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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
Viewing Records: 3,101 to 3,200 of 6,111
| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1912-02-16 | Ninth Ward School (Longfellow) | Fourteen room school to replace old building built in 1876. Old one had capacity doubled in 1891 |
| 1912-01-24 | Egg-O-Baking Powder Co. | Made over 40 tons baking powder. Gives officers. |
| 1912-01-18 | Luther Hospital | Tells history at annual meeting. |
| 1912-01-16 | Fires | Young Box factory on Railroad St. destroyed. |
| 1912-01-05 | Weather | EC river completely frozen over for 1st time in years. |
| 1912-01-05 | Story of Violet Leigh (Mrs. Wilbur Phillips) | Letter in Voice of People. |
| 1911-12-31 | City Growth | Nearly one million put into new corporations, 10 new land companies incorporated with $749,000. |
| 1911-12-28 | Lumbering | Dells Co. expects to cut 12,000,000' this winter. Getting logs from above Kennedy on Radisson branch from around Draper and shipped by Omaha. |
| 1911-11-25 | Floods | Flood in Black River Falls changed course of river. |
| 1911-11-25 | Library | Have children's story hour. |
| 1911-11-23 | Omaha Railroad | Building stone wall at end of Eddy St. Houses have been moved. Big cuts made & landscape greatly changed. Connects with old line near Truax. Sand dumped back of hospital hill to make room for more tracks. Line saves 1 mile & cuts off dangerous steep winding curve west of 3rd St. bridge. |
| 1911-11-21 | Crime | Mrs. Barnhart fined for keeping disorderly house 508 1/2 Water St. |
| 1911-11-02 | Boy Scouts | Notice for boys interested to meet at Presbyterian Church. |
| 1911-10-19 | Floods | Flood again. Soo Line tracks threatened. |
| 1911-10-18 | Progressives | County Progressives organize. More |
| 1911-10-12 | Lumbering | RK Boyd has old map of mills on Eau Claire River. |
| 1911-10-11 | Floods | Linen mill dam blown up to protect banks. |
| 1911-10-10 | Library | Laura Olson new librarian. |
| 1911-10-08 | Floods | Eau Claire River washed out 20' retaining wall at Haymarket, rest of old linen mill carried away. Wisconsin Pipe and Fuel coal sheds, Soo Line sidewalk. Dewey St. bridge out of line. |
| 1911-09-16 | Lumbering | Kaiser mill shut down after ten continuous months run. Logs gone. |
| 1911-09-14 | Gotzian Shoe Factory | Moving machinery to St. Paul building owned by John S. Owen & others. |
| 1911-09-10 | Boy Scouts | Troop #1 goes to MI N. Fair. |
| 1911-09-10 | City Growth | City evaluation: 1905--$7,110,713; 1906--$8,167,626; 1907--$9,145,815; 1908--$9,277,263; 1909--$9,617,945; 1910--$9,964,427. |
| 1911-09-06 | Baptist Church | History of church. |
| 1911-09-03 | Methodist Church | Speaks of old church on 6th Ave. & Chestnut. |
| 1911-09-01 | City Growth | City valuation more than 10 million, increase of $225,000. |
| 1911-09-01 | Labor and Labor Unions | To have big Labor Day parade. |
| 1911-08-30 | Omaha Railroad | Steam shovel moving old sand hills & widening track bed at north end of Barstow & Farwell. |
| 1911-08-29 | Cheney Co. | Capacity increased from $20,000 to $50,000. Will put in elevator. |
| 1911-08-20 | Amusements | Hunt of 1865 recounted, contest results. |
| 1911-08-13 | Lumbering | WJ Rolland got contract for sawing up logs in Lake Altoona, estimated three million logs on lake bottom. |
| 1911-08-08 | Library | First annual meeting of board. |
| 1911-08-04 | Woman's Club | Rest rooms at Farwell next to Farwell House. |
| 1911-07-29 | State Guaranty Co. of WI | Articles filed. Capital $100,000. Incorporators are H. Schlegelmilch, John Baron & RP Wilcox. |
