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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
Viewing Records: 4,001 to 4,100 of 6,111
| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1893-10-29 | Boston Clothing Store | SE Brimi manager. Closed by sheriff yesterday. Mrs. Sommermeye chief creditor. |
| 1893-10-29 | Wisconsin Refrigerator Factory | Won two gold medals & two 1st prizes at World's Fair. |
| 1893-10-29 | City Growth | Gamblers fined $25 per month. Prostitutes fined when complaint filed. Totals about $100 per month. |
| 1893-10-29 | Odds and Ends | WI Ref. Co. won two gold medals and two first prizes at World's Fair. Mrs. Gaston White got First Prize for embroidered lunch cloth. |
| 1893-10-01 | Commercial Bank | Commercial Bank depositors to get 90% |
| 1893-09-24 | Samuelsons Dry Goods | Open for 1st time in Drummond-Cameron block. Ex-alderman Thompson has coat department (apparently has older building before). |
| 1893-09-10 | Drownings | Alfred Anderson, five, playing on logs near railroad bridge. |
| 1893-09-10 | Hadleyville | No more dancing in Goff's Hall and now Sunday school to be there. Has been no Sunday school for seven years. "General" Buffington's farm put in shape by Eugene Warner. Sanford Allen is Hadleyville grocer. |
| 1893-09-03 | Business in General | George Olson has livery barn corner Barstow & WI is going to build new one of stone 40 feet by 38 feet. |
| 1893-09-03 | Swan Drug Store | At 130 South Barstow closed by sheriff's order. Owe St. Paul firm $400. |
| 1893-09-03 | Hadleyville | A Allen is "Lord Mayer" of Hadleyville. AB Porter is proprietor of Silver Springs Park. |
| 1893-09-03 | Lumbering | Good article "as others see us." |
| 1893-08-28 | Odds and Ends | Foot bridge over EC River between linen mill and MRLC collapsed. Boy falls in river but unhurt. |
| 1893-08-27 | East Side Schools | Schools renamed after wards. |
| 1893-08-27 | West Side Schools | Schools renamed, gives wards they were in. |
| 1893-08-20 | Bridges - EC River | Footbridge over EC between linen mill & MRL Co. collapsed. Boy fell in river, unhurt. |
| 1893-08-20 | Business in General | Doctor Alex Montgomery amalgamated with Bedall Institute (State St.) |
| 1893-08-20 | Odds and Ends | Alfred Bennett, 12, picked up live wire behind EW Allen home and burned to death. |
| 1893-08-13 | Commercial Bank | Meeting; liabilities $154,000, assets $50,000 in excess & $30,000 of this is cash. |
| 1893-08-13 | City Growth | City Council petitions Congress for repeal of Sherman law. Loan of $30,000 would tide city over this year. Treasurer CH Greene estimates that $50,000 needed. |
| 1893-08-13 | City Growth | John C. Neher's Drugstore robbed during night. Home of Doctor EC French entered. |
| 1893-08-13 | Odds and Ends | Richard Hantsch electrocuted in front of Hoffman's Store. More. |
| 1893-08-13 | Lumbering | Log counts. |
| 1893-08-13 | Lumbering | Powerful locomotive built by JF Hanson in Shaw Lumber yard, tractor principal. |
| 1893-08-10 | Drownings | Eddie Dron, six years, fell off logs in Half Moon. |
| 1893-08-06 | Commercial Bank | Byron Buffington assures depositors get 100%. |
| 1893-08-06 | City Growth | City books being audited. In last two years, city lost $20,000 due to change in law taxing logs. |
| 1893-07-30 | Business in General | Threatened bank runs. |
| 1893-07-30 | National Electric Co. | To be sold at receiver's sale. |
| 1893-07-30 | Drownings | John Bergen, 514 Galloway, suicide in Dells. |
| 1893-07-16 | Hypotism | BIG DEAL IN EC. Professor Flint starts ball rolling. |
| 1893-07-09 | Drownings | Archie Skinner, 13 drowned at the Dells. |
| 1893-07-09 | Lumbering | Weyerhauser et al being sued for one million dollars for flood of 1884. |
| 1893-07-02 | Woolen Mill | Woolen Mill, Otter Creek, burn. Run by Stickler. |
| 1893-06-25 | County Normal School (Rural Normal) | EC County Board will give $50,000 for location of Normal School here. |
| 1893-06-18 | Lumbering | Carson gave in and now all mills running ten hours. |
| 1893-06-04 | City Growth | Mrs. Fanny Galloway running for school board, it was she who got Bible reading removed from Bartlett school. |
| 1893-06-04 | Drownings | Five year old John Christian drowned in Half Moon Lake. Family lost another child by drowning a few years ago. |
| 1893-05-28 | Ingram Building | Ingram & Doctor Hayes building begun. |
