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INDEX TO TOPICS
| ADVERTISEMENTS | Fairwater Mills,
3/21/1873, Brandon Times "Priest & Carter Lawyers," 2/5/1874, Brandon Times Farmers Insurance Company, 7/16/1874, Brandon Times "Hotel Fairwater," 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register |
| BIRTHS | Fairwater Observations, 1/8/1904, Fairwater Register |
| CHURCHES | Letter
from Rev. J. P. Hewes, 1/5/1882, Brandon Times Donation Party for Rev. J. P. Hewes, 2/2/1882, Brandon Times Donation Party for Rev. J. P. Hewes Postponed, 2/9/1882, Brandon Times Rev. Hewes Gives Sermon, 4/27/1882, Brandon Times Revs. Hewes and Carter Preach, 5/18/1882, Brandon Times Free Will Baptists to Meet, 5/18/1882, Brandon Times Rev. Hull Preaches, 7/27/1882, Brandon Times Rev. Carter to Preach, 8/24/1882, Brandon Times Rev Hewes Moves to Michigan, 9/7/1882, Brandon Times Rev. Fred Lanzer Assisting Burkhard, 9/21/1882, Brandon Times Deacon Soule Dies, 10/26/1882, Brandon Times "Plat of the North Part of Fairwater," 11/6/1903, Fairwater Register "Fairwater Free Baptist Church: Historical Sketch," 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 2], 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register "Program of the Fairwater Free Baptist Church," 1/8/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 1/29/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register Union Prairie Church, 2/12/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 1], 2/19/1904, Fairwater Register "Many Barns Blown Down in Fairwater," 1917/1918, Brandon Times |
| CIVIL WAR | "Obituary," [Adelbert Bly] 8/17/1899, Brandon Times |
| CONSTRUCTION | New Store
for Fairwater, 10/26/1882, Brandon Times Fairwater Merchant Moves In, 11/23/1882, Brandon Times Railroad Bridge Completed, 11/23/1882, Brandon Times Laper to Operate Quarry, Build Boarding House, 3/8/1883, Brandon Times Fairwater to Have Cheese Factory, 12/20/1883, Brandon Times "Fairwater Items," 9/14/1899, Brandon Times "Fairwater Items," 10/5/1899, Brandon Times Bornshein's Elevator, 11/30/1899, Brandon Times "Plat of the North Part of Fairwater," 11/6/1903, Fairwater Register "Fairwater Free Baptist Church: Historical Sketch," 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 1], 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 2], 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register Union Prairie Church, 2/12/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 1], 2/19/1904, Fairwater Register New Bridge, 6/12/1919, Brandon Times "Fairwater Creamery Company Has Big Day Churning," 5/25/1922, Brandon Times Creamery Construction, 6/1/1922, Markesan Herald "New Creamery Is a Model Plant," 9/28/1922, Brandon Times "Modern Creamery Building," 11/19/1922, Brandon Times |
| CRIME/ACCIDENT | "Railroad Accident,"
3/8/1872, Brandon Times Money Missing from Letter, 4/11/1873, Brandon Times "Fairwater Notes," 1/5/1882, Brandon Times Charles Riemer Breaks Arm, 5/4/1882, Brandon Times Runaway on Fairwater Road, 5/25/1882, Brandon Times "Prison Strike," 6/15/1882, Brandon Times Swendson Wagon Upended, 6/29/1882, Brandon Times Hull to Appear in Court, 9/7/1882, Brandon Times Jenkinson Wagon Broken Open, 11/23/1882, Brandon Times Hildebrandt Saloon Row, 11/23/1882, Brandon Times Eggleston Denies Misuse of Father, 1/25/1883, Brandon Times "Frightful Accident," 9/13/1883, Green Lake County Democrat Frightful Accident (followup), 9/20/1883, Green Lake County Democrat Frightful Accident (followup), 1/10/1884, Green Lake County Democrat "Robbery at Fairwater," 2/9/1899, Brandon Times "The Holdup," 3/30/1899, Brandon Times "Fairwater Has Flood," ca. 1912-1917, Brandon Times "Two Men Seriously Injured at Utley," 9/7/1922, Brandon Times "Car Is Ditched, Leg Fractured," 7/30/1925, Brandon Times "100 Strikers Here," 11/2/1933, Brandon Times |
| ELECTION/INCORPORATION | Election
Tickets Printed, 4/5/1872, Brandon Times Metomen Election, 4/6/1882, Brandon Times Stelter to Help Run Democatric County Convention, 10/12/1882, Brandon Times "10 Changes in County Board," 4/10/1919, Campbellsport News "Fairwater Talking Incorporation," 12/16/1920, Brandon Times Incorporation Special Election Announced, 1/27/1921, Brandon Times "Fairwater Votes for Incorporation," 3/10/1921, Brandon Times "Fairwater Is Now a Village," 3/10/1921, Markesan Herald Village Ticket, 3/23/1922, Brandon Times Village Sign, 7/27/1922, Brandon Times |
