| Name |
Subject |
Categories |
Source |
Date |
Pg |
Col |
| Smith, Chas. |
Left hand badly mangled by binder cogs, fourth finger amputated |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/10/1899 |
5 |
|
| Cities - Waconia |
Village has purchased an Austin reversible road grader, which will prove quite a savings. |
Government: Public Works: Street Maintenance |
Waconia Patriot |
8/10/1899 |
8 |
|
| Schools - Chaska |
Chaska school borad organized (Officers elected) |
Government: Organizations |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/10/1899 |
5 |
|
| Churches: Chaska Catholic Church |
New addition to the church - adding on a brick sacristy, new basement to be used for storage |
- Religion: Churches: Catholic
- Buildings: Churches |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/10/1899 |
4 |
|
| Organizations - Chaska |
Fair Assoc., officers elected, committies readied, finances gone over for races & other activities |
- Entertainment: Fairs & Pageants
- Government: Organizations |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/10/1899 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Gehl Butcher Shop: More power added (10 horse power boiler added to his steam plant |
Business & Industry: Utilities & Power |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/17/1899 |
5 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
B. B. Cigar Factory under new ownership; premises whitewashed & painted |
Business & Industry |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/24/1899 |
4 |
|
| Businesses - Cologne |
Kaiser Millinery - Maggie Kaiser will start her business in Cologne; has purchased Mohrbacher's millinery stock |
Business & Industry: Clothing & Textiles |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/24/1899 |
4 |
|
| Carlson, Charles (Chas., "Charley") & Antonia (nee: Stockard) |
Baby Boy: Curtiss Alvin |
|
Carver Co. News |
8/31/1899 |
1 |
4 |
| Churches - Chaska/Catholic Church |
The Catholic church decoration: A Mr. Koler & his staff decorated the interior with an artistry "That cannot be described" |
Religion: Churches: Catholic |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/31/1899 |
4 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska Bldg. & Loan Association |
Winding up of affairs (Althrough solvent, the association was not able to place the loans necessary & so 13 disbanding) |
Business & Industry: Financial Institutions |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/31/1899 |
4 |
|
| Gehl, Chas. |
Sold at a good Figure(sold 15 acres to David Ulmer) |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/7/1899 |
1 |
|
| Ulmer, David |
bought a 15 acre tract from Chas. Gehl |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/7/1899 |
1 |
|
| Churches - Chaska/Lutheran |
Purchased for a new parsonage - Purchased a frame home on a corner owned by Mr. Seiberleich, home will be torn down and a brick parsonage will be built |
- Religion: Churches: Lutheran
- Buildings: Churches |
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/7/1899 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Fink Sorgum Co. will begin pressing sugar cane, the crop is good |
Business & Industry: Food Preparation Industries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/14/1899 |
4 |
|
| Lano , Mr. |
Cologne. Working at the Cologne mill, has moved family from Chaska to Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/21/1899 |
8 |
|
| Organizations - WM. R. Baxter Post/G. A. R./Chaska |
Grand Army of Republic endorses Mayor Dutoit's efforts to get a condemned cannon from the government to put in the part of the Indian Mound |
- Clubs & Associations
- Military Activities: Civil War |
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/21/1899 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
New hospital for Chaska (Under management of the St. Francis Sisters & Brotherhood) |
Health & Welfare: Medical Facilities |
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/28/1899 |
1 |
|
| Businesses |
Chaska Laundry just started up for business |
Business & Industry: Clothing & Textiles |
Weekly Valley Herald |
10/5/1899 |
5 |
|
| Businesses |
The Chaska laundry just started up for business |
Business & Industry: Clothing & Textiles |
Weekly Valley Herald |
10/5/1899 |
5 |
|
| Cities - Chaska |
Cement sidewalks - Bid let to Jos. Fisher to put in cement curb, gutter & sidewalk around school |
Government: Public Works: Street Improvements |
Weekly Valley Herald |
10/12/1899 |
5 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
B. B. Cigar Factory will change quarters (Mr. May has rented the Faber Bldg. to expand his business ) |
Business & Industry |
Weekly Valley Herald |
10/19/1899 |
1 |
|
| Businesses |
Greiner & Corning Brickyard. Important Enlargement - Purchase 2 lots from Peter Zerren, extending into making flour vases & pottery ware & will erect a building for such |
