JOHNNY APPLESEED
He might look like Johnny Appleseed, but he’s really Mark Connell. Johnny’s vocation suits him nonetheless, because Connell is a familiar name in Dunn County’s apple country. On Sept. 12, during an apple pie social at Connell’s Orchards, Mark will be on hand to answer questions about apples and about Johnny Appleseed. On Sept. 26, he will repeat his appearance, familiarizing visitors with one of Wisconsin’s top industries. There are about 10,000 acres of commercial orchards in the state, and each year nearly two million bushels of fruit are produced. The apple pie sales begin at 1 p.m. at Connells Orchards with women of Grace Episcopal Church providing the home-baked delicacies. Ice cream and beverages will also be sold. September 8, 1976 Dunn County News
FORTUNE TELLER
The acknowledged Gypsy fortune teller Mrs. Elliot, who is now in the city, can be consulted on all affairs of life. Mrs. Elliott will tell your Present, Past, and Future all by the hand. She will tell you of your affairs truthfully or money refunded. Don’t fail to call on this lady and get a scientific life reading in modern palmistry (the hand) by a daughter of Leland’s Celebrated Gypsy, Mogiuninna Cooper, who is noted all over Great Britain and France. Mrs. Elliot makes a specialty of business, love and family affairs, mysterious and other spells removed and gives talisman to all in trouble. Will stop here a short time only. Call at City Hotel, Room 1. September 4, 1896 Dunn County News
UNCONSCIOUS WHEN TAKEN OUT
Victor, a six-year-old son of County Clerk Alex. Hosford, had a narrow escape from death by drowning, last Sunday afternoon. He was playing on the logs in the pond with a couple of his mates and slipped into the water. Fortunately Ed. Doolittle, who was standing near A.H. Johnson’s warehouse on Crescent Street, saw the accident and ran down the steep bank and out on the logs, grasping the drowning boy as he was going down the last time. The lad was unconscious when taken out, but soon revived and was taken home. It was an experience be will not soon forget and will keep away from the pond hereafter. There are other boys who should heed this warning. September 4, 1896 Dunn County News
PIONEER BREWER VISITS
The News enjoyed a pleasant call last Saturday from Mr. John House, a prosperous German farmer of the town of Red Cedar. Mr. House is one of the oldest settlers in that township, arriving there in 1853, from Buffalo, N.Y. It is an interesting bit of history and not generally known, probably, that he was the pioneer brewer in Dunn County. Soon after locating on his present farm in 1853, there being considerable demand for beer among his neighbors, and, being a practical brewer himself, he was induced, as a matter of accommodation, to undertake the manufacture of lager on a small scale. This he continued at his home until the demand was supplied from other directions. He used oats, as no barley was then raised there, and his beer had the reputation of being better even than that brought in from abroad. September 6, 1884 Dunn County News
A STEAMER ON WILSON CREEK
Another pleasure craft has been launched on Wilson Creek. Sam. Foster and Harvey Hanson have built a steamboat and called it the Idlewild. The boat is a screw propellor about 12 feet long. The boys made the six-inch screw, shafting, fly-wheel, steam chest, conducting pipes, pump, air chambers, boiler, the whistle — in fact everything about the engine except the steam gauge. They drew their own patterns and made their molds and castings at Krueger & Foster’s foundry. When run at its full capacity the engine is about three-quarter horsepower. It has a two-inch cylinder with four-inch stroke. The boat will carry four passengers besides the crew — the engineer and steersman. We doubt if two boys of 17 and 19 years of age can be found in Dunn or adjoining counties who can exhibit a more perfect piece of mechanism than the Idlewild. September 8, 1899 Dunn County News
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