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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1902
Page
4
The Saturday night performance by the Rebekah lodge drew a sizable crowd with visitors from Basco Denver and Bowen. Notables Prof J B Hendricks and wife from Plymouth were guests over Sunday. Epworth League held a social at the parsonage.
Basco society items record a two year old child burned by hot water and improving. Michael Ever returns to time in Nebraska. S P Mott of New London Iowa visits family. C Collins of Keokuk spends Sunday here. Basco orchestra played for Daughters of Rebekah at West Point. Huff and wife of Carthage visit Basco relatives. M A Bower visits sister near West Point. Cora Fisher of Carthage visits home. J Huff and Raymond O'Brien on sick list. George Davis, ex local resident, visits en route to Welster Ohio for future home. Frances Reeder leaves to join parents in Quincy area.
A session of village life with visitors from Schuyler Nebraska and La Prairie. Updates include farm work, new fences and homes, buggy rides, and social calls among residents. Rain improves crops but more is needed while a funeral and illness mark the week.
Stillwell residents prepare corn ground for a large local acreage this season. Marvey Carr, a general merchant, was a business caller in Quincy. James Mitchell and family of Tiago visited home folks. Nellie Crear was a Bowen caller. Many young folks attended the West Point play. William Crear shipped a hogs car to Quincy. Estella Peterson visited aunt Martha Wilson of Green Grove. Crear plans a large orchard next week. Wilford Howard rented a house in the west part. Many young men have new buggies or bicycles. House cleaning is common. Mrs. William Zim is slowly recovering after a month of illness. The League at M. K. Church has reorganized. all are invited.
Mrs Edwin Simpson and Miss Lydia Alexander visited Augusta on Friday Ruth Rose called at Nettie Millers Thursday night Mr A J Ketehum stayed with J A Simpson Friday night George Keteham made a business call in the vicinity this week Arel Owen spent Wednesday night with Ed Simpson Mrs Jack Akers and daughters Pearl and Nida Augusta callers Wednesday Charles LH formerly of LaPrairie now on furlough will go to Porto Rico Ethel and Vera Simpson visited Ruth Rose Saturday afternoon.
The column urges practical health knowledge and notes Robert Boyd Sr improving. It quotes a physician and Ele on medicine versus nature. Ella Robison dies at home in Chili Township Hancock county on Thursday April 17 from lung trouble, leaving a husband five sons and one daughter. all the children attend the funeral.
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