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'I'll Be Back,’ He Said and

Died—His House Still Waits

By ESTELLE BOND United Press Staff Correspondent

CUTTINGSVILLE, Vt.,, Feb, 22, © Sixty years have elapsed since

melancholy John Bowman died. Yet his gingerbread-style mansion in this snowbound village is faithfully kept ready for him in case he keeps his deathbed promise—"I'll be back.” #8 8. ‘ THE CLOCK on the mantelpiece still ticks off the hours, Windows gleam in spotless brilliance. Scarcely a speck of dust can be found in the many-rqomed house. Lovely old Victorian furniture, polished to a satin finish, Invites repose, There's food in the pantry. The drives and walks are cleared of snow.

John Bowman could walk right in today and begin again the life he left in 1886.

nn» BORN a farm boy at humble Pierce's Corner, six miles from here in 1820, Bowman worked his way up in the best Horatio Alger tradition to become a wealthy tannery operator in Stony Creek,

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At 40 he took a wife who bore him two daughters and, having cnough of wealth, came here and built the elaborate home. But misfortune shattered. his dream of pastoral retirement. In quick succession his daughters and wife died. Neighbors said that John Bowman never smiled egain. | sx = HE SOLD his tannery and purchased the acres opposite his home here. : On this land he created what is now beautiful Laurel Glen cem-

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elery. He organized an association to supervise the property permanently and endowed it*with a $50,000 trust fund. -~ Within the plot he built an elaborate mausoleum. A life-size statute of Bowman on bended knee with a wreath in his hand was placed before the entrance of the tomb # 8.» DURING the ensuing five years Bowman pined away and finally took to his bed. : One day he seemed to brighten a little. He ordered that his elothes be brought and then on the arm of a male nurse toured the house. Lovingly he looked at the high-

ceilinged rooms, the old furniture; |

the pictures of his wife and children. At the foot of the stairs

. he stopped and said:

“I'll soon be leaving for a little while, but I'll be coming back.”

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THE NURSE carried him to his |

bed dead. It was Asa Mairs, one of the

and minutes later he was

cemetery trustees, who began the | task of keeping the house ready |

for John Bowman. Then another, Samuel 8. Smith, took over the task. : But for the past 35 years the duties have been faithfully performed by George 'N. Jones, now 80. " o o SEVERAL times, Jonés said, he’s had to discourage visits of persons claiming they were the reincarnation of John Bowman. But never once has ‘he neglected

“his “work of keeping Bowman's

house open.

‘Everything's ready if he comes “but I for one |

back,” said aJones, don’t expect him.”

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stantially quarters close to the pontiff ex- | pressed anxiety over his persistent

{ Millersville rd, Indianapolis, March 18. president of the | will officiate.

Indiana synod,

Pastor Smith is a graduate of | the Gettysburg Theological semi-

Ebenezer United Lutheran church; |

| mary, a native of Pennsylvania |

and a Boy Scout and youth worker. He has served large pastorates in Philadelphia and . Altoona as well as his church and the National Lutheran council | area. He and arrive March 1.

in the Elkins Maneuver

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OPA PENALIZES

0f Gambling Among Permit Losers.

win $600 from been suspended by OPA

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tor of a filling station at New York st. was

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Dunlavy, regional

| Federal building.

An East side filling station opera-| tor who last week was ‘convicted on gambling charges after he is al~4leged to have used loaded dice to a war veteran has for possession of counterfeit gasoline cou-

Clarence (Bud) Reflitt, 28, opera-

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972° months yesterday by Dennis 3 hearing 9 |commissioner, at a hearing in the X

», Two other Indianapolis filling sta- 3 tion operators and another from 3 .

Muncie also drew suspensions.

» In December, the OPA suspended 3 for the ‘duration Reffitt's former ¥

partner, Edward M. Sedamy 31. who ¢ was also. given“a jail sentence in

the affair last week.

counterfeit coupons, Lowell Rawlings, 1424 W. 32d st., operator of a filing station at 50th

ist. and Road 29, was suspended for

the duration after he was found demanding coupons. charged with automobiles whose license plates did not correspond with the number

m the coupons:

charges after Edward Evans, a paper company employee reported to 3 police that he had been held up. 2

Investigatior later - revealed the 3 gambling incident and also led to! ¥ the OPA charges of - possessing’

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4 M. T. Taylor, 2514 Shriver st. & operator of a filling station at 16th 2 st. and Senate ave, drew a 90-day X suspension after he was found guilly 2 of accepting improperly-indorsed 3 coupons. He was placed on proba- 3 tion the last 60 days of his! sentence. | 3 One (a%e Continued | 3 The case, of. Philip R. Schultz, R

“| 3427 E. 38th st., operator of a filling {station at 244 E. New York st, was [continued, He is charged with being |

short in his gasoline inventory,

The Muncie filling station opera- | tor, Harry Bradbury, was suspended

for the duration. He was charged

with having sold gasoline without

coupons, being short in his inventory, and failing to submit the required coupons to the OPA upon

closing his station.

Fred Cramer, chief of the fuel

land consumers ‘durable goods unit, | X | enforcement (district: OPA, led the prosecution.

division, Indianapolis

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