Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to March of 1897.
For
today’s trip Cyril “Bud” Klister will
be sitting in the front seat operating the Time Machine. The big wheel is spinning, the years are
clicking back and in no time we are back on East Second Street
·
William McKinley took the office as 25th president of
the United States.
·
Three people were shot at resort outside city limits.
·
Fitzsimmons defeats Corbett for world’s boxing title.
Charles Raught – Kaukauna Times
Charlie has left the papers on the chair out front of the Times
building. Let’s see what’s in the news this month.
Your old newsman – Lyle Hansen
PS: My old friend Bob Driessen has passed into history.
“My chains are gone I’ve been set
free”.
March 5,
1897
Major William McKinley took the oath of office
yesterday and became the 25th President of the United States.
Tuesday
brought another installment of snow. It seems as if we should enjoy several
weeks of sledding after all.
The
Appleton City Council was not to be outdone by its Kaukauna neighbor and use
the pruning knife even more vigorously than our council. The cut was almost 33%
of the salaries of the past year and a result of it is that the city treasury
will receive $800 instead of $1200 the clerk $800 instead of $1200 the Marshall
$800 instead it of $1000 per year.
The
last of John Brown's raiders are dead but the soul of old John is still
marching on.
Last
Wednesday morning while H. Greissman and Fred Whitmann were working on the
elevator at Thilmany's mill when the elevator rope parted letting both men and
a lot of paper down to this next floor a distance of 12 feet. Both were
somewhat stunned by the fall but Greissman got up at once only suffering from a
sprained leg. Whitmann, who was unconscious for a while, was removed to his
home where he is still suffering from the effects of the fall.
March 12,
1897
Appleton, Menasha and Kaukauna sleigh riding parties
all met at the farm residence of Jonathan Barker Friday evening and after
indulging in an oyster supper, had a good time the balance of the evening.
Luther Lindauer has had a crew of men along the
Ashland division this week putting up ice for the Northern-western.
Yes, another man has got it! Next year we will travel
across the continent at the amazing burst of speed of 120 miles an hour. We are
to ride as softly and comfortably as a baby rocked to sleep in its downy
cradle. The inventor who believes that his device is the only practical means
of traveling safely at high rates of speed. The invention has powerful electric
motors on the axles of torpedo shape pointed cars.
A
number of the members of the Kaukauna gun club after quite a protracted
vacation, assembled at the clubhouse on the Grignon flats last Saturday and put
up a practice. The club will meet every Sunday and test their marksmanship to
get in readiness for the spring duck hunting.
A
crime has been committed at a notorious resort. Three persons shot, two fatally
and the murderer gives himself up to justice. Mrs. Nellie Ross, 27, is dead,
her sister Katie Dupree, mortally wounded and Fred Schabau, of Appleton is
wounded. Such is a record that Peter Ross left in Kaukauna last Monday
afternoon the atrocity of which he now reflects and will for years to come from
behind bars. The crime was enacted at the notorious resort just north of the
city limits known as Mrs. Beaulieu’s place.
March 19,
1897
A gentleman received a wedding invitation with the
words "children not expected," written at the bottom. He puzzled over it for some time and then
said to a friend, "Well they may not expect any children, but dollars to
dimes they will have them."
The
paying a three-dollar bounty on Wildcats has been stopped by Brown County. It
is claimed that the dead animals were being imported from the neighboring
counties were no bounty is paid.
Carson City, Nevada, March 17 - Three special trains came in this morning from San
Francisco bringing the last of the visitors. There are now 3000 to 4000 total
strangers in town to view fight between James J. Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons
for the world's championship. Fighting
was fast and furious from the start. It
took 17 rounds to decide the superiority with Fitsimmons prevailing.
Holy
cross schoolchildren enjoyed a sleigh ride around Wrightstown Monday.
March 26,
1897
Cream puffs filled with whipped cream on Wednesday and
Saturday; fresh macaroons, filled fruit cakes, homemade chocolate creams and
all kinds of fresh candies every day at Livermore & Sons City Bakery.
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