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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
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| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1947-05-29 | EC Book and Stationary. | Corporation reorganized. |
| 1947-05-20 | Street Improvements | Metal street signs replace wooden ones. |
| 1947-05-15 | World War II | Tea for brides (names given). |
| 1947-05-11 | EC Daily Leader | Matthew M. Kelly, publisher of Leader died aged 60. Became acting editor when PC Atkinson in Army. Then managed. Treasurer-Secretary in 1941. |
| 1947-05-09 | Crime | Warren W. Moore 30, 1412 Margaret tried for indecent talk on telephone. Fine $100 & 60 days jail. |
| 1947-05-08 | City Growth | Three new wells in operation city has 30 million gallons water per day. Now has total of 11 wells in new well area. |
| 1947-05-04 | Presto (National Pressure Cooker Co.) | City bid accepted. |
| 1947-04-25 | Boy Scouts | Lewis E Phillips buys 1,300 acre campsite. More. |
| 1947-04-19 | Anderson Land Co. | Alvin's brothers are Louis H. & Daniel of Elk Lake, 1 daughter Mrs. Al Erickson. |
| 1947-04-18 | World War II | Mrs. Clare Krsgjzaniek is second Italian bride in EC. |
| 1947-04-18 | EC Transportation Co. | Fares raised. |
| 1947-04-17 | Anderson Land Co. | Alvin M. Anderson, 67, of Elk Creek Lake died. President of Anderson Land Co. In business here 30 years, developed Elk Lake. |
| 1947-04-16 | Fires | EC firemen and resuscitator flown to Jump River in attempt to save 3 year old drowned girl. Plane landed on macadam road, too late. |
| 1947-04-11 | Presto (National Pressure Cooker Co.) | City Council rejects WAA sewer price. |
| 1947-04-11 | Chamber of Commerce | Centennial celebration set for July 4, 5, and 6. |
| 1947-04-05 | World War II | War record in library vault. Laura Olson & Mrs. W. McLeod compiled complete file. |
| 1947-03-30 | U.S. Rubber Company, see also: Gillette | Employ 4,400, payroll $1,500,000 monthly. |
| 1947-03-28 | Immaculate Conception | Truax Field chapel to be moved here. |
| 1947-03-28 | World War II | Catholic war dead listed. |
| 1947-03-18 | Presto (National Pressure Cooker Co.) | Buys 348 acres & 40 buildings of Area 2. |
| 1947-03-16 | World War II | War brides pictures and their babies. |
| 1947-03-09 | State Theater | |
| 1947-03-09 | WTAQ | (25 years ago) EC radio audience growing, wireless sets operated daily at EC Savings Bank, Kelley's Smoke Shop & BF Faast & Mills Middlekauff homes. |
| 1947-03-08 | Airport | City acquires additional land to get clearance for approaches. |
| 1947-03-06 | Fish, E.M. & Co. | Turns out last piece mill work after 80 years. History. |
| 1947-03-04 | U.S. Rubber Company, see also: Gillette | Buy International Harvester building. |
| 1947-02-23 | City Growth | Council studying division of 3rd, 10th & 9th Ward. |
| 1947-02-13 | Montgomery Ward | Buys former Grand Opera site, 406 South Barstow. Now parking lot, store at 402 & filling station at rear of building. History of buildings. |
| 1947-01-31 | Weather | Blizzard "400" cancelled, school closed, buses going north, but not south. |
| 1947-01-26 | World War II | Estimate 1,076 disabled vets in EC based on per capita average. |
| 1947-01-21 | Drownings | Howard Berg, eight, slid off ice near Madison bridge. |
| 1947-01-12 | Buildings | Hotel Edwards nearly ready to open, on site of old Central House which Emil Burhart operated 1862. |
| 1947-01-04 | Fires | Building total loss estimated $100,000, walls will be torn down. Doubled loss for 1946. |
| 1947-01-03 | Fires | Old Continental Store building on southwest corner of Barstow and Gibson razed by fire, owned by Culver and Culver. |
| 1946-12-21 | Cameo Theater | Floyd Nutting, manager of Mindako Theaters which include State, Badter, O'Klare and Cameo. 315 S. Barstow. |
