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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
Viewing Records: 2,301 to 2,400 of 6,111
| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1922-10-25 | Normal School | Article. |
| 1922-10-18 | City Growth | Drop of $366,593 in personal property in 1922. $694,657 construction in 1923. |
| 1922-10-18 | Boy Scouts | 1st Court of Honor at City Hall. |
| 1922-10-13 | Auditorium and Armory | Sousa concert. |
| 1922-10-05 | Standard Oil | Bought corner Barstow & Jones (Bowel Carriage Works) from Masons for $12,500. |
| 1922-10-05 | Street Railway | (25 years ago) Old plow works on Menomonie near Milwaukee and St. Paul tracks being raised and rebuilt for larger car barns. |
| 1922-09-30 | EC Daily Leader | Page of funnies includes Bringing up Father, Freckles & His Friends, Old Home Town, Out our Way, Salesman Sam, Doings of the Duffs. |
| 1922-08-23 | Airplane Stunts and Parachuting | Genevieve featured at Mauston Fair. Is 18. |
| 1922-08-13 | Crime | Three arrested in raided house of Mrs. Rose McHaffle, 321 Third St. |
| 1922-08-13 | Drownings | Workman at Paper Mill, William Meyers 38, lost footing while dumping cinders at mill. |
| 1922-08-09 | Amplifier Co. | EC man, CA Clark, invented phonograph without a horn. |
| 1922-08-01 | National Bank of EC | Celebrating 40 years as a National Bank. |
| 1922-06-23 | Farmer's Store (Is this the same as Farmer's Tradi | Wrecking old Quigg livery stable for new building. |
| 1922-06-06 | Airplane Stunts and Parachuting | Genevieve Dixon, EC girl walks on wings and parachutes in Minneapolis. |
| 1922-05-26 | Girl Scouts | Fifteen girls pass tenderfoot. |
| 1922-05-06 | Farmer's Trading Corporation. | RH Manz takes over elevator, manager nine years. |
| 1922-05-05 | Luther Hospital | Amalia Olson resigns, been in charge since start. |
| 1922-05-02 | Boy Scouts | 100 boys clean up streets & alleys. |
| 1922-04-30 | Drownings | Three-year old daughter of Max Phillips 108 East Madison fell through railing of Madison St. Bridge. |
| 1922-04-21 | Crime | Diamonds & money stolen from unoccupied home of Mrs. Dan McLeod, widow of wealthy lumberman who died 12 years ago. Home (corner Jefferson & Farwell) not lived in since. Gilber Stenseth 18 & Rueben Woodford stole several times, rugs, silver, jewels & money. More than six solitaire diamonds, two worth over $1,800. Stenseth tried to sell $900 diamond ring to jeweler EE Osterberg for $15. Osterberg called police who caught boy. |
| 1922-04-15 | Wissota | Donald Boyd says 22 EC people to build on Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Co. land near Yellow River. |
| 1922-04-11 | Floods | High water 15'. Haymarket flooded. Holcombe dam broke. |
| 1922-04-08 | Lions Club | Organized by 35 men. |
| 1922-04-08 | Schwahn, AF & Sons | Received carload of olives, 1st carload delivery in EC. In last year company sold 600,000 pounds fresh sausage & 300,000 pounds cheese plus oysters, mince meat, canned milk, etc. Trademark a white swan. |
| 1922-04-06 | Wide Awake Shoe Repair | Open 2nd shop, 413 East Grand in shop used for years by Andrew Grotte, now retired & incapacitated. |
| 1922-04-01 | Farmer's Trading Corporation. | Farmer's Co-op quits business, incorporated 1915 & doing milling business 9th & Broadway. Enough assets to cover debts. |
| 1922-04-01 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | Schatic drops suits. |
| 1922-03-30 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | Lawsuits due to national depression. |
| 1922-03-26 | Paper Mill | Man has hand amputated. |
| 1922-03-26 | Luther Hospital | Wrecking old home for nurses residence. |
| 1922-03-19 | Northwestern Steel & Iron Works | Fire completely destroys plant. Loss $100,000. Will resume operations at Phoenix. |
| 1922-03-09 | Phoenix Manufacturing Co. | CL Tolles & RB Briggs resign as President & Secretary/Treasurer of company, business very slack. Company operating with very small crew of men. |