Business & Industry: Ceramics Industry, Potteries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
11/9/1899 |
1 |
|
| Morose, Billie |
just completed a barn on the lots purchased from John Bierstettel |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
11/23/1899 |
5 |
|
| Railroads - Chaska |
New stock yard of the M & St. L. RR Co.(large yard to be built on the spur track running to the brickyards, upon the old baseball grounds) |
Buildings: Railroad |
Weekly Valley Herald |
11/23/1899 |
4 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Greiner & Corning Brick Co: A large manufacturing building - A pottery building 50 X 75 ft. is being built |
Business & Industry: Ceramics Industry, Potteries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
11/23/1899 |
4 |
|
| Waholt, Chas. |
Married Bertha Hedtke |
|
Norwood Times |
11/24/1899 |
8 |
2 |
| Gratton, Owen |
Purchased the Hayes place in Hollywood |
|
Carver County News |
12/7/1899 |
1 |
3 |
| Karels, Chas |
Bankrupcy |
|
Herald Journal |
1/1/1900 |
1 |
2 |
| Businesses |
Chaska House - A small blaze - A lot of smoke, fire discovered in joists above the dining room - newly purchased fire extiquisher put it out. Insurance covered damage |
- Business & Industry: Hotels & Motels
- Disasters: Fires |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/4/1900 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Golden Standard Creamery Assn. - Farmer's meeting co-operative creamery project a success (25 farmers met to start a co-operative creamery in Chaska, election of officers |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/4/1900 |
1 |
2 |
| Bauermeister, Rudolph C. |
An important real estate transaction, Proprietor of the Union Hotel has purchased farm from Otto Bauermeister |
Business & Industry: Real Estate |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/11/1900 |
1 |
|
| Rauft, John |
Cologne. Just purchased a valuable building lot from A. Mohrbacher |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/11/1900 |
4 |
|
| Karels, Mr & Mrs Chas. C. |
6 month old daughter died |
|
Carver County News |
1/11/1900 |
5 |
2 |
| Organizations - Chaska |
Fire department - Firemen elect officers |
- Government: Departments and Offices: Fire Department
- Politics & Elections: Elections |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/11/1900 |
1 |
|
| Moy's Hotel + Saloon |
Purchased by Frank Dols |
|
Herald Journal |
1/15/1900 |
1 |
3 |
| Lighting |
Electric light wins (Chaska voted in an electric light plant) |
Business & Industry: Utilities & Power |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/18/1900 |
1 |
|
| Dircks, Leonard |
Opera House sold, purchased Chaska's Opera House with Teddy Lindenberg |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/25/1900 |
1 |
|
| Jaenecke, Henry |
Opera House Sold. Leonard Dircks and Teddy Lindenberg bought Chaska's opera house, will put in electric lighting |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/25/1900 |
1 |
|
| Lindenberg, Teddy |
Opera house sold. Purchased Chaska's opera house with Leonard Dircks |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/25/1900 |
1 |
|
Information contained in this database has been obtained from the files of the Carver County Historical Society Library; specifically, the newspaper index (in the future to include scrapbooks, family histories etc...). As with any information source, errors, inconsistencies, and accuracy in spelling and content are unavoidable. Therefore,
when researching individual names or places. We have tried to include alternatives whenever possible.
The Carver County Historical Society is grateful to Southwest Newspapers for their generous financial support of the newspaper indexing project.
The Newspaper/Resource Search is a searchable index of newspaper, record, and archival materials available from the Carver County Historical Society’s Research Library and Archive. Please see Library Resources and Genealogy for detailed information of the materials available at the CCHS.
If you wish to obtain copies of materials within the index, the CCHS staff is readily available to assist you with operating our microfilm readers, locating records, or providing access to archival material.
Research requests are completed in the order they are received.
If you have a question or would like to submit a research or article & records request, please email the CCHS Researcher, Brenda Reister, at: breister@carvercountymn.gov. Or call us at: (952) 442-4234. Requests can also be submitted by mail using our Research Request Form: Click here for a printable form
What are these fees used for? Library fees help offset a portion of the costs of running the library including staff time, purchasing new materials, and maintenance of the microfilm reader.