| 1946-12-20 | Cameo Theater | Opens with "Bachelor's Daughters" with Gail Russell, Ann Dvork, Claire Trebor, Adolph Menjo. |
| 1946-12-08 | Hale, EM Co. | Sold 28,000 books in 1931. This year 700,000 volumes. Moved from old quarters in EC Book & Stationary last April. Staff grown from 11 to 35 in EC alone. |
| 1946-12-05 | Crime | Thieves break glass, steal $5000 gems at Laskers. |
| 1946-11-27 | Baptist Church | Bethel observes golden jubilee. |
| 1946-11-08 | Fires | Kinney Shoe store, 208 Barstow gutted, 3 firemen overcome by smoke, hospitalized. |
| 1946-10-16 | Auditorium and Armory | Black hills Passion play. |
| 1946-10-11 | School Board | School police system 1st in state. |
| 1946-10-05 | Crime | Burglers get $3,500 at Olson Tavern 212 Putnam. |
| 1946-10-04 | Crime | Stygar, Kliest, Mallum, all 13 years arrested for robbery & stealing several cars. |
| 1946-10-03 | International Harvester | Discontinues wholesale farm equipment branch in city but retains trucks. HJ Brosnahan Manager. |
| 1946-10-03 | Crime | Yeggs crack safe Huebsch, get $878. |
| 1946-09-18 | Gun Club | Three thousand five hundred pheasants released in County. |
| 1946-09-10 | EC Transportation Co. | EC 4th city in U.S. to use electricity for street car. |
| 1946-09-06 | Prock and Sons | EC has 1st airplane ambulance in WI. Prock leases twin engined Cessna, three stretchers will fit in cabin. Leo Watson flies it. Prock mortuary business 26 years & operated an ambulance for 20 years. |
| 1946-09-06 | U.S.O. | "Y" gets citation of war work. (USO) |
| 1946-09-01 | City Growth | Dimout (brownout?) goes into effect in EC. Christmas lighting banned due to coal strike. Industrial & commercial users asked to reduce use 25%. |
| 1946-08-23 | City Growth | Assessed valuation total personal property $5,341,805 real estate $30m904,905 increase $4,635,815 over 1945. |
| 1946-08-22 | Drownings | Skeleton of Iver Hovey, 79, who disappeared December 29, 1945, found on island a mile down stream, appeared to be deposited by high water. |
| 1946-08-17 | Circus | Showing on Harding and Rudolph Rd. |
| 1946-08-16 | Circus | Very good history of circus in EC. |
| 1946-08-06 | City Growth | City to lease Woman's Club lots for off street parking for $50 per month. |
| 1946-08-06 | Weather | Lightning struck Fred Boutan home, 1617 Woodland, shattering windows, tearing out complete window sash, ripping plaster from walls etc. No fire. |
| 1946-08-04 | City Growth | 116 basements serving as living quarters. Building slowed by lack of materials. |
| 1946-07-23 | World War II | Fred Zutter S2/c proclaimed dead, missing in action since June 29, 1945. |
| 1946-07-12 | World War II | War Department fiveslist of war dead, 83 in EC County. |
| 1946-07-11 | Street Improvements | Bids for 5 traffic lights, city has only 2. |
| 1946-07-10 | Schwahn, AF & Sons | History of company. Others purchase interest. |
| 1946-07-09 | Farwell House | 403 South Farwell being wrecked. Kalter blacksmith shop there quite a while. |
| 1946-06-27 | City Growth | Chamber of Commerce engage city planning consultant. IS Shattuck of Minneapolis fee $75 per day. |
| 1946-06-26 | Western Electric | Site listed for sale, surplus property of war assets administration. Tentative value $800,000, date of sale August 5. |
| 1946-06-02 | City Growth | Buliding since January 1 totals $1,028,120; last year same period $1,417,465-large projects held up by Federal ban. |
| 1946-06-02 | World War II | Victoria Johns from England. |
| 1946-05-30 | World War II | Arvin Ziehlsdorff, ex-paratrooper Captain gets Croix de Guerre. |
| 1946-05-29 | Sky Park | Northland Airlines will call at EC daily on flights to LaCrosse & Madison. Four-passenger, two-engine Cessnas. Northland owned by two Osseo men. |
