Show CHUMS OF BOYHOOD RALLY DAILY TO LODE LOWDEN Sunrise Minn Birthplace of Illinois Governor Backs Him for President TIE THE LOWDEN SWIMMING HOLE Early Friends of of Governor See Village Famous as Cradle of President Born In Sunrise and Been Awake Ever Since Sunrise Minn a sleepy little village with a n population of has found a place In the political sun Politics has put the village on oh the map and It expects ex- ex ex expects to stay there For Gov Frank 0 O. O Lowden of Illinois one of or the leadIng leadIng leadIng lead- lead Ing candidates for the the Republican presidential nomination was born In Sunrise nine fifty-nine years ago ago His boyhood boy boy- hood chums and neighbors arc are conscious conscious con con- of the fame thrust upon them Perhaps the most enthusiastic Lowden- Lowden for president for club In the country Is the one that meets I In Sunrise now In Inthe Inthe inthe the village hall now in Andrew LInds LInd's general store It Is many years since the Lowden made their home In more Sunrises than half haIr a century In fact fact but but the village muge has never forgotten the family least of r all little Frank The old shed where Lorenzo Lorenz Lowden the governors governor's governors governor's gov gov- father had his blacksmith shop still stands It Is the property of the Lowden children used only for storage purposes and purposes and for the ghost games which the folk say were start ed cd by Frank I. I Lowden The Lowden home still sUlI stands too Joo It Is an old old- fashioned dwelling eUing that occupies a rise of at ground two miles nilles from the village There is a third building in Sunrise that figured in the governors governor's boyhood That is the schoolhouse Lorenzo Lowden helped to build it so his boy could have a schooling The one room one room structure Is but a stones stone's throw from the blacksmith shop It Is Ie no longer longera a school having b been en succeeded by a amore amore more modern building but Is now the village hall A picture of ot the Illinois governor go hangs on the wall and under under un un- der del Its roof loof the Lowden club holds meetings The Sunrise folk foU are full rull of or stories about Frank Lowden tHe He was a studious child said Henry Voss one pf of the governors governor's schoolmates After ho he bad had learned to read he lie used to walk back and forth between the school and home a 0 distance dis cUs- l lance tance nice of two miles carrying a book before his face The boys would speak to him and he wouldn't answer ver If we annoyed him when he was Interested Interest Interest- ed he would stop and trounce us Or Voss added with a twinkle at least hed he'd try tr to In a bend of the river near town Is the swimming hol hole bole where Franks Frank's career was almost cut short The boy was passionately fond of ot the water and in the spring could scarcely wait walt for the Ice to go out See Sec right light over there In tn the center asked Voss where Frank ne nearly drowned Trying to do what the tiro older and stronger t bo boys ys s 's did h he got up on the springboard and plunged o off Y in ten feet of ot water Theo Voss saw his head bob up go down come up a second time and again disappear Theo Thea dived In a l few feet down the current caught him by the hair and dragged him ashore We poured the water out of or him and In a B. few tew minutes he was as right as ever eyer swimming hole Is still popular with the boys of ot the neighbor neighbor- hood Many of the governors governor's old friends are now at North Branch ten miles from Sunrise Among them Is S. S W W. I Runyan who had something to do do with Franks Frank's education I taught Frank to bunt hunt squirrels said Runyan We covered many a amile amile amile mile of ot this country with our gun and dogs The left lell Sunrise In the late sixties The last picture of t Franks Frank's boyhood that remains with willi the old residents Is that of ot a sturdy little chap dressed a Or or travel marching marchIng marchIng march- march Ing off orr down dotty the road behind the tile prairie schooner that bore all the Lowden effects to t their new home In Iowa There was nothing forlorn about th the the- picture The boy was cheer cheer- cheerful ful rul wideawake and on the lookout for tor something to do Alertness was characteristic char char- characteristic of him Said Henry Voss the thu village philosopher philos opher speaking of ot l his s old friend Frank was born bora here re In Sunrise and it kind kina o of appears that he has bas been awake ever e since |