ADAMS COUNTY CHRONOLOGY 1818 Indian child born in what will become land in east central Wisconsin, *Fur traders Jacques Porlier and Adams County. including Adams County. Agustin Grignon open a trading post *Men from the Wisconsin Ho-Chunk *James Edson builds a mill on the at Pointe Basse on the Wisconsin tribe visiting Washington D. C. are creek and founds Plainville. River, a few miles north of what will coerced into signing a treaty by which become the northern boundary of they give up all their remaining land March 11, 1848 Adams County. in Wisconsin. *The Wisconsin Territorial legislature *John T. Kingston makes a winter creates the county of Adams; the new 1828 journey from Portage to the Big Dells county lies west of the Wisconsin and *Frank Provonsal, of French-Indian of the Wisconsin cruising for white south of the Lemonweir River and is descent, opens a fur trading post on pine timber. attached to Sauk County for judicial the west bank of the Wisconsin about and electoral purposes. two miles above Petenwell Rock. 1838 SJared Walsworth marries a 1849 1829 Menominee woman and is allowed to *The Town of Lemonweir is orga- *Fur trader Amable Grignon and his settle near the Indian village located nized as the first Town in Adams wife Marie Judith Bourassa take up about two miles east of Lake Mason. County. residence at the mouth of Grignon's * Robert Allen builds a cabin on *Using lumber discarded by a Creek, later known as Fourteen Mile Blackhawk Island, at the head of the lumberman traveling on the road Creek in northern Adams County. Wisconsin Dells. from Stevens Point, a man named Stowe builds the first house at 1832 1840 Coloma Corners. *Daniel Whitney and Amable *Federal troops arrive at Portage to *Settlers in the Briggsville area, who Grignon are both authorized by the gather the Ho Chunk people and are "squatting" on unsurveyed land Menominee Indians to build sawmills remove them to reservations in Iowa. not yet for sale, organize a "Claim on the left bank of the Wisconsin Protection Society." across from what will become 1844 Nekoosa. *The Maid of Iowa, 130-feet long, 20 1850 *Whitney builds his mill and, to wide, becomes the first steamboat to *Adams County population (on both supply it with equipment and navigate through the Upper Dells and sides of the Wisconsin): 187. supplies hauled by oxcart, blazes the upstream into Adams County waters. *The county's first post office opens "Pinery Road" north from Portage *The Territorial Legislature creates at the Marsh House. through Adams County. Portage County to include land north *Thomas Rich opens a private school of the Fox and east of the Wisconsin at Dell Prairie. 1833 Rivers. *Peter Larson builds a cabin on the *The Black Hawk "War" ends. *Once again, federal troops attempt Big Roche A Cri and starts the *Sauk Chief Black Hawk surrenders to remove the Ho Chunk from central Norwegian settlement of Strongs to "One Eye" Decorah, of the Ho Wisconsin. Prairie. Chunk, after hiding in a "cave" at the *Alexander Briggs and Amphilius Dells in Adams County--according to 1845 Chamberlain dam Neenah Creek and some records. * The Ward family settles on Indian create Lake Mason to supply water *Daniel Whitney runs the first raft of land in what is not yet the Town of power for their mill. lumber from northern Wisconsin New Haven. *Schuyler and Leroy Gates build the down the Wisconsin River. * William Sylvester settles on Indian first bridge across the Wisconsin at land and opens the Marsh House the Narrows of the Dells. 1836 tavern on the Pinery Road near what *Congress organizes Wisconsin will become Grand Marsh. 1851 Territory. *M. Strong opens a tavern where the *The Towns of Necedah and the Dells *The Menominee Indians sign the Pinery Road crosses the Big Roche-A- are organized west of the Wisconsin. "Lumberman's Treaty," to allow Cri. *Federal surveyors complete the logging and sawmilling in a three- survey of all but three towns in mile wide strip along the banks of the 1847 northeast Adams County, finally Wisconsin upstream from Nekoosa to *Henry and Lorenzo Van Wie settle opening the land to legal purchase Wausau. on Indian land in what will become and settlement. the Town of Dell Prairie. 1837 1852 *John Bourassa Grignon is born at the 1848 *All of Adams County is surveyed sale. Grignon place on Fourteen Mile *The Menominee Indians sign a and the land is ready for "Wisconsin's Creek; he is recorded as the first non- treaty relinquishing their rights to *Increase A. Lapham,

140 First Scientest," canoes the Wisconsin Above: The first bridge across the converted into a school on the River and surveys natural resources Wisconsin, built at the Narrows of the Vroman property in the Town of Jackson. and Indian Mounds near the river in Dells in 1850 in Adams County. Adams County. *Price of wheat: 50¢/bushel; dressed *A group of African-American men, pork: 2.5¢/lb. women and children are living in White Creek, hire Newel Carpenter to "cabins" on the Roche-A-Cri at the build a mill and found the village of 1854 foot of Friendship Mound. Cascade. *H.M Whitney purchases eighty *The Norwegian Evangelical Luth- acres along the Roche-A-Cri Creek to April 12, 1853 eran Church of the Roche-A-Cri, become the first landowner in what *The Adams County Board of predecessor of Arkdale's Trinity will become the village of Friendship. Supervisors holds its first session at Lutheran, is founded in Strongs *The Big Spring Post Office opens. the William Palmer farm in Quincy. Prairie. *Classes are held at the East Easton *The county supervisors elect Ralph *John Baptiste Du Bay establishes a log cabin school. Patrick, Grand Marsh, as the first stage coach line to carry mail and chairman of the county board. passengers from Portage to Stevens 1855 *The Supervisors also create the Point with stops at Big Spring, the *The Adams County Board creates Towns of Chester, Kildare and Lisbon Marsh House and Coloma Corners. the Towns of Springville, White and accept the bond of Stillman Niles, *15-year-old Amelia Seward becomes Creek and Dell Prairie. Quincy to "furnish Adams County a the first public school teacher on *Schools started: Prairie View, court room and offices." record in the county when she begins Strongs Prairie. *Sara and Seth Thompson settle on teaching in a 12' x 12' smokehouse *With a mill, post office and three

141 streets, the village of Fordham is Kilbourn to Wisconsin Rapids via founded on the Little Roche-A-Cri in Above: The graves of John P Wills, Plainville, Point Bluff, Quincy and the southeastern corner of the Town Joseph L. Holcombe, Erwin Rider, Strongs Prairie. of Preston. Lewis Knight, Henry Thomas and M. A. *The Adams County Agricultural *Settlers from western New York Perry overlooking the Tennessee River and Mechanical Society is organized move to the rapids of the Little on the battlefield of Shiloh. to promote farming and industry in Roche-A-Cri and name their village the county and hold a county fair. after their home town of Friendship. *The Friendship Post Office opens. board includes thirteen towns; for the 1858 first time, all are east of the Wisconsin *Citizens petition the supervisors to 1856 River. move the county seat out of Quincy *Railroad Talk: Speculation is rife in *Instead of building a court house at and vote to move the county seat to the county, with talk of the La Crosse Quincy, the Supervisors vote to Friendship, whose settlers have and Milwaukee Railroad crossing the continue renting a building on the organized the County Seat Building Wisconsin River at Point Bluff. Stillman Niles property for the Company to build a court house for *Also at Point Bluff, the National purpose of "holding court, sessions of the county government. Methodist Conference builds a two- the board, conventions and five *Julius C. Chandler founds the story, "Institute of higher learning" offices for the officers," for one year at Adams County Independent, the for men and women. the rate of $200. county's first newspaper, at Friend- *John Sylvester builds a saw mill on *Luther Stowell and William ship. the Big Roche-A-Cri in the Town of Burbank build a grist mill at Friend- *Schools started: Stafford, New Leola. ship and the village begins to grow. Haven; Hadlock, Quincy; Chester, *Schools started: Pilot Knob, *E.P. Cotton builds a dam and grist Rome; Twin Valley, Springville; Richfield; Diamond, New Chester; mill on the Big Roche-A-Cri in Friendship, located on what is now Buckhorn, Lincoln. Preston; the village that grows the north side of Lake at West Street. *The "Fremont Club" of Quincy calls around the mill is known by some as *Uriah Dorman opens the Half-Way a meeting at the county building and Cottonville, by others as Roche-A-Cri. House Tavern on the road between invites the public to discuss John *Solon Pierce, the first attorney in Plainfield and Wisconsin Rapids in Fremont, the first presidential Friendship, moves his office from Leola. candidate of the new "Republican" White Creek. Party. *Railroad Action: The La Crosse and 1859 *The Quincy Lodge, F. & A.M. is Milwaukee Railroad crosses the *The state legislature charters a road organized at the village of Quincy. Wisconsin River at the new village of to run from Wautoma to the Wiscon- Kilbourn, which is named after the sin River; known as the "state road" 1857 railroad's president. in Adams County, it generally *Juneau County is organized out of SH. W. Kingsbury operates a tri- follows the route of County Trunks G Adams County west of the Wisconsin. weekly stage coach line to carry mail and J. *The annual session of the county and passengers from the railroad at *The Adams County Board holds its