| ENTERTAINMENT | Ann Eliza
to Lecture, 4/5/1874, Brandon Times "A Canal to the Fox," 3/30/1899, Brandon Times "Buffalo Bill," 8/17/1899, Brandon Times "The Dodge County Fair," 9/14/1899, Brandon Times Rev. Alborn Lecture, 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register "Large Pavilion Being Built," 5/19/1921, Brandon Times "Opening of the Laper Pavilion," 5/26/1921, Brandon Times "A Big Night in Fairwater," 6/23/1921, Brandon Times "Basketball Team Organized," 11/3/1921, Brandon Times "Laper Pavilion Being Improved," 5/18/1922, Brandon Times Band Concert, 8/10/1922, Brandon Times Last Week's Band Concert, 8/17/1922, Brandon Times Elaborate Program Given at Fairwater," 4/14/1927, Brandon Times "Program Given at Fairwater," 6/2/1927, Brandon Times |
| FARM | Brandon Markets,
7/16/1874, Brandon Times Rock Co. Farmers Burn Wheat, 8/31/1882, Brandon Times Too Much Wheat, 8/31/1882, Brandon Times "Brandon Market," 12/21/1882, Brandon Times Cal Tinkham Complains, 1/4/1883, Brandon Times R. Abercrombie Delivers Wool, 3/8/1883, Brandon Times Fairwater to Have Cheese Factory, 12/20/1883, Brandon Times "Estray," 8/24/1899, Brandon Times Fairwater Observations [Pt 2], 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register |
| FIRE | Brown to Rebuild Mackford School, 3/8/1883, Brandon Times "Robbery at Fairwater," 2/9/1899, Brandon Times Fairwater Observations, 1/29/1904, Fairwater Register "Fairwater Elevator Burns," 5/25/1916, Brandon Times Creamery Fire, 8/4/1921, Brandon Times "Hemp Factory at Fairwater Destroyed by Fire," 12/9/1920, Brandon Times "Fire at Card Garage," 11/17,1921, Brandon Times Fire at Card Garage, 11/17,1921, Markesan Herald "Blacksmith Shop and Two Residences Destroyed at Fairwater," 3/1922, Brandon Times "Fairwater Has Bad Fire Friday," 3/24/1922, Markesan Herald "Fairwater to Purchase Fire Engine," 4/20/1922, Brandon Times "Fairwater Buys Fire Truck," 5/4/1922, Brandon Times "Fairwater Has Costly Blaze," 8/23/1923, Brandon Times "Fire Destroys Switchboard," 12/28/1926, Brandon Times "500 Bales of Hemp Destroyed," 5/25/1931, Brandon Times |
| HISTORY | "Recollections
of Early Days in Metomen," 8/24/1899, Brandon Times "Plat of the North Part of Fairwater," 11/6/1903, Fairwater Register "Mosquitoes in March, 1851, South of Fairwater Writes Former Resident," 3/10/1932, Brandon Times |
| HOTELS/INNS | "Mosquitoes in March, 1851, South of Fairwater Writes Former Resident," 3/10/1932, Brandon Times |
| ICE BUSINESS | Ice
Hauling Begins, 12/28/1882, Brandon Times Hazen Hauling Ice, 2/14/1884, Brandon Times |
| ILLNESS | Full Crop of Mumps, 1/12/1882,
Brandon Times C. W. Giffey Stops Engineering, 11/16/1882, Brandon Times C. W. Giffey Recovering, 11/30/1882, Brandon Times Fairwater Observations, 1/8/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 1/15/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 2/12/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 2], 2/19/1904, Fairwater Register |
| LAND/BUSINESS PROPERTY SALES | Plocker
to Sell Farm, 3/21/1873, Brandon Times Pine Hill Bought, 2/23/1882, Brandon Times Vermilyea Property Sold, 6/29/1882, Brandon Times Lockin to Sell, 9/7/1882, Brandon Times Josiah Batson Sells 50 Acres, 9/14/1882, Brandon Times Eggleston Selling Homestead, 10/26/1882, Brandon Times Lockin Sells Blacksmith Shop, 11/30/1882, Brandon Times E. W. Pride Buys Warner Farm, 12/14/1882, Brandon Times Montello Granite Co. Buys Fairwater Quarry, 12/21/1882, Brandon Times Fairwater to Have Cheese Factory, 12/20/1883, Brandon Times "Plat of the North Part of Fairwater," 11/6/1903, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 1/15/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 1/29/1904, Fairwater Register Ice Cream Parlor Purchased, 4/22/1920, Brandon Times "Fairwater Firm Buys Out F. G. Henske," 3/1/1923, Brandon Times |
| LEGAL | Bill Introduced To Protect Fish,
