| Show WAR ME MED t BEDECKED HERO John Bowe Has Enough Medals to Completely Cover His Brave and Manly Breast JohL Bowe First Vice Commander of the Minnesota Department of t the American Legion Is one of the famous soldiers of fortune who fought In n both the Span Spanish Spanish- sh- sh American and the late war and Is Isnow Isnow isnow now quietly awaiting In Canby Can Can- by hy Minn for another an oth other r opportunity to win other decorations decorations dec dec- 1 orations in another another another an an- other war 41 In his fifty years John Bowe gyp has been an on ad i in iq business busi Cy r ness as well as as In war lIe He started the first CASK cash cas h market for tor farm produce In Canby Can Can- Canny by ny and organized the first cement block and tile the factory when that Industry Industry industry In In- was looked upon as a poor risk He Dc built the first cold storage building build ing lag In his native city Nor are those his only firsts He lIt was the first subscriber to the Fa Farmers Farmers' Mutual 0 Telephone Company first depositor de depositor e de- in n the Postal Savings Bank first president of ot the Yellow Medicine County Fair Fall Association first dent of ot John Swenson's Memorial r. r Hospital Hos- Hos pital And was mayor of ot Canby As might be expected of ot one who thus broadly sensed his duties as a citizen he served with the MInnesota MIn Mm ne De ota In the Spanish Spanish American American war and In the tile Philippine Insurrection having been present at the capture of Manila and ten tea other engagements When the world war broke out Howe ve could not wait walt for America to tot t enter but joined tile the Trench French army connected ionn with the Second Foreign Legion find arid the and 1 l regiments regi- regi rt gl- gl ments ment of f the line the and the 1st Regiment Foreign Legion He De was never commissioned He De spent three th years In France and ad two years In the trenches He Ho wan wounded In the attack on Champagne October Oct ber 10 19 1015 lOllS returned to the front and was finally Invalided home One Joe would never guess that this quiet unassuming man mad as he goes ah about ut his business In this peaceful Minnesota town Is Legionnaire Bowe and you'd you never know that on the horizon blue of his uniform he may wear n a croix de guerre and ind nd enough t medals to cover the breast of his coat coal In la awarding the croix de guern guerri the French government said he volunteered volunteered volunteered volun always ays for the most dangerous d missions and th the most perilous posts post r rand 1 and the Serbian medal was bestowed j for tor distinguished and brilliant conduct conduct con con- fJ duct under fire x Bowe has written of ot his thrilling j experiences of two years In tn the thick of ot the fight In his book Soldiers of i ithe the Legion Looking back to my life over there J r now said Bowe Bo It was a n busy entertaining en- en z f exciting time while it last- last ed But the comrades des are all an dead i rj or scattered the scattered the g glory the romance romance J Is gone gone It It hardly seems natural or or possible more like a dream or night night- mare The suffering Buffering and the exertion overshadow v the few short hours of furlough turlough In Paris Parla or London We couldn't afford to lose loser he said t The price paid was terrific but It was worth It It provided we can k keep p 5 S the advantages gained One thing that v 1 gets my goat Is th the com sel-com self complacency t of or those people here at home they home they f have no conc conception of ot what Is or pas has as been going on in 10 Europe anI and dont don't 1 seem to realize that we are just as' as as t o ov v vitally tany Interested Interest d In world problems 88 as 1 1 the people of ot Europe j J We see too many many politicians in office of fice flee standing Idly by while the resources resources resources re re- sources of ot the country are being ti wasted We see two groups at WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- 4 ington sparring for an nn issue for the I ne neTt nert t election evidently y trying to lose Joso ose tho the advantages the soldiers gained d. d But I have an unlimited faith that we i I shall fillan square ours ourselves to meet the n hew flew w d day y And the American Legion Is goIng goIng going go- go Ing to have no small part In In squaring the hip Mp of ot state for the new day 1 |
