Bowbells 75" Jubilee North Dakota State Library 1906-1981 Bismarck, Nd 58505
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BOWBELLS 75" JUBILEE NORTH DAKOTA STATE LIBRARY 1906-1981 BISMARCK, ND 58505 |B88BB a aalllkBB B R,R Fii SCHOOL REUNION NORTH DAKOTA STATE LIBRARY 3 3105 06669 8820 NORTH DAKOTA OOKORAUTHOR Bowbells Diamond Jubilee and School Reunion 1981 Wnr+h DaWota St»te Library Bijmarek, N. D. 58505 North Dakota Don't lose faith in North Dakota, She's been mighty good to you. She took you when you had nothing Made a landed man of you. And for years she gave unstinted, Filled our bins with golden grain, So now surely we can't blame her When she did not get the rain. We sowed wheat, oats, flax and barley, Burned our straw piles stack by stack, Robbed her soil of most its goodness; We took all, gave nothing back. She's been parched by lack of moisture And was singed by sizzling heat; Most her sub-soil moisture vanished, That's what happened to our wheat. Why not plant some kind of forage, Let your fields recuperate. She will soon begin to show us That she equals any state. —Frank Emerson Floyd (Smiley) Johnson and Elton Peterson, Jubilee Co- Chairmen, present the first Diamond Jubilee Booster Button to Mayor Don Preskey. 1981 is indeed a time for celebration! Seventy-five years is a long time for any city to maintain its prosperous existance, and Bowbells deserves to celebrate. The editors of this book would like to thank all persons who contributed material to make this book possible. Remember that it is impossible to include everything that has happened or everyone that has lived in Bowbells for the past seventy-five years. We hope that the' pictures, poems, and articles that we have included will help keep your memories of Bowbells alive. Most of the information received was from people's memories and not actually recorded. May the next years be as profitable, the memories as great, and may you enjoy the last seventy-five as you read this book. Editors Rosalie Melby and Sandy Siemers • City History and Memories Vi Berg • Cover Design Barb Mclntyre Floyd and Mary Mclntyre • Button Design JonSosalla • Alumni Listing i irol Peterson, Bonnie Cron, Delores Durward and Mildred Nehring • published by Burke County Tribune Present Bowbells City Council. Table of Contents Emerson Poem 2 Owings Poem 5 Bowbells Begins 6 Bowbells History 8 Early Pictures 10 Fire of 1907 16 Rebuilding 18 Early Business 20 Minute Capsules 31 Threshing Time 34 Residences 35 Churches 38 Early Groups 39 Pioneer and Old Settlers 43 Personalities 45 Miscellaneous 53 Memories 54 Eclipse 56 Bowbells School 57 Alumni 59 Alumni Listing 61 Collage 85 Emerson Poem 87 Sir i^RAWMliS * • * -*•***. An Ode To The Laboring Man By R.A. Owlngs We have built great cities over this far land, With many mansions, the result of the laboring man. We have built the shipts that sail the seas, And have robbed the forests of the big fir trees. We have sawed the logs built the lumber barons homes Yet we have not a hut we can call our own. Great highways we have built over mountains high, Over which motorists speed and die. Wells we have drilled to a depth of five thousand or more, Installed the machines that pump oil from the core. From miles underground we have brought forth coal While many of our homes are mere shacks and cold. We have produced a surplus of good milling wheat, Yet millions can't afford bread to eat. A surplus of cotton we have on our hands, Unable to ship to foreign lands. We grow and gin the cotton which into cloth we weave, As a result our pants are threadbare at the knees. For producing a surplus we should be given a nod, Instead we find ourselves out of a job. We have been exploited and struck from behind, In a land that was created for all mankind. Wars we have been fighting they say to preserve the peace Inpossible until competition between nations cease. When competition is finally laid on the shelf, We may learn to love they neighbor as thy self. Bowbells Begins. The Village Board First Village officials elected in 1903 Moved and carried that It. K. Hadwen act Meet, Organize and Get in Shape as street commissioner. to Do Business. Moved and carried that all male dogs be Hurlv as sureties, was on motion accepted. taxed as $1 per year and female dogs $2 per BOWBELLS. N.D.July 17. 1903. Bond of R. F. Hadwen as marshal, in sum year, to hi- paid lo (he city marshal or treas The Board of Trustees of the village of of 9300. with G. H. Gjertsen and Thomas urer on or before Aug. 22. 