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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
Viewing Records: 3,001 to 3,100 of 6,111
| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1913-09-30 | Omaha Railroad | Third man killed in yards at Altoona, Chirst Olson. William Stai died near Fall Creek. W. H. Harms died Saturday. |
| 1913-09-24 | Airplanes | Russell died age 64, leaves 2 children, never did get plane to fly, only plane ever exhibited in EC. |
| 1913-09-20 | Unique Theater | Edison's talking pictures at Lyric by means of Kinetophone. |
| 1913-09-18 | Crime | Ida Barnhardt sentenced to tow years at hard labor at Waupun for keeping house of ill fame on Water St. Mother of six children. March 29, 1916 Ida B. married Henry Erdman, will live on farm at Rodell near Augusta. |
| 1913-09-03 | Crime | Dead infant in box found floating in river just below Shawtown. |
| 1913-09-03 | Crime | Dead infant in box found floating in river just below Shawtown. |
| 1913-09-01 | Chippewa Valley Railway Light & Power | Street car on 3rd St. hit buggy throwing 3 women out & demolishing buggy. |
| 1913-08-28 | Auditorium and Armory | Incorporated, meeting to plan building. |
| 1913-08-24 | Vanderbie | Buy jewelry store. |
| 1913-08-22 | Amusements | New Billiard Hall. More. |
| 1913-08-22 | Galloway Hotel | Install telephone switchboard & room phones. |
| 1913-08-22 | Unique Theater | Any seat 10 cents. |
| 1913-08-10 | Lumbering | Two mills employ three hundred fifty, sawing between 150,000 and 175,000' per day. |
| 1913-08-09 | Grand Theater | |
| 1913-08-07 | Kelley's (Bill) Smoke Shop | Kelley buys Parker Building 213 South Barstow next to Smoke Shop, 215, about $20,000. Fleming Jewelers on ground floor. |
| 1913-08-05 | Sacred Heart Church | 1st ordination to priesthood held in EC. August Olbert of EC ordained. |
| 1913-07-27 | Odds and Ends | Family with ten children and grandchild have been living in 12'x16' tent on Mt. Washington. |
| 1913-07-18 | Unique Theater | Hiller Brothers owner of Unique have bought Lyric from W. H. Riggs who will go to California where he owns large hotel. |
| 1913-07-17 | Tanberg Auto Co. | Carl A. Tanberg, wife & two daughters moving to Texas. Sold interest in auto company. |
| 1913-07-13 | Oliver Chilled Plow Works | Warehouse 60 feet by 160 feet, will use Standard Oil spur. |
| 1913-07-12 | Presbyterian Church | ?ay St. chapel up for sale, all catholics in neighborhood. |
| 1913-07-10 | Odds and Ends | Band of gypsies camped in woods by Shawtown bridge. |
| 1913-07-04 | Crime | Body of Henry Craig found in river south of Grand Ave. bridge. Death not caused by drowning. Had been hit on head. Last seen in Couture's saloon. Craig's home is 236 Chippewa. |
| 1913-06-27 | Grace Lutheran | History. |
| 1913-06-27 | Norwegian Lutheran Church - First Church | 50th anniversary. History. |
| 1913-06-20 | Y.M.C.A. | Floors badly warped. |
| 1913-06-15 | Foss & Armstrong Hardware Store | Fire damage $25,000 South Barstow. |
| 1913-05-29 | Norwegian Lutheran Church - First Church | Struck by lightning, steeple shattered. |
| 1913-05-29 | Veterans | List of soldiers buried in city cemeteries. |
| 1913-05-25 | Oliver Chilled Plow Works | South Bend Co. to start here, will build warehouse near Omaha tracks. |
| 1913-05-24 | Grosvold & Bartingale Co. | FE Grosvold will open own place of business at 415 EC St. |
| 1913-05-24 | White Machine Works | HA White Superintendent have branch office in Windsor, CA. |
| 1913-05-13 | Altoona | Round house started. |
| 1913-05-13 | Altoona | Round house started. |
| 1913-05-08 | Lumbering | Kaiser Co. to buy Shaw mill. |
| 1913-05-01 | Normal School | Normal School bill passes Senate. |
| 1913-04-13 | Grand Theater | |
| 1913-04-07 | Grand Theater | |
| 1913-04-06 | Schwahn, AF & Sons | Doubling output of sausage factory corner North Barstow & Madison. |