| 1922-02-26 | City Growth | Census shows EC foreign born decreased 820 in 10 years. Come from 23 countries, 21 negroes, 11 less than ten years ago. Increase of 936 families & 711 houses. Austrian 110/110 (1910/1920), Belgium 2/0, Canda 454/565, Czechoslovakia 27/0, Denmark 62/63, England 73/83, Finland 4/1, France 8/0, Germany 729/923, Greece 12/11, Holland 7/2, Hungary 13/21, Ireland 91/172, Italy 2/6, Yugoslavia 2/6, Norway 1592/1924, Poland 32/0, Russian 33/51, Scotland 27/33, Sweden 185/205, Switzerland 40/44, Turkey 0/6. |
| 1922-02-10 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | FC Hermann now President. Payroll 1921, $428,488 |
| 1922-02-05 | Lumbering | Story about logging. |
| 1922-02-04 | Weather | Big blizzard over state, heaviest snow in 20 years will take week or 10 days to clear streets. |
| 1922-01-20 | Paper Mill | Workman killed at mill. |
| 1922-01-14 | Lumbering | Story about logging. |
| 1922-01-01 | City Growth | Tree planting along CF road most ambitious landscape improvement ever attempted west of Atlantic coast. Completion of 1st Congregational church & opening of EC Hotel for conventions, etc. marks milestone. Births double deaths for 1921. |
| 1922-01-01 | Fires | Loss in 1821 $40,000. Davey block west end bridge burned and fell into river last night. Only 4 horses out of 12 left in department. Welsh replaced 1913 Chalmers with new Oldsmobile. |
| 1922-01-01 | EC Daily Leader | Now carries automobile section. |
| 1921-12-15 | Drummond Packing Co. | Gutted by Fire. Farmer's Store & Transfer Co. damaged by smoke. Flames started in clothing store. |
| 1921-11-27 | Kepler & Co. | Enlarge, take Gadsby Drugstore. |
| 1921-10-19 | Normal School | |
| 1921-09-28 | Horel-George Metalware Co. | Bought out LP Hanson hardware, for 21 years at 442 Water St. Ira Horel, John W. George & SE Horel stockholders. |
| 1921-09-27 | Crime | Moonshine sold at Cleghorn dances. Sheriff Garmen raided, two captured after car chase, in which five bullets fired at car. William Muecke & guy Laib living on north side hill caught. $2.50 a pint. |
| 1921-09-11 | People's Hide & Fur Co. | To manufacture fur coats soon. Arthur Grossman Manager. 208 South River St. Company gets some skins from Indian trappers, but most from white men. |
| 1921-09-11 | U.S. Switch Company | Plant sold. |
| 1921-09-11 | Multitone Factory | Five directors buy property for $52,000. Creditors will get $.07 on the dollar. Directors also largest creditors |
| 1921-09-07 | American Legion | Post named after 1st EC man killed in France. |
| 1921-09-07 | American Legion | Post named after first EC man killed in France. |
| 1921-08-30 | Crime | Thieves steal $200 from Standard Oil Co. River & Gray. Stun Charles Close hitting him on head. |
| 1921-08-29 | Baptist Church | (15 years ago) Unknown man shot himself at close of service. |
| 1921-08-27 | Crime | A number of EC citizens filed petition to have Sheriff Garmen investigated for allowing Russell & Saunders to escape. |
| 1921-08-23 | Chicago Northwestern RR | Train collided with auto near Knapp. Killed William Brathwate family from EC injured Deane Miller, Vine St. & A. C. Smith, C. St. Smith driving, didn't see train. |
| 1921-08-23 | U.S. Switch Company | Bankruptcy petition filed. |
| 1921-07-28 | Crime | Harry Bennett who escaped in moonshine still raid three weeks ago caught. Home in Shawtown just back of 150 Plums St. Has war-gassed brother, Ira. |
| 1921-07-27 | Crime | Sundby died. Bloodhounds & posse search all day. |
| 1921-07-26 | Crime | Bandits rob street car messenger of $1,037. Shoot Chief Sundby in abdomen. Airplane from Minneapolis searching & bloodhounds from Mauston on way. Robbery was near car barns & bandit escaped down railroad track & swam across river, disappeared into cornfield after shooting Sundby twice. |
| 1921-07-17 | Schwahn-Seyberth Saddlery Co. | Factory on site of old Niagara House, old foundation wall still standing. |
| 1921-07-13 | Crime | Otto Forester & Raymond Rudy senteced to seven years at Waupun. |
