WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

April 25, 1890

O.T. Hambleton who bought out Mr. Benlick’s ice business is having anew wagon arranged for the business. Will Ware is to have the delivery contract.

THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

December 7, 1894

O. T. Hambleton has made preparations this fall for putting in an ample supply of ice, having built another addition 44 x 24, which makes the whole building for his ice storage 144 feet long by 24 feet wide and 16 feet high.

Waupaca Republican Post

January 26, 1911

THE ICE HARVEST

Lars S. Larson & Son have a crew of thirty men this week filling the spacious ice house on the shore of Mirror Lake. It is interesting to watch the men at this work. The ice is first plowed by team into cakes twenty-two inches wide and about four feet long. Being about twenty inches thick these cakes weigh 600 pounds each. Two teams are sued to haul the ice up the slide four or five cakes at a load.

About 5,000 tons are harvested each year for the local trade and the job requires a week.

Next week Messrs. Larson will fill the ice house at t he Wisconsin Veterans’ Home on contract to put up 1,200 cords, taking sixteen men nearly a week to do the work.

Waupaca County Post

January 23, 1919

ICE HARVEST BEGUN IN MIRROR LAKE, ICE CLEAR AND THICK

Waupaca and vicinity will not suffer for want of ice next summer as Oscar Larson has begun his harvesting of the chunks of pure chunks of pure crystal from Mirror Lake, and he will have his ice houses well stocked before many weeks. The ice is clear and thick and of good quality now, and the supply will be excellent unless a thaw sets in.

W.H. Olson, ice cream manufacturer, is also filling his ice house from Mirror Lake.