A couple of Bovina farmers lost livestock by lightning. The resurfacing of what is now County Route 6 was completed, and an old Bovina native died in his sleep at his son's home.
July 7, 1922
• The Camp Fire Girls will sell ice cream on the U.P. church lawn Saturday evening.
• Margaret Gordon has gone to Fall Clove to spend the summer at the home of [the] Scott Brothers. [These likely were her uncles.]
• United States Senator and Mrs. Peter G. Gerry have been spending the past week on their estate at Lake Delaware.
• Arnold Bellows, of Roxbury, has been hired to teach next year in the combined districts No. 1 and 9 at $40 a week.
• The town insurance company has allowed Charles A. McPherson $50 a head for five cows killed by lightning last week and $30 for one.
• John Burns, in the upper part of the town, found a horse dead in the pasture this week. The animal had evidently been dead for three or four days when found. Whether it was struck by lightning or what was the cause of death is not known. Mr. Burns was at Meridale on Wednesday and purchased another horse.
July 14, 1922
• Andrew T. Doig was in New York City this week with a party who are boarding at William T. Russell’s.
• The receipts from the sale of ice cream by the Camp Fire Girls on the U.P. church lawn Saturday evening amounted to $30.
• The remodeled Methodist parsonage now owned by Fred Thomson, is nearly ready for occupancy. Alex Myers is doing the painting. [This is now Chuck and Betty McIntosh's house]
• Warren Archibald, of New Kingston was here last week and traded his Cadillac car with Andrew Doig, the agent, for a new model Sedan.
• The resurfacing of the state road is completed from the bridge at Strangeway store building to the top of the pitch at Lancelot Thomson’s. [This is now County Route 6]
• Ted Fuller, who recently sold the Armstrong farm, has stored his household goods in the Dickson big house and with his wife has gone to Utica.
July 21, 1922
• Miss Angelica Gerry has arrived at her summer home at Lake Delaware.
• The ten-year-old son of Harrison Hall, on the Soper farm, fell from a load of hay and twisted his arm in such a manner that in order to get it straightened the physician had to break the arm.
• Gustave Lifgren, who lives on the D. Lyle Thomson farm up Pink street, has sold the Aitken or Ward farm on the hill further up the same valley, to A.E. Hadley, who lives across the road on Andrew Thomson farm. The price is $2,500 with immediate possession.
July 28, 1922
• Elliott Thomson is visiting his son, William Thomson, at Binghamton, and taking in the horse racing held at Endicott.
• Mr. and Mrs. Alex Myers are taking a vacation and are visiting their son, Frank Myers, at Endicott. Mrs. Arthur Decker is in charge of the central telephone office during their absence.
• Frank Kinch, who has been working for F.W. Hyatt in haying, was taken ill on Sabbath with an attack of acute indigestion and is still confined to his home in Delhi. He had fallen a few days before and struck his side on a stone and the doctor found that he had cracked some ribs.
Found Dead in Bed
Joshua Hobbie was found dead in bed Tuesday morning at the home of his son, Rema Hobbie, in upper Bovina. He was born in Bovina about 80 years ago and the great part of his life had been spent in the town. A few years ago the family moved to Colchester, where he and his wife still resided. Besides his wife he leaves six children. He was one of a family of fourteen children and only one sister, Mrs. E. B. Frisbee of Delhi, survives.
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