Millie BOWLES and Mae RALPH open a millinery
store in Lacona in 1920. Mae had operated a millinery in Lacona since
April 1908. Bowles and Ralph Millinery closed in the early 1930s.
(Source: Chronology of the
early settlers of White Breast Township and Lacona compiled by Edith HEEMSTRA and
John FORD sometime around 1980.)