142 first session in the new court house in 1862 Pottawatomie Indians" and some Ho- Friendship; new furnishings include *At Shiloh in Tennessee, six members Chunks are camped near Friendship. 18 arm chairs, 30 split-bottom chairs of Company E of the 16th Wisconsin *The hops boom begins in central and a swivel arm chair for the judge. Infantry, die while bearing the Wisconsin. *The Adams County Board creates regimental flag: N.A. Perry; Henry *So many wild cherries, blueberries the Towns of Monroe, Rome and Thomas, Hancock; Erwin Rider, and other fruits grow along the stage Richfield and votes to equip the Richfield; Joseph Holcomb, Coloma; line from Grand Rapids to Friend- sheriff with handcuffs and shackles. Lewis Knight and John Wills, Strongs ship, via Rome and Strongs Prairie, *A reorganized Agricultural and Prairie. that it is called "The Huckleberry Mechanical Society holds the first *George W. Hall, Dell Prairie, is Line." county fair, at Friendship. elected to the state assembly. *The St. Louis and Wisconsin Lumber *Violence between Sioux Indians and Company is incorporated and builds 1860 settlers at New Ulm, Minnesota a sawmill on the Wisconsin in the *Adams County population: 6,492 prompts an "Indian Scare" in Wiscon- Town of Rome. *The Quincy Lodge, F. & A.M. moves sin: White Creek settlers board their Railroad Talk: A new federal land to Friendship. windows and stay home at night and grant will--it is hoped-- finance *The county board votes a total of farmers at Big Spring organize a railroad construction from Portage to 237 times before selecting A. B. "military company" which drills at Stevens Point, via Adams County. Wincell, Springville, as chairman. the village. *Adams County Board adjusts the 1866 borders of the Towns of Adams, 1863 *Solon Pierce publishes his Battle Easton, New Haven, Preston and *William Badgero, Town of Adams Fields and Camp Fires of the Thirty- Strongs Prairie; also votes to build an resident, dies while serving with Eighth; the Civil War memoir is the eight-seat privy for county use, to General U.S. Grant and the federal first book published by an Adams erect a fence of red oak with a double army at Vicksburg. County author. gate around the court house lawn *John Barton and Reuben Flight *Civil War veteran Thomas B. and, since there is no county jail, to purchase the Sylvester sawmill on the Marsden, Friendship, is elected to the board prisoners in Portage. Roche-A-Cri in Leola and remodel it state assembly. to grind grain for feed and flour. *The Town of Adams issues saloon 1861 licenses and the first legal taverns *The Civil War begins. County 1864 open in Friendship. supervisors vote to pay the families *The name of the post office in the *The county supervisors take up a of volunteers $2 a month for every Town of Strongs Prairie is changed collection among themselves to child under age 12 as long as the man from Vinje to Arcade, then changed purchase a table, desk and stove for remains in service. again to Arkdale. the county judge. *Isaac N. Earl and other residents of Plainville join the Union Army; 1865 Below: The Munroe family, early serving with the Fourth Wisconsin *The Civil War ends. settlers "on the Roche-a-Cree." Cavalry in Louisiana, Earl is deco- *A group of "about three hundred rated for bravery and posthumously promoted to Major. *Led by William Dawes, Strong's Prairie, Adams county men join the "Adams County Rifles", and become part of 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment: along with county men in the 12th and 18th Wisconsin, they serve at Shiloh, Bald Mountain, Atlanta and march with General William Sherman "to the sea." *Solon Pierce, Thomas Marsden and D.D. McGibeny begin publication of the Adams County Press, Friendship. *The commissioners change the name of the Town of Brownville to Big Flats and the Town of Chester to Grand Marsh. *Otis B. Lapham is elected to the state assembly, he wins again in 1863 and 1869.

143 of neighbors who "were celebrating Christmas by steeping themselves in whiskey;" Warp later dies from his injuries.

1867 *The Friendship Congregational Church is organized. *The price of hops peaks at 700 a pound. *Naturalist John Muir visits the Dells in Adams County. *The county has a total of 17 schools and a school tax of $1,027.89. * "The young folks had a very nice time at the courthouse on Christmas Eve...the Christmas tree was arranged with excellent taste and a profusion of toys...." reports the Adams County Press. Bad News: William Lake, is convicted of arson for burning the schoolhouse in District #3, Town of Leola.

1868 *The hops boom goes bust as prices Above: Already standing in 1870, the *William Goodhue of the Barnum fall to 50. stone house in Easton was a county Lumber Company takes over *The County Seat Building Company landmark until it was demolished in the operations at the new sawmill in then transfers ownership of the court 1980s. Rome; a $28,000 steam engine is house for "as long as [it] shall be used hauled cross country from the for county purposes." railhead in New Lisbon and across *The interior of the court house is the river to power the mill; a com- repaired, replastered and repainted. pany town grows up nearby and *High water and ice washes out takes the name of "Barnum." ahout 50 feet of the dam at Arkdale. *While grazing on Main Street, Below: The West side school, which still *Bad News: Henry Warp, Strongs Friendship, the pet sheep belonging stands on Prairie, is severely beaten by a gang County J west of County N. to Billy Quaw is kidnapped into a sleigh and carried out of town; Billy pursues the culprit and retrieves his sheep, thanking the thief for "taking his only pet out into the country for a ride."

1869 *James Hinman operates a grist mill in Springville, two miles northwest of Plainville at a place he calls New Winsor.There are seven grain mills in the county, along with Friendship, Arkdale, Olin, Leola, Easton, White Creek and Big Spring. *Henry Roethe, Plainville, is elected to the state assembly. *Bad News: After shooting down a man in the street, former Adams County clerk and attorney William D. Spain is lynched by an angry mob in Portage. *Bad News: Adams farmer J. H. Rice, dies after his head is "cleft" by a hatchet wielded by his stepson.

144 1870 *Adams County population: 6,601 *About one mile down from Petenwell Rock, Isaac Olesen operates the "Norwegian Ferry" across the Wisconsin. *The county board builds a stone building on the court house lawn as a fireproof office and record storage space for county officers. *The supervisors also vote to allow church and community groups to use the county courtroom for meetings provided they furnish their own candles or oil for light and wood for heat. *Among the groups using the court room are the Friendship Coronet Band, the Temperance Society and the Congregational Church. of hay, valued at $50,000 and "all the Above: The Barnum School in the Town young timber for miles." of Rome; the site is now beneath the 1871 waters of Petenwell Lake. *Passenger pigeons by the million 1872 come to nest in virtually all of Adams *On December 28, Friendship records County; hunters and trappers congre- a temperature of -40. Immigration to encourage settlement. gate and bag an estimated 1.6 million *A new multi-grade Friendship *Charles A. Cady, Dell Prairie, is birds. school is built on what is now the east elected to the state assembly; he is re- East First *The county board purchases 160 side of Superior Street at elected in 1879. with acres in the Town of Jackson for the Street; the county has 62 schools *The Point Bluff ferry, named the at county farm to house the elderly, 2,558 students attending classes for Modocawando, is fitted with a steam orphans, the developmentally least five months a year. engine and "Captain" Wood of the disabled and others unable to support *John and Rosalia Hodan, among Quincy takes it to Wisconsin Dells for themselves. first Bohemian settlers of Adams the tourist trade; it is the first steam- *56,000 acres of state-owned land in County, purchase land on the eastern powered boat for to carry visitors at Adams County are advertised for sale edge of Friendship and open a the Dells. at 500 per acre. harness shop. *Bad News: A windstorm on July 4 to *The Weed Lumber Company, *The county clerk is authorized destroys property throughout the Oshkosh, takes over the old Barnum spend no more than $15 on a desk county and blows a chimney off the sawmill in Rome; Weed builds a dam with pigeon holes for filing. county courthouse. across the near channel of the Wis- Railroad Talk: With no work done on consin to create a "boom" or holding the Madison and Portage Railroad, area for logs. the county board recalls the bonds *The Weed Company dam floods out issued in 1871. William A. Harrison's grist mill Below: The White Pine School, in the upstream; Harrison then moves north 1873 Town of Colburn. to the banks of the 14 Mile Creek, * riendship listings builds another water-powered mill in the Wisconsin which becomes the nucleus of the Business Directory village of New Rome. include: James *Railroad Talk: The Madison and Harrison, physician; Portage Railroad Company will build Harrison and a railroad from Portage to Friendship Stowell, flour mill; and Grand Rapids if Adams County John Hill, general will issue $45,000 in bonds to fund store; Elias Banker construction. and W.M. Wright, *Bad News: Fires sweep through the hotels; Pierce and county: in April, while the wind Waterman, printers; blows a gale, the prairie south of Edward Pratt, Friendship is set ablaze; in October a blacksmith. fire up to four miles wide along the *The county board Duck Creek Marsh destroys 500 tons creates a Board of

