Time Machine Trip to June 1887

Hello Fellow Time Travelers,

Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to June of 1887.

For today’s trip Carl Vosters 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.

 

• A new steam powered printing press at the TIMES.
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• Eden Park is formally open this month.
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• The daily Kaukauna Times has made its appearance

 

Charles Raught, Times owner, has left the newspapers on the chair out front.

  

Your old newsman - Lyle 

PS: An old cowboy said:

I spent all my money on whiskey and women.

The rest I just wasted. 

June 3, 1887

The Kaukauna Times will soon be printed on a new Taylor Cylinder Steam Power press, the proprietors Messrs. Bidwell-Raught having just purchased one.

The queen will present 10,000 poor children of London with memorial mugs on June 23. It is not so much the mugs that these children need, however as something to put into them.

What has become of the hand-organ and monkey? We have not seen any in our city this season as of yet.

June 10, 1887

On Friday last a young man was brought before Justice Mulholland to answer to the charge of using abusive language toward his father, the latter being the complaining witness. The complaint states that the son had hurled such vile epithets as "d—d hog" at his father, to which the defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $7.00.

John Clark, a farmer, was arrested and jailed at Eau Claire on the charge of stealing a dog. Under a new law this is a state prison offence.

Residents of North Greenfield are scandalized over the elopement of Joe Gruber, a young German, with a colored girl known as Black Topsy.

News has just been received at Manson, Ia., that the Rev. Dr. Reid, who left that place last winter to become a missionary in Central Africa, had been killed and eaten by a tribe of cannibals.

June 17, 1887

The Appleton Crescent is thirty-five years old, and has been under its present management ever since it was established. The Times offers congratulations and success to the Crescent and its able editors.

Eden Park was formally opened over the past weekend on which occasion four hundred people participated in the festivities. Although reference has often been made to the new park and summer resort of Louis Altendorf on the south side of the river few people have seen the place or can realize that such a beautiful park is within a walk of the business district part of the city. The natural beauty of this location has made perfect wonder and a delight to the fastidious eye. Situated southwest of the city on the magnificent view of the Fox River in the midst of a fine grove is built a fine hotel. Nothing is lacking for the comfort of its guests. Among the entertaining features a bowling alley had been built on the east end of the building. Fine gravel walkways lead here and there; handsome fountains are placed at both north and west entrances. The ten-acre park has rustic bridges over streams allowing visitors to travel though the Park. This park is destined to become a popular resort for excursionists from all parts using the boat landings for steamboats and railroad stop for trains. 

(Eden Park was located to the west of La Follette Park on the Fox River)

June 24, 1887

Second Street will be macadamized with crushed stone. This is a much needed improvement, and cannot be done too soon to suit the many people who are obliged to drive daily.

The city of Kaukauna receives the sum of $1450.26 as its proportion of the school tax from the state.

The Green Bay Gazette reports a baseball game between Kaukauna and Green Bay by recording only seven innings in order to make it appear that Bay boys were victorious. After the nine innings which the game was played, Kaukauna won by the score of 13 to 12. The Gazette reporter makes himself look ridiculous by his article.

Neenah Times - The Daily Kaukauna Times made its appearance yesterday. We hope it will have a continued boom.

Pittsburg, Pa., - The first train that ever ran or attempted to run with crude petroleum as the only fuel, arrived in this city last night.  The train ran without a stick of wood and a piece of coal on board. The pipes from the 200-gallon tank did the business. The experiment was a complete success.

June 30, 1887

The art of kissing has been brought down to a science by a north side young man. A young lady objected to such promiscuous kissing and after having her head roughly handled in an effort to avoid being kissed, caused the arrest of the offender. The judge found him guilty and fined him $8.00.

Four hundred Chinese laundrymen in New York have struck, demanding $4 a day for ironing and $3.50 for washing. And yet people complain of Chinese cheap labor. 

Hurley was visited by another disastrous fire yesterday. The fire consumed about thirty business places. Estimates of the loss are about $80,000.

Kaukauna Fire Department and City Hall