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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
Viewing Records: 2,001 to 2,100 of 6,111
| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1930-05-10 | Luther Hospital | New nurses home dedicated. |
| 1930-05-08 | Stevensons | Moving from HL Culver's Lyric building, 211 South Barstow to Keith building, 18 South Barstow until recently occupied by Resneck-Berger Co.'s Ladies Shop. John J. Pavelski will remain as manager. |
| 1930-05-07 | Crime | Chief & Police Captain Isadore Lennie suppoenoed in Loftsgardon hijacking case. Load of liquor hijacked at Loftsgardon home in EC. |
| 1930-05-03 | Parks | Forest Hill Cemetary to be developed according to plan laid out by Mpls. landscape architect. Will reduce mound in center and use to fill in swampy area east of hill. |
| 1930-04-27 | Dunphy Boat Works | Enlarged production since moving. Put out two motor boats per day. Marketed through NY firm. OH Ingram of Nashville, son of EB Ingram has joined firm. |
| 1930-04-27 | City Growth | Census shows population 26,337, a gain of 5,431 in ten years. 1st Ward 1439/1539 (1920/1930), 2nd Ward 1733/2181, 3rd Ward 3017/4382, 4th Ward 953/1196, 5th Ward 1879/2060, 6th Ward 2276/2509, 7th Ward 1987/211, 8th Ward 2040/2141, 9th Ward 768/4001, 10th Ward 2814/4214. |
| 1930-04-25 | John Jacob Astor Will | |
| 1930-04-06 | Uecke Dairy | Milk delivery wagons all equipped with rubber tires. |
| 1930-04-04 | City Growth | Haymarket sheds torn down & site marked for parking. No one can remember when sheds were built. |
| 1930-03-26 | Music | Lists teams for Civic Music. |
| 1930-03-19 | City Growth | First woman runs for City Council, Mrs. Class came in 6th out of 15 in primary. |
| 1930-03-12 | Cutter, A.A. Boot & Shoe Company | O'Donnell Co. wants to combine factory here with others in chain & eliminate one in EC. |
| 1930-03-12 | City Growth | EC business shows little effect of stock market crash. |
| 1930-03-10 | Circus | Some circus history. |
| 1930-03-09 | City Growth | Council bans diagonal parking on River St. & will delelop Haymarket parking lot. Will remove team sheds. |
| 1930-03-04 | Crime | PN Farmer father of George who is married & Andrew Olson father of Orwald. |
| 1930-03-02 | Crime | Three arrested, four sought as gang raids & steal slot machines. Tom Wylie, Vern Kloster, August Ausman, arrested. Diamond King, Orwald Oson, George Farmer & Sonny Peese sought. All EC boys. |
| 1930-03-02 | Uecke Dairy | SO Staake patented rubber shipping container for ice-cream, now being manufactured at Gillette. |
| 1930-02-27 | Weather | Bolt of lightning struck house 470 Ferry, Thompson home. 7 people knocked unconscious, damaged every room, broke 13 windows, people not hurt. |
| 1930-02-25 | Weather | George Rathbun and John Heubsch shot 18 holes golf. Robins here. |
| 1930-02-25 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | Payroll over two million, 1,346 employed. RW Hutchins President and General Manager. |
| 1930-02-21 | Weather | 60 degrees. Warmest February every recorded here. |
| 1930-02-21 | Weather | Warmest February temperature, 60 degrees since official records here. Frost deeper this year than in many years, dissipated overnight, permitting melted snow to sink into ground. |
| 1930-02-20 | St. Patricks Church | Make plans for new high school. |
| 1930-02-18 | World War I Company E (see National Guard) | Gives some history of Company E. |
| 1930-02-18 | Fires | $10,000 fire in Rogness Battery and Electric station, 208 S. River St. Eau Claire Feed and Seed and Bollinger Ulry used car exchange damaged. Year Alarms loss 1920 242 $95,590 1921 186 $55,912 1922 240 $183,759 1923 278 $163,698 1924 283 $89,766 1925 319 $104,116 1926 310 $36,361 1927 314 $48,065 1928 340 $70,789 1929 361 $33,948 1930 448 $120,423 1931 412 $165,000 1932 369 $39,000 1933 368 $22,049 1934 463 $40,181 1935 338 $45,650 1936 495 $41,000 |
| 1930-02-01 | National Bank of EC (Ingram & Clark) | TB Keith President, paid loan from Bank of WI |
| 1930-01-28 | Crime | Chief Laursen reports 103 cars stolen, 101 recovered. Murderer of Agnes Johnson unsolved. St. Paul detectives thought may be suicide. 529 arrests made in 1929; 29 of them women with 29% of women under 21 & 9 1/2% of men under 21. |
| 1930-01-28 | Eau Claire County | Courthouse replastered, remodeled, stairway changed. |
| 1930-01-28 | Eau Claire County | Courthouse replastered, remodeled, stairway changed. |
| 1930-01-04 | Skiing | Batson married. |
| 1930-01-02 | Crime | Drunkenness & traffic violations head lists of arrests 553 in 1929. |
| 1930-01-02 | Fires | Fire loss lowest in 10 years. |