| 1913-04-02 | City Growth | First spring business opening. |
| 1913-03-18 | Kepler & Co. | Bought Ford delivery car. |
| 1913-03-12 | Associated Charities, see also: Family Service and | Mrs. Willtrout to leave EC, to establish charities in CF under Rutlege will. |
| 1913-02-25 | Skiing | Tournament at Mount Washington. |
| 1913-02-23 | Autos | Four-day auto show opens Feb. 25 planned by OL Darwin, RH Hobbs, FA ??gler & GR Wood. Exhibitors are Taylor Motor Co., Ford, Reo, Hudson, Stevens Duryea, Tanberg Auto Co., Buick, Co??, American & Franklin, WH Hobbs Supply Co., Chalmers & Overlands, CV Auto Co., Rambler & Studebaker, Al C Jordan, Kisselkar & Mason, Jenkins Auto Co., Regal, Oshkosh Motor Co., Cadillac, International Harvester Co. Show at Fourniers. |
| 1913-02-23 | Tanberg Auto Co. | One of pioneer auto companies in EC entered field when auto was uncertain quantity. History and officers. |
| 1913-02-23 | Tanberg Auto Co. | One of pioneer auto company's in EC entered field when auto was uncertain quantity. History & officers. |
| 1913-02-23 | Fires | New auto fire truck passes test, climbed east side hill in snow up to running board and toured 3rd Ward at 20 mph. |
| 1913-02-21 | Rex Theater | EC couple pose for illustrated sont, "When Autumn Turns the Forest Leaves to Gold". Scenes taken last fall in Putnam drive of Eldora Waterpool & Victor G. Whittier, sung by Miss Waterpool. Slides tinted. |
| 1913-02-19 | Norwegian Lutheran Church - First Church | Detailed history. |
| 1913-02-14 | McDonough Co. | Ingram buys $50,000 stock. Will double size. |
| 1913-01-25 | Ninth Ward School (Longfellow) | New school a model. Four rooms used for deaf and dumb. |
| 1913-01-04 | City Growth | Last year good in all respects, death rate one of lowest in US. City tax rate lowest in history of city. City erected storage building in Haymarket for sprinklers, graders, etc. |
| 1913-01-04 | Chippewa Valley Railway Light & Power | During past year opened $25,000 sub-station E. Madison. |
| 1913-01-04 | Omaha Railroad | Improvements during 1912 & 1911 nearly one million dollars. |
| 1913-01-01 | Fires | Fire loss 1912 $15,000 less than 1911. 1910 loss greatest ever, $87,000. Total in 22 years $539,828. |
| 1912-12-29 | Rex Theater | Purchased by Leon Shumway, will eliminate Sunday films. |
| 1912-12-08 | Omaha Railroad | Fast mail train derailed by McDonough plant. |
| 1912-12-06 | EC Daily Leader | Newspaper building going up. Stone from Colfax. 405 Barstow St. |
| 1912-11-20 | Luther Hospital | Install x-ray machine. |
| 1912-11-17 | Baptist Church | Pictures of three churches. |
| 1912-11-07 | Baptist Church | To be dedicated next Sunday. |
| 1912-11-05 | City Growth | City budget $70,000. |
| 1912-10-31 | Huleatt | Phoebe, daughter of Doctor & Mrs. WE Jurden, 1529 South Farwell, married John A. Huleatt, son of Doctor & Mrs. AC Huleatt of Arkansas, WI. Doctor Huleatt had been partner of Doctor Henry Day of EC in early days. John Huleatt in partnership with brother-in-law, Marshall Johnson in clothing store, Johnson & Huleatt on Water St. Will live 421 Summit. |
| 1912-10-30 | Street Improvements | Main St. sidewalk complete up hill to Doty. |
| 1912-10-26 | Lumbering | Last logs cut. Shaw shut down for good (history). |
| 1912-10-20 | Conservatory of Music | Launched. |
| 1912-10-09 | Wisconsin Telephone Company | Public demonstration of automatic telephone given in Harris building, 318 South Barstow by CF Telephone Co. |
| 1912-10-08 | International Harvester | Man killed at plant. |
| 1912-10-06 | Northwestern Steel & Iron Works | Been manufacturing "National" steam pressure canning retorts? and accessories for five years. Pioneer in this work, slow at first but now used nearly every civilized country on globe. |
