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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
Viewing Records: 3,601 to 3,700 of 6,111
| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1902-03-20 | Library | Sites offered. More. |
| 1902-03-07 | City Growth | Lists registered voters. |
| 1902-02-26 | Library | William Starr announces Carnegie gift of $40,000. |
| 1902-02-17 | Linderman Box & Veneer Co. | Delos Moon & Thorp Wilcox now principal owners. Largest of kind in state. SG Moon, George B. Chapman & RP Wilcox also members of firm. Does not make boxes, but the material from which boxes are made. |
| 1902-02-16 | Olinger's Gardens | John Olinger owned block 49 on north side. |
| 1902-02-15 | Light Guards Armory | Burned. Owned by state. |
| 1902-02-02 | Lumbering | Three mills running this summer. |
| 1902-01-29 | Weather | Coldest day in 20 years. About 40 below. |
| 1902-01-26 | Kepler & Co. | Again expanding & moving. History. |
| 1902-01-23 | Amusements | Germania Singing Society masked ball. |
| 1902-01-19 | Crime | Sentenced to 10 years in state prison. Found sane. EH Hibbard appointed his attornery. |
| 1902-01-07 | East Side Schools | Schools closed, 43 cases of small pox. |
| 1902-01-07 | West Side Schools | Schools closed, 43 cases of small pox. |
| 1902-01-07 | Deaf and Dumb School | Deaf and Dumb School in Banner Block under Jennie Smith, Jessie Allen and Stella Flatery. |
| 1902-01-01 | City Growth | Business & crops good, all factories running full time, Laborers got $1.80 per day, double 1893. |
| 1902-01-01 | Crime | Carter bound over in jail in default of bail of $2,500. Justice NC Wilcox. |
| 1902-01-01 | Light Guards Armory | Roller rink open. L.M. Richardson, inventor of ball bearing roller skates to be here all week. |
| 1901-12-30 | Buildings | Charles J. Lange children to sell corner Gibson & River streets, known as Lange homestead. Directly opposite HT Lange wholesale establishment. |
| 1901-12-24 | Crime | EA Carter of east side hill tried to burn Lester Bonell & Georg Sypher to death on Otter Creek in Anton Hessell's pavillion near James Ellis' home. Jimmie Ellis is son. Hessel summer house formerly property of Fitch Gilbert who got it from EC Lumber Co. Once used by Schwahn for slaughter house. Hessel converted it into summer house for picnics & rented boats & fishing tackle. |
| 1901-12-06 | Newspapers--Free Press | Published for last time. Ashbaugh sold to Telegram. History of paper. |
| 1901-11-30 | City Growth | EC one of most prosperous cities in northwest. Banks report larger business than ever. This year has been one of the best in history. |
| 1901-11-22 | EC Book and Stationary. | Open new quarters in Drummond block. George C. Witherby President & Manager since 1887. HC Putnam Vice President & Treasurer. |
| 1901-10-13 | Library | Old rest room opened as branch library. |
| 1901-10-09 | Lumbering | More about lumbering. |
| 1901-10-04 | Amusements | Fair and Sept. 30, 1902 Fair. No fair in 1905 because Barstow Street Bridge not finished. |
| 1901-10-04 | Lumbering | Lumbering still contributing to wealth of city. More. |
| 1901-09-20 | Light Guards Armory | Memorial service for President McKinley at Armory. More history of building. |
| 1901-09-11 | Chippewa City | Mrs. Rex Wilson (Mary Monahan) remembers childhood 40 years ago. |
| 1901-09-11 | Meridean Ferry | Named after hotel keeper. Eddy formed fine harbor. Small rafts connected into Mississippi raft here. |
| 1901-09-06 | Circus | Adam Forepaugh sells circus at Farwell and Gar. |
| 1901-09-01 | Gun Club | Four acre park in heart of Putnam Park, stands seat 2,000. |
| 1901-08-29 | Crops and Prices | Agricultural revolution taking place. Farmers abandon raising wheat, barley, rye & other unprofitable grains & going in for dairying, creameries & cheese factories springing up. |
