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From Fox Valley Mirror (a magazine published in Carpentersville, Ill.) Spring 1945
Batavia - Cater-cornered across the street from "Bert" Windsor's banking house in Batavia, Clarence A. Bell and Erik R. Johnson have established a new restaurant. All spick and span and appropriately named "The Dinner Bell," it gives the community a convenient place to assuage the pangs of hunger. Mr. Bell, with an innate flair for cooking, got his first actual experience in a restaurant in North Dakota.
About two years ago he took over the Cottage Eat Shop, a little farther west on Wilson Street, named it the Dinner Bell, and did so well that he took on a partner and moved into new, bigger and more centrally located quarters. Clarence Bell, son of Alexander and Jennie Bagley Bell, was born at Thompson, North Dakota, and it was in that village that he first entered school. At Alexander, a community named in honor of his father, young Bell continued his education and graduated. At that time, in North Dakota, one might still take up land from the Government so the forward-looking youth filed on a claim and put in the next seven years making it into a farm. During the World War he got as far as Camp Lewis, in Washington, but previous to this he had already joined the army and spent eight months in the Border Service in Texas. Before he joined all those others seeking to "make the world safe for democracy," he married Amy E. Owens, from Dodgeville, Wis., then teaching school in Alexander.
After being mustered out of the army he returned to his farm - he had by this time proved up on 320 acres. But farming in North Dakota has its ups and downs, so, getting tired of the "downs" about twenty years ago, he gave it up and removed to Alexander, where, for the next three years, he was employed in a store and later in a restaurant and it was there that he got his first experience "cooking."
So that Mrs. Bell, still pursuing her career as an educator, might attend Normal, in 1926 the family removed to Milwaukee and Clarence went to work in a shoe factory.
Mrs. Bell is now one of the teachers in the Louise White School, Batavia, where she has been employed for a number of years. When the family first came to this Valley town, Mr. Bell worked for B.D. Price & Company but in 1930 he joined the Batavia police fore and for the next ten years carried out his protective duties until he went into the restaurant business for himself.
Besides Mr. and Mrs. Bell there are two daughters, one of whom is now Mrs. Frank Snow whose husband is in the army; and the other, Mrs. Michael Micich of Charles City, Iowa.
Mr. Bell is a Legionnaire and chief air warden in his block.
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