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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
Viewing Records: 5,901 to 6,000 of 6,111
| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| [none] | Baptist Church | Town clock to be placed in Baptist church steeple. |
| [none] | Christ Episcopal Church | Congregation organizing Sunday School. |
| [none] | Christ Episcopal Church | Gives officers and fiscal report. |
| [none] | Christ Episcopal Church | Chancel window described. |
| [none] | Christ Episcopal Church | Gives building committee. |
| [none] | Christ Episcopal Church | Betsy Moffat gives church some land. |
| [none] | Weather | Snow. |
| [none] | Weather | Many severe thunder storms during summer. Many places struck by lightning. |
| [none] | Weather | Cold spell of 40 below & 43 below weather, colder than for several years. |
| [none] | Weather | Very early spring, like 1861. |
| [none] | Weather | River as low as we have ever seen it. Lower than at any time since 1864. |
| [none] | Weather | Very mild winter. No snow to speak of up to February 1. Dust as thick and penetrating on Bartow street as in dry mid-summer. |
| [none] | Weather | March feels more like May. Rains in early May make log drive possible. |
| [none] | Weather | Ice gorge-floe detached itself from near Prescott and Burdett's mill and went down river. Piled up at bridge at such a height as to tear up some of the sidewalk. At 11 o'clock main jam gave way just below the Dells. The river was filled from bank to bank with ice, logs, piers, boom timber and lumber torn from the mills above. It took 3/4 hour to pass here and river banks were thronged with people expecting to see the bridge go out. Although thousands of dollars worth of property were carried away, the damage was less than expected and bridge held firm. The sight was such as was never seen before on the Chippewa. |
| [none] | Weather | Chapman and Thorp mills can't operate because of low water. Heavy rain for 1 hour helped grain -- otherwise no rain for two months. |
| [none] | Weather | Snowy winter, 4 & 58 deep crust tied up everything. Drifts 30' deep. |
| [none] | Weather | Freshet shaken peirs of Shawton bridge. |
| [none] | Weather | Water lower than for several years. |
| [none] | Weather | Wether hot and dry, no rain for two months. |
| [none] | Weather | Low water in summers prevents merchants receiving new goods. |
| [none] | Weather | Ground barely covered with snow. Terrible for loggers. |
| [none] | Weather | Not enough water for log drive. |
| [none] | Weather | Two severe frosts. |
| [none] | Weather | Too much rain at harvest time after long drought. |
| [none] | Weather | Snow blocked railroad. County marooned. Man and wife froze to death in bed. Stage driver rode into Sparta frozen to death but still sitting erect on stage seat. Coldest weather ever known in country. Mercury froze. Spirit thermometers indicated 49 below. Sleighing on Chippewa for several miles below Dells and also below ferry. |
| [none] | Weather | Heavy rains. Hail stones 3" long at Bridge Creek and Durand. Rain washed away track going down big hill south of town. |
| [none] | Weather | Summer. Drought on river getting low, boats having difficulty. Heavy rains, rivers rose 7 feet. Hail stones as large as hen's eggs at Bridge Creek. |
| [none] | Weather | No snow, very cold. 10 to 30 below for a week. Loggers having hard time. |
| [none] | Weather | Spring since middle of February. Dry spring. |
| [none] | Weather | 4" snow. Chippewa not frozen enough for teams. |
| [none] | Weather | One of highest freshets ever known just subsiding. |
| [none] | Weather | 30 below, coldest in 3 years. |
| [none] | Weather | Winter of 1846-7 intensely cold. Almost no snow. Rivers froze to beds. Spring had no rain during April and may. June 5 - terrible thunderstorm. 1857 - Mercuy congealed in thermometers. |
| [none] | Weather | No ice of any consequence in river. |
| [none] | Congregational Church | Donation visit on Reverend Kidder raised $100. |
| [none] | German Lutheran Society, St. Johns Church | To erect church on four lots directly southeast of EC Lumber Company's store. |
| [none] | German Lutheran Society, St. Johns Church | Steeple of church up. |
| [none] | Methodist Church | Cornerstone laid 4th & Lake St. |
