Time Machine Trip to April 1886

Hello Fellow Time Travelers,

Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to April of 1886.

For today’s trip Ben Kaquatosh 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 Wisconsin Avenue on Kaukauna’s Northside.

 

• Wisconsin Avenue should be renamed Mud Avenue.
• Geronimo has surrendered to General Cook.
• Colored straw hats are the fashion for children.

Charles Raught, Times part owner, has left the newspapers for us on the chair. Watch your step as we cross the street the mud is deep and we don’t want to get the Time Machine messy.

Your old newsman - Lyle 

PS: Lyle’s laughs - What’s the difference between a Hippo and a Zippo.

(A Hippo is a very heavy animal and a Zippo is a little lighter)   

April 2, 1886

Mayor Frambach

Mayor Frambach's address at the city convention on Tuesday night was highly appreciated by his many warm friends. His was the most trying term of office which will probably be experienced for several years. He was elected when the city was new, and all hands were inexperienced. The active part the retiring mayor has taken in the affairs of the city is evidence of his sincerity in the welfare of our prosperous and growing city.

 Geronimo  

Chihuahua 

  

                          

Natches

  

Nawat

A dispatch has been received of the unconditional surrender to Gen. Cook of Geronimo, Chihuahua, Natchez, and Nawat the four Apache chiefs along with twenty-nine bucks. The captives were taken to Fort Bowie.

April 9, 1886

Galveston, Tex., - A court on the 24th, sentenced Alice Walker to prison for one day on a conviction of bigamy. It appears that her first husband left her after one year of married life and went west, where he was reported as having died. His wife mourned for him for a time then married again. Her second husband died a short time ago and about the same time her husband No.1 turned up and had her arrested for bigamy. The jury gave her the lightest sentence possible under the law.

The City Election:

Mayor - Thomas Reese

Clerk-C.H.L. Hamer

Treasurer - Peter Nettekoven

Assessor - Joseph Filler

April 16, 1886

A change in the ownership of THE TIMES has been made this week. Mr. Chas. E. Raught purchased one half interests in the paper, which in the future, will be published by the firm of Bidwell & Raught. Charley Raught has been connected with this office during the past five years almost from the time of its establishment and is well known as a first-class printer. 

Colored straw hats will be the fashion worn by children.

April 23, 1886

One of the very (un) attractive features of Wisconsin Avenue, last Sunday, was a lumber wagon stuck fast in the mud, in front of the post office.  It is forcible illustration of the fine (?) condition of our principle street.

Great Falls, Me. – For six months a young man named Ferguson has been suffering from some disease which baffled the physicians.  One of the symptoms was violent chocking. A few days ago, while chocking a small snake thrust its head out of his mouth. The next time the reptile appeared it was removed. The young man died in a few minutes and an examination revealed that a portion of the snake’s tail had grown fast to the stomach and its removal had burst a blood vessel, causing a horrible death.  

On Saturday last occurred the death of Mr. Arnold Hurkman, one of the pioneer settlers here. He came to Buchanan in 1851, moved to a farm in the town of Kaukauna.  He was greatly beloved and respected by all who knew him and leaves hundreds of friends who will sincerely mourn his death.

April 30, 1886

The water in the Fox River is now higher than it was in 1881, when it was considered almost a flood.  "A pretty tough story is told on the city of Kaukauna by a resident of Stockbridge. He states that he visited that burg recently and while driving up Main Street his team and wagon got mired in the mud. In order to save his horses, he was obliged to abandon his wagon on the streets. Up to date he has been unable to recover it."— Chilton Times.  This is evidence our city is gaining an unenviable reputation for bad roads within the corporate limits.

While delivering a quantity of groceries on the south side last Wednesday, John Corcoran’s team got in a bed of quicksand on Fourth Avenue and sank so deep in the treacherous bed that it was impossible for them to get out without assistance.  It was necessary to unhitch the team and use levers to get them out of the mire.