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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
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| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1920-10-21 | Autos | Police going after motorists who fail to light tail lights. |
| 1920-10-17 | Chippewa Valley Railway Light & Power | Two interurban cars collide & telescope 9' on Omaha St. 3 hurt, Ole Peterson, Tim Mahoney & Ralph Johnson. Dense fog prevented motarman from seeing car. |
| 1920-10-15 | Multitone Factory | SR Davis, Secretary of Dells Paper & Pulp Co. elected President of Multitone. |
| 1920-10-06 | City Growth | Personal property $6,353,619, a 23% increase one year. Real estate valuation $21,848,817, a 47% increase in one year. |
| 1920-10-03 | Daughters of the American Revolution | Emil Weinfeld buys Hudson property for DAR for part ($9,200). |
| 1920-09-23 | Crime | John Sather freed on murder charge of Henry Hudson. First murder trial in 12 years. |
| 1920-09-12 | Sports | Ben Carr notice (log rolling). |
| 1920-09-05 | Woman's Club | Piano selected. |
| 1920-09-03 | Northwestern Motor Co. | Build "Casey Jones" engine & railroad motor car sued chiefly by section foremen. Five shipped to South America last week. Offices in Union Savings Bank. President Ray Rosholt, Vice President RV Galby, Secretary & Treasurer OP Musum, General Manager Fred W. Anderson. "Casey Jones" made by United Switch Co. under contract for NW Motor Co. Hope output to be 1,000 per year soon. Shipped to New Zealand, Australia, & Canada. |
| 1920-09-03 | Northwestern Steel & Iron Works | Orders for "Casey Jones" entail putting up three new buildings, now employ 40 or 50. |
| 1920-08-29 | Shrine | Ceremonial in EC attended by 7,000 visitors. |
| 1920-08-17 | City Growth | County population 35,745, increase 3,024 in ten years. |
| 1920-08-08 | Street Improvements | CF road open full length, project started 1 year ago. |
| 1920-08-03 | Lumbering | Kaiser mill burns. |
| 1920-07-30 | Normal School | Will start Model school. |
| 1920-07-18 | Paper Mill | Report on Dells Dam case. |
| 1920-07-17 | Drownings | Leonard Berg 18 years of Barland St. saved two 15-year old girls from EC river near foot bridge. |
| 1920-07-16 | Kohlepp Brothers Hardware | HJ Kohlepp & Son successors to Kohlepp's Hardware; near Lange Canning Co. |
| 1920-07-14 | Sports | Water skiing on Dells pond. |
| 1920-07-03 | Dairy Industry | Ice cream plants here make 9,000 gallons for 4th of July, will ship to Menomonie, Mondovi, Stanley & New Richmond. 450 gallons milk, the entire surplus usually take to Union Cheese factory will be mixed with cream until 14% butterfat. |
| 1920-07-01 | Sports | Auto races. More. |
| 1920-06-27 | Odds and Ends | A band of gypsies in touring cars pass city. |
| 1920-06-27 | Parks | Free camping site for tourists at Mr. Tom. |
| 1920-06-26 | Jenson Brothers Drug | Druggists on Bellinger bought Curran Pharmacy last year. Bought store at Owen. Had Owen-Withee since 1912. |
| 1920-06-09 | City Growth | City population 20,880. Increase 14%, mostly in last four or five years (2500 gain in ten years) at standstill first five year period after 1910. Increase 1890-1910 only 895. |
| 1920-06-06 | Woman's Club | Growing potatoes to buy grand piano. |
| 1920-05-22 | Cheney Co. | Cheney sold to WI Grain & Cereal Co. of Menomonie. Cheney came to EC in 1897 & opened elevator. |
| 1920-05-09 | Drownings | Edgar Wiggin's body found near plant of EC Box & Crating Co. Disappeared April 15. |
| 1920-05-08 | National Products Co. | Building three-story building on Main St. Will manufacture toilet articles for barber shops & beauty parlors. Ray Rosholt President, will have eight salesmen. |
| 1920-05-04 | West Side Schools | Ninety boys suspended. |
| 1920-05-01 | City Growth | Building boom. |
| 1920-05-01 | West Side Schools | Professor FM Bray new high school principal. |
| 1920-04-24 | Presbyterian Church | Secures Chetek property. |
| 1920-04-24 | Norwegian Lutheran Church - First Church | Largest Lutheran church in America, steeples 70 feet. |
| 1920-04-22 | McDonough Co. | Has contract to build sawmill in Cuba. |