| [none] | Methodist Church | Lake Street Methodist Church dedicated. |
| [none] | Methodist Church | EC now has a Universalist church besides two Methodist Episcopal churches, Congregational & Presbyterian. |
| [none] | Eastside Methodist Church | Church being built. |
| [none] | Eastside Methodist Church | Bell for Methodist Church arrived. |
| [none] | Eastside Methodist Church | Methodist meetings. |
| [none] | Eastside Methodist Church | Church held at school house on Jones St. |
| [none] | Eastside Methodist Church | EC has two Methodist churches. |
| [none] | Eastside Methodist Church | Donation visit on Reverend Anderson. |
| [none] | Eastside Methodist Church | Preparing for new church. |
| [none] | Northside Catholic Church | Services in Catholic church on northside. |
| [none] | Northside Catholic Church | Roman Catholic Society of North EC to have concert to raise money for school. |
| [none] | Northside Catholic Church | Catholic Fair to liquidate debt. Father Mader. |
| [none] | Northside Catholic Church | German & Irish Catholics decide to build separate churches. German Catholics begun on site on brow of hill behind North EC, just over railroad tracks. |
| [none] | Northside Catholic Church | Making extensive repairs. |
| [none] | Northside Norwegian Lutheran Church | Will build church in North EC on land donated by EC Lumber Co. |
| [none] | Our Savior's Lutheran | To be built near Norden Hall on westside. Architect CF Stuck of this city. |
| [none] | Presbyterian Church | Appearance being improved by new color, painters Bailey & Baker. |
| [none] | Presbyterian Church | McNair granted leave of absence, ladies present purse of $40. He went east. |
| [none] | Presbyterian Church | Meeting to consider joining with Congregationals under one minister. |
| [none] | Presbyterian Church | McNair leaving for war as chaplain. Reverend Lockwood came. |
| [none] | Presbyterian Church | New bell placed in steeple, finest tone in valley. |
| [none] | Presbyterian Church | Vestibule torn off, furnace put in basement. Largest congregation in town. |
| [none] | Presbyterian Church | Wedding of HC Putnam 1st in church. |
| [none] | Sacred Heart Church | New church dedicated June 16. Father Collins. |
| [none] | St. Patricks Church | Had 297 communcants + 141 confirmations. |
| [none] | St. Patricks Church | Mrs. Newton presented chancel carpet to church. |
| [none] | Universalist Church | EC now has Universalist church (old school building corner Farwell & Jones.) |
| [none] | Universalist Church | L. Parish bought building for house, adds to rear & puts foundation under it. |
| [none] | Westside Norwegian Lutheran Church. | Stands near school house, cost about $35,000, is 61 feet by 35 feet across the nave. |
| [none] | Westside Norwegian Lutheran Church. | First Lutheran under Reverend Hoyme? decide to enlarge. |
| [none] | Weather | Highest water since 1847. EC bridge afloat. |
| [none] | Weather | 20 degrees below. Ice across Chippewa. |
| [none] | Weather | 100 degrees in the shade. |
| [none] | City Growth | "EC, WI: From the large amount of good we see daily going forward marked EC we judge that this town must be improving rapidly. There are a great many new firms commencing business there this season. It will be the most flourishing town in the Chippewa Valley. It has received an excellent start and the positive location of the new land office there, together with a good prospect of railroad communication with the East, will combine to make it all its owners claim it will be. |
| [none] | City Growth | Reed & Gage's sawmill & boarding house were only buildings on eastside. |
| [none] | City Growth | WH Gleason surveyor of EC County reports that 50 good dwellings & a number of steam mills have gone up this season. No longer any doubt that Great Land Grant Railroad will cross at EC. |
| [none] | City Growth | Town meeting voted to deprive hogs from running at large. Mother of large litter in possession of sack of flour she had stolen from a wagon. |
| [none] | City Growth | At annual meeting of County Board, supervisors voted to change name of Half Moon to West Eau Claire. |
| [none] | City Growth | Eleven new buildings on Barstow, seven to be dry goods & groceries. |
