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

 

August 4, 1922

• Louie Terry will move from Dennis house to the “Cottage” on the Gerry estate at Lake Delaware.

• Mr. and Mrs. John Henry are spending the week in New York and Herman Johnson is taking care of things during their absence.

• Harold Robinson, formerly of Bovina, who has been in a creamery at Trout Creek for a few years, has moved to Delhi.  He is employed at the creamery at Frasers.

• Friday while William A. Hoy was operating a hay tedder the tongue broke and the team ran away.  They fortunately got free from the tedder going onto the street ran as far as the Hilson store swung around the store and were caught. Mr. Hoy escaped injury.

August 11, 1922

• Laurie Terry moved this week to the Lake.

• The work of putting on the concrete floor for the bridge at the Strangeway store is in progress this week.

• Mrs. Hogaboom, of Kingston, has joined her husband, the contractor on the state road job, to spend a few days.

• Mr. Berschevsky, of Brooklyn, the head of the cheese making at the Center creamery was here the first of the week.

• Edward J. Quigley, the State engineer who has been in charge of the resurfacing of the state road here, went to Hobart this week to make the final arrangements for the beginning of the work on the Hobart-Bloomville road.  William Armstrong is in charge of the road here. [The state road is now County Route 6.]

August 18, 1922

• The annual town picnic is scheduled to be held August 31.

• The annual community picnic will be held at Lake Delaware on Saturday of this week.

• Work of resurfacing the State road is being pushed and it is expected will be completed next week.

• Howard McPherson is making improvements to his residence, re-siding a part of it and putting in new windows.

• Many Bovina residents attended the Coulter re-union at the home of Grant Maxwell on the Little Delaware on Wednesday.

• Mrs. Annie Ruff has returned home after an absence of a year and a half spent with a sister in California and a daughter in North Dakota.

August 25, 1922

• Miss Mary Brown entertained a number of her friends at her home on Thursday evening.

• Nelson Reynolds has gone to do carpenter work on the new Episcopal church being built at Lake Delaware by Miss Angelica Gerry.

• Clarence LaFever had his face skinned and arm injured Monday when he jumped off his motorcycle to avoid a collision when at the McCune place below the hook.  He came up behind Leland Tuttle’s truck and a car was coming in the opposite direction.  This passed and he swung to pass the truck when a second car loomed up right ahead and it was a case of a head-on collision or swing his machine into the bank and he chose the later, shut off the power and jumped.  The front wheel of his machine was smashed and he was fortunate to escape without a broken neck.