Newspaper/Resource Search
| Name |
Subject |
Categories |
Source |
Date |
Pg |
Col |
| Youngman, Nicolas |
Obituary |
|
Carver County News |
1/17/1901 |
1 |
4 |
| Cities - Cologne |
Building a large public hall |
Buildings: Halls |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/17/1901 |
1 |
5 |
| Cities - Cologne |
Grand opening ball, Cologne New City Hall, Saturday evening, Feb. 2, 1901 |
Buildings: Government |
Weekly Valley Herald (Cologne Dept.) |
1/31/1901 |
4 |
|
| Cities - Cologne |
Cologne new city hall opening |
Buildings: Government |
Weekly Valley Herald (Cologne Dept.) |
2/7/1901 |
8 |
|
| Rural Mail Routes |
Established Via Farmer Petitions (Koniska, Bear Lake, and Collins) |
|
Lph |
2/22/1901 |
3 |
20 |
| Pauly, Henry |
Sold his farm to John Sinnen of Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
3/7/1901 |
8 |
|
| Businesses - Cologne |
Mohrbacher & Meuwissen dissolve co-partnership and announce a closing out sale |
Business & Industry: General Stores |
WVH (Cologne) |
4/11/1901 |
6b |
|
| Dols, Martin |
Move to Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
4/18/1901 |
2 |
|
| Cologne- |
Drive-in Reborn in Cologne |
|
Waconia Patriot |
5/10/1901 |
1 |
1 |
| Cologne- |
Drive-in Reborn in Cologne |
|
Waconia Patriot |
5/10/1901 |
1 |
2 |
| Cologne- |
Drive-in Reborn in Cologne |
|
Waconia Patriot |
5/10/1901 |
1 |
3 |
| Cologne- |
Drive-in Reborn in Cologne |
|
Waconia Patriot |
5/10/1901 |
1 |
4 |
| Cologne- |
Drive-in Reborn in Cologne |
|
Waconia Patriot |
5/10/1901 |
1 |
5 |
| Cologne- |
Drive-in Reborn in Cologne |
|
Waconia Patriot |
5/10/1901 |
1 |
6 |
| Nicolei, August |
[Opened a new flour and feed store] |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
5/30/1901 |
1 |
5 |
| School - Cologne |
St. Bernards Catholic School - Frank Boland is putting in a hot water heating plant in the Catholic school building |
- Education: Private Schools
- Government: Public Utilities |
Weekly Valley Herald |
7/11/1901 |
8 |
|
| Mohrbacher, A. |
Steam-fitters are putting in a hot water heating plant at the Cologne House |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
7/25/1901 |
8 |
|
| Oerter, Howard |
Costly but useful improvement.(put in a complete hot and cold watrer system, up & down stairs) |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/22/1901 |
1 |
|
| Sandquist, Alfred |
Sold his farm to John Larson of Hancock and he will move to Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/22/1901 |
5b |
|
| Bridge - Beven's Creek - Cologne |
William Pfleghar, completed a large stone bridge across Beven's Creek |
Landmarks & Monuments |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/29/1901 |
6 |
b |
| Colbert, John |
Sold his farm in Hancock to John Manger |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/5/1901 |
3b |
|
| Nicolei, August |
[Frame barn caught fire, was badly damaged] |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/12/1901 |
6B |
5 |
| Jorissen, William |
Married Mary Wirtz (Cologne) |
Marriage Records |
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/19/1901 |
4 |
2 |
| Staple, Arthur |
Attending Concordia College at St. Paul. |
Education: Colleges & Universities |
lph |
12/27/1901 |
1 |
4 |
| Swedish Lutheran Church |
Festival & Concert by Gustav Adolphus College |
|
Carver County News |
1/2/1902 |
1 |
2 |
| Meulener, C.P. |
Moved a house from Benton to Cologne for Wm. Meulenres |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/9/1902 |
8 |
|
| Patterson, Mary, Mrs. |
Cologne woman married Peter Schutz of Jordan |
|
Carver County News |
1/16/1902 |
4 |
1 |
| Businesses - Cologne |
Mohrbacher & Meuwissen: Dissolution of partnership - Saloon & general merchandise business will continue under Paul Mohrbacher & Sons; Lumber yard under Henry Meuwissen & Son |
- Business & Industry: Bars & Taverns
- Business & Industry: General Stores
- Business & Industry: Forest Industries, Sawmills & Lumber |
Weekly Valley Herald |
1/30/1902 |
5b |
|
| Library - Chaska |
New Chaska library (Ladies of the Chaska Culture Club gathered a collections of books that formed the nucleus of lending library) |
Cultural Facilities: Libraries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/20/1902 |
4 |
|
| Organizations - Chaska |
Culture Club - New Chaska library, collected books, that formed the nucleus of the 1st lending library |
Cultural Facilities: Libraries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/20/1902 |
4 |
|
| Gehig, Jacob |
Cologne death announcement |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
3/27/1902 |
6b |
|
| Postal Service |
A rural free delivery route was ordered for Norwood, Carver, Cologne & Chaska are asking for the same |
Communication: Postal Service, Rural |
Weekly Valley Herald |
4/3/1902 |
1 |
|
| Ranft, John |
Cologne. Was given contract to grade the road going east from Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
4/24/1902 |
8b |
|
| Lester Prairie News |
Is now located in the front room of the Columbia Hotel. |
Communication: Newspapers |
lph |
5/2/1902 |
1 |
2 |
| Stucke, Chas. |
Received a letter from Ivanhoe in Lincoln County that carpenters could work there all summer at $3.00 a day. |
- Labor: Employment
- Business & Industry |
lph |
5/23/1902 |
1 |
1 |
| Joos, William |
Building a home in Cologne |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
5/29/1902 |
6 |
0 |
| Hochstedd, Abe |
Amount Collection for Abe Hoch Steddler amounted to over $100 |
|
Carver County News-2nd Banner Page |
6/19/1902 |
3 |
1 |
| Cemeteries - St. Bernard's, Cologne |
Cyclone destroyed nearly every monument. |
Cemeteries |
Benton Column - WVH |
7/10/1902 |
1b |
|
| Lester Prairie Post office. |
Has moved into the building formerly ocupied by the Columbia Hotel. |
|
LPH |
7/18/1902 |
1 |
3 |
| Businesses |
Colorado Mining company: Mining company completes its organization |
Business & Industry: Mining Industries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/21/1902 |
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,
we suggest checking for alternate spellings when researching individual names or places. We have tried to include alternatives whenever possible.
Some examples of alternate spellings include:
Miller/Mueller
Bergman/Bergmann
Blocker/Plocher
Hemming/Henning
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