| 1893-05-28 | Parker Building | Building $20,000. |
| 1893-05-28 | Business in General | D. Drummond, Allen Cameron & Frank Allen have begun $80,000 building on Barstow opposite EC & Kneer Houses. Mr. Linton's building opposite Opera House with KP rooms overhead. Drummond & Watson employed more hands than ever in furniture factory. EC in a boom. |
| 1893-05-28 | National Electric Co. | Ralph E. Rust appointed receiver for National Electric Manufacturing Co. Company was unable to pay its debts. |
| 1893-05-23 | City Growth | Old Seminary school for sale. |
| 1893-05-21 | Business in General | State factory inspection reports new machinery in EC in two years. Amounts $119,006. Building improvements in industry amounts $97,632. Total people employed in manufacturing 2559 of which 150 are female. Number of employees two years ago was 2,177. Only four fatal accidents in last two years. One at Empire Mill, one Shaw, one Phoenix, & one EC St. Railroad. Only 10 children under 14 years employed. |
| 1893-05-14 | Boys Brigade | Brigade formed in EC. 50 enrolled. |
| 1893-05-14 | Walter's Brewery | History of Co. now best in state. |
| 1893-05-14 | Business in General | Andrew Jackson awarded $9,278 damages from WI Telephone Co. Barn at fairgrounds burned after lightning traveled along telephone line. More. |
| 1893-05-08 | Boys Brigade | History of organization. |
| 1893-05-08 | City Growth | Long article about EC prostitutes. |
| 1893-05-08 | City Growth | William Dukelow, 512 Dodge raped four year old girl, sentenced to 30 years at Waupun. |
| 1893-04-23 | City Growth | Saloon keepers notified gambling will not be tolerated. |
| 1893-04-02 | Ingram Building | Ground will soon be broken on Kelsey & Farwell will cost $50,000. |
| 1893-04-02 | Parker Building | Doctor Parker building three story where Richardson & Hobbs hardware store is now. |
| 1893-03-19 | City Growth | Pearl Button factory two years old, Galloway St. EJ Pope manager. Started with seven now employ 70. |
| 1893-03-12 | City Growth | Herman Bluedorn rented Dinger greenhouse, 941 Main St. telephone #90. |
| 1893-03-11 | Elizabeth Russell Murder Trial | Whipple acquitted in Trempealeau County Circuit Court. Case written of by Judge Bailey in his history of Eau Claire County (page 268). |
| 1893-03-05 | Odds and Ends | Total snow fall last four months: 56"--most in ten years. Hawaii about to be annexed. |
| 1893-02-12 | City Growth | Cass Drug Co. mortgage foreclosed 305 South Barstow. Had given mortgage to cover $9,459 promisary note. JE Cass President & WA Rust Secretary. |
| 1893-02-12 | Lumbering | Gives cut of 1892 season. |
| 1893-02-05 | City Growth | Madison St. Manufaturing Co., Sam G. Converse President & Manager. Built new high school, built office building for Knapp-Stout & Co. at Menomonie, cost $10,000. Built 26 feet by 80 feet addition to Stocking building (Smith Brothers crockery store) built addition & remodeling WM Rowe's house. Stoll's College cost $6,500. House for Eliza Wilson at Elk Creek. |
| 1893-02-05 | Odds and Ends | Alexander Bull, son of Ole Bull, playing violin at Presbyterian Church. |
| 1893-01-22 | City Growth | Northwestern people taking machingery out of old steam mill opposite linen mill. |
| 1893-01-22 | Mills | "Uncle Gordon" died age 86, town of Washington. Was first to build grist mill on Lowes Creek. Was father-in-law of WE Stevens. |
| 1893-01-22 | Lumbering | John S Owen of Rust-Owen Lumber Co. sold to Erskine Ingram and others the West EC million Half Moon and others interested are CM Buffington, MB Wyman and Mr. Moffat. |
| 1893-01-22 | Lumbering | MB Wyman fitting up Sherman mill, will cut shingles, employ 100. |
| 1893-01-08 | City Growth | Milwaukee Beer Bottling Co., on Galloway & Hobart St. bought by Joseph Evans from Charles Herziger. |
| 1893-01-01 | Lumbering | Interesting notice about Shaw and Weyerhauser. |
| 1892-12-11 | City Growth | Doctor Alex Montgomery has EC Institute for curing of alcoholism & drugs, 242 Oxford. |
| 1892-12-11 | Lumbering | Daniel Shaw Lumber Co. cut given plus Valley Lumber Co. |
| 1892-12-04 | City Growth | Crescent mill changed hands. |
| 1892-12-04 | Lumbering | Cut of Dells Lumber Co. past season; lumber 21,646,500', shingles 11,343,000', lath 5,918,000' pickets 460,000'. |
| 1892-10-23 | City Growth | Corner of Kelsey & Farwell 125 feet by 50 feet with house sold by HM Stocking to Doctor ES Hayes for $8,000. |