| 1920-04-10 | Weather | Many years since logs stranded on river banks. Ladysmith mill lost them. |
| 1920-04-06 | County School System | Brewer didn't want job, got WT Darling of Two Rivers. |
| 1920-04-04 | Weather | Coldest April day in 18 years. 8 degrees, 3" snow make 65" since beginning of October . Only 28" winter 18-19. |
| 1920-04-01 | Stacy Fruit Co. | In new quarters, Farwell & River. Old quarters 315-317 EC St. Has three banana rooms & cold storage for chocolate candy. |
| 1920-03-30 | Weather | Pictures of high water. Footbridge over Dells Dam and splash boards carried away by ice pack last week. Footbridge at Cornel gone. Holcomb dame gave way Friday. |
| 1920-03-09 | Associated Charities, see also: Family Service and | Marsh resigned, Jeanette Craney takes over. |
| 1920-03-03 | County School System | CJ Brewer of Normal School faculty elected superintendant. |
| 1920-03-02 | County School System | WA Clark resigned as Superintendant of Schools. |
| 1920-02-29 | State Bank of EC | Open for business corner Barstow & Gibson. WC Tufts President, GE Anderson Vice President, WJ Mahoney Cashier. Directors are: GE Anderson, PM Beach, MS Beecher, SR Davis, William Larson, Ralph W Owen, WC Tufts & John Walter. |
| 1920-02-27 | Omaha Railroad | 14 passengers hurt when Omaha engine telescopes near Pullman 300 yards east of depot. |
| 1920-02-26 | Phoenix Manufacturing Co. | Broke down when hit a hole in a drift on edge of CF. |
| 1920-02-21 | Phoenix Manufacturing Co. | Big plow invented by Phoenix adapted from logging plows, will attempt to open road to CF. Tractor much like overseas tanks will push & team of horses will guide. Some drifts six feet. AJ Podawiltz of Union Auto Co. will drive. Hope to reach CF by night. |
| 1920-02-13 | Cary Transfer Co. | Leo & Wilbur E. Barrows sentences to one year at Waupun for stealing five 100-pound sacks of sugar. |
| 1920-02-12 | Inland American Tractor Co. | "Cata-Gripper" tractors being manufactured in plant of US Switch Co. Closed corporation controlled by RB Gillette, Edward Hutchins, NJ Whalen & several others. |
| 1920-02-08 | Barager-Webster | Expanding, bought 810-12 First Avenue Sell candy in 500 cities. |
| 1920-02-04 | McDonough Co. | Reorganize. President SG Moon, Vice President RB Gillette, Secretary SR Davis, Treasurer DR Moon & General Manager JA MacLennan. |
| 1920-02-01 | Pentacostal Assembly | Buy Smith building on Water St. (430), remodeling. Assembly downstairs, parsonage up. Been meeting at Rod & Gun for two years. |
| 1920-01-30 | EC Hotel | Names officers. |
| 1920-01-30 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | Make 1000 tires a day plus 1400 inner tubes, rubber heels & raincoats. |
| 1920-01-29 | EC Book and Stationary. | For 6th time got two-year contract supplying state libraries & schools with books. |
| 1920-01-29 | EC Hotel | Building held up. |
| 1920-01-28 | Taylor Motor Co. | Buy site of old Light Guard Armory Railroad St. & North Barstow. |
| 1920-01-11 | Wahl Trunk Factory | WE Wahl President & General Manager of plant Randall & Omaha tracks. |
| 1920-01-09 | City Growth | More houses built last year than any previous year. Shortage still acute. More than one million dollars in building last year includes two churches, four stores, six warehouses & 114 residence plus additions to all types of buildings. |
| 1920-01-04 | Seeley Chemical Co. | Locating in EC. Make deodorants & germicides. Formerly at Battle Creek, MI. |
| 1920-01-03 | Lange Canning Co. | To build canning plant in Menomonie. |
| 1920-01-01 | City Growth | Jails empty, banks full, peace & prosperity & prohibition. |
| 1919-12-27 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | Open cafeteria for 600 employees. |
| 1919-12-12 | Odds and Ends | EC stores to open at noon to conserve coal. |
| 1919-12-12 | EC Baking Co. | Automation does away with bakers. Machine. |
| 1919-12-11 | Farmer's Trading Corporation. | George W. Thorson, former General Manager of Co. which failed in 1915 bound over on charges. |
| 1919-12-04 | Farmer's Store (Is this the same as Farmer's Tradi | History of business. Started 1890 |
