• The Mabel Tainter Memorial building opens.

• Cora Farnum appointed librarian at the Mabel Tainter Memorial.

1891

• Stout inaugurates his two-story frame Manual Arts and Domestic Science building and the Stout Manual Training School opens.

• The Wisconsin Signal, a new populist weekly, begins publication.

1892

• Captain William Wilson dies at age 85.

• The Dunn County Asylum for the Chronic Insane opens in February.

1893

• James H. Stout builds new, larger Manual Training and Domestic Science building.

1894

• Wisconsin Telephone Company acquires O. K. Ranum's telephone company.

• Menomonie Pressed Brick Company takes over the yard operated by the Standard Pressed Brick Company.

• Cora Farnum resigns as librarian; Stella Lucas replaces her at the Memorial.

1895

• Mr. J. D. Hills and Sanford Heafield open another telephone company to compete with the Wisconsin Telephone Company.

• H. H. Forster, C. J. Anderson, and Fred Kempe establish the Menomonie Iron Works.

1896

• Fifty years of operation celebrated by the Knapp, Stout & Co. Company in a day-long event at the home of James H. Stout on August 12th.

• Wilson Creek dam washed out.

1897

• Fire levels Stout's Manual Training/Domestic Science and Central School.

• Knapp, Stout & Co. Company organizes the Menomonie Electric Light and Power Company to provide electrical power and lights for city residents.

• Menomonie Pressed Brick Co. shuts down for good.

1898

• Spanish-American War; Company H is called into action at Coamo, Cuba. No one from the company was killed or wounded in the battle.

• H. H. Forster and Gotfried Kruger open business as the Dunn County Iron Works.

• The Wisconsin Signal ceases publication.

1899

• Captain Andrew Tainter dies on October 18.

• Dunn County Normal School organized, takes temporary quarters in Stout's building.

• Menomonie Telephone Company acquires Hills-Heafield telephone operation, then merges with the Wisconsin Telephone Company.

• Senator Stout builds kindergarten buildings at North and Coddington Schools and equips rooms at Central for the training of kindergarten teachers.

• Fire destroys Roman Catholic Church.