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[[in box]] Mrs. T.H. Lowes

[[image - woman standing just inside an open gate]]

[[caption]] among the flowers and trees she loved so well.

[[title]] Community Is Poorer By Loss Of Mrs. Lowes

With the death of Mrs. T.H. Lowes, which occurred last Tuesday morning, there passed away one of the real pioneers of this district.
The spirit of the west has been created by men and women like her who came when the country was in its wild state.  Vast, unpeopled distances stretched in every direction and the settlers must have had abiding faith and unquenchable spirits, as well as far-reaching vision, to buoy them up above the loneliness and difficulties which at times seemed insurmountable.
These pioneers lacked the conveniences which make modern life pleasant.  Opportunities for gratifying the social desires were infrequent and consequently these early settlers lived near to nature.  They studied domestic creature, the birds, the four-footed beasts. They lived with and loved the flowers, the grasses, the trees.  Amid crude, sometimes rough, surroundings their hearts grew tender and "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
Mrs. Lowes was a type of the best 
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