WAUPACA POST

November 1884

 

            Since the memory of the oldest inhabitant Waupaca boys and girls have skated on Muskrat Pond on Thanksgiving Day, and last Thursday the time-honored custom was observed by the youngsters of the place.  This Pond lies about a half miles southeast of town in a deep valley where the wind seldom touches the surface of the water, and is consequently frozen over before any other sheet of water in this part of the country. Almost invariably the ice is strong enough to bear skates by the last Thursday of November.  It is six or seven feet below the level of the streets of the city, and the boys don’t want to forget that the editor of the Republican proposes sometime to make it a reservoir for water works for the city, and thus keep its surface in a badly disturbed condition and ruin the skating.