Show WAR BEDECKED HERO john bowe has enough medals to completely cover his brave and manly breast jolt joh dowe F first arst vice commander of tile the minnesota deportment department ot of tile american legion Is ono one of the famous soldier rif nf fortune who ft ho in I 1 41 4 1 both the american und and the llie into war and Is now q quietly U 10 t 17 awni awaiting ting in canby I 1 v allan for all in aler other opi opportunity ity Y to will b other oilier decorations lons in ili tin nn other war war in his fifty years engg jolin join ilowe ling ins licen beell an nil t lik in business ns as IV well ell ns as in war VM lie ile started t lie li 0 first cash c a s h market for citrin produce in III cut cain p M I 1 by end and organized tho the first cement block und tile factory when that hint in thi thistly stry was ss looked upon na as a poor risk lie built the first cold stor storage tige building in ill his abts native city inor or ore are those tits his only ll lafirst first lie ile was as tile the first to alie farmers mutual telephone company first depositor in tile the savings bank first president of the yellow Mc mcalpine Alcine county fair association first president of jolin Swen St sons and was mayor of canby As might be expected of one lio thus tiu broadly sensed ills his duties ns am a 11 citizen lie he served alth file lie isali AM lleO in the spanish american war and in the philippine insurrection having been present nt at the lie capture of Ar atilla and ten odor r engagements when the world war broke out ilowe could not wait alt for america to enter but joined tile french army connected with the second foreign legion rind the lie and iiii depts of tile lie line the tand end and tile hie regiment foreign legion tie lie ivits M never commissioned lie ile spent three years in prance nid two ano years in the ha trenches tren clies lie ile was wounded in the th on october 10 1018 1015 returned to tile the front and was na finally invalided Invalid ed home one anft would never gregs ilia hut t this quiet mart 4 a OB lie he goes about ills hit flu business siness in this rhth peaceful town IF Is legionnaire bowe and never know that hat on the horizon blue of lie lie may wen acor r n croix dp do ani enough to cover the ali f irenet of hla bis 10 coat it la in awarding the ho croix de dc guerr guem the french government said lie volunteered always for tile roost most dangerous dun garom missions and tile lio lost perilous posts and tile tic medal was bestowed for distinguished and brilliant conduct under tire fire bowe hns fins written of tits ills thrilling experiences of two years in ilia title illicit of tile the tight lit in tits ills book soldiers of oc tile legion looking hack to my life over there now said hoac it was a busy en time while it lusted bilut the comrades are till nil dead or scattered the glory the romance Is gone it hardly seems tin tural or V possible 0 rs r s blo more ike a or night milre the tin and the lie exe exertion artion overshadow the few short hours of furlough in ili parts or london we lifford afford to loso lose it lie said tho the price paid was tei terrific rille but it was it provided we can call keep tile the advantages gill gained ned one tiling flint gets my iny goat Is tile lie self complacency of those people here nt at bottle ionie aliey have no lio conception of what Is or tins lias bein going on in Ha europe trope and dont seem to realize hint flint wo we tire nrc lust just as aa vitally interested in world problems am the people of europe we ive see bee too many in of aco lice standing idly by while the lid resources of tile lie country anro beang wastell wn wa stert steil wo we see BOO two groups nt lit washington spurring sparring for tin an issue for tile ho neat act election evidently trying to tn loo tile tho advantages tile lie solI soldiers lers ruined gained but I 1 lieve an unlimited anith chilt wo we r khall bull square ourselves to meet tile lie new lay 6 and the american legion Is s going to have no small part in squaring tho the ftp of state for the new day |