| Name |
Subject |
Categories |
Source |
Date |
Pg |
Col |
| Businesses - Chaska |
Oerter's Photo Studio- New leasee & operator is Mr.Barker |
Business & Industry: Photographic Studios |
Weekly Valley Herald |
7/6/1899 |
5 |
|
| Taylor, Mrs. E. A. |
Appoointed postmaster of Chaska |
|
Norwood Times |
7/14/1899 |
5 |
3 |
| Businesses - Chaska |
Welters & Clemens Loegering: Desolved partnership, John Welters will be the sole proprietor |
Business & Industry: General Stores |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/3/1899 |
5 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
| Organizations - Chaska |
Fire department - Firemen elect officers |
- Government: Departments and Offices: Fire Department
- Politics & Elections: Elections |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/11/1900 |
1 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Mertz, John |
Buried at the Moravian church at Chaska |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/25/1900 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Golden Standard Creamery Assn: (Starting co-operative, officers elected; resolution passed to purchase White's creamery for $800.) |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/25/1900 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Chaska Opera House sold (Henry Jaeneche sold it to Leonard Dircks & Teddy Lindenberg; they will put in electric lights |
Business & Industry: Theaters, Movie |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/25/1900 |
1 |
|
| Organizations - Chaska |
Fire department - Annual report of the chief engineer of the Chaska fire dept. |
Government: Departments and Offices: Fire Department |
Weekly Valley Herald |
3/22/1900 |
5 |
|
| Churches - Chaska/German Lutheran Church |
Notice to: Contractors, bids to be let for the construction of a brick building |
- Religion: Churches: Lutheran
- Buildings: Churches |
Weekly Valley Herald |
3/29/1900 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Greiner & Corning Brickyard purchase the kiln sheds, lumber & posts of the Schlafle yard |
Business & Industry: Ceramics Industry, Potteries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
4/5/1900 |
5 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Greiner & Corning Brickyard: A car load of flower pots - New pottery plant made the 1st shipment lask week |
Business & Industry: Ceramics Industry, Potteries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
4/5/1900 |
8 |
|
| May, Thos. R. |
Sold farm north of Chaska to Paul Schug |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
4/12/1900 |
4 |
|
| Schools - Chaska |
Notice of meeting of Chaska Indep. school dist.(Discussing need to buy more land and erect another school house) |
Buildings: Schools |
Weekly Valley Herald |
4/19/1900 |
8 |
|
| Bongard, Gerhard |
Ex-treasurer arrested at Olds, N. W. Territory Canada by Oscar Hicks of Minneapolis-is now in county Jail in Chaska. |
Law & Justice: Crime: Robbery & Theft |
Weekly Valley Herald |
5/10/1900 |
1 |
|
| Organizations - Chaska |
Ancient Order of United Workmen - Starting a degree of honor lodge at Chaska |
Government: Organizations |
Weekly Valley Herald |
5/10/1900 |
5 |
|
| Mueller, Herman |
2 Chaska boys drown, Herman and Otto Mueller. No witnesses but small children playing at Eder's clay hole had seen them earlier. |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
6/7/1900 |
1 |
|
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