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

Here's what was happening in Bovina 100 years ago this month. 

November 3, 1922

• A Hollowe’en party was held Tuesday evening at the home of Rev. F.N. Crawford.

• Mr. Goosmitch, who has been living on Thomas H. Johnson’s farm, has rented the house on the Ward farm on Pink streets heights.

• Word comes from Thos H. Johnson who is in a New York hospital with a broken leg, that he can now get around a little with the aid of crutches.

• Mr. Kern, of Brooklyn, is here this week superintending the removal of the machinery from the Dry Milk plant, which has been sold to the creamery company.

Luddington Farm Sold

James Robinson, on the Ludington farm above Lake Delaware, had an auction of personal property Wednesday and prices were low.  He has sold the farm to George Forman for $5,600 and will move to Delhi.

Will Build New House

Frank Graham back from Lake Delaware, is preparing to erect a new house next summer.  He has a saw mill and is sawing the lumber which he is getting from his own woods.  For the interior finishing chestnut will be used.

November 10, 1922

• John Northrup, who now owns the Margaret Hoy farm, is making numerous improvements to both his house and barn. 

• George Foreman has moved from his farm at the top of Hobbie Mountain to the Luddington farm at the Hook, which he recently purchased. Unless he can sell it, he will pasture young stock on the Brandow farm on which the house was burned a few weeks ago.

November 17, 1922

• Word had been received here of the marriage of William Irvine at Seattle, Washington.

• Concrete parapets are being put on the new bridge at the former Strangeway store in the Center.

• Roscoe Brown at Lake Delaware, is putting in a new entrance to his cellar and concreting the cellar wall.

• Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Russell on November 14, a son.  The mother has been threatened with pneumonia. [This actually was a daughter, Mildred. She died in 1932. Her mother survived the birth and had three more children, dying in 1962.]

• Hale Elliott, of Michigan, a former resident of this place, is just recovering from a severe attack of blood poisoning.

• On election day the large truck of Milton Hastings, with John Aitkens as driver, went into the ditch and ran off the culvert at Oscar Felton’s and landed on its side.  The frame was badly twisted.

• George Cable narrowly escaped a broken leg Saturday while putting some new plank in the Coulter Brook bridge.  In some manner he went thru the opening where he had taken up a plank and the new plant that he was about to put in fell from the saw benches and caught him across the leg between the hip and knee.  Robert Robinson happened along and brought him to the village where he secured a car to take him to his home at Delhi.

Bovina Cows Condemned

William J. Storie, who resides below Bovina Center, had his entire herd of cows and young stock tuberculin tested and nearly half of them reacted.  To be exact out of 46 herd of cows and young stock tested 25 were condemned, three of them being only last spring calves.

November 24, 1922

• William Archibald is building an ice house.

• Marion Banker, of Andes, is now driving truck for Sheffield Smith.

• The making of cheese has been discontinued at the Up-Town Creamery.

• A number of the friends of Mrs. Julia McPherson made her a surprise pound party Tuesday.

• Arthur Kellam has completed his work at James Barnhart’s and has gone to Johnson City.

• Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, of Glen Spey, Sullivan county, were guests at John Blair’s the past week, being accompanied by Mr. Blair’s daughter, Mrs. Marshall Thomson.

Silver Wedding in Bovina

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Miller celebrated the 25th anniversary of their marriage November 17.  About 60 of their neighbors and relatives were present.  The couple were presented with a dozen silver knives and forks.