Bowen's Prairie: From Trailblazing Settlement to Quiet Loss
A historical survey traces Bowen's Prairie in Richland township from its 1830s beginnings to its decline by 1902. It covers early families, elections, schools, the 1850s church, Civil War enlistments, cheese production, German immigration, and eventual disappearance after rail expansion was denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Cascade
United States
Dubuque
Richland
Bowen's Prairie
George Rettig
Jones County
House of Worship
Post Office Department
Bowen
Iowa
German Language Church Services This Sunday
Church services will be held in German at 10 30 a m Sunday. Sunday school begins at 9 30 a m. Bible school meets at Amber and Wayne daily from 3 0 a m to 12 m except Saturdays and Sundays. Everyone is welcome to participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amber
Wayne
Sunday Church Programs and Meetings Schedule
Sunday June 24 includes children day program at 10:30 am with a 10 am arrival. morning worship at 11 with the anchor of the soul sermon. Christian Endeavor 7 pm. union service 8 pm preached by Rev. George W. McNary. Choir rehearsal Friday at 7:45 pm. Sunday school 10:30 am German services follow. Mission festival July 1 invites neighboring congregations. Luther League meeting after morning service. Ladies' Aid June 27 at Mrs Harold Egger’s home. St Johns German service 19345 am and Trinity 9 am with Rev Martin Geiken. Council Bluffs Nonpareil notes local farm savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittemore
McGuffey
Webster
Smith
Pike
Cabell
Smiley
Permons
Jones County
John Gillman
Bowen's Prairie
Middle West
Military Road
Frink
Walker
Dubuque
Iowa City
Cascade
Ebenezer Little
Little
F. M. Hicks
New York
California
Bowen
West
Thomas King
Muicklejohns
Western
Plaires
Cape Horn
Panama
Praire
Bowen's Prairie Congregational Church
New England
Bowen's Pravie Congregational Society
FB. Wright
Anamosa
Lst
Otis Whittemore
Asa Bowen
Otis
Barrett Whittemore
Christian Endeavor
George W. McNary
Aim
The
Luther League
Ladies’ Aid
Harold Egger
St. John's
Trinity Church
Martin Geiken
New Library Books and Classic Reissues Displayed
The public library lists new circulation titles with reviews by Florence Noble. Highlights include Adventures of Chatterer the Squirrel by Burgess and Tales on travel and history such as Mexico and Central America by Franck, When They Were Girls by Moore, and The Lone Scout of the Sky by West. New editions include Dickens, DeFoe, Otis, Bel src, and Hughes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Library
Florence Noble
Chatterer the Squirrel
T. W. Burgess
Mexico
Central America
H. A. Franck
R. D. Moore
Colonel Lawrence
Lowell Thomas
J. E. West
Charles A. Lindbergh
St. Louis
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Toby Tyler
James Otis
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel DeFoe
Tom Brown
Thomas Hughes
Iowa dairy association hires summer assistant for calf clubs
The Iowa State Dairy Association will employ an assistant this summer to aid 4H dairy calf clubs and prepare calves for fall fairs. Ted Besh of Waterloo will lead the program, bringing testing and show experience from the Pioneer Cow Testing Association and high national judging honors. Liquor raids in Iowa City led to seven resorts closed and federal charges against Moose and Eagle lodge members in Davenport. At Marion’s St Berchman’s seminary a dramatic find uncovered 700 pounds of honey in the walls, requiring removal of plaster and bees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Dairy Association
Ted" Besh
Waterloo
Besh
Pioneer
Ames
Iowa City
Moose
Eagle Lodge
Davenport
Gardens
al Vevera
W. E. Pooler
St. Berchman's Seminary
Marion
Heflin Lecture Blurs Line With Political Speech
Boston Transcript notes that Senator Heflin delivered a lecture that critics call a political speech in disguise. The event drew attention to how rhetoric and policy positions can blur lines between education and campaigning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Transcript
Senator Heflin
Worry Over Crops Returns in Sioux Falls Item
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader notes farmers’ crops appear to cope well, with concerns about weather and conditions not turning into serious problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls
New York Banker-Poet H Phelps Clawson Noted
Minneapolis Journal references H Phelps Clawson a New York banker and poet known for banking first and poetry after. Poets urged to take notice as clipped grass leaves are mentioned in a playful local note.
