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Show chums or BOYHOOD RALLY 1 TO LOWDEN Sunrise, Minn, Birthplace of lllnois Goverror, Backs Him for President. THE LGWDEN SWIMMING HOLE Early Friends of Governor See Vlllaae Famous 33 Cradle of President "Born In Sun rice and Been Awake Cver Since." Sunrise, Minn., a sleepy little village ullli ti populntlnn of (X). has found n place In the polltli.'l sun. Politics hiis put the Hinge on the ninp and It es pectH to stay there. Tor Gov. Prnnl, O. I.owihn of Illinois, ono of the Ip.hI ln' inndldjtus fur the Republican. prildintlnt nomination, wan horn In Sunrise llfty-iiltu' jenrs ago. Ills Imj bond (hums ntul nelglibois mu um scions of the fume tlnust upon tin in t'erluips tho most cntlmilnstlp I.owiIimi foriiifslilent club In the Vountry N the one that meets In Sunnm, iioV In the lllngo bull, now In Andrew Mild'1-general Mild'1-general itore. It Is innnv jcars slncp the Louden" iiiihIc their home In Siiiirlsenmn tliiin Imlf a cciitmv In tact but iiu vlllnge Jins ncor foigotten the fnmll. lenst of nil "little Prank." The old hhed wheie Lorenzo London, the go enior's fiitber. Imil his blacksmith shop, htlll stniids. It Ik the prnporU of the Lowdm clilldidi, used only for storage purposes nnd for the Rhost jcntnes. which, the folh soy, were start ed by Frank London. The London home still ytends, too. It Is an old fashioned duelling that occupies a rlsrf of eround two miles from the Wince There Ik third building In SunriM-that SunriM-that figured In the Koiernor's bojhood That Is tin hcboolhouse. Iirenzo Ixinden helped to build It so his ho. could have u McbooIIiif;. The one-room structure Is hut -n stone's throw from the blacksmith shop. It I no longei a sihool, hmlng been succeeded h n more modern building, but Is now the vlllnge lull. A picture of the Illluols governor I gs on the wall, and mi 1 dcr Its roof the Louden club holds I mietlngs. The Sum Is folk are full of stories about Frank Lowden. "He was u studious child," rnlri Henry Voss, onu of the governor's schoolmates "After he bud burned 'to read he used to wiilk back and forth between the school and home, n dlj, tance of two miles, carrying n book beforu Ids fnte. The boys would spuaL to htm ntul he wouldn't answer. If we annoyed him when he was Interested Interest-ed he would stop and trounce us. Or," Voss added, with a twIuUr, "a; least he'd try to." , In a bend of the river near town la the swlmnilne hole where Frank'a. career was almost cm short. The boy was pasdloimtely fond of the water and In the spring could aenreely wait ' for the Ice to go out. ' "See right over there In the (.eutef "-nsledVoss, "-nsledVoss, ."Tliutti where iKranU I , enrly' djjjwied. Trylnf to, iiu ' hut I i Uie-ld. and. .stroncer h.vji' cild ( i uniiuvj, uij, lairunsw bujij iitu lie iqtURonthij.sprinebWd nhd,oungJ 'off In ten feet 'of .ueftjeo; VoL aaw hli pad.'bob utigoAlowii, vmlie Ajp" u secomHlBieyiKjttigaiii diinmnitr:" 'theo dlvfdMn, u few feet.rtiiwu Ihit ijurrent, c-tught him. by the hair and Mragged , Mtii , ushoretf" VVeSiKiUred. i the .ter-il't!;4iriu,unintu pW fijiriijieV litThhsji's clRtitwsVVer."'''' '" ! ' f "'Lowden' swimming lole,hs UtJII jibptilur with the biiyifif tln nelglithir jifiod J ; ,. v ' '.,,', ," j'Maur of.'W(V'rm)V'oll(rJds' ,'are nmvyit! Jfortlrftrnnoh ten .(lilies. frjuo MnnrtM"-Ai?oii'g tjiem Is S '.W, 1(nuiii.wlli -hatl' Siiiehliijr civ :.dli': wlthjPrnjuW'N-'WliHiitlou. ,'.. ( ) J... ,; ?i')'Bii'ht,Fruiikjf1j!iiiini.ufr sfJcUUunxUiy "We, eati'p'd m'auXV niUevir.tWs isflnitry"wllli our guifVn.(i' dogit'-.v.n ; , i ..- i Tbn UtwUrfs '.left SunrisV ln"-tiie' ltU flrtleb,'-v"mei.'lust .Cloture Vf blink's '-b'lih'oo( 'thai reuwlns'-wltli thrf old resident Is that of a.'Mlird; little chop, dressed' for, trayel.'.marcle ' lug off down tfie rojid behind the ,'pralrie KthiHiuV lhat. bore all the Louden fffeits to(thdr pew hoihn lb Iowa. There was nothing -forlorn' about the picture. Thu boy was cheer ful wldeuw'iike and on the lookout for souathlng to do tfertnoss vtas cluir ncterlstlc of him Uuld Ilenrj Voss h vlllugo phllos npber, vpenkliiK of his ojd friend "IVank wns horn here huSuiiilse; -and It kind of appears that ho has been awake ever since," |