145 1874 *With a new coat of paint the court *Railroad Talk: The Milwaukee Road *The federal government makes its house looks "as bright as the newly Railroad reaches Necedah, which final, futile attempt to remove the Ho- washed face of a pretty woman." becomes a shipping point for Strong's Chunk people from Wisconsin. *Bad News: After completing its Prairie farmers. *Yellow Thunder, leader of Ho- largest cut, the Weed Lumber Mill at *The Pine Grove school opens in Dell Chunk resistance to removal, dies on Barnum is destroyed by fire; both mill Prairie on land donated by Irwin his land in Sauk County. and the village surrounding it are Berry. *In New Haven, Congregationalists abandoned. * Bad News: A fire set by an arsonist and Free Will Baptists join to build a *Bad News: In a feud with his who may have been employed by her church building on John Stowell's "Bohemian neighbor," Town of estranged husband destroys the barn . -_. . ' - C!- -: - - .,C A4, A IAT ,A,__,, property in Dig spring. oI iVIrs. Aiminad Vv datermaln, *The Weed Lumber Com- Big Flats. pany builds a water-powered lath and shingle mill at 1878 Barnum. *The Town of White Creek Railroad Talk: The is absorbed into the Towns Sheboygan and Fond du Lac of Easton and Quincy. Railroad may extend its line *Local farmers run the Big from Princeton to St. Paul; Spring cheese factory, using Friendship is on "an air line about 500 pounds of milk a between the two points." day. *Bad News: A "dolt" at- *Pitching was weak as the tempting to burn the old Barnum baseball team grass off his hay marsh defeats the Spring Creek ignites a fire that destroys Nine, 29-20. nearly every fence in Big Flats *The county clerk is autho- and "20 miles of fencing" in rized to purchase 35 cords of Lincoln. 18" wood to heat the county *Bad News: The Easton dam offices. gives out; water washes away the foundations of the carding 1879 mill and carries away bridges "Women's rights activist at White Creek and other Susan B. Anthony lectures at places downstream. the Friendship Congrega- tional Church. 1875 *The county has 67 schools, *The first services are held in with 2,585 potential students the newly-built Friendship and pays $8,653.03 in Congregational church teachers salaries; male building. teachers average $21.64 per *Danish settlers build a log month, females, $18. church in Big Flats, the eThe county board votes to predecessor of Zion Lutheran. Above: The construction of St. Leo's build a barn for the 12 cows, 4 *George M. Marshall, Big Spring, is Catholic Church, Friendshipreflected the yearlings, 6 calves, 2 horses, and 10 elected to the state assembly. addition of immigrantsfrom Central fat hogs at the county poor farm. *A cement floor is poured in the Europe to the county. *The county pays a $5 bounty each stone county office building, five for 16 wolves and 2 "wild cats" killed years after the walls went up. in the county. *Ice breaks the "boom" holding logs Adams farmer John Lerch, a German, for milling at Barnum and many logs is punched, kicked, beaten with a club 1880 are lost downstream. and shot with a pistol; his assailant is *County population: 6,741 sentenced to two years of hard labor. *The county board grants the Agri- 1876 *Bad News: In Strongs Prairie, cultural Society $250 to fence off the *Railroad Talk: The Wisconsin "Norwegian" Isaac Rusgard gets into fairgrounds in Friendship and erect Central Railroad builds a depot at a drunken brawl at a hop-house an exhibition building to display Liberty Bluff in the Marquette County dance, is stabbed with a knife and county farm produce. Town of Springville, 16 miles east of dies. *In Dell Prairie, the Irwin Berry Friendship; the highway from family starts welcoming tourists to Friendship, later known as CTH J, is 1877 their Cold Water Canyon Farm. improved to handle increased traffic. *Railroad Talk: The Wisconsin *Bad News: The Wisconsin River *In Big Flats, the first Niebull school Central Railroad begins service floods, inflicting heavy damage at is built of logs. between Portage and Stevens Point Barnum and washing out lowland

146 roads throughout the county: "a barn County judge; a post he will hold Morse reports that only two towns in containing 6 head of cattle and 5 hogs, until retirement in 1916. the county have purchased books for all alive at the time, swept down the *GAR members gather at the court school libraries according to the river past Germantown and Quincy." house on Washington's Birthday for terms of the new state library law. an "old army supper of beans, black *The newspaper reports that, "The 1881 coffee and hard tack"; followed by a entire criminal expenses of Adams *The county clerk is authorized to dance. County over the past year does not purchase 60 cords of wood to heat the *The new state school law requires exceed the sum of $300. It has not had county offices, up from 35 cords in that children ages 7-15 attend school a convict or any person in jail during 1878. at least 12 weeks a year. the year." *Bad News: The county is "visited by *The wooden superstructure of the *In Plainville on January 21, snow is more destructive wind storms than Petenwell Bridge, now owned by the about 33 inches "on the level" and a were ever known to have occurred Town of Necedah, is replaced with thermometer reads 52 below zero. within its borders"; the tornado iron. touches down in Strong's Prairie and 1889 damages the Mikkelsen, Holm, 1885 *John H. Gunning, Friendship, is Bradason, Rosgaard, Lyse, Hanson "Benjamin A. Banker, co-founder of elected to the state assembly. and Ingersoll farms. the Coldwell-Banker Corporation, is *Dr. Washington E. McGowan builds born at Friendship. a home and medical office in Friend- 1882 *James Woodbury Perkins, New ship. *Necedah lumbermen finance the Chester, is elected to the state assem- Bad News: In New Chester fire does construction of a wooden toll bridge bly; he is re-elected in 1887. "immense damage" to crops and across the Wisconsin at Petenwell *Honor Gahan, Springville, is tried fencerows, "burning the surface Rock. for stealing two pillow cases from black"; in Leola and Richfield "im- *Fritz Witt purchases the grain mills neighbor Julia Connell; after deliber- mense fires, for the past two weeks" at White Creek and Easton. ating for five minutes the jury finds have "largely burned over" the big *Bad News: "Timber thieves did a Gahan not guilty. marsh there. pretty lively business during this past *Bad News: Cholera takes two winter. Cutting up fallen and dead children in Big Flats, while diptheria 1890 timber on the land of non-residents claims one child in White Creek. *County population: 6,889 has hitherto been winked at..." reads *Bad News: Cyclones strike in Rome *The Towns of Leola and Richfield a news report, "but when it comes to and at Big Spring where big winds petition the county board to take part cutting and sawing down valuable move the Methodist Church ten of each and create the Town of pine trees and hauling away the logs inches off its foundation. "Ranch"; the board agrees but, to be manufactured into fencing and instead of Ranch, calls the new town building lumber, the matter becomes 1886 Colburn. a little more serious." *It is reported that, "Evergreens" *Bad News: After stealing a drill, planted on the courthouse lawn are chisel and adz from the Friendship 1883 "things of beauty and a joy to look cheese factory, burglars blow the iron *Civil War veterans organize a Post at." safe in Hill's Store and make off with of the Grand Army of the Republic *The county has a total of 66 schools, $15 in silver coins. named in honor of William Badgero 55 of them equipped with a dictio- at Friendship. nary and 28 with maps. 1891 eStrong winds blow down part of the *The county board names a commit- Wisconsin River bridge at Petenwell; 1887 tee to create an exhibit depicting the the bridge is closed for four weeks. *The Towns of Adams and Preston natural resources of the county at the *Railroad Talk: The Chicago and organize the county's first high school Chicago's World Fair scheduled for North Western extends its line from district and classes begin in one room 1892. Tomah to Necedah. of the grade school in Friendship. *Railroad Talk: The county board *Bad News: While on his way to a *A windstorm carries away the passes a resolution inviting any lumber camp in Wood County, John eastern span of the Petenwell bridge. railroad to build in the county and L. Hesler is killed; the county board *On January 7, thermometers at offering public aid. offers a $500 reward for the recovery Friendship record a temperature of - of his body. 54 1892 *Bad News: While the Bacon family Bad News: The Spring Creek area is 1884 of White Creek is attending church, a beset with "a gang of sneak thieves" *Roman Catholics build St. Leo burglar breaks into the house and who steal butter, pork, hams, potatoes church in Friendship and St. steals $105 in gold, $10 in paper, $90 and laying hens. Methodius in Lincoln near Pilot in silver and 200 pennies. Bad News: Fire destroys all the Knob. haying shanties, stables and hay in *Civil War veteran John B. Keyes, 1888 the Duck Creek Marsh. Strong's Prairie, is named Adams *County school superintendent E.C.

147 1893 Above: The Farmer's Union Store in for several days in the Towns of "Railroad Talk: The Chicago and Arkdale sold just about everything Quincy and Adams. North Western Railroad surveys a anyone would need in the 1900s. line through the county that runs to 1897 Friendship; a home building boom *Businessmen in the two villages ensues, but no railroad construction. 1895 organize the Kilbourn City and *Arbor Day is celebrated in all the *A meeting hall for the Grand Army Friendship Telephone Company to county schools and over 600 trees are of the Republic/Women's Relief build and maintain telephone and planted. Corps is built on Second and telegraph lines in and between the *The county conducts its first "sum- Raymond Streets in Friendship. two communities. mer school" to "give teachers and *Sophronius S. Landt, Friendship, is *School superintendent John P. Lewis those planning on teaching an elected to the state assembly. reports that he has yet to achieve his opportunity to receive instruction in *The Peekaboo Saloon, Preston, is the goal of seeing a U.S. flag, a state flag, the higher branches and the branches only licensed drinking establishment a "world" flag, a globe and a dictio- in which they are weak." in the county. nary in all county schools. * Residents of the Town of Rome Bad News: A struggle involving a *Bad News: An outbreak of measles petition the county to repair their shotgun between James Polivka and closes the school in Friendship for roads since the town board will not. John Frank, who had been drinking at two weeks. the Peekaboo, results in the accidental 1894 death by shooting of Richfield 1898 *The county supervisors vote "not to youngster John Vachuta. *For the first time, the total equalized burden the taxpayers" by taking part value of real and personal property in in the planning for the celebration of 1896 Adams County exceeds $1 million; the 50th anniversary of statehood in *Since there is no bank in the county, Strong's Prairie has the highest 1898. Stroud's Bank in Kilbourn is desig- valuation, followed by the Town of Bad News: An outbreak of scarlet nated as the official county deposi- Adams, which includes Friendship. fever closes the Arkdale school. tory. *The South Burr Oak Methodist Bad News: High water washes out *Located near a bridge made of poles, Church organizes. forty feet of the mill dam in Friend- the Polebridge School opens in Leola. *Charged with embezzlement, former ship. Bad News: "An immense fire" burns Adams county clerk Charles M.

