Edmunds County Tribune -

From the Ipswich Tribune July 20, 1927 edition

AN INTERESTING HEIRLOOM

Bowdle Pioneer—George Meadows of Ipswich brought an old “grandfather’s clock” to Bowdle the other day to have O. Larsen, the jeweler, make some adjustments to its internal organs which, by reason of age, had become deranged, the clock having been in the Meadows family for something like 160 years. It was made in Ireland at Downpatrick, and is hand wrought and a beautiful specimen of work, both cabinet and works. It stands nearly six feet high and its mechanism is operated by weights. The cabinet is ornamented with pillars and panels and interlaid work, all hand work and executed beautifully.

Seeing it recalls the fact that in our father’s house there was one like it, handed down from generation to generation, for three or four generations, all its wheels, except one being made of wood. It, too, was a centenarian when we were a kid.