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

 

From the pages of the Andes Recorder 100 years ago this month.

March 2, 1923

• Mrs. Robert R. Gladstone is under the doctor’s care.  Mrs. Russell is the nurse. [Mrs. Gladstone was born Margaret Thomson. She survived this illness and died five years later in 1928.]

• The Dry Milk Plant in connection with the Bovina Center Co-Operative Creamery will open for business about April 1.

• The road from Bovina to Delhi was opened up Wednesday [Feb 28] for trucks, after having been closed for anything but sleighs for about two weeks.

March 9, 1923

• Clarence Brown and Jason Whipple, who have been on the Thos H. Johnson’s farm, will leave it about the middle of the month.

• Miss Margaret Hoy, one of the oldest residents of Bovina, died on Sabbath, March 4, at the home of her nephew, Arthur Hoy, where she had lived since her health failed a year or so ago, so that she could not live alone.  She was the last of her generation and was born in Bovina 85 years ago, and had always resided in the town.  The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon, from the United Presbyterian church, of which she was one of the oldest members.

March 16, 1923

• Mrs. Robert R. Gladstone is improving very slowly.

• Barrels are being received every day from the Dry Milk plant.

• The Bovina Water Company has declared a dividend of 5 percent.

• Clarence LaFever has returned from Long Island, where he went last August.

• The new switchboard for the Bovina Center telephone office arrived this week.

• G.D. Miller, who has been housed up as the result of a fall, is able to be out again.

• A woman representative of the Delaware County Home Bureau was here Tuesday.

• Cecil Russell is still unable to attend to his store duties.  John McCune is assisting in the store.

• Sloan Archibald and his wife and Mrs. Douglas Davidson spent Monday with their aunt, Miss Jennie Miller who is a “shut in” at the Butt End.

• John Burns visited bonesetter Sweet at Oneonta last week and his knee was put in better condition and four toes on the same leg put into place.

• Fred Johnson, who is helpless from a shock, was taken to the home of John Taylor at the foot of Elk Creek, Monday, in order that he may be more easily cared for.

March 23, 1923

• Mrs. Ganger, who was called to Columbus, Ohio, recently by the serious illness of her brother, returned home last week.

• The body of John T. Doig, formerly of Andes, who died at Detroit, Michigan, was brought here the first of the week and put in the vault.  The funeral services and burial will be held at a later date.

• Alex Wilber, of Arena, who had since the death of his wife last fall had lived at Everett DeSilva’s in upper Bovina, died March 9.  Early in February he went to Arena on a visit and was soon afterwards taken ill with a cold and pneumonia followed.  His age was 78 years.

March 30, 1923

• Lauren Dickson is home from Yale law school for Easter vacation.

• Town Superintendent Coulter and a force of men have been making the town highways passable for wagons.

• Miss Knox, who teaches up Pink street, is having a vacation of three weeks which she is spending at her home in Walton.

• David F. Hoy, registrar of Cornell University, was a recent guest of his sisters, Mrs. Douglas Davidson and Mrs. Sloan Archibald.

• Mr. and Mrs. Marry Robson will move back to Bovina Center from Frasers, April 1st.  He will be employed at the New Andes Creamery, Inc. at Andes.