2/5/1874, Brandon Times Boys' Preoccupations, 7/6/1882, Brandon Times Time for War on Weeds, 7/20/1882, Brandon Times Fine for Boys Jumping Trains, 10/26/1882, Brandon Times Treasurer Gathering Taxes, 12/28/1882, Brandon Times "Plat of the North Part of Fairwater," 11/6/1903, Fairwater Register Carter's Fence, 2/12/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 2], 2/19/1904, Fairwater Register "Fairwater Has Flood," ca. 1912-1917, Brandon Times |
| OBITUARIES/DEATH NOTICES | Ruluf
Grant Dies, 4/11/1873, Brandon Times E. Chapman Dies, 1/26/1882, Brandon Times Hewes Child Dies--Donation Party Postponed, 2/9/1882, Brandon Times James Carter Dead, 3/9/1882, Brandon Times A. B. Posten Dead, 5/4/1882, Brandon Times Deacon Soule Dies, 10/26/1882, Brandon Times Deacon Hogbin Dies, 11/30/1882, Brandon Times Mrs. Josiah Batson Dies, 3/20/1884, Brandon Times "Mrs. Hargraves Death," 2/9/1899, Brandon Times "Obituary,"[Adelbert Bly] 8/17/1899, Brandon Times Fairwater Observations, [Della Freiheit] 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, [Della Freiheit] 1/8/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, [Wm. Miller daughter] 1/8/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, [William Smith] 1/29/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, [Joseph Kingsbury] 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register |
| POST OFFICE | Money Missing from Letter,
4/11/1873, Brandon Times Fairwater P. M. Susceptible?, 5/18/1882, Brandon Times Letter to Faearwautear, June 15, 1882, Brandon Times Treasurer Gathering Taxes, 12/28/1882, Brandon Times Sherwood to be Utley P. M., 2/14/1884, Brandon Times "Recollections of Early Days in Metomen," 8/24/1899, Brandon Times Rural Delivery Service, 2/12/1904, Fairwater Register |
| RAILROAD | "Railroad Accident,"
3/8/1872, Brandon Times New Line for Railroad, 5/18/1882, Brandon Times Railroad Survey Completed, 5/25/1882, Brandon Times "Circuit Court Fond du Lac Co.," 9/21/1882, Brandon Times Wheeler, Fenelon, and Stelter to Condemn Right of Way, 10/12/1882, Brandon Times Fine for Boys Jumping Trains, 10/26/1882, Brandon Times One Station on Railroad Line, 10/26/1882, Brandon Times Track Laying Progressing, 11/16/1882, Brandon Times C. W. Giffey Stops Engineering, 11/16/1882, Brandon Times Railroad Bridge Completed, 11/23/1882, Brandon Times Granite Will Be Hauled by Rail, 11/23/1882, Brandon Times Railroad Now Belongs to St. Paul Co., 12/14/1882, Brandon Times Montello Granite Co. Buys Fairwater Quarry, 12/21/1882, Brandon Times Granite Shipments Exaggerated, 12/21/1882, Brandon Times Utley Has R. R. Station, 1/4/1883, Brandon Times "Frightful Accident," 9/13/1883, Green Lake County Democrat Frightful Accident (followup), 9/20/1883, Green Lake County Democrat Frightful Accident (followup), 1/10/1884, Green Lake County Democrat "Buffalo Bill," 8/17/1899, Brandon Times Fairwater Observations, 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register |
| ROADS/TRANSPORTATION | Overseers of Highway Elected,
4/5/1872, Brandon Times Runaway on Fairwater Road, 5/25/1882, Brandon Times "A Canal to the Fox," 3/30/1899, Brandon Times "New Stage Line," 8/17/1899, Brandon Times "Plat of the North Part of Fairwater," 11/6/1903, Fairwater Register New Bridge, 6/12/1919, Brandon Times "Markesan-Fairwater Road Patrolled Now," 5/27/1920, Markesan Herald Village Sign, 7/27/1922, Brandon Times "Mosquitoes in March, 1851, South of Fairwater Writes Former Resident," 3/10/1932, Brandon Times "65 Foot Metal Culvert is Laid," 1/4/1934, Brandon Times |
| SALOONS | Is
Saloon in Fairwater Licensed?, 5/11/1882, Brandon Times Unlicensed Saloon, 11/16/1882, Brandon Times Hildebrandt Saloon Row, 11/23/1882, Brandon Times Frightful Accident (followup), 1/10/1884, Green Lake County Democrat Utley Saloon Resisted, 3/20/1884, Brandon Times "Fairwater Has Flood," ca. 1912-1917, Brandon Times |
| SCHOOL NEWS | School