1903. Bowbells met at 9:30 a.m., all mernberN Hunter as sureties, wus on motion accepted. Mo\ed and carried (hat slot machines be present. Bonds of assessor unci treasurer were fixed laxcd $2 per year each, billiard tables #3 per Trustees were sworn and took oath of of at the sum of 8300 and #1000 respectively. year, pool tables $3 per vear and bowling fice before A.W. Movius, notary public. The clerk was instructed lo provide sup alleys $10 per quarter. Moved by Trustee Landsborough and plies for justice of the peace and clerk. Il was moved and carried that Mr. Hansel) seconded, that G. J. Hanscli act as chairman Board adjourned to Wednesday night. Jul\ aet as committee of one to secure a surveyor of the board for the ensuing year. Carried. 22. 1903. to establish grade for sidewalk on Main street Moved by Trustee Smith, and seconded, F.I. LYON. CLERK. from Railway lo Third streets. that the bond of A. W. Movius, at $300, with Moved and carried that nil persons having P.W. Sharp and J. B. Donovan as sureties, be JULY 22. 1903. manure or filth on their premises and on accepted. Carried. Board met pursuant to adjournment. J. 1). ad joining streets and alleys, or foul weeds Bond of r . I. Lyon as clerk, in the Niirn of Lundshorough. on motion, acting as clerk pro of an\ description, be notified to cut and re $300, with Staale Hendrickson and TIIOM. B. tettl., in the absence of the clerk. move the same on or before Aug. 5, or some one will be employed to do the same and the cost incurred will be taxed up to the Minutes of first village council Meeting. properly. Moved and carried that an adjournment be taken until Wednesday evening, Aug. 29. F.I.LYON. CLERK. Bowbells. Jul> 29. 1903. Board met and was called to order b> Chairman Hansch. Minutes of previous meeting read and ap proved. Board on motion agreed to division and naming of the several wards. A sei of bv-laws and nrdinuccs were presented and read, and on motion same were adopted and approved. Motion made and carried to adjourn sine die. F.I. LYON. CLERK. Mike Mertes with his four horse drill and other settlers mark the spot where the City of Bowbells was built. 6 Bowbells . Directory lj. % B1CKF0RD, Pi-ts. , A. B. BICKFORD, Vide President. RALPH ANDREWS, Cashier. Wmt^Btate Bank of Bowbells Oldest Bank in the City Bowbells, N. D. -r- F. I. I.V'IN IV II. I.. I.VnS. Sf.-T,-,, Jens Peterson —i—i M..' 'i—r—i—;—r Nubinr VuUYw Lyon Land & Loan Company On the Square! DEALER IN General Merchandise We Advise You lo Go to N. D. Farm and Grazing Lands HARDWARE Son r.«t.lt-nt*' [MmstoCllHfl THE . CITIZENS . LUlVlfiJER . CO. l/AKEFl'L ATTENTION -POR- BOWBELLS - N. 1>. OR. A. R. FOSTER Q. E. LEE & Co. Square flW^jfo Bowling Alley sHKfc'Dealiug John Shippam & Son Pool Room Buildine ii.-fllrwl of all kinds always^!** hand at Townsite Propreitoflj ee Barber Shop L'p Slain right prices. CBw snd * Farm Loans J DENTIST u«. and •.'.<•'. ouHXHcett be Ci|in and tooted ion try fore building, TB' M'lATElJ AT HOWBELLg. Come in and have a sociable 7'l-J Phoenix BIdg . Minneapolis, Minn. time in town. E. A. BllKIOg^Mgr. RuWKEI.l.S. ... N. D. v foils Flaxton Twice a Month. DOSXYBROOK, N. D. BOWBELlfflfclL KI — IX )W Mc KOANE : F. J Glenn : Dealer In —BREKDER OF— All Kinds of Up-To-Date Standard Bred Horses. Owner of BOWBELLS Ihe Celebrated Stallion Furniture NLTALWOOD A Thriving Town of 500 Population Elcv.tor No. 3 BOWBELLS, N. D. |I irst Class Service Bowbells Tribune Rates S2.00 Per Day THOS. HURLEY, Ed. and Prop, HUraRICHARDSON OWBELLS, N. D... i* located ..n the Soo railroad II L. miililiiui. Prop. Best Adver.isiog Medium in Ward Coumy in th« northeaMem part of Ward county, and ia one of the most enterprising towns in the State. It ESTABLISHED IN 1900 B was platted in th- fall of HKW by John Shippam, who is the present tottneite owner, and has ever since made HiVNSON & MOE rapid strides cityward, and its future stability is assured, oeing in the midst of one vast, rich farming belt and never exper MIHH Mollie Hegseth Billiard Hall and City Restaurant iencing a crop failure. Solt Drinks The soil is of & rich, black loam, and in no way is the A FUSE LINE OF SEASONABLE famous Ked River Valley superior to it. The chief crops are Bathroom In Connection wheat, oats, ilsx and potatoes. Jtlat think of raising from 200 MILLINERY BOWBELLS, *• p' to -100 bushels of potatoes per acre on new breaking without cultivating, with a selling price of 75c per bushel.