| 1911-07-09 | Knights of Pythias | Rebuilt after fire last year. More. |
| 1911-06-30 | Lumbering | Portable saw mill sawing up dead heads pulled from Eau Claire River by WJ Rolland and AB Thompson from Nw dam to five mile dam. Logs in good condition near mouth of Otter Creek all summer. |
| 1911-06-24 | Omaha Railroad | Switch engine tipped over at Dewey St. crossing. No one hurt. |
| 1911-06-17 | Y.M.C.A. | Cornerstone laid. |
| 1911-06-10 | Circus | Barnum and Baily coming June 29. |
| 1911-05-26 | Girl Scouts | Troop #1 has Mrs. Koons leader. |
| 1911-05-17 | City Growth | After one year of commission plan, city has $60,170 more than year ago. |
| 1911-05-01 | Street Improvements | St. oiling to be tried instead of watering. Oil 3 1/2 cents gallon. |
| 1911-04-26 | Wisconsin Refrigerator Factory | Has exhibit at Kingston, Jamaica Exposition. Goods in demand in Brazil & South America. |
| 1911-04-23 | Presbyterian Church | Church rededicated after remodeling. Parsonage built. (1010 South Farwell). |
| 1911-04-21 | EC House | Sold by Newton heirs to WH Wolpert for $37,000/ |
| 1911-04-11 | Crime | Mrs. Christina Phillips charged with keeping a disorderly house. |
| 1911-04-05 | County School System | Theresa Leinenkugel again County Superintendant of Schools. |
| 1911-04-01 | International Harvester | Picture of new building on WI & North St. Have moved machinery from Galloway St. |
| 1911-03-14 | City Growth | Omaha firm buys 30 acres from John S. Owen between Chauncy & Barland for $7,000. Purchaser is NP Dodge & Co. |
| 1911-03-12 | EC Decorating Co. | New firm. Partners are G. Olson & Carl Christensen in Schwahn-Seyberth building opposite Opera House. |
| 1911-03-11 | Pioneer Furniture Co. | Working over time, rushed with orders. Mill & Maxon St. |
| 1911-03-11 | Wisconsin Refrigerator Factory | New addition last summer. Working to capacity. Bellevue & McDonough. |
| 1911-03-10 | Girl Scouts | Newest organization in city. More. |
| 1911-03-09 | Second Ward School (also called Thorp or Boyd) | School Board buys land for playground. |
| 1911-03-05 | Commercial Hotel | New dining room & office added. |
| 1911-03-05 | Lumbering | JH Kaiser Co. logs near Winter, has four camps on brance railroad constructed from Thornapple and Brunett Rivers to Omaha tracks. Each camp has foreman, time keeper, and cooks. Sub-contractors cut 14,000,000'. Steam loader loads twenty to twenty four cars daily. Telephone in camps. |
| 1911-03-04 | Boy Scouts | Council elected. |
| 1911-02-17 | Boy Scouts | Troop #2 at Congregational Church. |
| 1911-02-13 | Lumbering | New Dells Co. removing old style machinery and adding new, ran all winter. |
| 1911-02-12 | Orpheum Theater | Koppelberger of LaCrosse buys out Dr Moe and Mr. Nelson, will enlarge seating to 800. Koppelberger former EC boy. |
| 1911-02-03 | Epiphany German Lutheran | Dedicating pipe organ costing $12,000, given by John Walter. |
| 1911-02-03 | Fires | Fire Chief Welsh condemns 422-436 Water St. until repairs are made. |
| 1911-01-27 | Weather | Dense fog over city all day. Visibility 1 block. |
| 1911-01-26 | Amusements | Horse racing on Half Moon. |
| 1911-01-20 | EC Concrete Co. | Bought four large lots on Main St. one from John S. Owen & three from LA Doolittle above Dewey St. President JW Ross, Vice President HT Lange, Secretary RK Boyd, Treasurer George M. Childs. |
| 1911-01-20 | Baptist Church | Mrs. Cordellia Truax gives $8,000. |
| 1911-01-18 | Lumbering | Shaw Lumber Co. shipping forty cars of logs a day from Sawyer County, John H Kaiser Lumber Co. cutting twenty cars per day. |
| 1911-01-14 | Baptist Church | $18,000 pledged toward new church. |