| 1930-01-02 | City Growth | Construction total $1,356,248 in 1929. |
| 1929-12-28 | Gun Club | Volunteers making trout ponds. |
| 1929-12-03 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | Stockholders start suit against Herman, former President. |
| 1929-11-22 | Gun Club | To buy property on west bank of Half Moon. |
| 1929-11-10 | City Growth | Firestone building open for buisness. |
| 1929-10-13 | Second Ward School (also called Thorp or Boyd) | New addition to Second Ward now occupied, 4 rooms, 70 pupils shifted from Third Ward school. |
| 1929-10-11 | Junior chamber of Commerce | Officers elected. |
| 1929-10-05 | Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee & Omaha RR | Permit to extend spur track west across Putnam St. for new Holsum Bakery. |
| 1929-10-01 | Junior chamber of Commerce | Hold second meeting. |
| 1929-09-28 | Concordia Evangelical Lutheran | Lay cornerstone North Farwell & East Madison. Reverend Einar Anderson, young pastor called two months ago & recruited 20 members, started with ten in 1928. Sunday School increased from eight to 5. Joined Norwegian Synod. |
| 1929-09-22 | Hillcrest | Club house almost ready for opening. |
| 1929-09-13 | Union National Bank | Milwaukee group buys large share interest in Union National, now affiliated with 13 Milwaukee banks. No change in officers. Wheeler President, SG Moon & MB Severson Vice Presidents, Knute Anderson Cashier, JW Selbach, BG Weizebegger, Clarence Kappers, RV Wilcox Assistant Cashiers. Directors: FH Bartlett, GL Blum, BA Buffington, WL Davis, John Drummond, ES Hayes, RH Hobbs, EB Ingram, HT Lange, SG Moon, JG Owen, RR Rosholt, GB Wheeler & RP Wilcox. Total resources $3,847,738. |
| 1929-09-13 | Drownings | Kiwanis Club instrumental in present Allen MacDonald with medal & check. |
| 1929-09-11 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | Ralph W. Hutchins elected President. FC Herman retires. RB Gillette Chairman of the Board, SG Moon Vice President, IT Gilruth of Chicago Vice President and General Counsel, C. Bruce Reynolds Secretary & Treasurer, HC Olson Assistant Secretary & Treasurer. Plant working 24 hours a day, three shifts, four years ago and still does. |
| 1929-08-25 | Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee & Omaha RR | Omaha to spend $75,000 for new transfer building & 3 side tracks at Altoona to relieve Dewey St. traffic. Altoona city hall with either be moved or demolished. Traffic crossing Dewey will be reduced 65%. |
| 1929-08-22 | Sports | Marx still champ. |
| 1929-08-11 | Drownings | Allen Macdonald 17, deaf boy saved two little girls from Dells Pond when he faintly heard them scream. |
| 1929-08-06 | Country Club | New 18 hole course. |
| 1929-08-02 | Weather | July 26 tempertaure 97, hottest day in 28 years. July dry. |
| 1929-07-24 | Branstad Drugstore | Moving from Culver building (northwest corner Barstow & Grand) to across St. to building vacated by Culver Show Co., Burlingame building. |
| 1929-07-24 | EC Book and Stationary. | Control companies in four states. |
| 1929-07-23 | Hillcrest | Tournament. |
| 1929-07-20 | Phoenix Furniture Co. | Employ 43 at factory shipped two carloads to Marshall Fields, mahogany counters & fixtures. Shipped walnut bank fixtures to People's State Bank of Pontiac, MI. Have orders for bank furniture in three states. Also working on orders for new Branstad's Drugstore. |
| 1929-07-05 | Crime | Agnes Anderson, 19 year old housekeeper for Paul Oustad, 704 Gilbert died of strangulation. Oustad worked night shift & found body when he came home. |
| 1929-06-23 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | Produces 6,500 auto tires per day. Employs 1600. Payroll $110,000. |
| 1929-06-23 | Presto (National Pressure Cooker Co.) | Sending large shipment to Japan. ER Hamilton President. Cooker made here used in White House. Ball St. plant running day & night. Uses 20 tons aluminum ingots per week. Employs 200, payroll $1,000 daily. Makes 600 cookers a day; three years ago, only 50 per day. County agents demonstrated use for canning throughout US. Nationally advertised. Internationally used. Branch offices Chicago, Boston, LA, NY & Cleveland. |
| 1929-06-20 | Eau Claire County | Courthouse bell installed 1888 & used to tell time, junked. For years bell tolled at 6 a.m., noon, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Rung by electricity be buzzer at #2 Fire Station. Crack developed 8 or 9 years ago and not used since. Weighed 3000 pounds, 4 or 5 feet high. Smaller bell used 1st, but unsatisfactory so replaced next year. Sold for junk. |
