovina state road, are getting the machinery and men on the ground ready to being work.

• Rev. Thomas D. Graham, formerly of the Church of the Covenanters, with his family, will spend his vacation in Bovina.  They have rented rooms for light housekeeping in George Russell’s house.  He is now pastor of the Cross Roads United Presbyterian church of Washington, PA.

June 23, 1922

• F.W. Hyatt has purchased a Nash automobile.

• A nine pound son born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Monroe died. [He was three days old.]

• The Lunn reunion was held Saturday at the home of Mrs. James Lunn at Lake Delaware.

• The stone arch bridge at the Strangeway store is being torn out preparatory to putting in a wide bridge of steel and concrete.

Here's a postcard of the bridge that was torn out to put in a steel and concrete one.

• Lloyd Irvine and Millard Blair, who have been visiting their parents here, left Thursday for their return to Seattle, Washington.

• The contractors for the repair of the Bovina state road are putting in new sub-base at several points on the road, and will put in a total of three-fourths of a mile.  The crusher is being set up on the Ed Coulter farm.

June 30, 1922

• Lauren Dickson has returned to Yale for a course in summer school.

• Miss Marjorie Lee will be a member of the faculty of the Oneonta Normal summer school.

• Lewis Kennedy, who recently sold Irvine farm on Coulter Brook, has moved to Cortland.

• James Monroe, Jr is home from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy for the summer.

• The cornerstone of the new St. James church at Lake Delaware will be laid July 25.  Bishop Nelson and other notables will be present.

• Archie Boggs died in New York city on June 20 after an illness of a week from pneumonia, at the age of about 40 years.  He leaves a wife, his mother, Mrs. Charles Boggs, and a sister.

• One night last week someone gained entrance to the store of Cecil Russell by removing a pane of glass.  So far as could be seen nothing was missing.  Tracks of two men, one of them barefooted, was traced as far as the uptown creamery.

Lightning Damage in Bovina

During the severe electrical storm that swept over Bovina on Wednesday night, lightning struck the residence of Mrs. Ida Burgin on the Andes-Delhi [road] and did some damage but did not fire the building.  Charles A. McPherson on the adjoining (Strangeway) farm had six cows killed.