| 1911-01-13 | Grace Lutheran | Buy site 136 feet by 100 feet opposite Courthouse $5000. |
| 1911-01-12 | Grace Lutheran | First annual meeting of Grace church. |
| 1911-01-10 | McAllister House | Don McAllister died at age 73, leaves brother Reynolds. |
| 1911-01-07 | EC Daily Leader | Major Atkinson retires. History of paper. |
| 1911-01-06 | Egg-O-Baking Powder Co. | Incorporated at $15,000 by DE Leach, TB Farmer & AG Foss. |
| 1911-01-03 | Cameron Meadows | Article on Badger-Louisiana Land Co. Same men as Cameron Meadows. |
| 1911-01-03 | Campen Clothing Co. | Incorporated $10,000 by James A Campen, Engeor & Palmer O. Campen. |
| 1911-01-03 | Grosvold & Bartingale Co. | Capital $4,000. |
| 1911-01-03 | Laursen Automatic Pump Co. | Capital $200,000. Incorporated by LA Laursen, William Grohn & FR Farr. |
| 1911-01-03 | City Growth | Nearly $800,000 in new incorporations in 1910. 18 new incorporations, one dissolution in 1909 and one in 1910. Biggest expansion year in history of city. For 1st time in many years almost no unemployment. |
| 1911-01-02 | Wood Realty Company | Incorporated December 15 at $25,000 by JC Tanberg, Guy Wood & CA Tanberg. |
| 1911-01-01 | Lumbering | CF through logging, nothing open. |
| 1910-12-30 | Lumbering | Logging in full blast. Extra trains on Omaha bringing in many logs. New Dells Co. heating improved pond by steam. Mill closed in on all sides to make it as comfortable as possible. |
| 1910-12-18 | Salvation Army | Trying plan of "pot boil" on street corners. |
| 1910-12-16 | Northwestern Steel & Iron Works | Moving into bigger quarters. |
| 1910-12-16 | Omaha Railroad | Barron farmer tried to commit suicide by laying on track near depot. Train stopped just in time. |
| 1910-12-13 | City Growth | County gains 1029, now 32,721. |
| 1910-12-04 | Chippewa Valley Railway Light & Power | Now getting power from new dam at Cedar Falls in Menomonie. Dam can develop 12,000 HP, going to Red Wing, Menomonie, Elk Mound, CF & Bloomer. Egbert (Mike) Bundy son of C. T. Bundy threw switch. |
| 1910-11-19 | Drummond Packing Co. | Shipping meat to England & Germany. Downtown building improved by new brick front. |
| 1910-11-18 | Bowling | League organized. |
| 1910-11-17 | Commercial Hotel | Frawley building sold by Lydia A. Frawley to Julius Kopplin, Gustav Dehnke, & Henrietta Kuehl $9000. |
| 1910-11-15 | City Growth | Assessed value of EC city $9,960,227. Last year it was $9,573,828. A.C. Minto assessor. |
| 1910-11-12 | Dairy Industry | Increase of 6,000 cows in county last year. Nine creameries in county, one cheese factory. |
| 1910-10-29 | Tanberg Auto Co. | Bought next lot, house will be moved off, bought by GJ Lange. |
| 1910-10-27 | EC Trunk Factory | Old building sold. |
| 1910-10-23 | Amusements | 82 secret & benevolent & social societies with 6,800 membership. |
| 1910-10-23 | Labor and Labor Unions | Eighteen labor unions federated. |
| 1910-10-23 | West Side Schools | High school has 21 teachers and 560 pupils. |
| 1910-10-23 | High School | Has 21 teachers and 560 pupils. |
| 1910-10-20 | Music | Apollo Club formed. |
| 1910-10-13 | Tanberg Auto Co. | Bought lot on Barstow between Looby & EC Business College to build garage. |
| 1910-10-07 | City Growth | City dirty linen aired in Arnold-Pike-Ingram case. Roy P. Wilcox, attorney for Ingram & Pike, said city in 1908 was wide open, saloons open day & night & liquor sold to unauthorized persons, roulette wheels used. Attorney James read sermon as preached by Reverend Pike at Congregational church October 25, 1908. Fred Arnold was mentioned in sermon as not doing his work properly in closing saloons. Mr. Ingram had sermon published in both papers. |