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GHILPREN AND GRANDCHILDREN HELP MR. AND. MRS. GOWELL OBSERVE GOTH ANNIVERSARY.\\11Is(Continue] from page I.)Julia. Elizabeth Wood wort Is of lt;Oliio, and they came to Michigan and availed themselves of t h,soldier’s .homestead privileges. vHenceforth they followed their ipioneering in.uinets, clearing first h their homestead and then a 1100-acre farm in Newaygo county and t then, 25 years ago. came to Miller* f ton where they cleared another!! large farm, meantime raising a large family.Though hewing the pathway 1 through the ferrets and improving * home conditions for their family and for generations that should follow, Mr. and Mrs. Cowell tool: intelligent, note of passing even to. Today they sum up the amazing changes that have taken place in their day. From the hlrized trail and the ox team to the network of Concrete roads covering the country and traversed by counth ,-s; automboiles; front the hand scythe and the cradle to the efficient farm machinery that lightens every toek on the farm. The isolation of those early days and dimly lighted nights has changed to the present time when even the border farmer* turn the button to flash on the lights, talks over the telephone to distant places an 1 listen to the radio bringing now* from ‘all over the world. Anumv ihr present day happenings considered remarkable by Mr. and Mrs. Cow ell Is the Graf Zeppelin, enoir ding the World in 21 days, when theyremembered how it took theirfriend* three months to cross tin* Atlantic not so manv years avo.
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Ludington Daily News
Ludington, Michigan, US
Tue, Sep 03, 1929
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