People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — A Village Rising Bell. [ARTICLE]

A Village Rising Bell.

For more than twenty years Bowmansville, Pa., has had what is known as a village bell. It is swung between two high upright poles and was paid for by public subscription. Every day the bell is rung three times—at 5:30 o’clock a. m., 11 o’clock a. m., and 4 o’clock in the afternoon. The leading object of its rlngifig is to announce to farmers and other working people the time of day. The first bell in the morning at Bowmansville is the signal for the people to arise and in the summer most of the residents are out that early. The 11 o’clock bell announces that it is time to leave the fields and prepare for dinner. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon they prepare for supper.—Correspondence Philadelphia Record