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Good evening,
This week has been a busy one in the history of this area. The "Kewaunee County Memories" column is full this week with interesting items:
1881:
The schooner Espindola [before railroads or roads in this area] landed a large number of seeders in Ahnapee [now named Algoma] for Haney Gros., last Friday. [Seeders are for planting farmer’s crops.]
1906:
There is a great deal of water in the woods and lowlands this spring. J. M. Dufek informs us that the water is very high in the Black Ash Swamp, so high last Sunday that it raised the ice, floating the road in some places where the construction is of corduroy [Corduroy road is made from large logs, placed criss-cross each other in a roadway to provide a more solid surface to travel on. The line of logs looks like a piece of corduroy fabric, hence the name. Not very gentle to travel on, but a bunch better than mud!]. On Sunday a team being driven through the swamp got fast in the floating road and the occupants of the wagon were obliged to get out and release the horses.
1916:
The breaking up of the ice in the Ahnapee River last week was the source of considerable trouble to both the city and Algoma business interests. The ice jammed the bridge near the Ahnapee Veneer & Seating [they made toilet seats and still do I think] Company and the boiler room flooded. The ice jammed the Fourth Street bridge and had to be dynamited. {or the bridge would have been washed away.]
We want to congratulate all of the women who voted on Tuesday for their fine civic spirit. The records show that 105 women went to the polls to cast their ballots for school clerk. [First time women voted.]
1946:
Shirley Paul and Gertrude Blahnik, Algoma FHA [high school group, Future Homemakers of America, for girls], demonstrating the correct procedure to be followed in preparing food for freezing, were given a first rating in the Future Homemakers Association [wrong name given here] district demonstration contest last Thursday.
The "Kewaunee Polka," composed by Rudy Plocar, will go on the air for the first time next Sunday when the Orange Crush Bottling Co. [formally the Kewaunee Brewing Co., which brewed beer. No it makes and sells root beer and orange soda under the name of Kewaunee Bottling Co.] of Kewaunee presents Rudy Plocar’s over station WOMT at Manitowoc [radio station still on the air, but now with classic rock music.] during the noon hour.
Just thought you would get a couple of chuckles out of history - in this area.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
64º F, Warm, WNW wind 6 mph.
Good evening,
This week has been a busy one in the history of this area. The "Kewaunee County Memories" column is full this week with interesting items:
1881:
The schooner Espindola [before railroads or roads in this area] landed a large number of seeders in Ahnapee [now named Algoma] for Haney Gros., last Friday. [Seeders are for planting farmer’s crops.]
1906:
There is a great deal of water in the woods and lowlands this spring. J. M. Dufek informs us that the water is very high in the Black Ash Swamp, so high last Sunday that it raised the ice, floating the road in some places where the construction is of corduroy [Corduroy road is made from large logs, placed criss-cross each other in a roadway to provide a more solid surface to travel on. The line of logs looks like a piece of corduroy fabric, hence the name. Not very gentle to travel on, but a bunch better than mud!]. On Sunday a team being driven through the swamp got fast in the floating road and the occupants of the wagon were obliged to get out and release the horses.
1916:
The breaking up of the ice in the Ahnapee River last week was the source of considerable trouble to both the city and Algoma business interests. The ice jammed the bridge near the Ahnapee Veneer & Seating [they made toilet seats and still do I think] Company and the boiler room flooded. The ice jammed the Fourth Street bridge and had to be dynamited. {or the bridge would have been washed away.]
We want to congratulate all of the women who voted on Tuesday for their fine civic spirit. The records show that 105 women went to the polls to cast their ballots for school clerk. [First time women voted.]
1946:
Shirley Paul and Gertrude Blahnik, Algoma FHA [high school group, Future Homemakers of America, for girls], demonstrating the correct procedure to be followed in preparing food for freezing, were given a first rating in the Future Homemakers Association [wrong name given here] district demonstration contest last Thursday.
The "Kewaunee Polka," composed by Rudy Plocar, will go on the air for the first time next Sunday when the Orange Crush Bottling Co. [formally the Kewaunee Brewing Co., which brewed beer. No it makes and sells root beer and orange soda under the name of Kewaunee Bottling Co.] of Kewaunee presents Rudy Plocar’s over station WOMT at Manitowoc [radio station still on the air, but now with classic rock music.] during the noon hour.
Just thought you would get a couple of chuckles out of history - in this area.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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