Money Apportioned, 6/29/1882, Brandon Times Fox Lake Rejects School, 9/14/1882, Brandon Times Giffey Will Teach in Alto, 11/23/1882, Brandon Times Giffey Begins Teaching Monday, 11/30/1882, Brandon Times J. W. Dame Teaching, 12/14/1882, Brandon Times "Teachers' Meeting," 12/21/1882, Brandon Times Teachers' Meeting, 2/1/1883, Brandon Times Dame Finishing Teaching Contract, 3/8/1883, Brandon Times Giffey Finishes School Term, 3/8/1883, Brandon Times Brown to Rebuild Mackford School, 3/8/1883, Brandon Times "Teachers Examination," 3/30/1899, Brandon Times "Fairwater Items," (Teachers) 9/14/1899, Brandon Times Fairwater Observations, (Teachers) 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register School Items, 11/3/1921, Brandon Times School Items, 11/10/1921, Brandon Times School Items, 11/17/1921, Brandon Times School Items, 11/24/1921, Brandon Times School Items, 12/1/1921, Brandon Times School Items, 12/8/1921, Brandon Times School Items, 12/15/1921, Brandon Times School Items, 12/22/1921, Brandon Times School Items, 1/19/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 1/26/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 2/9/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 3/2/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 3/9/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 3/16/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 10/5/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 10/12/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 10/19/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 10/26/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 11/2/1922, Brandon Times School Items, 2/1/1923, Brandon Times School Items, 2/15/1923, Brandon Times School Items, 9/6/1923, Brandon Times School Items, 11/26/1925, Brandon Times School Items, 12/16/1925, Brandon Times Elaborate Program Given at Fairwater," 4/14/1927, Brandon Times "Program Given at Fairwater," 6/2/1927, Brandon Times |
| SOCIAL/CULTURAL NEWS | Ann Eliza
to Lecture, 4/5/1874, Brandon Times "Fairwater Notes," 1/5/1882, Brandon Times Donation Party for Rev. J. P. Hewes, 2/2/1882, Brandon Times Hewes Child Dies--Donation Party Postponed, 2/9/1882, Brandon Times Boys' Preoccupations, 7/6/1882, Brandon Times Bastardy Case in Fairwater, 11/23/1882, Brandon Times Herrmann Repairing Fry Bureau, 12/14/1882, Brandon Times Lyon and Newland Marry, 1/4/1883, Brandon Times J. Lockins Visiting, 1/4/1883, Brandon Times New Nickel to be Coined, 1/18/1883, Brandon Times J. Laper Remarries, 2/1/1883, Brandon Times Bohn-Weber Marry, 3/8/1883, Brandon Times "A Canal to the Fox," 3/30/1899, Brandon Times "Recollections of Early Days in Metomen," 8/24/1899, Brandon Times "Fairwater Items," 9/14/1899, Brandon Times "Fairwater Items," 10/5/1899, Brandon Times Fairwater Observations (Pt 1), 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 2], 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 1/8/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 1/15/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 1/29/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations, 2/12/1904, Fairwater Register Henrietta Frie Married, 2/19/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 1], 2/19/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 2], 2/19/1904, Fairwater Register |
| TELEPHONE | Fairwater
Observations [Pt 2], 1/1/1904, Fairwater Register "Brandon Shortsightedness," 1/15/1904, Fairwater Register Fairwater Observations [Pt 1], 2/19/1904, Fairwater Register |
| TEMPERANCE/PROHIBITION | Rousing
Temperance Meeting, 2/14/1884, Brandon Times Utley Saloon Resisted, 3/20/1884, Brandon Times |
| WEATHER | D.
Eggleston Disputes Weather, 2/23/1882, Brandon Times D. Eggleston Remembers Winter of 1845-6, 3/23/1882, Brandon Times More Snow, 11/30/1882, Brandon Times Ice Hauling Begins, 12/28/1882, Brandon Times Hazen Hauling Ice, 2/14/1884, Brandon Times Fairwater Observations, 1/29/1904, Fairwater Register Rev. Alborn Lecture, 2/5/1904, Fairwater Register "Many Barns Blown Down in Fairwater," 1917/1918, Brandon Times "Mosquitoes in March, 1851, South of Fairwater Writes Former Resident," 3/10/1932, Brandon Times |
| WORLD WAR II | "Fair Water Private With Unit Which Cut Wires To Save Bridge Over Danube," ca. WWII |
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Last Updated 2/27/2000 |
These pages represent an ongoing effort to collect information about the history of Fairwater. If you have information to share, please contact Bob Schuster by email at rmschust@facstaff.wisc.edu or at 6020 Kristi Circle, Monona, Wisconsin 53716 (608) 221-1421. |