148 Simons is found not guilty by a jury *A wood frame addition is built onto Towns of Adams and Lincoln. in Mauston. the stone office building to give the *John A. Henry, Easton, is elected to Register of Deeds and Treasurer more the state assembly. 1899 space. *The First Baptist Church of Leola is *The county clerk's office is con- *The Easton Dairy Product Associa- organized. nected to the Friendship telephone tion and the Leola Creamery Com- Railroad Talk: The circuit court rules line and has been given permission to pany are incorporated. that Adams County has not agreed to purchase a typewriter for $175. *Railroad Talk: Promoters sell stocks finance construction of the Princeton *Hugh McBride and Rose Nemetz, and bonds to build the "Princeton and Wisconsin River Railroad and is Quincy, are the first county couple to and Wisconsin River Railroad" not liable for the loss of its petition. receive a marriage license under the through the county. Railroad Talk: The Princeton and terms of the new state law. *Bad News: Burglars break into the Wisconsin River is "said to have *The Jonesville Congregational county clerk's office and make off secured" nearly all the right-of-way it Church, Jackson, is organized. with the petition to the county board needs to lay track across the county; *Bad News: Fire destroys the E. H. calling for county bonds to build the the railroad completes some grading Thiele mill in Arkdale; in about thirty Princeton & Wisconsin River Rail- work near Friendship and plans to minutes all the machinery, the road. build a depot at what becomes the building and 1000 bushels of feed are corner of Main and Airport Dr. lost; valued at $6,000, the mill is "the 1901 most valuable property in the *The county supervisors vote to 1902 county." allow George Reynolds to spend $200 *The county supervisors vote to to construct a county exhibit for the share the cost of building a bridge 1900 state fair. over the Big Roche-A-Cri at Arkdale *County population: 9,141 *Dells Resort Company Manager Nat with Strong's Prairie and at Holliday *A new assessment raises the total Wetzel organizes an "Inter-County Mills with Leola. equalized value of property in Adams Fair" for farmers and tourists that is *St. Paul's German Evangelical County to $2.45 million, an increase held on River Road just outside Lutheran Church is organized in Big of 150% in two years; Strong's Prairie Kilbourn. Flats. has the highest valuation, followed by *The Star school is organized in the *An addition doubles the size of the Adams (with Friendship village) then school in Friendship. New Haven. *Bad News: Burglars attempt to *Adams County has 82 public crack the safe in the office of Judge schools, employs 127 teachers, has Below: Showing off Adams County John B. Keyes, fail and flee when the 2,671 students enrolled and spends produce in front of the new bank which Judge sends "a charge of buckshot" $18,569.07 on schools. opened in Friendship in 1910. after them.

149 1903 Arkdale Potato Company while Hardy, who is to record the work of * According to the new state law, William Olterdorf and others incor- the court house building committee. births must be registered with town porate the Adams County Produce *The Agricultural Society celebrates or village clerks for a fee of 75 cents. Co. in Arkdale. its 50th year with a $400 appropria- *George Lee, William Henrickson *George Hesler, D. McChesney, Carl tion from the county. and E. P. Husor incorporate the Moss, P. A. Cavanaugh and others *The main ditch of the Leola Drain- Arkdale Creamery Company. incorporate the Grand Marsh Cream- age District transforms wetlands to *After already serving twenty years ery. farms. for the crime, Martin Fenner admits *Forty young people from the county *The Church of Christ, Big Flats, is to shooting John L. Hesler after are attending the Wood County organized. Hesler was slow to move a loaded Normal School to train as teachers. *Bad News: Lightning strikes and wagon that had rolled onto Fenner's *Milwaukee businessmen incorpo- ignites a fire that destroys the J.B. Hill foot. rate the Wisconsin Town Lot Co., home on the edge of Friendship. *Railroad Talk: The Town of Adams which will come to own extensive issues $10,000 in bonds and the Town acreage in Adams. 1908 of Lincoln issues $6,000 to purchase *Bohemian immigrants organize a ct-r -L in th Prrinreotnn local lodge of the and Wisconsin River Western Bohemian Railroad; bonds will Fraternal Associa- be held in escrow tion. until "the completion *The Hilke family of said line...to the builds a new two- village of Friend- story store and ship." hotel at Big Flats *Bad News: Eleven Corners. cases of small pox *In compliance are reported in Big with state statutes Flats. the county board empowers the 1904 Highway Commit- *In the presidential tee to lay out a election, Adams system of highways County casts 1,399 eligible for state aid votes for Republican in the county. Theodore Roosevelt, *The Friendship 273 for Democrat village board IAM:;ll;,m P,-, k, , a rasesp an ordinance VVlil iacmI ilKrl dila 29 for Socialist Eugene Debs. Above: In use until 1996, the wooden closing all saloons at 10:30 PM, except *The county board creates a Court trestle crossing the tracks on Elk Ave on Saturday, when they may remain House Committee to "secure plans, between 4th and 5th was the last wooden open until 11:00 PM. specifications and estimates" to build bridge in the county. *Railroad Talk: The Milwaukee Road a new court house; costs are "not to Railroad is considering running a exceed the sum of $15,000." new rail line from Montello to *The Scandinavian Methodist 1907 Necedah, via Westfield and Friend- Episcopal Church opens in Arkdale. *Albert F. Hill, G.W. Waterman, ship, if county taxpayers offer aid. *The New Rome Community Church John. W. Gunning, John W. Purves *Railroad Talk: if county taxpayers opens as an inter-denominational and William Sweet petition the put up $75,000 in bonds, the Western church. county court to incorporate the Transportation Company will build a village of Friendship; boundaries are railroad from Portage to Briggsville, 1905 surveyed, a census taken; residents Big Springs, Easton, Friendship and *The Court House Committee vote 45 to 20 in favor; population of Wisconsin Rapids. submits plans for a new court house; the new village: 308. *Railroad Talk: if county taxpayers cost is $15,000 and work should be *The new village board purchases a put up $100,000 in bonds the Central completed in 1906; no action taken. small frame building, moves it to the Wisconsin Transit Company will court house grounds, installs a "steel build a railroad from Wisconsin Dells 1906 cage" and creates the first "village to Wisconsin Rapids via Easton, *Three deer are killed in Quincy lock-up." Friendship and Big Flats. during the hunting season; "This we *J.W. Gunning builds a fine two-story believe is the extent of the deer killed home at the south end of Main street 1909 in this county this season." across from the McGowan House. *The Wisconsin Dells dam is com- *George Lee, Leonard Sullivan and *The county hires its first female pleted and raises water levels up- H.C. Anderson incorporate the office employee, stenographer Lois stream as much as 19 feet.

150 oSt. Leo's Catholic parish, Friendship, this boarding house is the first Church, Qunicy, is organized. is organized. building in what will become Adams. *A meteorite, weighing 1.75 pounds, *Railroad Talk: The Chicago and *Bad News: Fire destroys hundreds crashes through the roof of the North Western Railroad has begun of acres in the Duck Creek and White William Gaffney barn in New Haven: survey work on a line from Camp Creek marshes, burning as far as scientists buy what is known as "the Douglas to Princeton, which would Grand Marsh and Pleasant Prairie; Kilbourn Meteorite" and distribute cross the Wisconsin River near fire also cuts a half-mile wide swath pieces to museums throughout the Hadlock in the Town of Quincy and through Preston and Richfield. United States. cross Adams County "a short dis- *Bad News: Due to extreme drought *Railroad Action: The Chicago and tance south" of Friendship. conditions, the Agricultural Society North Western Railroad finishes *Railroad Talk: according to cancels the county fair. laying track across the county and "Appletree" Barnes of Waupaca and builds a new bridge across the Big Flats, the Chicago and Wisconsin 1911 Wisconsin at Carmon Rock in Valley Railway Company will--if *The county board votes in favor of Strong's Prairie; depots are built and Adams County taxpayers put up authorizing a $30,000 bond issue to new villages develop at "Brookings", $100,000 in bonds--build Grand Marsh, Adams an electrically-powered and Holmsville; railroad from Wausau to Adams is no longer the Portage, via Stevens only county in Wiscon- Point, Wisconsin Rapids, sin not to have a Big Flats, Friendship, railroad. Easton and Big Spring. *Rail service begins on *Bad News: The Easton December 11, 1911, dam washes out; miller with two freight and C. L. Colby suspects two passenger trains burrowing muskrats as running to Wyeville the cause; the loss is and Milwaukee daily. severe since it is Septem- *Real estate men ber, the peak of the Theodore Werner and milling season. Frank McConick offer *Bad News: Fire in the free lots on the main drained marshes of Leola road between Friend- destroys the crops and ship and the North burns deep into the peat. Western depot to a bank, hotel, opera 1910 house, society hall or *County population: hospital; by mid-year 8,604 they have sold 75 lots. *With $10,000 in capital, Albert F. Hill, John W. 1912 Gunning and John W. *In a statewide P1irves r nrrinz7eth rofrondclim Ardame x UJ.iV . uJ- .a LJ. LJ.LUMIL, Friendship State Bank; it is the first Above: Ad for Frank McConick's real County voters--all men--vote 708 to bank organized in the county. estate and financial services. Along with 635 in favor of amending the state *Railroad Talk: With survey work Theodore Werner, McConick was the constitution to recognize voting underway, the directors of the first developer of the city of Adams. rights for women; the amendment Chicago and Wisconsin Valley fails to pass statewide. Railway vote to build their line *John Peterson, Carl Witt, Albert without Adams County bonds. build a new court house. Straus, K.F. Priebe, James Peterson *Railroad Talk: In a hearing before *Construction work begins on the and Frank Kamrowski petition the the Railroad Commission, a spokes- Bohemian lodge hall in Friendship. county court to incorporate the man for the Chicago & North Western *Veteran teacher Maybelle Douglass village of Adams; boundaries are declares that his company will build a becomes county school superinten- surveyed, notices posted, a census "spur" from the new depot to be built dent; she is the first woman to hold a taken; residents vote 124 to 2 in favor; "one mile" south of Friendship "into county office. population of the new village: 326. the village limits;" also a siding will *George W. Bingham, Friendship, is *The new village of Adams and the be built in Strong's Prairie, "not over elected to the state assembly; he will town of Adams organize Joint School three miles from Arkdale." be re-elected in 1929. District No. 10 and build a wood- *Railroad Action: With a surveying *Nurseryman A. D. "Appletree" frame grade shool on Grove Street in crew in Friendship, the North West- Barnes plants 500 apple trees along Adams. ern builds a 16 room boarding house the road south of Big Flats Corners. *With $10,000 in capital, C.E. on company land south of the village; *St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Babcock, G. H. Parham and Harry W.

