Flash From The Past
The 1870's

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OCONTO COUNTY REPORTER
January 20, 1877

Frank Elliott, young son of W. H. Elliott of St. Nathans (now Chase), in this county, caught a monster wildcat in a small three inch steel trap on last Saturday morning.

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OCONTO COUNTY REPORTER
May 25, 1878

St. Nathans (now Chase)

Chase and Dickey's mill is running at full blast, sawing lumber and shingles. The late copious rains have afforded them ample opportunity to run down the remainder of their logs, which is sufficient to keep their
mill slashing the whole season.

We realize that we are pretty far back from the outer world, but we are inclined to feel gloomy and melancholy, we could not, with Jap's smiling countenance among us; but we have no such inclination. Like the noble red man of the forest, the woods have an irresistible charm for us. We live at present in close proximity to the forest but we feel happy, for most of us were born in the most extensive wilderness of the Eastern States. In childhood we listened to the ever sighing pines and hemlocks in the east and now in manhood the oaks, the elms and maples reach out their arms lovingly above us in the winds, so called Oconto County. The trees are friends, and we would be homesick away from the grand old wood. When we came here years ago, direct from our original homes, we found nature pure and unadulterated, fresh from the hands of the Creator. Here we gazed upon primitive forests and felt an inexplicable thrill of delight. Here at the time the red deer wandered undisturbed in the green wood, and the panther as absolute monarch of the forest. A few years from that time brought the beginning of the change. The woods re-echoed the sound of the woodsmen's ax, the forest began to disappear and the farms to take it's place.

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OCONTO COUNTY REPORTER
May 3, 1879

MARRIED – The great excitement of St. Nathan’s (now Chase) at the present time is a wedding which took place at Mr. J. S. Harvey’s, Sunday, April 18, the contracting parties being Mr. Melvin Phillips and a Miss Rosa Grant, both of Wrightstown; Rev. Mr. McMurry officiated.