| 1921-07-12 | Weather | Miniature cyclone in town of Washington. Takes top of barn on Charles Gibson farm and sets it on windmill. |
| 1921-07-06 | American Legion | Sponsored huge celebration in Carson Park. More. |
| 1921-07-06 | American Legion | Sponsored huge celebration in Carson Park. |
| 1921-06-28 | Crime | Augusta bank bandits Stanley Russell & Gus Sanders. Russell pulled gun & surprised sheriff George Garman & deputy Jack Willis, escape county jail. |
| 1921-06-22 | Sports | Second W. PTA builds bath house on river. |
| 1921-06-17 | EC Clinic | Doctor HE Derge dissolving partnership with Doctor Lyman & Doctor Robinson to enter newly formed |
| 1921-06-04 | Street Improvements | Concrete work complete on Plank hill section of Osseo road, runs from store on top to store on Washington. |
| 1921-06-01 | EC Hotel | Opening. |
| 1921-05-19 | Crime | Otto Forester & another well-known EC man arrested for Augusta bank robbery. Forester had garage 318 River St. Ray Rudy, son of Jacob Rudy 610 Bergen confessed also. Gang divided loot at E. Forester farm near EC (our Crescent Ave.) |
| 1921-05-15 | Fires | Harris and Allen buildings on Grand and River roofs burned. |
| 1921-05-08 | Sports | City has ball team. |
| 1921-04-29 | Fires | Big pumper called to Bloomer when their entire business district burned. Made trip in 1 1/4 hours. |
| 1921-04-07 | Vocational Schools | Vote on bonds to build vocational school defeated four to one. |
| 1921-04-02 | EC Hotel | Hotel nearly ready. |
| 1921-03-15 | EC Hotel | Workman killed. |
| 1921-03-13 | County Assylum | Business affairs to be investigated. Superintendent SE Horel of intent to defraud. Bookkeeping system to be changed. |
| 1921-03-03 | City Growth | Dumping of ashes & clean refuse allowed Owen Park, west end Madison St. bridge, Dells Pond on Eddy & by old power house. All garbage must go to dump south of Seymour Rd. |
| 1921-03-03 | City Growth | Work started on public comfort station by adding to furnace room between city hall & library. |
| 1921-03-01 | Crime | Thieves crack safe at Opera House, get $2000. |
| 1921-02-23 | Norwegian Lutheran Church - First Church | 50-year old church WI & North Dewey razed. |
| 1921-02-04 | Multitone Factory | $50,000 deficit affairs muddled. |
| 1921-02-03 | Multitone Factory | Goes into bankruptcy. |
| 1921-01-27 | Chippewa Valley Railway Light & Power | Mrs. Michal Stone run over by interurban when she stepped in front of it apparently blinded by headlights. |
| 1921-01-22 | High School | School too small, 150 freshmen housed in 6th Ward. |
| 1921-01-17 | World War I | Funerals of boys shipped from France. |
| 1921-01-13 | Elks | Have taken charge of EC Club. |
| 1921-01-09 | High School | Survey of high school students. |
| 1921-01-06 | Campen Clothing Co. | George Campen bought out Bailey. |
| 1921-01-06 | High School | School Board appoints committee for new school. |
| 1921-01-05 | EC Hotel | Selling bonds for hotel. |
| 1921-01-02 | World War I | Funerals of boys shipped from France. |
| 1921-01-01 | Fires | Last year loss $90,000. Long, dry summer. |
| 1921-01-01 | Hollen Clothing Store | Russell C. Bailey, WP Hart, EO Johnson & AM Harstad of old sales staff buy store. Stanley E. Hollen retired. Founded by AH Hollen 1876 & continued by son. Oldest in northwest WI. Remodeled & modernized last spring. |
| 1920-12-24 | Wisconsin Refrigerator Factory | Fire, plant saved by new $10,000 booster pump of Fire Department. |
| 1920-12-11 | Omaha Railroad | Ceases to exist after January. Part of Chicago Northwestern. |
| 1920-11-28 | Montgomery Hospital | Hospital building on Oxford for sale. |
| 1920-11-04 | Security State Bank | Stockholders elect Board of Directors: August Kuhlman, Leonard Seyberth, DW Dinger, MJ Leinenkugel & John Bauman. Kuhlman building will be remodeled. |
| 1920-10-28 | Sports | EC boy wins first place National athletic in New York. |
| 1920-10-24 | Elks | Hold second big carnival in auditorium. |