| 1892-10-09 | Lumbering | Nw LCo. now controls seven mills, purchase includes some 20,000,000' of logs which will be on hand at end of season. Nw now only owner on EC waters. Mills are two at Porterville, two EC, one Stanley, one at Gile, Wisconsin, and one at Sterling. |
| 1892-10-02 | City Growth | Mayor Ure & Chief Higgins raid several gambling rooms including the Devine place, Mike Keefe's, Washburn & Halls's & Bailey & Millers over Andrews saloon on Gibson. Traveling man complained he lost $700 at cards & game was crooked. |
| 1892-10-02 | Lumbering | MRL Company's property in EC and on Eau Claire River sold to Northwestern Lumber Co. No more rafting, bumber to be piled in yards here, perhaps 25,000,000' of it. Barver believes mills will be consolidated and one first class one built. |
| 1892-10-02 | Lumbering | Prices of MRL Co. about $700,000. Most important deal ever made in annals of logging on Eau Claire River. The two mills have capacity of 35,000,000' lumber, 6,000,000 of lath, 2,000,000 shingles per year. |
| 1892-10-02 | Lumbering | Pine land of Cornell U. sold to Chippewa Logging Co., comprise 109,000 acres in Price, Taylor, Chippewa and Barron Counties for $841,706, a prize long sought by lumbermen. |
| 1892-09-11 | Lumbering | Carson declares Leader responsible for strike by advocating men can do as much work in ten hours as eleven. |
| 1892-08-25 | Lumbering | Strike on, men want to work ten hours and be paid for eleven. |
| 1892-07-31 | Lumbering | Dells Lumber Co. sawing average 175,000' daily. |
| 1892-06-05 | Elizabeth Russell Murder Trial | (Editorial comment) June 5 article, August 10 and 21, October 2, 9, and 30, February 19, 1893, March 19, April 2 and 30, May 8 and 14, June 18. |
| 1892-05-29 | City Growth | New York Tribune made study of millionaires in US. 64 in WI, 41 credited to protected industries. EC has eight. William Carson, Henry C. Putnam, William A. Rust, George Y. Gilbert, Fitch Gilbert, Orin H. Ingram, AJ Schonwelt. |
| 1892-05-29 | City Growth | EC Fuel & Supply Co. new office corner Barstow & EC St. BG Proctor, secretary, warehouse behind office. |
| 1892-05-29 | City Growth | JP Fox secured contract for part of plumbing for World's Fair in Chicago. |
| 1892-05-29 | High School | Fifth annual alumni banquet. |
| 1892-05-15 | City Growth | OF Jackson & Peter Anderson are building a private sewer on Emery St. between Farwell & Dewey. |
| 1892-05-15 | Hardy Preparatory School | Mrs. EJ Boyce has leased large building on Marston owned by Marston and lately known as Hardy School; now boarding and rooming house. |
| 1892-05-08 | Lumbering | Joseph Kramer caught in belting of Empire Mill. Rivets of belt tore flesh, actually tearing man's entrails out. Was 45, leaves wife and two children. |
| 1892-04-17 | Elizabeth Russell Murder Trial | Trial: May 1, 7, 15, 23, 29. |
| 1892-04-03 | City Growth | 13-year old boy, George Ekland, shot self in leg with 22 revolber while trying to remove cartridge at Lincoln School. Anna Joyce teacher & Mrs. JC Sherwin, pr? |
| 1892-03-27 | Business Colleges | RO Stoll bought lot to locate his college. |
| 1892-03-27 | Lumbering | EC going to furnish lots of lumber for World's Fair. MRL Co. made a large shipment. |
| 1892-03-20 | City Growth | Fire Department report lists equipment. Had 56 alarms, four were false. |
| 1892-03-14 | Business in General | EC Creamery built in 1888 on Water St. Obtained subscriptions in fraudulent way. |
| 1892-03-13 | City Growth | School Board selects Robert Lang to supervise construction of high school. |
| 1892-03-13 | Eau Claire County | Sheriff Fleming has been taking extra pay of $2 per day supposed to have been for an extra jailor. County Board looks into matter and makes resolution. Ex-sheriffs affected are Pat Cosgrove, Charles A. Dunn, G.W. Churchill. Will bring suit to recover all money since 1883, nearly $7,000 & interest. |
| 1892-03-13 | Lumbering | Old Wilson mill, 4th Ward burned, was between Valley and Empire, and an old relic. |
| 1892-03-10 | Opera House | DR Moon buys Opera House at Sheriff's sale. |
| 1892-02-21 | Business in General | Germania Lodge #49, KP bought building opposite Opera House of Doctor Skinner. Will use south 1/2. |
| 1892-02-21 | Business in General | Shortage in accounts of Eugene L Pond in Alma Milling Co. which a short time ago was transferred to EC Grocer Co. |