Bio: Thayer & Co. – New Mill Near Completion (Mar 1881)

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Surnames: Thayer

----Source: Spencer Advance (Spencer, Marathon Co., Wis.) 24 Mar 1881

Thayer & Company’s mill is being pushed rapidly to completion, and before many days we expect to hear its musical hum mingling with the many other mills in Spencer. Mr. Thayer was in Fond du Lac a few days last week, purchasing machinery for the mill, part of which is already here. He has secured the best machinery manufacturing, and the mill, when completed will be one of the best on the line. This is what makes permanent prosperity in a town, and we are glad to see the mill nearing completion.

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Bio: Thayer Mill – Smokestack Raised (13 Apr 1881)

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Surnames: Thayer

----Source: Spencer Advance (Spencer, Marathon Co., Wis.) 14 Apr 1881

(Follow on in 14 Apr 1881 paper)

Thayer raised the smokestack to his sawmill yesterday afternoon. It is sixty feet high, being ten feet higher than they usually are. This will make the danger from falling sparks in that vicinity considerably less.

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Bio: Thayer Mill – Machinery Has Arrived (Apr 1881)

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Surnames: Thayer

Source: Spencer Advance (Spencer, Wis.) 14 Apr 1881

(Follow on in 14 Apr 1881 paper)

The machinery for Thayer’s Mill has nearly all arrived and is being put into place as rapidly as possible. We took a look over the mill one day this week, and were informed that it would be fired up for the first time next Monday, although it was hardly expected that it would be in order to run by that time.

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Bio: Thayer Mill Now Up and Running (May 1881)

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Surnames: Thayer

----Source: Spencer Advance (Spencer, Marathon Co., Wis.) 05 May 1881

(Follow on in 5 May 1881 paper)

Thayer’s Mill is now running, and is turning out first class lumber at a rapid rate. While the mill is not as large as some, yet it is a well-built mill, and everything about it is now and first class, and we bespeak for the new mill a long and successful career.

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Bio: Thayer Mill - Accidents (May 1881)

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Surnames: Thayer, Keyes, Hildrath

Source: Spencer Advance (Spencer, Wis.) 12 May 1881

(Follow on in 12May 1881 paper)

Two accidents have occurred at Thayer’s Mill, one on Saturday, by which George Keyes of Marshfield had his fingers sawed in a rather painful, though not serious manner, and another one Tuesday, when Mr. Hildrath, the head sawyer, in some manner fell onto the saw and cut an ugly flesh wound in his arm. It is fortunate that neither were more serious. The saw was not in motion when the accident happened.