| 1912-10-04 | Civil War | Long history of Old Abe and Co. C. |
| 1912-09-18 | Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee & Omaha RR | Man hit by train west of new Chippewa bridge. |
| 1912-09-13 | Vocational Schools | EC to have lower rooms in 1st Ward School for one of the first industrial schools in state. Will teach trades. |
| 1912-09-11 | Unique Theater | "Little Mary Pickford" in two reeler. |
| 1912-09-01 | Gotzian Shoe Factory | Huebsch going into building. |
| 1912-08-30 | Our Savior's Lutheran | Cornerstone of Guild Hall will be in October. To cost between $8,000 & $10,000 on site of former parochial school. Fulton & Second. EM Fish doing work. |
| 1912-08-29 | Street Improvements | S. River St. being macadamized & brick gutters. |
| 1912-08-25 | Walters Brewery | New warehouse on site of Olinger Gardens, also spur track from Milwaukee Rd. on Forest St. (Elm & North Barstow). |
| 1912-08-04 | EC House | Parkinson buys entire hotel. |
| 1912-08-01 | Sports | Ben Carr, former EC boy called world champ log roller. |
| 1912-07-28 | Sports | Murray of EC world champ log roller. More. |
| 1912-07-13 | Floods | Storm. Omaha tracks washed out, 3' water on Water St. and 2nd Ave. |
| 1912-07-12 | Soo Line Railroad | Over 12,000 sacks of cement used in building retaining wall for river bank washed out last spring. Wall started from natural rock wall & extended w 175' 28' high. Then quicksand prevented good foundation & they had to dig 40' below river level for bed rock. Decided to use a row of cribs. Total length now 295'. |
| 1912-07-06 | Lange Canning Co. | Plowing contest on old Charles Johnson farm near city wells, Lange Co. will buy two that do best work. |
| 1912-07-04 | Amusements | Resume of celebrations |
| 1912-07-03 | Phoenix Furniture Co. | George H. Blystone retires as Secretary & Treasurer. EO Loether buys stock & takes job. Officers now are RJ Keppler, TA Hobbs Vice President. |
| 1912-06-26 | Parks | City passed resolution providing free band concerts. First to be in University Park; second in Wilson. |
| 1912-06-13 | Indians | Ancient burial grounds found in EC. |
| 1912-06-02 | Kepler & Co. | More history. |
| 1912-05-22 | City Growth | EC 14th in manufacturing in state $5,855,000 in production. |
| 1912-05-17 | Orpheum Theater | Walter Bonell bought part interest. |
| 1912-04-23 | Crime | Undersheriff Neher & coroner Stokes find Mr. & Mrs. JB Anderson in Lancaster, WI believed to be parents of baby. April 24 & 25, 1912. Anderson pleaded guilty. Gave baby wood alcohol to kill it. Sentenced to life at hard labor. Over 600 viewed body tring to identify it. |
| 1912-04-07 | Crime | Rose Miller charged with being part of white slave ring in Minneapolis. Rose was in EC last October for funeral of mother, Mrs. William Marquardt. Sister Della employed here at one time. Their father was Millerschien. |
| 1912-04-06 | Amusements | Electrical storm, hits circuits, no movies. |
| 1912-04-06 | Crime | body of six month old boy found on Mt. Adin opposite paper mill. Killed by blow on head, unidentified. |
| 1912-03-10 | Bridges - EC River | Footbridge built across top of old water mill dam. |
| 1912-03-10 | Bridges - EC River | Footbridge built across top of old water mill dam. |
| 1912-03-03 | Y.M.C.A. | Open for use. |
| 1912-02-21 | Indians | How last Chippewa chief was killed in Barron County in 1885. |
| 1912-02-16 | Linen Mill | Dynamited dam. |
| 1912-02-16 | Crime | Undersheriff, Henry C. Neher has trouble getting John Ganouf of Pleasant Valley on train for Waupun convicted of poisoning cows. While walking with Neher to depot lay on his back on sidewalk & refused to move. Neher & assistant started carrying hom across Grand Ave. bridge. Heavy man, found a push cart belonging to JH Tifft which they pressed into service. Both held him in & got him to depot just in time for train. |