| 1901-08-27 | City Growth | Expect city to be 40,000 or 50,000 in 20 years. |
| 1901-08-22 | Olinger's Gardens | Being put in shape for Labor Day. |
| 1901-08-22 | Crops and Prices | Tobacco harvest begun. |
| 1901-08-14 | Linen Mill | Gets most of raw fiber from Archangel, Russia. |
| 1901-08-14 | County Assylum | Hoeppner-Bartlett get contract to build barn $2498. |
| 1901-08-08 | Big Heart Silver Mine | Mouth of mine getting full of weeds. |
| 1901-08-08 | Northwest Lumber Corporation | Last vestige of Porter's Mills gone. Six houses, store, and post office and Big Heart Silver Mine left. |
| 1901-08-04 | Flouring Mills | Cheney and Co. building new elevator & feed mill. Long article. |
| 1901-07-16 | County Assylum | 12 men, one woman(insane) arrive from Dunn County. Captain and Mrs. OH Kitzman will be in charge. One arrived from Mendota and next week 53 from Chippewa Assylum. |
| 1901-07-14 | EC Gas Light Company | David Douglas President and General manager. |
| 1901-07-07 | McDonough Co. | Long-Bell Lumber Co. of Hudson, AR order fly-wheel & pulley to replace broken one shipped by express, 14,000 pounds. Record express shipment. |
| 1901-07-07 | EC Gas Light Company | 110,000 cubic feet gas holder near completion on Douglas Point. |
| 1901-07-06 | Business Colleges | Closed. |
| 1901-07-04 | Fourth of July Celebrations. | Log rolling, parade. More. |
| 1901-07-04 | Wilson Building | Dick Wilson builder. JM Charles had restaurant in basement in early 80's. Cesspool of early days sank in & road roller & four horse team nearly fell in 20 foot hole. |
| 1901-07-04 | Odds and Ends | New York man buys the elephant's feet. |
| 1901-07-03 | Post Office | August Reiss has second-hand furniture store on Barstow & Gray on Post Office site. |
| 1901-06-30 | Library | Librarian has first vacation in 11 years. |
| 1901-06-30 | Woman's Club | Rest rooms on Grand Ave. W. |
| 1901-06-29 | Odds and Ends | Wallace Bros. Circus in storm here. Trick elephant killed, blew down side show tents. EC Gun Club Park in 3rd ward. Long article. |
| 1901-06-21 | Flouring Mills | Cheney and Co. will build feed mill next to their elevator at WI Central depot, also building to store hay (near linen mill) 3rd building for storing corn. |
| 1901-06-20 | Children's Home | Home on east side hill. |
| 1901-06-16 | Amusements | EC Brass Band started. More. |
| 1901-06-16 | Fourth of July Celebrations. | Big ad for celebration, trade & labor unions. |
| 1901-06-16 | Golf Club | Officers elected. More. |
| 1901-06-15 | Golf Club | Play commenced on south bank of EC. More. |
| 1901-06-12 | Federal Building (Old Post Office) | Will buy CW Churchill property on Jones St. from Barstow to River, 136 feet by 165 feet, $1820. Now occupied by several old buildings. |
| 1901-06-12 | Post Office | Churchill site selected for Federal Building. George W. Smith Post Master. Three rural routes established since he has been Post Master. |
| 1901-06-12 | Knights of Pythias | More on new building. |
| 1901-06-07 | Buildings | Mike Smith livery stable South River St. remodeled AD Chappell owner. Over 25 years old. #128-132 River. |
| 1901-06-06 | Knights of Pythias | Buy Hayden building. More. |
| 1901-06-05 | Light Guards Armory | Jr.-Sr. Prom. Steinberg's Orchestra. |
| 1901-06-05 | Odds and Ends | Man in Dr. Noble's office had 3" turtle removed from stomach. |
| 1901-05-22 | EC Gas Light Company | New gas works not built day too soon "cooking with gas" no longer an experiment. |
| 1901-05-22 | Woman's Club | To ask lewd vaudeville acts be banned from Street Fair. |
| 1901-05-19 | Churches, Miscellaneous | Christian Science Reading room on Farwell & Gray. |
| 1901-05-17 | Flouring Mills | EC has six elevators besides flour mills. |
| 1901-05-17 | Railroads in General | Three railroads in EC, Northwestern, St. Paul & Milwaukee & the Wisconsin Central. |
