This fellow shows up in the Jefferson County KS newspapers but doesn't belong to my batch of Bowers: "Cleve Bower had a very painful accident last week, when he smashed two of his fingers." The Perry Mirror, Thursday, March 4, 1909 (Thompsonville). Apparently of the same batch (not mine!) is Miss Bertha Bower: "Miss Bertha Bower visited the school Tuesday afternoon." (same issue, same paper, also marked Thompsonville.) Same issue: "Mrs. Chas Roark and daughters, Ethel and Mabelle, spent Thursday and Friday at the home of her uncle, C L BOWER. Mrs. Roark was en route to Arkansas to join her husband, who has a position as engineer there. (Thompsonville) My Bower family was in the area at the time, but they thought their name was BOWERS. Wasn't till the reading of Great-Grandpa's will till they found out they were not BOWERS but were spelled BOWER. Jan T