| 1946-05-26 | Sky Park | New firm incorporated by Alfred Timm of Elk Mound, President; Richard Heuse, EC Vice President; JA Vankat. 160 acres 1/2 mile south of highway 12 & about one mile east of Chippewa River, will have 3000 foot runways, hangers to house five planes owned by Co. being built. More. |
| 1946-05-26 | World War II | Mrs. Robert Hobart, Belgian war bride arrives. |
| 1946-05-25 | City Growth | City buys EM Fish property for parking at $50,000. 402-420 Graham Ave. Will finance from parking meters. |
| 1946-05-15 | Sports | EC boy makes good as big time jockey. |
| 1946-05-15 | World War II | EC has no meat, butter or soap flakes. Wash. Creamery delivers in EC 4,0000 pounds weekly. OPA celing prices cause creameries to churn butter at a loss. Most cream being condensed in Osseo. Fall Creek creamery losing 12 cents a pound. 4 other creameries in County not making butter at all except for farmer patrons. |
| 1946-05-09 | Bus | Grand opening of Union Bus station tomorrow. |
| 1946-05-09 | Drownings | W. Schroeder, 73, found in river, probably suicide. |
| 1946-05-07 | Baseball | Organized baseball returns to city as Bears start training. |
| 1946-05-01 | EC Hotel | Workman died. |
| 1946-04-24 | Drownings | Burnett W. Larson, partner Johnson Huelleatt, missing from nursing home since March 26, found two miles down. |
| 1946-04-21 | City Growth | G. Otis Linderman appointed to fill council vacancy. |
| 1946-04-21 | World War II | Hamless Easter for EC. Not much meat. |
| 1946-04-20 | World War II | Lieutenant Hjalmer L. Moiner awarded 3 oak clusters posthumous. |
| 1946-04-16 | World War II | Italian bride, Mrs. George Peterson arrives. |
| 1946-04-14 | City Growth | FHA approval given for 1st of five homes Putnam Heights. |
| 1946-03-29 | City Growth | Airline contract signed for five-year period. |
| 1946-03-27 | World War II | French bride arrives, Mrs. Joseph Califf. |
| 1946-03-23 | World War II | Mrs. George Mittlestadt British bride. |
| 1946-03-17 | World War II | Mrs. James H. Smith, British war bride enjoys shopping. |
| 1946-03-16 | World War II | 900 on waiting list to get telephones. Wisconsin Telephone Co. plan $133,000 expansion program. |
| 1946-03-08 | City Growth | Kiwanians march to city chambers to seek action on airline. Fear action on NW airline's plan for 24-hour service being made political football. |
| 1946-03-06 | World War II | First English bride joins husband in city, Mrs. Oscar J. Olson. |
| 1946-03-02 | City Growth | 33 Army barracks to house 99 families assigned to EC. Barracks now set up in Altoona, IA each 100 by 20 feet. Army pays for removal, transportation & set up. City now has 500 applications on file of which 100 have been assigned. |
| 1946-03-02 | City Growth | HJ Youngberg, Manager US Employment Service, EC District office says EC area asked to find jobs for 2500 vets. 1500 job openings now assurred between March 1st & July 1st. |
| 1946-03-01 | Water Street Bridge | City raises ante by $16,000 when highway commission finds original estimate too low. |
| 1946-03-01 | World War II | George Mittlestadt awaiting arrival of English war bride. |
| 1946-02-27 | U.S. Rubber Company, see also: Gillette | Adding 5th story to building #7. |
| 1946-02-22 | Buildings | Boston Flats being wrecked, three story frame apartment building erected by A. Megget organization, extended south from corner of Barstow & Jones, but Phillips Petroleum Co. took part. Rest being removed for AE Rogers Co. |
| 1946-02-21 | U.S. Rubber Company, see also: Gillette | Man crushed to death in jaws of curing press. |
| 1946-02-20 | World War II | Lieutenant Robert D. Guthrie missing since 1944 declared dead. |
| 1946-02-16 | Evans Lee | Charles S. Lee died. |