| 1901-05-14 | Ancient Order of Hibernians | Being disbanded. |
| 1901-05-12 | Spanish American War | 3 years ago yesteday EC soldiers mustered into volunteer army. |
| 1901-05-03 | Buildings | George Ritzinger property being considered for Post Office. Corner Farwell & Main. Old Farwell House. $10,000. |
| 1901-05-03 | Farwell House | Being reconsidered for new Post Office site $10,000. |
| 1901-05-03 | Northwest Lumber Corporation | Reported that Northwest Lumber Corporation bought Otter Creek Mills for $11,000 and will construct thirty-four foot dam on Eau Claire River near McDonough foundry. |
| 1901-04-26 | Elks | Opening new club rooms over CV Bank. |
| 1901-04-12 | Street Improvements | Main St. opened yesterday. Passable for 1st time. Laid out 20 years ago. Gas Co. took out sand which made opening possible. |
| 1901-03-28 | Ritzinger House | Bought by Joe Derouin, guarantees 1st class meals & accommodations, 310-312 EC St. |
| 1901-03-26 | Kepler & Co. | Clerks strike. |
| 1901-03-24 | Wisconsin Central Railroad | Roundhouse 3 rods above depot burned. Saved turntable by swinging it around. House dropped down 60' embankment from top of hill on Gibson St. |
| 1901-03-23 | Odds and Ends | Body of unidentified dead man taken from river. |
| 1901-03-09 | Germania Hall | Ruins of Germania Hall recently destroyed by fire. Leader office next door. |
| 1901-03-08 | EC Gas Light Company | Gas Co. hauling sand with 12 teams. Main St. will be opened up for sure this time. Hill going down rapidly. Will use 6,000 cubic yards of sand from hill. |
| 1901-03-05 | Federal Building (Old Post Office) | Authorities get land on corner of Gray, River, & Barstow for $6,500. Could have gotten it three years ago for $5,000. |
| 1901-03-03 | Federal Building (Old Post Office) | Bill passed both houses. Congress appropriated $110,000 for EC Federal Building. |
| 1901-02-24 | Griffin Rifles Armory (Fourniers?) | Griffin Rifles Armory put in charge of Mons Fournier who will fit it up elaborately & open after Easter. Famous building has become historical, many notable revels held here including charity balls. Building gone into disrepair. |
| 1901-02-23 | Light Guards Armory | Roller rink opening. |
| 1901-01-30 | Eau Claire County | County taxpayers assemble at Fall Creek & want to withdraw all of ? except city of EC & form new county to be called Peace County. |
| 1901-01-22 | Railroads in General | Control of Omaha by Northwestern. Vanderbilt bought almost half of Omaha's stock turning it over to Northwestern. |
| 1901-01-15 | Associated Charities, see also: Family Service and | George Blum president planning Charity Ball. |
| 1901-01-15 | Linen Mill | Annual meeting. President HC Putnam, Vice President WP Bartlett, Treasurer GT Thompson, Secretary & Manager SS Kepler. William J. Starr a director. Has paid in taxes $200,00 more than bonus it received at start. |
| 1901-01-10 | Kepler & Co. | Fire in "cloak" annex on South Barstow. |
| 1901-01-08 | Salvation Army | Barracks at 316 River St. |
| 1901-01-01 | Hart House | Hole burned in roof of frame section. |
| 1900-11-30 | Odds and Ends | Queen Victoria died and Carrie Nation weilding ax. |
| 1900-12-30 | EC Gas Light Company | Old gas works on west bank of Chippewa. |
| 1900-12-29 | Amusements | Racing on Half Moon Lake. |
| 1900-12-28 | Lange Canning Co. | Incorporated at $50,000. New plant on Price St. |
| 1900-12-25 | Salvation Army | Big celebration at barracks. |
| 1900-12-18 | City Growth | EC population 17,517, county 21,692. EC tax valuation $6,366,410. Increase in population 102 in ten years. Lumbering originally foundation of city's prosperity diminished to a large extent in last few years. Mercantile and manufacturing increased. For 1st time in 20 years, city lending money instead of borrowing. Douglas mayor. |