151 Burney organize the Adams County uled to fly his Curtiss aeroplane at the *With $10,000 in capital, nine area State Bank. county fair but cancels after an farmers and businessmen organize *Trinity Congregational Church is "accident involving a bluff," at the Grand Marsh State Bank, Grand organized in Adams. Durand. Marsh. "Charles Eaton organizes a company *Bad News: High water on the *The owners of automobiles in the to publish a newspaper called the Roche-A-Cri washes out Holliday's county will be charged a registration Adams Herald. mill in Leola; the hotel nearby is fee with the money to be used for *The Grand Marsh post office moves destroyed by fire and the little village county roads. about one mile west from the Patrick abandoned. *George Polivka purchases the farm to the new village on the North *Bad News: Fire destroys three "Friendship Power and Light Com- Western line. buildings on the west side of Main pany," installs a hydroelectric *The Arkdale Farmers Creamery Co. Street in Friendship. generator on Friendship dam and begins operations. begins delivering electricity to *The Friendship village board 1914 Friendship and Adams. replaces the wooden sidewalks on *World War I begins in Europe. *The Beanery restaurant opens in Main Street with concrete walks. *Catholics build the first St. Joseph's Adams; in order to serve railroad *The county board votes in favor of church in Adams. workers, the county's first and only working with the village of Friend- "Guy Willis takes over the Adams 24-hour restaurant. ship to improve the road running Herald and renames it the Advertiser. south to the railroad depot in Adams. *Adams businessmen organize the 1915 *Railroad Action: Work is completed Adams Building Association to build *The Holmsville/Dellwood Post on the 24-stall roundhouse, coal a $12,000 garage and showroom for a Office opens. chute, water tank and depot at the new Ford dealership on west Main *The McFarlin Brothers purchase and Adams railyards. between Center and Willow; in the dismantle the county's stone building; * Bad News: The Atcherson Hotel, course of construction, a second story the stone is later used to erect a known as the oldest building in is added for a meeting hall and the stable/garage on the lot south of the Friendship, is destroyed by fire. building becomes the "Adams Opera Friendship mill. *Bad News: The weather is so cold House." *H. E. Cole, Baraboo, completes his early in January, that children in survey of Indian mounds and reports grades 1-4 at Friendship school are more than 650 ancient earthworks in sent home because "it was unable to Below: Big and small businessmen the county, including a rare buffalo heat the room." came to take part in the Adams mound in the Town of Rome. *Work begins on a new brick elemen- railroadboom. The lunch room stood *The Country Club, a local organiza- tary and high school on West Fifth at about 179 Main in Adams. tion taking part in a national move- and Raymond Streets in Friendship. ment to improve life in rural areas, sponsors a lecture by the 1913 University of Wisconsin's *County voters cast E. L. Luther, on the ballots in favor of advantages of having a building a new court county agricultural agent. house and work begins. *A new dam is built on *The county court the Big Roche-A-Cri at house committee sells Arkdale. the old wooden court *The Brooks Creamery house to the highest begins operations. bidder, R. R. Roberts, *Bad News: A hard frost Monroe, for $415.50; he on September 4 nearly moves the building to destroys the buckwheat the east side of Belfast crop and severely dam- Street, south of Fourth ages corn and potatoes. and remodels it for *Bad News: Fire destroys rental housing. Foster's hardware, *The Grand Marsh Colby's and Lumby's Congregational Church store and the post office in holds its first services in Grand Marsh. the former Pleasant Prairie School. 1916 *St. Ann's Catholic *Declaring that if "you Church is organized in want to get something Brooks. good on the market you *The "Great Aviator" serve notice on the public Floyd Barlow is sched- that you have the goods,"

152 and 3 county school superintendent Flo- Above: The curtain at the "Opera auto license violators in Adams rence Billings, requests that the House" in Adams made a good direc- n Friendship. a mimeograph .11.1. lJ•,Jl L,,C';M C C ;M th 1920)n county purchase oI y uo nfctto UU3CCLI33V33usnsse vjz .tr machine and publish a school 1919 newsletter; the board agrees. *State and federal laws limiting the go into *Chris Holm and four partners River bridge at Petenwell. sale of alcoholic beverages organize the Holmsville Produce *The Adams County State Bank effect; Prohibition begins. Company to build a warehouse and moves to a new brick building with a *Catholics organize St. Joseph's buy and sell potatoes, cucumbers and "cement vault" at 149 S. Main, parish, Adams. in other produce at "Holmsville" in Adams. *Three Lutheran congregations organize Strong's Prairie *The railroad builds a 5,000 ton ice Strong's Prairie combine to *The "Minnesota Special" passenger house at Adams, for which ice is to be Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale. "camelback" trains makes daily stops in Adams. cut from Friendship Lake. *A new 560-feet long, Wiscon- *Bad News: The Adams school is *Bad News: The old Friendship steel truss bridge across the closed for two weeks "on account of Hotel, on the corner of Second and sin is built at Petenwell Rock. an epidemic of measles in April and Main is destroyed by fire; the build- Bad News: William Wise, Adams, is mistaken for two weeks "on account of ing was moved to the village from returns home at 4:00 AM, by his dipth'eria" in November. Fordham in 1858. for a burglar and shot to death *Bad News: Local Doctors Treadwell, wife, who keeps a pistol handy for Poppe and Beech consult with the 1918 self-protection. state board of health on a case of *World War I ends. "infantile paralysis" in Preston. *The county has 86 schools, with 1920 3,223 students, plus 6 male and 91 *County population: 9,287 1917 female teachers; school libraries have *The number of farms in the county *The U. S. enters World War I. a total of 14,714 books. peaks at 1,557. *Foreign-born "aliens" who have yet *Due to the Spanish flu epidemic the *At the primary in September, state to state their intention to be citizens Adams Village Board of Health women vote for the first time in must register with the county clerk. orders all "schools, churches, Sunday and federal elections in Wisconsin. county's *Alan Galbraith, Friendship, is schools, theaters, moving picture *Ernest Ryall is hired as the he elected to the state assembly. houses, saloons, billiard halls, other first Extension Agricultural Agent; and Girls Clubs "Alice and Joseph Houghton pur- places of amusement and all public helps organize Boys chase the Adams Advertiser. gatherings closed for an indefinite later known as 4-H. *The county court house is connected period of time." *The state highway laid out from 1913 is to the Friendship Electric Light and *Telephones are installed in the Friendship to Grand Rapids in Trunk Power Company. offices of the county school superin- officially designated as State *The county supervisors begin to set tendent, judge and district attorney. Highway 13. school aside funds to rebuild the Wisconsin *A state inspector issues tickets to 17 *In Adams a three-story brick

153 building is built and residents Above: The Washington Birthday's ice *County treasurer John M. Graham conduct a book drive to establish a storm of February 22, 1922 wreaked bequeaths a portrait of Abraham library of 500 books in the village havoc throughout central Wisconsin, Lincoln to be hung in the county school. including the Atcherson home on the courtroom upon his death. *The Adams Auto Company moves *The county clerk is corner of West and Lake in Friendship. authorized to see out of the Opera House to its new that the lawn is fertilized with garage and showroom on Grove and manure and to purchase a rug and six Main Street. undersheriff at $100 a year and two rest chairs, "rocking," for the "Ladies *Village of Adams residents com- deputies at $50 each. Rest Room" at the court house. plain about poor service; the Friend- *Bearing a search warrant, Sheriff *North Western railroad workers ship Power and Light Co. promises to Hoard finds three buckets of moon- strike; supporters hold a benefit make improvements in order to shine, sugar and cornmeal on the dance in Adams. supply electricity 24 hours a day--and Knight farm in Big Flats. *Bad News: Soon after welcome raise rates. signs are erected at the Adams village *Federal liquor law enforcement 1922 limits, vandals deface the one facing officers raid two moonshine stills *At the spring term of the county Friendship. with a "considerable quantity of court, the county's first female jurors *Bad News: The Washington Birth- unlawful booze" in Adams. are selected; the first name drawn is day--2/22/22--sleet storm coats that of Hattie Moshure, Quincy. central Wisconsin with ice, destroys 1921 *J. B. Hill, J. W. Purves, Louis Picus, trees and knocks out phone and *The county supervisors vote to hold Charles Krejchek and G.F. Treadwell power lines. two regular sessions, spring and fall, incorporate the Friendship Creamery and select the first Traveling Library Company. 1923 Board to oversee the movement of *At Brooks the post office opens and *Since they are often used for the sale books from school to school. the Brooks Community Club orga- of alcohol and other illegal activities, *The Adams County Branch of the nizes a Boys and Girls Club with 14 dance halls in rural areas are regu- Wisconsin Humane Society is estab- members. lated by the county; churches, schools lished with a $25 appropriation for a *Sheriff Hoard finds a 'still in and PTAs may not sponsor dances; "depository" for animals in Friend- operation on the Cusack farm in New no one under age 16 is admitted and ship Haven. "all dances have to have sufficient *Trinity English Lutheran Church is *The Adams Commercial Club erects lighting to uphold proper behavior." organized, Adams. welcome signs on Highway 13 just *Bad News: Feeding on brush and "65-year old Charles Elliott purchases outside the village limits; the signs trees felled by the 1922 ice storm, fires the Adams Advertiser. also direct motorists to the public rage through the county. *The sheriff is authorized to hire an campground on south Main Street.