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Minneapolis
H. Phelps Clawson
New York
Decree of Authority Subject to Discount
A reporter recalls Admiral Leonard Wood and the World War era Philippines amid harsh judgments. The tale shifts to Joe Childs, famed jockey, who enlists in World War I era cavalry. At Curragh, the riding master jokes about Childs seat on a horse, noting past riding on a donkey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard W. Wood
Washington
Philippines
General Wood
Childs
Joe
Ceyalery
Curragh
Ireland
Electric Furnace Aids Wireless Valve Manufacturing
A high frequency inductive furnace heats only electrical conductors enabling metal parts of wireless valves to redden and boil out gas before sealing from the vacuum pump. The process avoids heating the glass bulb and prevents further gas release from filament heating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cain
Rachmaninoff Prelude Rumor Sparks Prompt Evasive Answer
Edward W. Bok quotes a story about Sergei Rachmaninoff and his impatience with the popularity of his Prelude. When asked if a scene inspired the piece he replied solemnly that he had in mind a woman buried alive and knocking at the coffin to escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Bok
Rachtmmninoff
Sponges Cultivated Undersea Beds Like Oysters
The article explains cultivating sponges by cutting healthy sponges into half inch seeds, wiring them to cement blocks, and dropping them into underwater beds. These seeds mature in two years while host bath sponges from Florida take ten years to reach full size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Children Wise Beyond Years Stir Studio Visitor
A Fox studios visitor marvels at how a child star answers with surprising wisdom yet fears the loss of natural childhood. The child retorts that the visitor has been spoiled, underscoring the tension between fame and innocence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fox Studios
Angeles
Timnas
Expensive Yarde Two Rival Western Teams Hire Star Player
Two western teams boasted skill in football and arranged a match. One side heavily backed its team and hired a famed professional. Early in the game a sensational 79 yard touchdown run stunned spectators, then the player was removed. The manager explained the pay was a dollar per yard, warning the town would go broke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eurly
Silent Pearl Peddlers Draw Paris Crowds
Chinese pearl peddlers in Paris attract attention with quiet, motionful eyes and cautious smiles that lure hesitant shoppers. About a hundred street sellers, hailing from Chekiang province, operate unseen along the city sidewalks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Amile
Chekiang
Proper Ratio Spirit of Resistance in Man
A quotation attributes a spirit of resistance planted in the breast of man by fate, proportioned to the size of the wrongs endured, attributed to Charles James Fax.
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Charles James Fax
Wanted and For Sale Notices and Local Ads
Late cabbage and tomato plants for sale by Mrs. Newton Parrott. Also a five room house for rent with furnace excluded, inquire Fred Kellum. Rendering Co offers free removal of dead animals with 24 hour service. Monticello area by phone 40 Anamosa area by phone 24. W. H. Winans to move saw mill to Dan Hogan farm by July 10. lumber sawyers requested to be ready.
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Newton Parrott
Fred Kellum
Monticello
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids Rendering Co
Dan Hogan
Will Hogan
W. H. Winans
Card of Thanks for Dixon Family Funeral
The Dixon family thanks members of the American Legion and friends in the North Mineral vicinity for assistance and sympathy at the funeral of their son and brother Francis Dixon and for floral offerings. H. O. Dixon and family.
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American Legion
North Mineral Vicinity
Francis Dixon
H. O. Dixon and
Notice of letting for coal bids in Jones County Iowa
Bids will be received by the Jones County Board of Supervisors at the auditor's office Anamosa at 10 a.m. on July 3 1928 for three cars of bituminous 4 6 lump coal. One car to Amber Iowa to be delivered August 1 one September 1 and one October 1. LaVern Rockstad County Auditor.
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Board of Supervisors
Jones County
Iowa
Anamosa
Amber
LaVern Rockstad
County Auditory
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lahae
History Magazine
Denson
Prairie
Richland Township
Martha Ann Dixon
Mary E. Moore
Mary Moore
Thomas A. Kine
West Union
Iowa Territory
Plowman
Hugh Bowen
Justice of the Peace
Daniel
James L. Langworthy
Charles Johnston
Alfred Weatherford
Johnston
Weatherford
Durin
Geeree TL. Nightingale
Thomas McNnight
Ewton
Bugh Bowen
Briar
Congregational Church
C. G. Banghart
Howard Smith
Orin Crane
Theodore Hopkins
Isaac White
William E. Leffingwell
Seat of
Otd Whittemore
Curtis Stone
White
Stone
Clark's Grove
Scotch Grove
Clay Township
Monticello House
Grove
David Harper
South
Clark's Brove
Columbia
Columbia, South Caroline
Thirty-first
Iowa Infantry
Lenox College
Hopkinton
Iowa State College of Agricuure
Mechanic Arts
Ross Cheese
F M. Hicks
Monticho Express
J Willms
Reformed Church
R. P. Kuentzel
St. Matthew's Ev. Lutheran Church
H. L. Adix
St. John’s Bvy
Paul T. Gutknecht
Council Bluffs
Shelby County
New Library Books
Hilaire Belloc
J. O. Curwood
E. M. Delafield
Laura Temple
S. M. Emery
H. A. Vachell
Susan Glaspell
W. L. Finley
Oregon
E. G. O'Neill
Helen Wills
Rpriss Aia Pores
Enterprise Wonder
Wm. Schoon
Oxford
Arend Balster Stores
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McCormick-Deering
R. H. Balster
Monticello, Iowa
S. H. CG
Deering
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