Newspaper Notes

Rib Lake Historical Society Newspaper Notes

Updated to October 27, 2011

The purpose of this document is to help RP Rusch to get organized; specifically, to record information in newspapers other than the Rib Lake Herald pertaining to Rib Lake.  The initial emphasis will be on older newspapers, such as the Taylor County News and Star News.

This document will utilize a template having four columns.  Column 1 will identify the newspaper.  Column 2 will indicate the date of publication.  Column 3 will provide the text, i.e., either a quote or summary of the article.  Column 4 contains comments that RPR may wish to make, for example, cross references to other documents.

This document is begun on September 28, 2011, under the skilled scrutiny of Cindy A. Sommer, and will be on Bob’s new laptop computer 6.

ABBREVIATIONS:              Taylor County News = TCN

                                    Taylor County Star News = S/N

 

 

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Paper	Date	Text	Comments
TCN	3/15/1879	“L. M. Marshall at Chelsea stopped  logging last week  for  the  season:  all  told  he  has  hauled  to  the  mill about 3,000,000 ft. of  splendid logs 1,300,000  ft. he  has  manufactured.  The mill will be kept   running until July.”	RPR starts this phrase of the project at 7:30 am  10/24/2010.  The mill man referred to is Linus M.   Marshall; documents in the photo and   document collection refer to him.
Di	Di	“Duncan &  Taylor of  Westboro have  cut  the  last  winter a  little  over  3,000,000 ft. of  good  logs and  have  manufactured about a  third of  that.  Their  mill  will  saw  about  all  they  have  on  hand by  the  first  of  June if  they  run  to  its  capacity.”	Their  former  partner, James  Ritchie,  has  gone  bankrupt and  is  no  longer an  owner of  this   mill.
Di	3/8/1879	The Wis. Central  pay-car has  been  up  and  distributed the  needful among  the   boys.  The  last   pay was  for  November  [1878], leaving  the company  still three months  in  arrears with  its  employees.	The Wisconsin Central Railroad operated for long periods of time while in bankruptcy.