154 and Monroe Center. 1924 Above: The washout of the Friendship no longer be *The village of Friendship purchases eCounty offices will dike caused two fatalities in 1928. open on Saturday afternoons. right-of-way connecting the Adams *The Progressive Business Men's road to Belfast Street in hopes that the Association of Adams is founded and state will relocate Highway 13 to run commended for its efforts to promote expensive to the taxpayers" and past the court house. Adams and Friendship. "fight nature," the county board *Two men are arrested for selling "The name of the Adams Herald is passes a resolution opposing a state illegal whiskey at a dance at the changed to the Adams Times. law mandating snow removal from Dellwood Pavilion; and L. Garlock, eSupervising Teacher Katherine state and county roads. manager of Ida's Restaurant in McGowan runs a summer school for *Since they are "detrimental to the Adams is fined for possession. failing seventh grade students, with welfare of the citizens," the county *Bad News: Cottonville teacher Irene emphasis on history and geography. board passes a resolution banning Morley is the victim of highway *Sheriff Hoard and deputies raid public dances on Sunday. robbery when her car is stopped by moonshine stills in Lincoln and on the masked robbers who block Highway Huyck farm in Preston. 1926 13 south of Adams and relieve her of *George Polivka buys the water *The City of Adams is incorporated. $18 in cash. power site at Cottonville to develop *Four stations are set up in the it for hydro power. county to treat seed potatoes for scab 1928 *Volunteers in the village of Adams and "black scurf." *The Adams-Friendship Free Union meet to organize a fire department; *Chicago builder Simon P. Linehan High School District is organized and Clarence Martin is the fire chief. subdivides 3,000 acres into city lots a high school building is built on *Bad News: One fire damages the and develops the Dellwood on the Main Street and Breevort Boulevard. electric power plant in Friendship, Wisconsin River in Quincy. *Interscholastic high school sports another destroys the Masonic Temple. *George Polivka sells the Friendship begin when the A-F football team Electric Light and Power Co. to takes the field for three games. 1925 Wisconsin Power and Light. *The state mandates that school *County farmers test their cattle in districts must furnish transportation order to eliminate tuberculosis. 1927 for all students residing more than *A bus line is inaugurated from *Tablets are distributed in all county one mile from a school; parents Wisconsin Rapids to Adams-Friend- schools to prevent iodine deficiency. furnishing transportation are to be ship and Kilbourn. *Ten schools organize Parent-Teacher reimbursed at the rate of ten cents for *Robert W. Wood, Adams, is elected Organizations: Arkdale, Brooks, one student, fifteen cents for two. to the state assembly. Friendship, Hillcrest, Dawes, Ward, *With two owls, three groundhogs *Stating that it would be "very Badgerland, Pleasant View, Dellwood and one deer, residents start a "zoo"

155 wooden passenger car for use as the library of the city of Adams. *Classes begin at the new Adams- Friendship High School and the first graduation ceremony is held. *With an offer of financial support from the Juneau-Adams Bankers Association, the county board authorizes the Sheriff to hire as many as ten special duty deputies to serve without pay unless called to duty by the Sheriff. *I.S. Jones is elected to his first term as county school superintendent. " Bad News: "Some graceless scamp" steals light bulbs from the Adams community Christmas tree.

1930 Above: The gateway to the Dellwood " Bad News: Burglars break into the *County Population: 8,003 Subdivision, which offered riverfront Bohemian Hall, Friendship, steal the *At his own expense County Board lots for second-home buyers in the dinnerware, a copper boiler and light Chair R.B. Wood attends a special 1920s. bulbs. governor's conference on the eco- "Bad News: High water washes out nomic depression. the Friendship dam and the bridge *The C & NW Ladies Club sponsors a in the "Railroad Park" on Grove and below; ignoring warnings to stop, community Christmas tree in Rail- Main Street in Adams. Cecil Renner, William Brott and road Park, Adams. *Businessmen organize the Commer- Henry Brott drive their car into the *The first basketball game is played cial Club; officers are C.S. Andrae, water, drowning both of the Brotts. in the new high school gym: A-F C.H. Gilman, B.A. McBride, and R.B. defeats Mauston, 27-10. Wood. 1929 *Citing the amount of after hours *A new 125-foot tall smokestack is *The collapse of the New York stock business he conducts, the county built on the railroad power house in exchange signals the start of the Great board votes to install a telephone in Adams. Depression. the sheriff's house. *With state aid, Friendship builds a *Real estate tax deliquency is already *Bad News: Fire destroys the Picus road connecting Belfast Street with a problem in Big Flats, Preston, Store building and severely damages State Highway 13 on the south edge Colburn, Leola, Monroe and Rome, neighboring buildings in Adams; of the village. where about 25% of taxes are unpaid. built in 1912, the building was one of *Adams county votes against repeal the first in Adams. of prohibition, 777-698. Below: The Dellwood Hotel, where *The county has 156 children regis- 1931 prospective purchasers could stay tered in 17 4-H Clubs. *The average gross annual income of while shopping for land. *The C & NW donates an obsolete an Adams County farm is $847, lower than all but a few northern counties; the real estate tax paid on an Adams County farm is 42 cents per acre, the lowest in the state. *A football field is built on the east side of the high school.

1932 *262 young people are enrolled in 25 4-H Clubs in the county. *Baseball player Len Koenecke, Adams, begins his major league career with the New York Giants. Bad News: Due to the economic depression, farm prices reach an all time low; the Red Cross distributes flour and other commodities in the county: telephones are removed from county offices, including the sheriff's;

156 county employees take a 10% pay cut; *The county board authorizes the *Adams County American Legion the county agent's position is termi- state to acquire rights of way, install Post 250 is organized with C. W. nated; the county will not pay to telephone lines and build fire towers Peters as first Post Commander transport children to school who live on Friendship, Quincy and Elephant *The county's Czech-American closer that 2.5 miles; all people Mounds. commuity welcomes "one of the receiving public aid are not allowed *Hamilton Walrath, the county's last biggest ever" conventions of the to drive a car except to go to work. surviving veteran of the Civil War, Western Bohemian Fraternal Associa- dies at his home in White Creek. tion to Friendship. 1933 Bad News: After being released by *Edwin W. Bloomquist, Adams, is *Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated the Brooklyn Dodgers, Adams elected to the state assembly. and New Deal relief programs begin baseball player Len Koenecke char- *The Adams County Board votes to in the county. ters a small airplane to fly home; he purchase the county fairgrounds from *A winter drought creates near gets into a fight with the crew and is the Fair Association for the sum of record-dry soil conditions throughout killed by the pilot. one dollar.

central Wisconsin. Above: Amy and Olive Dunn served *Bad News: With 43 students ill, *Bad News: The Red Cross flour customers at Dunn's store in White scarlet fever closes the Adams school. distribution ends so the county board Creek in the 1930s. votes to distribute only flour grown 1936 and milled in Adams County; the *New Deal farm aid projects are in flour is to contain three parts rye and 1935 full swing in the county. one part wheat. *Six percent of the county's populka- *With temperatures at record levels tion, about 500 people, are on public in July, the county is declared eligible 1934 welfare; it is one of the lowest county for a special drought relief program. *High winds combine with drought percentages in the state; the average *County farmers take part in the weather conditions to create severe monthly welfare payment is $18 per Central Wisconsin Shelterbelt Project soil erosion in central Wisconsin. person. and plant 98,000 trees, enough to *The Chicago and North Western *The county board creates a Media- plant a three-row windbreak from Railroad "400" high speed trains tion Board between debtors and Friendship to Wisconsin Rapids. make their first Chicago-Twin Cities creditors to prevent foreclosure on *Hybrid corn is planted on four runs through Adams. property and a Pensions Department farms in the county; drought destroys *The A-F High School football team to administer the new federal social two, but the county farm plot reports has its first undefeated season. security program. a hybrid corn yield 50% greater than

