There was no school taught here until the building of the McDougal school-house in 1861. There are at present twelve sc hool districts, all having good houses, where school is taught the greater part of the year. The Missionary Baptist Church, which was erected on section twenty-seven, in 1875, is the only church building in the township, outside of Arthur. The first merca ntile business was carried on by the Landers Brothers, who kept a store one mile west of the present site of Arthur in 1872, which was afterwards moved into the village. Notwithstanding the territory in Lowe was about the last in the county to be settled, her citizens have evinced a stirring enterprise in all their pursuits, and today their township ranks among the best in the county.
Corn is the principal product, though flax and all the smaller grain yield large crops.
These gentlemen laid out twenty acres each, and donated half to the Paris and Decatur, now the Illinois Midland Railroad. The line dividing Moultrie and Douglas counties, ru ns north and south through the centre of the plat, and the railroad through from east to west. He placed a stock of goods in the store-room, and was the first merchant and the first resident in the village. This house has since been enlarged, and is now kept as a hotel by Mr. Sears. Also about the same time John Warren erected a small frame office and established a grain business.