Newspaper/Resource Search
| Name |
Subject |
Categories |
Source |
Date |
Pg |
Col |
| Sports |
Watertown Baseball Association |
Sports & Recreation: Baseball |
Carver County News |
11/6/1947 |
1 |
1 |
| Carlson, Wm. |
Bought the Frank A. Mattson house at Angel and Madison in Watertown |
|
Carver County News |
11/13/1947 |
4 |
2 |
| Sports - Watertown High School |
MN Valley Conference Champs for 1947 - (photo) |
|
Carver County News |
11/13/1947 |
1 |
4-6 |
| Malberg, Bartel |
provides ambulance service in Watertown |
|
Carver County News |
11/17/1947 |
4 |
1 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Helen M. Burke's Shop open for business |
Business & Industry: General Stores |
Carver County News |
11/27/1947 |
4 |
5 |
| Wendt, Al |
purchased the Henry Halverson home in Watertown |
|
Carver County News |
12/18/1947 |
4 |
2 |
| Cities - Watertown |
Personal Property Tax list |
Government: Finance and Funding: Property Tax |
Carver County News |
1/8/1948 |
3 |
|
| Hanscom, George E. |
first banker in Watertown dies |
|
Carver County News |
1/15/1948 |
4 |
2 |
| Organization - Watertown Fire Dept. |
Fire Dept. - Chas. Zeyer elected chief (From 17 yrs. ago file) |
- Government: Departments and Offices: Fire Department
- Government: Organizations |
Carver County News |
1/22/1948 |
1 |
2 |
| Karels, Robert |
Left for Watertown, S.D. |
|
Carver County News |
1/29/1948 |
4 |
3 |
| Schmakel, Frank |
Purchased the Upgren Farm E. of Watertown |
|
Carver County News |
3/11/1948 |
4 |
1 |
| Sports |
First game under lights set for June 1st - Young America & Watertown will play |
Sports & Recreation: Baseball |
Waconia Patriot |
3/18/1948 |
10 |
|
| Stern, Henry, |
Bought the Carl SChmidt Farm N. E. of Watertown |
|
Carver County News |
3/25/1948 |
1 |
5 |
| Biersdorf, Harry |
Purchased the Merlin Lundquist home in Watertown |
|
Carver County News |
4/1/1948 |
1 |
5 |
| Y A Baseball |
wins over Watertown |
|
Norwood Times |
5/7/1948 |
1 |
4 |
| Young America Baseball |
loses to Watertown |
|
Norwood Times |
5/14/1948 |
4 |
2/3 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Dairy Fresh Creamery: Twin City Milk Producers Accoc. of Mpls purchased the interest & building of the Watertown Dairy Fresh Creamery |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Carver County News |
6/3/1948 |
1 |
1 |
| Churches - Watertown |
Gotaholm Lutheran - Destroyed by fire (Photo) |
- Religion: Churches: Lutheran
- Disasters: Fires |
Carver County News |
6/10/1948 |
1 |
1 |
| Churches - Watertown |
Gothaholm Lutheran destroyed by fire |
- Religion: Churches: Lutheran
- Disasters: Fires |
Norwood Times |
6/11/1948 |
1 |
5 |
| Tesch, George |
Watertown FFA Boys honored |
|
Carver County News |
6/17/1948 |
1 |
5 |
| Rumpza, Clyde |
Watertown FFA Boys Honored |
|
Carver County News |
6/17/1948 |
1 |
5 |
| Churches - Watertown |
Gotaholm Lutheran - Destroyed by fire (Photo) |
- Religion: Churches: Lutheran
- Disasters: Fires |
Carver County News |
6/17/1948 |
1 |
Top |
| Churches - Watertown |
Trinty Lutheran Church burns, the church had just been newly decorated |
- Religion: Churches: Lutheran
- Disasters: Fires |
Waconia Patriot |
6/17/1948 |
5 |
|
| Sports |
Watertown wins initial night game |
Sports & Recreation: Baseball |
Carver County News |
7/1/1948 |
6 |
1 |
| Sports |
Watertown - New ball park dedicated |
Sports & Recreation: Baseball |
Carver County News |
7/15/1948 |
1 |
4 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Malberg's Ambulance Service completed 3 car garage |
Health & Welfare: Emergency Response |
Carver County News |
7/15/1948 |
4 |
1 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Canning Factory: Bahamans pulled off a strike |
Business & Industry: Food Preparation Industries |
Carver County News |
8/19/1948 |
4 |
3 |
| Schools - Watertown |
WHS - Baseball - Watertown & Mayer battle 14 innings to a tie score |
Sports & Recreation: Baseball |
Carver County News |
9/9/1948 |
6 |
1 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Harloff Filling Station held up by 2 men with revolvers (From 17 yrs. ago) |
- Business & Industry: Automotive
- Law & Justice: Crime: Robbery & Theft |
Carver County News |
9/9/1948 |
1 |
4 |
| Schools - Watertown |
WHS - First night football game |
Sports & Recreation: Football |
Carver County News |
9/16/1948 |
1 |
6 |
| Churches - Watertown |
Gotaholm Lutheran - New basement started |
Religion: Churches: Lutheran |
Carver County News |
9/23/1948 |
1 |
6 |
| Churches - Watertown |
Gotaholm Lutheran - New basement started (Photo) |
Religion: Churches: Lutheran |
Carver County News |
9/30/1948 |
8 |
2 - 6 |
| Schools - Watertown |
"The Old Crow" page makes its public appearance (From 17 years ago file) |
Education: Public Schools |
Carver County News |
9/30/1948 |
8 |
3 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Watertown Motor Sales owned by L. L. Reitz |
Business & Industry: Automotive |
Carver County News |
10/7/1948 |
6 |
5 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
State Bank closed by board of directors (From 17 yrs. ago file) |
Business & Industry: Financial Institutions |
Carver County News |
10/7/1948 |
1 |
1 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Red Owl Store - Roy Johnson became owner |
Business & Industry: Grocery Stores |
Carver County News |
11/18/1948 |
5 |
4 |
| Schools - Watertown |
District 32 - Proceedings of Board of Education |
Government: Boards and Commissions |
Carver County News |
11/25/1948 |
5 |
3 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Old Home Cottage Cheese - Floyd Carlson will move to Colfax, Wi. with the factory |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Carver County News |
12/2/1948 |
8 |
4 |
| Cities - Watertown |
Election returns |
Politics & Elections: Election Returns |
Carver County News |
12/9/1948 |
1 |
3 |
| Gotaholm Lutheran Church - Watertown |
History; from "A Church is Planted" by Emeroy Johnson |
|
Bk; church shelves |
12/31/1948 |
139 |
|
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
The Carver County Historical Society is grateful to Southwest Newspapers for their generous financial support of the newspaper indexing project.
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