157 cutting the work force here. *Dr. G.V. Smeby opens his dental practice at Adams. *The City of Wisconsin Dells, since most of the scenic part of the "World Famous Dells" is in Adams County, requests annexation to Adams County; the county board agrees and forwards the resolution to state officials. *Everett Erickson, Bob Roseberry and Shirley Johnson purchase a Curtis Pusher and a Piper J-2 Cub which they fly off the "Strong's Prairie Airport." *The county board purchases 80 acres southeast of Adams for the first County School and 4-H Club Forest. *The county sends letters to tavern keepers asking them not to serve high Above: His name was "Pal"and he was hunting season in the county; the school students. mobilzedfor the war effort by the county board and private landowners family of his "master," Renwick respond by posting their lands. 1940 Nowacheck of Adams, who was "in *The locks are changed on the court *County population: 8,449 service of Uncle Sam." house and keys issued only to *The Federal Food Stamp program is designated parties as too many inaugurated in the county. people are entering the building and *The county board purchases the that of traditional corn varieties. taking free showers in the basement. McChesney property on Patrick's *The county allots funds to register Lake for a 4-H Camp. the graves of veterans buried in the 1938 *The East Easton and Easton schools county and to mark them with flags. *Congregational pastors petition the are consolidated with grades 1-4 in *The Old Settlers Club is founded in county board to close the county fair Easton, grades 4-8 in East Easton. Adams; membership is restricted to on Sundays; no action taken. *With Madison lakes too polluted for those who lived in Adams prior to *Since they are damaging the grass, safety, the railroad contracts with the 1913. youngsters will no longer be allowed Ashworth Brothers to cut ice on *Schools in Leola are consolidated, to play football on the court house Friendship Lake and haul it to the with grades 1-4 at Polebridge and lawn. railyards in Madison. grades 5-8 at Rathermal. *The county sheriff department hires "Ralph Klinefelter purchases the its first road officers. Friendship Reporter and merges it with 1937 *The Nekoosa-Edwards Paper the Adams County Times. *Drs. Harry Shapiro and A.J. Harris Company purchases 2,000 acres of tax *Bad News: With tens of thousands build a brick hospital building in delinquent land in the county. of National Guardsmen to take part Adams with an air conditioned *With help from a $200,000 federal in maneuvers at Camp McCoy this operating room. loan, farmers in Adams and summer, federal police crackdown on *Funded by the County Teacher's Marquette County organize the "vice" in the area; a New Haven Association and 4-H Clubs, the new Adams-Marquette Electric Co- tavernkeeper and two women are 4-H Exhibit Building is completed. operative; the first "coordinator" is arrested for keeping "a house of ill- *The county is surveyed for conser- James Joyce of Briggsville. fame." vation tree planting and 86,000 pines *Bad News: The Wisconsin River are distributed to landowners. rises to record levels and floods farms 1941 *The city of Adams installs a munici- in the Town of Quincy where some *With the railroad powerhouse no pal water and sewer system. farmhouses are one-half mile away longer needed, the landmark smoke- *The Adams Fire Department takes from dry land; high water threatens stack is demolished. part in a national competition in to wash out the Friendship dam and *Merchants in the townships request Chicago. workers are sandbagging the dike that food stamps be distributed "Ralph Kleinfelter purchases the near the bridge. throughout the county, so all the Adams County Times. purchases will not be made in Adams *The state highway department 1939 and Friendship. acquires a 300-foot wide strip on each *World War II begins in Europe. *The Star, Pilot Knob, Diamond, side of Highway 13 near Roche-A-Cri *The C & NW introduces its first Buckhorn and Spring Bluff schools Rock as a roadside park. "steamlined" 400 trains but reduces are consolidated. *The state opens a three-day deer its roundhouse operations at Adams, *The county now has 47 rural schools

158 and 29 elementary school districts; the German immigrants refuse to * Bad News: The county board offers hot lunches are available, cooked and register as "aliens," and are sentenced a reward of $50 for the arrest and served by the teachers. to federal prison. conviction of the "persons or persons *After the Japanese attack American *The state orders the county to erect a who willfully and maliciously bases in the Pacific, the United States steel fire escape from the court room damaged the honor roll on the court enters World War II. on the north side of the court house. house yard." *The county highway department 1942 moves a building from a Civilian 1945 *Young men and women volunteer Conservation Commission camp near *World War ends. for military service; a scrap metal City Point for use at the fairgrounds. *The Wisconsin Conservation drive is conducted and Christmas *Responding to complaints about Commission will purchase 3600 acres boxes are sent to all men in service. underage drinking, the city of Adams of land as a public hunting ground in *Drs. B.P. and R.S. Ingersoll purchase threatens to revoke tavern licenses the Town of Colburn. the hospital and clinic in Adams. and passes an ordinance requiring all ePlans are announced to develop *The county board votes to change taverns closed between 1:00AM and Friendship Mound as a tourist the name of Cottonville Pond to Big 1:00PM on Sundays. attraction with a road built to the top. Roche-A-Cri Lake. *Bad News: Thieves break into Al *The county 4-H Camp Committee Bowers' Arkdale Roller Mills and 1946 purchases closed country schools and steal ten bags of feed and some tools. *Veterans organize the Adams- moves them for use as dormitories at Friendship VFW Post. the 4-H Camp at Jordan Lake. 1944 *Residents collect clothes and other *Approximately 100 concerned *The Wisconsin Conservation items to be shipped to war-devastated citizens attend a meeting at the court Commission donates a building, in- Europe. house to discuss "juvenile delin- stalls toilets and a well at the 4-H *The Extension Home Agent becomes quency"; they are assured by a state Camp. a full-time position and the county corrections official that the county is *The county purchases land south- hires its first Veterans Service officer, far below the state average in delin- east of Adams and plants 55,000 pines B.A. McBride. quencies, with only one boy commit- in a Memorial Forest for war veterans *Funded by Friendship and Adams, ted to the Industrial School at Wales. to be maintained by the American Ivan Janney and Elton Davis build a *Bad News: Thieves vandalize the Legion Post. floating raft and diving tower at Graham, Big Spring, Badger Valley, *Shirley Young is named the county's Friendship Beach. Dell Prairie and Gibson schools and first Extension Home Economist. Bad News: Three local teenagers are make off with radios, cash, stamps, *Einar Jensen and a Conservation fined $5.00 each for overturning the pens and mechanical pencils. Department crew plant 100 "decora- raft at Friendship Beach. tive" spruce and other trees on the 1943 court house lawn. 1947 *A Honor Roll listing all county men SThe county has twenty one-room in military service is erected on the schools, five state-graded schools and courthouse lawn. Below: A bevy of the babies he one city school system. *The case of John Weinkauf, his wife delivered over the years came to *Everett Erickson and Shirley and two daughters, Grand Marsh, Patrick's Lake to honor Dr. Harry Johnson open the Adams Theater and attracts attention; struggling farmers, Frederick in 1943. hire Al Davidson as projectionist.

159 *The Farmer's Union Cooperative, Above: Starting with a contract to new grandstand at the fairgrounds on Adams, is organized; Matt Banovec is produce aluminum boatsfor the Navy the condition that 50% of all grand- the first president; Martin Sheen, the during the Korean War, "Tex" Reddick 's stand receipts be used to pay the first manager. Regal Products was the first industrial $11,500 cost of construction. *Louis Romell, Adams, is elected to plant to use the old Adams railroad * Bad News: Using rocks and BB-guns the state assembly; he is elected again yard.. "Kid Vandals" break twenty small in 1961. panes of stained glass at Trinity *Bad News: A shotgun-toting thief Lutheran Church, Adams. steals $101 and two guns from the grades 1-4 at White Creek and 5-8 at Gilbert Pease store on Highway 21 Five Oaks. 1949 and Cty G. *The Adams Volunteer Fire Depart- *Citizens organize the Adams *Bad News: On one evening, thieves ment dedicates a new fire house in County Cooperative Hospital Asso- with a decided preference in autos Adams and extends protection to ciation to raise funds to remodel and steal three cars in Adams and Friend- Preston, Easton and Adams towns. enlarge the hospital in Adams; ship--all Buicks. *The county board votes to build a officers are President I.S. Jones, Vice- President E. W. Bloomquist, Secre- 1948 tary-Treasurer E.A. Roseberry. *The Adams County Memorial Field *The federal government proposes Below: Conceived as part of a regional turning the Upper Dells property Committee is organized to build a hydroelectic system in the 1930s, the owned by the Crandall Family and lighted athletic field in honor of war Castle Rock Dam was completed in other land in Dell Prairie and veterans at the fairgrounds. Springville into a national park. 1951. Along with the Petenwell, it has *Fran's "400 Restaurant" opens in *The White Creek and Five Oaks become equally valuable for recreation Adams. school districts are consolidated, with and development in the county. "The Petenwell Dam is completed

160 and the flowage begins to fill. thieves who robbed the Clover Farm left; Arkdale, Monroe and Prairie *Supervised by Harold Ashworth, a Store, the Steffen Army Goods Store View schools are consolidated; Twin crew of 700 workers begins tree and the Adams Variety Store. Valley closes; schools in Springville, cutting on the Petenwell Flowage. *Bad News: Seven year old Loren Jackson, Dell Prairie and New Haven *The county board votes to install a Roseberry, Friendship, succumbs to merge into the Wisconsin Dells short-wave system for the Sheriff's polio. system. department at a cost of $900. *After raising no more than $4,000, * Bad News: A. D. Fuller, director of 1951 the Adams County Cooperative the county Pension and Welfare *The Mitchell Red Cloud American Hospital Association disbands and Department, is hospitalized after Legion Post is dedicated; among returns the money to donors. being pushed down the basement those attending are Red Cloud's *The county board appropriates stairs of the court house. mother, Nellie, state senator Melvin $75,000 to build a new jail and home Laird and U.S. Senator Joseph for the sheriff and his family adjacent 1950 McCarthy. to the court house; county prisoners *County population: 7,906 *With Mildred Solchenberger as first are held in the Sauk County jail at *Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud is president, the VFW Ladies Auxiliary Baraboo. awarded the Congressional Medal of is organized at Adams. Bad News: After a camper is stricken Honor for heroism in Korea. *E. Tex Reddick's Regal Products with polio while there, the county 4-H *The Wisconsin Conservation begins manufacture of aluminum camp is temporarily closed. Department purchases Roche-A-Cri boats for the U.S. Navy in Adams. Rock and 220 adjoining acres for a *High school band director Sam 1953 sum of $3,500. Winch organizes a 66-member grade *The new county jail and sheriff's *The Castle Rock dam is completed school band with students from 15 residence is open; the jail has separate

and the powerhouse generates its Above: A congregation of Dr.George sections for men, women, and first electricity. Treadwell's "children" gathered at the juvenile offenders, an office for the *The A-F high school football team fairgrounds in his honor in 1952. sheriff, plus a living room, kitchen plays it first evening game under the and three bedrooms for the sheriff's lights at the county fairgrounds. family; Sheriff Russell Hennigsen and *A six-classroom plus gym/lunch- county schools. his wife Vera will operate the two- room addition is completed at *The County Farm, buildings and way radio in exchange for rent and Adams grade school; the old wooden land, sells for $27,500. electricity. school built in 1912 is sold to Regal *With tourism increasing warning *A gymnasium and stage is built at Products and moved. signals are erected at the railroad the Union Free High School in *Friendship improves the village crossing of Hwy Z in Dellwood. Adams. beach with 12 truckloads of sand and "The De George multi-grade school a 200 foot long retaining wall. 1952 opens in Richfield. *Citing the high cost of improving *With funding from the Chamber of *The county supervisors create a the restaurant to meet state health Commerce and Donald Hollman, a park commission, hires the first standards, owner Gertrude Nelson cross and star are erected on the new dispatcher for the sheriff and estab- closes The Beanery restaurant in sheriff's radio antenna atop Friend- lishes a county welfare department Adams. ship Mound. with Lloyd Anderson as the first *After a 90 MPH chase down Cty M, *School consolidation accelerates: the director. Sheriff Sam Stone apprehends two county has eleven one room schools *A record 431 boys and girls are