| 1919-11-20 | Elks | CW Lockwood new president. Building redecorated. |
| 1919-11-11 | Luther Hospital | Meets standards. |
| 1919-11-05 | Pioneer Furniture Co. | Building large three-story addition. |
| 1919-11-05 | Grace Lutheran | Tearing down old church. |
| 1919-11-04 | Kaiser-Giester Box Factory | William A. Kaiser head of EC Box & Crating Co. will help father & brother, JH & Edward W. Kaiser to run Kaiser Lumber Co. Since resignation of JJ Ott as Vice President & General Manager. Edward has been operating box factory at Cairo, IL & will bring the machinery to EC. Kaiser Lumber Co. planning large logging operations, will cut 15,000,000 to 18,000,000 feet. |
| 1919-11-01 | EC Book and Stationary. | Buy concrete building 318-322 South River St. Part now livery stable & part blacksmith. Will be warehouse. |
| 1919-10-31 | Norden Lodge | Thirtieth annniversary. Nine charter members still living. |
| 1919-10-07 | Odds and Ends | A truck train mapping aerial route from New York to San Francisco in city. Search light of three million candle power will swing around city tomorrow from hill. |
| 1919-10-05 | Leath Furniture | Expands William furniture stock. (See also: Hansen Furniture Co. History in 2/7/1935) |
| 1919-10-04 | P.T.A. | Organize in 2 wards. More. |
| 1919-10-03 | Odds and Ends | Number in city paying income tax boosted from 862 to 1,132. |
| 1919-10-01 | Gillette Safety Tire Co., see also: US Rubber. | Start raincoat department. |
| 1919-09-07 | Cary Transfer Co. | Leo Cary of Cary Transfer Co. arrested for receiving stolen sugar from EC Grocer Co. |
| 1919-09-04 | Red Cross | |
| 1919-09-03 | County School System | Half pint milk at $.03 for pupils. |
| 1919-08-31 | State Bank of EC | Remodeling Bruce Brown building for new State Bank |
| 1919-08-13 | McDonough Co. | General Motors of Detroit ordered automatic machinery so McDonough has to increase size of plant. |
| 1919-08-13 | Hoeppner-Bartlett | $3,200 in Liberty Bonds stolen from safe. |
| 1919-08-12 | American Legion | Seventy eight charter members. William C. Johnson Post, now 93 members. Chartered end of July. Edwin Boberg Post Commander. |
| 1919-08-12 | American Legion | 78 charter members William C. Johnson Post, now 93 members. Chartered end of July. Edwin Boberg Post Commander. |
| 1919-08-07 | International Toy Co. | Storm blows down entire north wall & 1/2 of south wall of new building. |
| 1919-08-07 | EC Airplane Co. | Guy R. Wood president, Virgil Grace Vice President & General Manager, AJ Wash Secretary & Treasurer. This was at top of State St. hill and later Laurence Hamilton was manager. |
| 1919-08-07 | Weather | Heaviest rain in many years yesterday. 1.35" in 20 minutes. Terrific wind and lightning. Telephone poles and wall of International Toy Factory blown down. |
| 1919-08-02 | Hoeppner-Bartlett | Workman killed. |
| 1919-07-31 | Keller Tool & Machine Works | At 601-3 Jefferson St. 80 feet by 40 feet, three stories, light manufacturing & makes castings. Will manufacture inventions of President Charles Keller including stud bolt wrench milling machine clamp, etc. Keller came from Minneapolis to Bloomer, to EC. Was a superintendent of Gillette's machine shop some months ago went into business for self. |
| 1919-07-31 | EC Airplane Co. | Incorporated at $15,000 by Leo McDonald, MA Sine & Guy Wood. |
| 1919-07-31 | Drownings | CF girl drowned at foot of North Dewey, was Normal School student. |
| 1919-07-25 | EC Airplane Co. | Ensign R. Virgil Grace who did exhibition flying at soldier's homecoming joining EC corps. Leo S. McDonald & others incorporated & buying hangers for five planes. Will give lessons & charter flights. |
| 1919-07-22 | Odds and Ends | Many tourists passing through city on Yellowstone Trail. |
| 1919-07-21 | World War I | Excellent article on encounter of EC men with Prussian Infantry. |
| 1919-07-20 | World War I | Elizabeth Lyon received British Red Cross for war work. |
| 1919-07-11 | Stacy Fruit Co. | Bought site for new warehouse on Farwell at rear of central fire station. |
| 1919-07-06 | World War I Company E (see National Guard) | Former Co. E. boy died of brain fever shortly after coming home, Lawrence Lee. |