Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to May of 1897.
For
today’s trip Dan Smith 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
·
Anti-cigarette laws go into effect.
·
Seven students graduate high school
·
Ice wagons on the street again
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
May 7, 1897
It begins to look as if fishing as an industry in Lake
Winnebago and tributary waters is about to cease, and that the fishermen have
decided to give up illegal fishing. The certainty that a vigorous policy was to
be pursued by the officials charged with the enforcement of fish and game laws
and the prompt steps taken after the new law became operative seems to have
completely discouraged the fishermen.
Kaukauna
has some pretty fast wheelmen and there is no reason why this might not be
played one of the leading cards in the coming Fourth of July in Kaukauna.
Luther
Lindauer started his ice wagons for the season on Monday last.
The
anti-cigarette law passed by the recent legislature of Wisconsin is now in full
force and effect. Any dealer who sells or gives to a minor under 21 years, any
cigarettes or cigarette paper is liable for fine not less than $5 or more than
$25 for each offense. For conviction for second offense the penalty is $25-$100
fine.
May 14, 1897
The police officers have been furnished with new light
gray hats and the fire department with new caps, all bought by Aaron Hammel.
The
Chinese laundry which you started up on second Street a couple months ago was
closed up yesterday and the fixtures removed. The Kaukauna steam laundry covers
the field here thoroughly; no almond eyes heathen of the Middle Kingdom
need apply.
A few
days ago one of the men at the Kimberly mill was using a dip net to take out
some perch. His catch brought up probably the first brook trout ever taken out
of the lower Fox River. It was a good specimen measuring 10 inches in length.
May 21, 1897
James
Meehan, a brakeman on the Northwestern road, was instantly killed last Friday
at Manitowoc, while switching. He was walking on top of a box car when a sharp
jolt of the train threw him between two of the cars. The cars passing over his
body. He was a single man and made Kaukauna his home boarding at the Gates
house. His parents reside somewhere in Minnesota.
Green Bay has secured the new state reformatory and
that all the other cities can now lay away their proposals to await some other
opportunity.
The
male members of St. Mary's congregation held a meeting Tuesday to take final
action in regard to building a new church edifice. Rev. Father Steinbecker presided
over the meeting and reported that $14,000 had been pledged for the purpose of
a new building.
May 28, 1897
On a
stage banked with potted plants, palms, and flowers, and touched here and there
with the class colors—Nile green and heliotrope—the seven members of the
graduating class of Kaukauna High School for '97 performed the last duties so
far as their school life here is concerned at the opera house last evening. The
seven graduates this year are: Latin course - William Brouillard, Charles Frambach,
Edward Donahue, Arthur Kalk and Josephine Frost; Scientific course – Teressa
Anna Hayes; English course - Henry Gerharz.
Smith
brothers team ran away Thursday afternoon down over the hill near the Badger
Mill. A young man was driving and lost control of the team which dashed down
the hill with a terrible speed up against a large stump back of the mill. The
most valuable horse of the team had to be killed due to its injuries.
The
Australian baseball team is on tour throughout the United States and arrived in
San Francisco last week. The most prominent players are Frank Laver, batsman,
John Wallace, catcher and Charles Kemp, pitcher.
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