| [none] | City Growth | West EC now occupies much larger space than eastside. There are in town & nearby 13 mills where all kinds of lumber is being manufactured. An extensive foundry which does all the work in that line for the mills. Four church buildings completed & 5th in process, Congregational, Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian & Universalist. Three school houses. |
| [none] | City Growth | Stone quarry near Mount Tom. |
| [none] | City Growth | Five years ago no need of livery stables, now two or three in operation, about 20 horses each & amply provided with latest style vehicles of all descriptions. |
| [none] | City Growth | So much building going on every carpenter & mason busy all the time. |
| [none] | City Growth | In every part of town rents are steadily increasing in spite of fact that they have long been at a fearfully high level. Our town is greatly overcrowded. Houses & stores are scarce and in demand. Chauncy Chandler chosen pathmaster again. Much work for him to get citizens to build sidewalks. |
| [none] | City Growth | Twelve years ago the first boat, the "Lady Franklin" ascended the Chippewa with a cargo of produce mostly consigned to CF and belonging to HS Allen, Esquire. Then it was a nevlety to see a boat plowing its way up the swift current of the Chippewa to our rude and uncouth landing with nothing but a rickety old ? wherein to store freight. Now our landings are lined with large, substantial warehouses, the wharf are wonderfully improved in every way, and it is no uncommon occasion for us to witness in season of navigation five or six boats arrive & depart daily from our wharfs, loaded both ways with freight and passengers. The products for export from the CV within the past four years, have increased with wonderful proportion. Many bushels of the finest wheat finds its way to Milwaukee and Chicago markets, commanding the highest price, while sufficient remains for home consumption--on Westside EC Wesleyan Seminary--higher education. Demand for lumber far exceeds supply 15,000 men now engaged in logging on the Chippewa, EC & their tributaries. Year 1864 drought hurt lumbermen, 1865 inspired new life & vigor, six or eight new places of business started up in last six months. Lots $400 to $500. Burnt district partially rebuilt. Not a ladder in town long enough to reach second story of wood building. |
| [none] | City Growth | EC Lumber Co. & Peter Truax to build three-story building on corner Kelsey & Barstow, 52 feet by 102 feet, third story to be occupied by city hall. |
| [none] | City Growth | Eau Claire has two fire tanks carried on backs. |
| [none] | City Growth | Bear in town near Peter Truax's barn on westside, chased by men, swam river & finally killed on river bank. |
| [none] | City Growth | West EC gets steam fire engine $7,000. |
| [none] | City Growth | Police reinforced to prevent incendiary fires. |
| [none] | City Growth | Separate villages of EC incorporated as city. |
| [none] | City Growth | Number of new buildings this season surpass other year. |
| [none] | City Growth | Black bear appeared on north side. |
| [none] | City Growth | City built new engine house on EC St. on lot formerly occupied by Doctor Galloway office. Second story for city offices. Wages reduced due to hard times. |
| [none] | City Growth | 52 saloons in EC. |
| [none] | City Growth | 40 new houses in process of construction in 5th Ward from edge of Mead's Praire. |
| [none] | City Growth | City short of money for first time. |
| [none] | City Growth | Improvements in 1873 set at $553,290. Fastest growing city in WI. Largest number of improvements made in any year except 1870 when WWRR? arrived. In 1870 increase was $528,722 & in 1871 was a lull, only $250,000 expended. In 1872 business began to expand, $366,000. Only city that can challenge us is CF. Buildings by wards listed. 6th Ward contains most new buildings, 5th next & 1st next. |
| [none] | City Growth | Gilbert Porter elected mayor largest vote ever. Previous was 1432 in 1872, Tuesday's vote 1713 for mayor. |
| [none] | City Growth | GA Buffington elected mayor. |
| [none] | City Growth | Wandering Italian musicians play on streets frequently for last two years. |
| [none] | City Growth | About 100 new buildings being erected. |