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Woodard & Stone
109-115 N. Water
1837
In
1837 James Rogan’s shanty [a double log house on
site occupied by Woodard & Stone’s bakery] became the headquarters of all
new arrivals, and was for some time regarded as “the leading hotel at Johnson’s
Rapids
1870
10 05 NEW
QUARTERS – Messrs Woodard Bro. & Stone have this week removed their
retail stock into the fine store building one
door east of First National Bank, lately occupied by M. Schurer,
as a dry goods store. The store has been
fitted up in a manner suitable to the demands of their extensive retail trade
in fruits, confectionery, oysters &c.
In the rear of the retail department is a well arranged restaurant,
where meals of the daintiest quality can be served up on the shortest notice. The business of this firm is steadily on the
increase, and their extensive Bakery is under full headway all the time. Mr. Stone is at present on his way to New
York, where he intends purchasing 500 barrels of the best New York apples for
winter use, a fact those of our citizens wishing for the winter supply will
bear in mind.
The
firm of Woodard Bro. & Stone is second to none in Wisconsin for enterprise
and integrity, and they have already extended their trade into many portions of
Iowa and Minnesota. We are glad to learn
of their continued prosperity, for we know them to be gentleman well deserving
of the increasing patronage they are receiving. WR
1873 Confectionary
09 04 Connected with their extensive bakery,
Woodard & Stone carry on a large confectionary manufactory in this
city. They make all kinds of candy, and
are particularly about the quality and purity of the articles they offer for
sale. This is the reason why their goods
enjoy such a wide and general preference throughout the state. Their candies are all choice and excellent,
and they permit no other kind to leave their establishment, which is now known
far and wide as a reliable institution.
Adulterations in this business is so common that most people look on all
confectionery with doubt, but whatever bears the name of Woodard & Stone
may be taken as genuine and just what it pretends to be.
09 04 An Entire Mistake
Same The Chicago
Times of the 1st inst., contains a long
communication, from a special correspondent, about the affairs of
Watertown. Among other representations,
equally unreliable, is the following:
“There is at Watertown a steam bakery that
manufactures crackers for almost the entire state, using 400 barrels of flour
per day. The proprietors, some time ago,
found fault with the unconscionable rates that they were charged for
transporting their products to Green Bay; but the railroad would make no
reduction. Now, Watertown is on the
direct line from Chicago to Green Bay, and is 125 miles from the former
city. Nevertheless, the proprietors of
the bakery found that they could actually send their goods to Chicago, and have
them sent from there through Watertown to Green Bay, and thus effect a saving
of five cents per hundred. This they
began to do, when the railroad company took fright and came to some sort of
terms. Observe the injustice that is
exposed in the above statement, the charges of the railroad company for
transporting goods 375 miles were actually less than the charges for transporting
the same goods 125 miles. But such facts
as these are not new in connection with the management of the Northwestern
road.”
The firm here alluded to is Woodard &
Stone. The only member here is Mr. Jesse Stone. He requests us to say that he never authorized
or countenanced any such statement as the above. On the other hand, his firm have always been
satisfied with the rates of transportation to Green Bay over the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad, and have no occasion for complaint; but north of this
point, terms are not quite so favorable.
If it were worth while, we could easily point out other mistakes in this
“exposition,” fully as ridiculous and absurd, but the game won’t pay for the
powder. WD
1876
01 26 Messrs. Woodard
& Stone, proprietors of the Steam Bakery and Candy Manufactury
on the West side, used in their business last year one hundred tons of sugar.
This is a sweet item about Woodard & Stone, but it is true nevertheless and
shows the extensive trade that firm is doing.
WD
1877
A number of firemen of the Phoenix Co.
were employees of Woodard & Stone in ‘77 [WG, 02 26 1909]
1885
Jacob Kopp foreman in the candy dept of Woodard-Stone factory.
1888
07 20 John Weissert,
1847–1888; employees in funeral procession for; bookkeeper for nearly
20 years WG
11 07 Woodard
& Stone have placed in their factory an improved machine, from a New York
City establishment, for dipping chocolate creams. The contrivance does the work faster and
better than it can be done by hand . WR
1908
03 25 Automobile
factory proposed for this site.
07 31 Death of Mrs. Fred. Ryder
. Mr. Ryder was employed for years as bookkeeper for the Woodard-Stone. WG1911 Woodard & Stone building later occupied by M D Wells Shoe Co and then by Wolfram Shoe Co.
1916 Chas. Andrews [1849-1916], employed 20
years ago by Woodard Stone Co. as a baker
Julietta (Gritzner) Block,
early employee
William Black (1824-1901), early employee
