April 1924 - 100 Years Ago in "That Thriving Town"

 

Here's what the Andes Recorder was reporting from the Town of Bovina 100 years ago this month. 

April 4, 1924

• Mrs. William Storie was a visitor at the County Seat last Thursday.

• Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert D. Miller spent Saturday with relatives at Andes.

• Pat Fay has finished his work as a fireman at the Bovina Center creamery.

• Mrs. Anna Heyart left Saturday for Hackensack, N.J., with her three children.

• Bovina real estate transfers recorded are Joshua Kennedy Russell and wife to Edward C. Dean, $1.

• Mrs. Fred Thomson entertained the King’s Daughters Sabbath School class at her home Tuesday evening.

• Miss Elizabeth Saxoure, of Andes, a former teacher in the village school, spent over the weekend at Fred Thomson’s. 

• George Shaver moved into the Hilson house, adjoining the store, this week, and will work for Hilson Bros. on their farm.

• Miss Jane Hilson, who teaches at South Orange, N.J., has been with her mother, Mrs. Alex Hilson, during the past week.

• Clarence Becker, of Delhi, has rented the blacksmith shop at the Pink Street brook bridge and has taken possession.  He is boarding with Mrs. Everett Joslin

Settlement Reached

A settlement was reached Thursday in the mortgage foreclosure case of Charles A. McPherson, of Bovina, agst Jean Muller and Joseph Arnold. By its terms the Arnolds give up possession of the farm (S.G. Bramley place) on which they have paid down some $1,600 and Muller undertakes to pay to McPherson all defaults and costs down to $8,000 and McPherson is to give a deed and take a mortgage for that amount. If the agreement is not fulfilled by April 28, foreclosure proceedings will be started. 

April 11, 1924

• Wilbur Archibald spent the past week in town.

• The Bovina Center skating rink is closed for repairs. [I don't know where this was located.]

• Kenneth Kaufman has been with relatives in town.

• Mrs. Ella Telford was up from Delhi on Saturday.

• The Bovina Center school is closed for Easter vacation.

• Mrs. Lancelot Thomson is ill with an attack of the grip.

• Frank VanDuesen has moved to the Dickson property up Pink Street. 

• Miss Anna Dickson returned Wednesday to Cornell University at Ithaca.

• Miss Calena Stewart has gone to Binghamton to spend the summer with her aunt.

• Attorney and Mrs. Ernest Bergman, of New York, spent the past week with relatives in town.

• Mr. Berger of Hackensack, N.J., who owns the Armstrong farm, was in town a few days the past week.

• Communion services were held last Sabbath at the U.P. church and there was an accession of two to the membership. 

• Rev. F.N. Crawford and Elder Frank Coulter attended the meeting of Delaware Presbytery Tuesday at Gilchrist Memorial church.

• Miss Jane Hilson returned to her school at South Orange, N.J. on Monday. She was accompanied by her niece, Miss Louise Hilson.

• Mrs. Lucy Coulter was at Colchester Station last Saturday to see her brother, John Ward, who is ill with pneumonia at the home of Will Ward. 

• W.J. Howland, of Andes, was here Saturday surveying the lot of Mrs. Alex Hilson, preparatory to building a new house.  The carpenters in charge of Howard Currie, of Delhi, commenced moving the old house Tuesday. [This is now the home of Mike and Christine Batey.]

• John Blair had the misfortune to have one of his big horses die Friday morning. The animal had gotten one leg fast in the partition of the stall during the night and in its struggles had evidently ruptured a blood vessel. It only lived a short time after it was released. 

Dart-Todd

Edna Todd, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Urion Todd, of Bovina, was united in marriage with Charles Dart, of Roxbury, April 2, by Rev. VanWoert, pastor of the Gould Reformed Church. They will reside on the Morse farm in West Settlement, Roxbury. 

Bovina Man Dead

Eli D. Felton, who since 1916 had lived in upper Bovina, died April 1, at the home of B.L. Robinson is Walton, from heart and kidney trouble aged 56 years. His early life was spent at Downsville and for a number of years he lived at Walton. He leaves a wife and one son. Rev. F.N. Crawford officiated at the funeral on Friday and burial was in Walton. 

April 18, 1924

• Mrs. Patrick Doig, of Walton, was a recent guest of her brother, George Gladstone.

• Mr. and Mrs. Millard Gow, of New York, spent the past week with his parents here.

• Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Gerry have spent the past week at their summer home in southern Bovina.

• The town board has appointed Thos C. Strangeway justice of the peace in place of Andrew T. Doig, deceased.

• William C. Russell commenced the cellar for his new house adjoining the residence of Thos. C. Strangeway on Tuesday. 

• Mr. and Mrs. William MacPherson, of Syracuse, were recent guests of his mother, Mrs. I.C. MacPherson, in upper Bovina. 

• James A. Boggs has rented the Maynard farm and moves from his father’s farm to the big house.  Benson LaFever and wife will live in the tenant house and work for them.

• The death of Frieland Morehouse occurred at his home in the upper end of Bovina township Friday, April 11, at the age of 71 years. He is survived by his wife and three daughters. 

April 25, 1924

• Hugh Galland has purchased a new Ford coupe.

• Mrs. Lancelot Thomson, who has been on the doctor’s care, is now improving.

• Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Miller, Miss Bell Miller and Mrs. Benson LaFever were Delhi visitors Friday.  [W.T. Miller and Bell Miller were uncle and aunt of Mrs. LaFever, the former Anna Bell Barnhart.]

• Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Barnhart, up Pink Street, April 9, a daughter – Dorothy Marguerite. [Dot was later married to John Hinckley and passed away in 2020 at the age of 96.]

• Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith and Miss Evelyn Cameron were recent guests of their aunt, Mrs. George H. Miller. 

• Mrs. Gideon Miller and son, Reginald, and Lulu Miller, of Hamden, were guests of Mrs. Andrew Doig on Saturday.

• Donald Lee, son of John B. Lee in Tuttle Hollow, who recently completed an agricultural course at Ithaca, has taken a position at Utica.

• Mr. Hitchcock, who has been at the uptown creamery, will have charge of the Dry Milk plant at the Bovina Center creamery.  Mr. Bright succeeds him at the Bovina creamery.

• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Boggs in upper Bovina, were taken suddenly ill last Wednesday and their daughter, Miss Calla Boggs, had to be called from Walton, where she had been helping care for measles in the family of her sister, Mrs. Robert Forman.

Remembered on Birthday

The neighbors of Mrs. Samuel A. Bouton at Lake Delaware, made her a surprise visit recently on her 78th birthday, April 10. She was presented with a handsome rug and other tokens. [Mrs. Bouton was the former Mary Ann Gillie. Born in 1846, she would live to celebrate her 91st birthday before her death in 1937.]

Altar 600 Years Old

An altar, the gift of Miss Angelica Gerry, has been installed in the chancel of the St. James Church at Lake Delaware. This altar is of especial interest and is among the oldest in America. It was painted in the year 1320 – 172 years before the discovery of America.