1. Ezra Mowrer was one of the first Lost Springs pioneers and a life long resident. Ezra Mowrer owned the General Store in the early 1900's on the corner of the main intersection at Berry and Chicago in Lost Springs, Kansas
2. Booster day 1915 at the center of town, corner of Chicago and Berry in Lost Springs, Kansas. The top portion of the bandstand sat for years (still there in 2007) in the park and was used as a concession stand for ball games. This picture also shows the old brick bank building in the background.
3. About the same view as above just a little different angle, looking from the corner of Chicago and Berry at the Church of Christ in Lost Springs.
4. First airplane ever seen in Lost Springs, Kansas, landing in a field on Booster Day 1915.
5. First airplane ever seen, landing in a field on Booster Day 1915 in Lost Springs Kansas.
6. Booster Day 1915 this airplane flew into Lost Springs Kansas. Judy Bresch had an Uncle that was a kid at the time and he was sick that day and had to stay home. He was so disappointed that he was going to miss seeing his first airplane he had ever seen. As it turned out the plane flew right over his house and landed in a field near by. He ended up getting a better view of the plane than the rest of his family that had gone to town.
7. Picture of Booster Day Celebration, taken from the roof of the Old wooden school house in Lost Springs Kansas about 1915.
8. Looking at the old Lost Springs Lumber Yard/Furniture store and Booster Day Parade in Lost Springs about 1915.
9. Lost Springs, Kansas Lumber Company about 1915
10. The old Lumber yard in Lost Springs, Kansas
11. Switzer Store (Meat Market) Lost Springs, Kansas about 1913. Owned by a pioneering family
12. Lost Springs, Kansas, Hotel - Red - Andrey - Louis - Day and Dog Bully
13. Birdseye view of houses in Lost Springs Kansas taken from the top of the school house about 1915.
14. Birdseye view of houses in Lost Springs Kansas taken from the top of the school house about 1915.
15. Birdseye view of houses in Lost Springs Kansas taken from the top of the school house about 1915.
16. Birdseye view of houses in Lost Springs Kansas taken from the top of the school house about 1915.
17. Lost Springs, Kansas Marking The Santa Fe Trail - November 14, 1908
18. Santa Fe Trail DAR Marker when it was new (Lost Springs, Kansas)
19. Lost Springs Station Marker. In the picture, J. B. Shields, John Terry and R. D. Bevan
20. The Smith and Mowrer pioneer families - Taken in Ramona, Kansas
21. Ovid Mowrer house and family about 1909 in Lost Springs, Kansas
22. Ezra Mowrer, a pioneer and life long resident of Lost Springs Kansas, was running for mayor of Lost Springs, Kansas
23. The (wooden) Lost Springs, Kansas School built in about 1912-1914
24. This is the house and family of Wilbur Smith and Dora Mowrer taken in about 1913 in Lost Springs Kansas. Dora Mowrer Smith wanted a new house. She raised pigletts till she had the $600 to send for the house in a Sears catalog. It came by rail road ready to assemble. The wood for the house was stamped "Tacoma, Washington" which ironically is where their decendnts later moved. The house had five outside doors and winter and summer kitchens
25. Judy Breschs', great grandfather Wilbur Smith and his brothers Bert and Walter. Wilbur had one leg. Lost it while working for the rail road. Was on a pump car shooting jack rabbits and the gun accidentally fired into his leg. He went into the Insurance Business in Lost Springs, Kansas after that.
26. This is Nancy Josephine Barnhouse, Bowers' house on East Crane street across from the school house and near the Lost Springs Cemetery. The house was built 1913.
27. Smith and Mowrer families in Romona Kansas about 1910.
28. Ovid Mowrer's house about 1915 and again in 1990
29. Judy Bresch in 1990 in front of Ovid Mowrer home in Lost Springs, Kansas. The Mowrer family homesteaded in Lost Springs, Kansas
