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

 

Here's what the Andes Recorder had to report about Bovina 100 years ago this month:

May 4, 1923

• William A. Hoy was a Delhi visitor Friday.

• William Storie was at Hobart on business Friday.

• Harry Robson has moved from Frasers to his house in this village.

• Miss Margaret Archibald, of Delhi, spent over the week end with relatives here.

• George H. Russell is having a larger varanda (sic) built across the front of his residence.

• H.C. Burgin and wife and Mrs. Frank Miller were County Seat visitors on Wednesday.

• Mrs. Lucy Coulter has gone to New Kingston to help care for her sister, Mrs. Archiblad, who has sustained a shock.

• Evening services which were discontinued in December at the U.P. church, will be resumed on Sabbath evening.

• Henry Monroe moved Tuesday to Charles J. Russell’s house and has also rented Mr. Russell’s farm in connection with it. [Charles was Cecil Russell’s brother.]

• Mr. Nault, who has been living with his father-in-law on the Ed Coulter farm, will move to Delhi where he has secured employment.

• Miss Gladys Worden has been hired as principal of the Bovina Center school and Miss Edith Liddle as primary teacher for next year.

• At the school meeting in the Bovina Center district Tuesday evening Harvey Burgin was elected Trustee for three years to succeed Frank Coulter.

• Charles J. Russell moved to Delhi on Monday and on Tuesday took possession of the Co-operative store, the stock of which he recently purchased.

• John W. McCune commenced his duties as clerk in Cecil Russell’s store Tuesday. He takes the place of Chas J. Russell, who was purchased the Co-Operative store in Delhi.

Licensed to Preach

David Russell, of Glenburnie, a theological student will preach in the Church of the Covenanters for the next month. He and William Doig of Walton, preached trial sermons at a church meeting held at the R.P. church on Tuesday and the sermons were sustained. 

Husband Native of Bovina

Mrs. A.W. McGibbon, widow of Rev. McGibbon, a former pastoir of the U.P. church at New Kingston, died Brooklyn recently. Burial was at her girlhood home in Jacksonville, Illinois. She leaves two daughters. Rev. McGibbon spent his boyhood in Bovina and the family lived opposite the U.P. church. 

Native of Bovina

Miss Alice Rae, aged 82, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. E.O. Harkness in Delhi, April 24, from tuberculosis of the bones. She was born in Bovina and was the last charter member of the New Kingston U.P. church. 

May 11, 1923

• William M. Armstrong has succeeded John McCune as caretaker in the Bovina Center cemetery.

• Andrew T. Doig, who was taken ill April 28, does not improve as his many friends would wish. [Doig owned Russell’s Store until he sold it to Cecil Russell in 1919.]

• Rev. Edgelow, rector of St. James at Lake Delaware, attended the diocesan convention at Albany last week.

• Rev. F.N. Crawford has been attending a meeting in connection with the seminary at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 

• Mr. and Mrs. William C. Oliver and Mrs. E. Norton, of Andes, were callers at Robert R. Gladstone’s on Monday evening.

• It is reported that the Richard James house and lot at Lake Delaware has been sold to Miss Frieda Hodder, of New York.

• Eugene, a former Bovina resident, who has been living in Delhi, has purchased the speciality shop of B.L. Spring at Hobart. 

May 18, 1923

• John B. Lee, in Tuttle Hollow has been suffering from a felon. [A felon is an abscess involving the fingertips, caused by a bacterial infection.]

• Arthur Flynn and wife, of Hamden, were visitors here on Sabbath.

• Frank Myers, of Endicott, has been here the past week on a fishing trip.

• William H. Maynard and son, Archibald, of Canastota, were recent callers in town.

• Charles Lee is having his house at Lake Delaware treated to a new dress of paint.

• Elliott Thomson has the position of inspector on the new State road being built below Delhi.

• Supervisor Thos C. Strangeway attended a meeting of the Supervisors at Delhi on Monday evening.

• From a social held last Friday evening the Bacon Light Sabbath school class of the U.P. church realized $23.

• Herman Scutt, who lives with his grandfather, on the Margaret Hoy farm, cut his foot Thursday while splitting wood.

• L.W. Thomson, of Winthrop, Massachusetts, is making his annual visit here to enjoy the fishing. Mrs. Thomson was formerly Jennie Lee of this place.

• The numerous friends of the Misses Kate and Freda Muller presented them with a sunshine box Saturday evening, for which they wish to express their appreciation.

• Rev. F.N. Crawford will be absent for the next two Sabbaths attending of meeting of the committee on missions at Erie, Penn. And the General Assembly of the U.P. church at Buffalo. 

• Irvin Phinney, son of the late Dr. Phinney, was here the first of the week. His mother and sister are with relatives in New Kingston. The family have been residing in Colorado and Mrs. Phinney is in very poor health.

• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are Martha Kelley to John S. Burns, $224.84; Martha Kelly to T.F. Montgomery and wife, $361.90; Martha Kelly to David Draffen, $440.30; Ann Jane James, executor of to Alfreda Hodder, $1.

May 25, 1923

• Howard Coulter, of Andes, was a caller here Monday.

• Edward D. Gladstone, of Andes, was a Bovina caller Monday.

• William Crosier, Don Burns and Charles Fuller motored to Walton on Sabbath.

• Jack Myers, of Endicott, has been spending the week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Myers.

• Miss Mabel Gerry and friend, Miss West have arrived at the Gerry home at Lake Delaware for a stay of a month or more.

• An entertainment will be held on Friday evening for the benefit of the juniors. There will be a Tom Thumb wedding, drill, etc.

• Bovina real estate transfers recorded Martha Kelly to John A. Henry and wife, $45.88; Martha Kelly to Harry McCumber, $3ll.26.

• Lester Hoy, former of Bovina, now employed in the creamery at Frasers, recently underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Delhi hospital and is recovering nicely.

• Mrs. John Aitkens is visiting her son on Long Island and also seeing the sights in New York. Her daughter, Mrs. Flynn, of Pepacton, is keeping house during her absence.

• Mrs. Thomas C. Strangeway celebrated her birthday Saturday by a reunion of the immediate family. The three daughters, Mrs. Leon Taggart, of Oneonta, Mrs. Frank Dickson, Little Delaware, and Mrs. John Hilson. Of Bovina, with their husbands and children were present.