161 enrolled in 4-H; Helen Jones attends farm" for a county park and swim- throughout the county, all police and the National Conference in Washing- ming beach on Castle Rock Lake. fire calls will go to the sheriff or his ton, D.C. *The state highway bridge over the wife, Lillian, who will contact the SThe Chamber of Commerce starts to Wisconsin at Point Bluff is completed local fire department; since Frank and recruit a new doctor for the county. at a cost of $2 million. Lil will be on phone duty 24-hours-a- *Responding to a county board *175 first and second grade students day, Serles receives a raise in pay search for a resident veterinarian, Dr. are the first local children to receive from $201.66 to $326.66 per month. J. A. Hines sets up practice near the new Salk polio vaccine. Oxford to serve Adams and *Martin Hansen, Adams depot agent 1957 Marquette Counties. for 42 years, retires; he is succeeded *The Adams County Memorial by Arthur Keach. Hospital Association votes to build a 1954 new $185,000 hospital on the Polivka *Voters pass a referendum pledging 1956 site; a 15-member board is elected; the county to commit $100,000 in tax *Dr. B.P. Ingersoll offers to sell his officers are President Robert money to match a federal grant to hospital in Adams and volunteers Roseberry, Vice-President Leonard build a $180,000 hospital in the revive the Memorial Hospital Picus, Secretary Irene Hardin, county; the county board later votes Treasurer Harold Ashworth. against the appropriation, in part *Dr. Arthur Weihe purchases the because no group exists to receive Ingersoll facility and begins to and manage the funds. practice medicine in Adams County. *The Adams County Memorial *Fund-raising to match a 40% federal Hospital Association is incorporated grant for the hospital begins, with 612 with Leonard Picus as chair; four individuals joining the "Century proposals for hospital funding are Club" by donating $100 each. placed before the county board, all *Friendship celebrates its centennial are defeated. with a festival and a parade; pro- "Virgil Tobin purchases the Adams ceeds from the event are donated to County Times/Friendship Reporter. the new county hospital. *Ivan Morrow begins his thirty years *The state reroutes the "scenic part" of service as the county 4-H and of Highway 13 and it becomes River Youth Agent. Road in Dell Prairie. *The first classes are conducted at the "Bad News: The murders committed Roche-A-Cri School; it is a grade 1-8 by Ed Gein, Plainfield, are discov- school formed by the consolidation of ered; Sheriff Serles interviews Gein in local schools in Monroe and Strong's connection with unsolved Adams Prairie; the first principal is Nina county murders. Preston. "Bad News: Fire destroys 2,500 acres *The school milk program begins in of trees, on Nekoosa-Edwards land in county schools. Monroe and Rome.

1955 1958 *Voters defeat a referendum to use *The Adams County Hospital county tax money to build a new Association accepts bids on a 25-bed hospital. hospital costing $280,000, with *The county board hires the county's Above: The thermometer rose along $168,000 to be raised locally; con- first child welfare worker and with contributions to the Adams County struction begins on the new hospital. appropriates $5,000 to hire a county Memorial Hospitalfund in the 1950s. *The county board passes a resolu- nurse. The sign itself was made by Archie tion asking the state to build a new *The city of Adams installs a short- Davis, whose work would be a familiar bridge at Petenwell Rock with Frank wave radio in Police Chief Glen sight in the county for four decades. Lloyd Wright as the architect. Manthey's patrol car. *The Wisconsin River Power Com- *The Badger Beef Breeders sponsor pany installs a "tube" beneath the first of their auction sales at the Highway Association; George and Mary Z to allow boats to enter new livestock barn at the county Castle Polivka offer land along the Roche- Rock Lake from Hap Day's fairgrounds. Landing on A-Cri in Friendship as a site for a new Klein Creek. *The Adams County Industrial hospital building. *Succeeding her husband Frank, who Development Committee is orga- cannot run *Additional classrooms and a band- again, Lil Serles is elected nized. Sheriff room are built at the Adams school. of Adams County; she is the *The county park system begins first woman *The county board authorizes that to hold the position. when the county purchases the "old Sheriff Frank Series "be on 24 hour "Bad News: A 16-year-old boy dies Hays farm" for a county park on duty and will provide 24 hour after falling while trying to descend Petenwell Lake and the "old Klein the south service;" with dial phones now in use face of Roche-A-Cri Rock. 162 through the county from Point Bluff 1959 after two police men are slain in Lake to Grand Marsh, destroying trees, *The new Adams County Memorial Delton. powerlines and buildings. Hospital opens; in addition to *Bad News: A fire on cutover land improved health care, the hospital 1962 southwest of Adams threatens the creates 25 full time and 8 part time *Legion Field, the Adams County city but is brought under control after jobs with a total monthly payroll of Airport, built on land ravaged by fire burning about 80 acres. $5,000. in 1959, is dedicated with an air show. *The Cole and Crogan Red Owl *The Langer Hardware Store build- 1965 supermarket opens in Adams. ing on Third and Main, is demolished *With consolidation of country *The state builds a new bridge across to build a new Friendship post office. schools complete, the office of County the Wisconsin at Petenwell Rock. eIn Adams, August Walczyk sells his Superintendent of Schools is abol- *The Town of Rome schools are photo studio and the former Eaton ished. closed and students attend the and Rosypal funeral home is demol- *Alex Richter begins his long career consolidated Nekoosa system. ished to make way for the new as county agricultural agent. *A total of 943 acres of farmland in Adams County Bank building. *Bad News: Sounding "like a sonic the county is irrigated. "Lucille and Marvin Morgenstern boom" the Arkdale dam washes out; *Thirty union employees at Nor- purchase the Times/Reporter. the lake is completely drained in Land boats strike for an increase in *125 railroad workers in Adams go about three hours. pay from $1.30 to $1.60 an hour. on strike. *Bad News: An explosion and fire *Bad News: Fire destroys "the 1966 damages the building and injures two biggest building in the county"-- *Assembly candidate Tommy employees at the Nor-Land fiberglass William Suhr's 32,000 square foot Thompson asks the county board for boat factory in Ada ns. chicken barn in Rome. V%• I I T - A & _ _ J its endorsement in his race to *Bad News: A two-day fill the seat of retiring March storm dumps 20 assemblyman Louis Romell. inches of snow and "para- *The county welfare depart- lyzes" everything in the ment takes part in the new county. federal food stamp program. *Bad News: Fire ravages *With Clara Kirkwood as 1,200 acres in the Town of director, the Community Adams, including the 4-H Action Program begins to and American Legion supervise Head Start, Memorial Forests where an Neighborhood Youth Corps estimated 100,000 pines are and other federal programs lost. in the county. *Ci t 4-Hr lus csr 1960 o-.VUILLy -I- . J1 .. L ,V Above: Judge Fulton Collipp swearing using the Camp at Patrick's Lake. *County population: 7,566 in Lillian Series as Sheriff and Pat *Wisconsin Gas Company begins *The old railroad roundhouse is Jorgenseon as County Clerk in 1959. work on a pipeline through the demolished. *Dr. Martin Janssen begins his county. *Farm Progress Days bring hundreds practice of medicine in the county. of exhibitors and thousands of *Bad News: In one week in May 1963 *County employees organize unions. visitors to the site in New Chester. nearly five inches of precipitation in *The C & NW discontinues passenger *Bad News: Fire destroys the North rain and snow closes roads in Quincy service to Adams. Western Railroad depot in Adams; and washes out bridges in Preston. *Bad News: Fire inflicts $50,000 in with the railroad reducing service, it *Bad News: Burglars steal $53 in damage to Gary's Hide-A-Way is not rebuilt. cash, butter and cheese from the on Lake Petenwell in Adams County Dairy Cooperative on Restaurant Monroe. 1967 Hwy J west of Friendship. *Responding to changes in the state 1964 law, Roseberry's gives up its ambu- 1961 *Afer hearing an address by Dr. lance service. "The Pine land school opens. Arthur Weihe, the county board *With the hospital and doctors "Gordon Sardeson is named adminis- authorizes the construction of a building the new Roche-A-Cri Clinic, trator of the Adams -Friendship nursing home wing at the hospital. the county purchases Dr. Weihe's school district. *With labor donated by teachers and Clinic in Adams for use as a social *Bad News: A stolen Mercedes-Benz parents, plus a $500 grant from the services office building. sports car, with Illinois plates is county, the Niebull School is restored *Air-conditioning is installed at the discovered in five feet of water off the and moved onto a new foundation at county courthouse. east side of the Hwy 82 bridge . the fairgrounds. *The Chicago Pickle Company leases *Bad News: County officers take part * Bad News: A tornado whips the former 4-H camp to house its in a three-day, five county, manhunt

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