Newspaper/Resource Search
| Name |
Subject |
Categories |
Source |
Date |
Pg |
Col |
| Roads |
State highway #12 will be graded. #12 highway between Chaska & Cologne construction project for next year |
Transportation: Roads & Highways |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/2/1928 |
1 |
6 |
| Collins, John J. |
Obituary |
|
Waconia Patriot |
8/30/1928 |
1 |
|
| Brueggemeir, Peter |
Home of Peter Bruggemeir near Cologne is robbed |
Law & Justice: Crime: Robbery & Theft |
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/13/1928 |
7 |
3 |
| Churches - Cologne |
St. Bernards - Large class initiated into church societies. St. Bernards aid society & St. Ann's Auziliary |
Religion: Religious Organizations |
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/19/1928 |
7 |
3 |
| Churches - Cologne |
St. Bernards - Father J. Rinke of New Ulm here |
Religion: Churches: Catholic |
Waconia Patriot |
9/27/1928 |
5 |
|
| Businesses - Cologne |
Mohrbacher Oil & Gas Co. - Sale of assets of the estate of Mohrbacher Oil & Gas Co. |
Business & Industry: Chemical & Petroleum |
Weekly Valley Herald |
10/4/1928 |
6 |
1 |
| Arnst, Christ J |
Hardware store bio; Cologne; w/ Val Haasken |
Anniversaries |
Cologne: The First 100 Years |
12/31/1928 |
64 |
|
| Colbert, John |
Married Margaret McClellan |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/17/1929 |
3 |
6 |
| Colbert, John |
Married Margaret McClellan |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/24/1929 |
7 |
2 |
| Businesses - Cologne |
Cologne creamery has annual meeting |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/31/1929 |
7 |
1 |
| Tholen, John |
Cologne Hatchery presents Advance Membership |
|
Waconia Patriot |
5/16/1929 |
3 |
|
| Businessess - Cologne |
Cologne Hatchery presents advance membership of family of 6,000 chickens |
- Business & Industry: Farm Supply
- Animal Husbandry: Poultry |
Waconia Patriot |
5/16/1929 |
3 |
|
| Businesses - Cologne |
Farmers Creamery Assc. Creamery plant of Cologne adds new equipment |
Business & Industry: Financial Institutions |
Waconia Patriot |
5/16/1929 |
3 |
|
| Tholen, John |
Well known Cologne Chick center operates hatchery |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
5/23/1929 |
9 |
3-4 |
| Businesses - Cologne |
Cologne well known Chick Center - John Tholen operated hatchery at Cologne |
- Business & Industry: General Stores
- Animal Husbandry: Poultry |
Weekly Valley Herald |
5/23/1929 |
9 |
3,4 |
| Cities - Cologne |
City Hall - Use of Village officials & meetings (Photo) |
Buildings: Halls |
WVH (Section #1) |
6/20/1929 |
7 |
2 - 4 |
| Roufs, (NCN) -No Christian name given |
Robbed Garage at Cologne-Owner Roufs- |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
7/4/1929 |
3 |
6 |
| Kittock, Nicolas |
Birth - girl |
|
Carver County News |
7/4/1929 |
4 |
3 |
| Payette, Joseph |
Cologne gains another garage |
|
Waconia Patriot |
8/29/1929 |
29 |
|
| Businesses - Cologne |
Cologne Milling Co. has remarkable record |
Business & Industry: Forest Industries, Sawmills & Lumber |
Waconia Patriot |
8/29/1929 |
21 |
|
| Businesses - Cologne |
Cologne Milling Company has remarkable record |
Business & Industry: Mills, Flouring |
Waconia Patriot |
8/29/1929 |
2 |
|
| Splettstoesser, F. U. |
City clerk collects oddities of nature |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/5/1929 |
1 |
3 |
| Schools - Carver County |
Cologne # 30 - More schools begin terms - Majority of schools show tendency toward eight months term some now begun |
Education: Public Schools |
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/5/1929 |
1 |
1 |
| Hechsel, Otto |
Solf farm to Roland Briesemeister and moved to a farm at Gotha near Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
10/24/1929 |
6 |
2 |
| Agriculture - Cologne |
Local breeders select trade name for pure bred holstein head |
Agriculture: Produce, miscellaneous |
Weekly Valley Herald |
11/14/1929 |
2 |
7 |
| Mohrbacher, Adam |
Mohrbacher Clan is Widely known here and at Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
11/28/1929 |
4 |
1-3 |
| Businesses - Cologne |
Mohrbacher clan is widely known here and at Cologne |
Business & Industry: General Stores |
Weekly Valley Herald |
11/28/1929 |
4 |
1 - 3 |
| Doerfler, Colonel |
Married Lucretia Moebius |
|
Carver County News |
12/5/1929 |
8 |
1 |
| Happ, Harold |
Comes to front in basketball. Former Mooney lad starts first year of college athletics with promising outlook |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/23/1930 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Rex Theater - First talkie at Rex is next week, color production first |
Business & Industry: Theaters, Movie |
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/20/1930 |
1 |
|
| Van Hale, John |
Obituary; was resident of Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
3/27/1930 |
7 |
|
| Organizations - Cologne - 4H Club |
Fine opportunity for farm boy, Minnesota Valley Canning Co., sponsors new 4H club project |
Children & Youth: Programs: 4-H |
Weekly Valley Herald (Cologne Dept.) |
4/3/1930 |
7 |
|
| Beuhler, Mathew |
Fire Destroyed Machine Shed and its Contents [Cologne Dept.] |
Disasters: Fires |
Weekly Valley Herald |
4/10/1930 |
7 |
|
| Mapping & Surveying |
County names rich in color |
Reference Sources: Surveys |
Waconia Patriot |
5/15/1930 |
1 |
|
| Population & Census |
Population of Cologne - Census for village of Cologne decrease 28 |
Demographics: Population |
Waconia Patriot |
5/22/1930 |
1 |
|
| Aretz, Mary Cresentia (nee: Krugler), (Mrs. John) |
Died; funeral held at Cologne |
Social Life & Customs: Funerals |
Weekly Valley Herald |
6/5/1930 |
4 |
0 |
| Lueders, H.F. |
Nominee Lueders injured in auto collision |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
6/19/1930 |
1 |
|
| Bruers, Anthony |
Bruers, Shakopee cars collide near Waconia |
Transportation: Crashes and accidents |
Weekly Valley Herald |
7/31/1930 |
1 |
|
| Bleichner, Ray |
Cologne boy electrocuted by touching electric wire |
Reference Sources: Death Records |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/14/1930 |
1 |
|
| Nimz, Lorena M. |
Were Married at the St. Bernard's Catholic Parsonage at Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/25/1930 |
6 |
|
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Miller/Mueller
Bergman/Bergmann
Blocker/Plocher
Hemming/Henning
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