| 1929-06-20 | Drownings | Harold Van Gelder 714 Lake St. rescued Ray Carndall at Half Moon. Ray was swimming & went under. Companians screamed for help. Harold 32, jumped in & rescued him. Second time Harold has saved a boy from lake. |
| 1929-05-23 | Dunphy Boat Works | Bought EC Box & Crating Co. property Menomonie St. east of car barns. 16 acres extends to old canal from Half Moon on south side Menomonie St. James Larson President, Vernon Larson Secretary, John Larson Treasurer. Larsons bought works 20 years ago & moved to present site 14 years ago. |
| 1929-05-17 | Weather | Coldest May 15 on Record, 28 degrees, snowed. |
| 1929-05-09 | Newspapers--The Leader | Telegram and Leader consolidated 1912 to form EC Press Co. |
| 1929-05-07 | EC Airways, Inc. | First long distance service flight to company was flight to Marshfield take by Bill Tufts & Sloan. |
| 1929-05-02 | Christ Church | Bishop Wilson consecrated. |
| 1929-05-01 | Sacred Heart Church | New church dedicated. |
| 1929-04-30 | Eau Claire Times | Some history of Times and other papers. |
| 1929-04-30 | Newspapers | History of papers. |
| 1929-04-27 | Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee & Omaha RR | Joseph Massey, Wheaton dairyman escaped death when truck hit by Omaha train at Truax. |
| 1929-04-26 | Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee & Omaha RR | Three RR operating in EC collected $2,819,818 in EC in 1928 of that $333,026 passenger & $2,486,154 freight. Over 1 billion pounds freight came in & went out of EC in 1928 passenger slump & freight increase. |
| 1929-04-26 | Presto (National Pressure Cooker Co.) | Blast in gas vent of furnace wrecked one furnace, damaged two others, former Northwest Steel & Iron Works. |
| 1929-04-21 | EC Airways, Inc. | Seven men incorporated, buy three-seat biplane. JR Davis, President, JS McMillan VP & Secretary, Wesley Ferguson Treasurer. Other incorporators are TJ Wilcox, WA Kaiser, Conrad Johnson, George W. Fairbanks. Pilot is John S. Simpson. Will remodel hanger on State St. hill. Have leased State St. field, 280 acres. |
| 1929-04-18 | Christ Church | Reverend Victor Hoag to come here from Kansas. |
| 1929-04-02 | Weather | Temperature 77 degrees. |
| 1929-04-02 | Weather | March went out like a lion, blizzard left 10" snow. |
| 1929-04-02 | Sports | Keith Werner in European competition tennis. |
| 1929-03-01 | Wisconsin Telephone Company | Earl S. Welch received 1st transatlantic phone call in EC (from Paris) Only a few such calls received in St. Paul or Minneapolis. |
| 1929-02-13 | Woolworth, FW Company | Leased entire floor of Culver building where Branstad is now. Howard L. Culver owner of building. |
| 1929-02-07 | Captain E. E. Heerman | Letter from Captain gives history. |
| 1929-02-05 | Parks | Northwestern Lumber Co. gives 2nd Ward beach to city, a strip from McGrath to Summer, Grand Avenue to river. |
| 1929-02-02 | Weather | Cold and snow near 28 year record. |
| 1929-01-30 | Lumbering | New Dells officers are EB Ingram, president, MB Hubbard, secretary, Dr. ES Hayes, treasurer. |
| 1929-01-30 | Lumbering | New Dells operating. (story) |
| 1929-01-08 | Crime | Jules Hezell, self-styled phychoanalyst who swindled EC & CF people of $30,000 in 1926 found in Idaho. |
| 1929-01-05 | Banking and Currency, see also: Depression for Ban | Bank deposits here nearly 10 million dollars. Have increased nearly every year for last 14 years. |
| 1929-01-05 | Banking and Currency, see also: Depression for Ban | Bank deposits here nearly 10 million. |
| 1929-01-02 | City Growth | More than million dollars spent in building in EC in 1928. |
| 1928-12-16 | State Theater | |
| 1928-12-09 | State Theater | First talking picture. |
| 1928-12-02 | State Theater | To have vitaphone. |
| 1928-11-22 | Christ Church | New EC Diocese formed & Dr. Frank Wilson head. |
| 1928-11-09 | Standard Oil | Open house at large new plant on Birch St. near viaduct. 200 men frive in truck garage. Distributing plant for Northwestern WI. |
| 1928-10-10 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | New addition being erected on west side of building. Cost $50,000. One story 128 feet by 200 feet. Three new buildings in last 18 months. All connected by tunnels. |
| 1928-10-10 | Music | First Civic Music concert to be Oct. 31. |
| 1928-10-04 | EC Milk Producers Co-op | Milk powder plant opening. Four-story building on WI St. |
| 1928-09-29 | Sports | Legion stops marathon. |
| 1928-09-23 | Sports | Marathon still on. |
| 1928-09-20 | Fires | Former Masonic Temple burned. Loss $50,000. To August Hansen Furniture Co. His grand opening was only 2 weeks ago. |
| 1928-09-16 | Sports | Marathon dance contest. |