January 1923 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

 

Here's what was happening in Bovina 100 years ago this month, from the pages of the Andes Recorder.

January 5, 1923

·         The tax collector is again with us.

·         Mr. Palmer has moved from Delhi into rooms in what is known as the Dickson big house.

·         The Bovina Center school opened Tuesday, but many are staying home with whooping cough.

·         Mrs. Nancy Jane Ackerly, of Margaretille, who was a native of Bovina celebrated her 90^th birthday on December 28.

Deaths of Adults the Lowest in History of Town

In the town of Bovina during 1922 there were 22 births, 5 marriages and 9 deaths – 3 adults and 6 infants.  This is believed to be the lowest death rate of adults that the town has ever had.  The average age of the adults was 71 ½ years.  In 1921 there were 17 births, 6 marriages and 8 deaths, with the average age of the 6 adults of 68 years.

 

January 12, 1923

·         Lauren Dickson returned this week to his law studies at Yale.

·         The Bovina Center Co-operative Creamery icehouse is being filled with ice from Lake Mahikan.

·         Ruth Coulter fell on the street last Wednesday and injured her arm quite severely and she has had to carry it in a sling.

·         The plasterers are on the job at Lake Delaware and are now working on the rectory, and carpenters are rushing their work to keep out of their way.

·         Miss Jennie Miller, who stays at Walter Wilson’s up-town, suffered a shock last Friday afternoon which paralyzed one side.  She has improved a little during the last few days.  Mrs. Lucy Coulter is caring for her.

·         Sloan Archibald celebrated his 75^th birthday on Thursday, January 4.  In honor of the event his son, Russell Archibald, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Archibald at dinner Thursday evening at his home in Delhi, and also presented his father with $50 in gold.

·         The Bovina students returned to their studies at Delaware Academy on Tuesday, viz; William Wilson, Courtney Currie, William Gordon, Beatrice Hoy, Ruth Coulter, Wilemina Archibald, Mary Brown, Helen Gladstone, Margaret Gordon, Marion McPherson.   Owing to a severe cold Janet Laidlaw did not return.

 

January 19, 1923

·         Herman Johnson has gone to New York City for a week.

·         Fred Johnson is in quite poor health under the doctor’s care.

·         A. Jones is here to start the condensing pan at the Bovina Center creamery as the cheese market is dull.

·         Miss Jennie Miller, who had a shock two weeks ago, is much better and Mrs. Lucy Coulter has returned home.

·         The ice house of the uptown creamery has been filled with ice from the Johnson pond.  Alex Thomson had the contract.

·         A few weeks ago while Mrs. Mary Ann Russell, at the Butt end, was washing a mended milk can she sustained a cut on the end of the middle finger on her right hand.  The wound apparently healed and then broke out again and blood poisoning was feared.  The physician says that the trouble comes from a nerve having been cut.

 

January 26, 1923

·         The trucks are again on the job after being shut in for three or four days by the snow storm.

·         The skim milk from the Bovina Center creamery is being hauled to the Ayer & McKinney plant at Delhi.

·         A new switchboard is soon to be put in the central office of the Bovina Center Telephone company.

·         John Burns in upper Bovina, was taken to the Delhi hospital last week to receive treatment for dislocated knee the result of a fall.