Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to June of 1897.
For
today’s trip Dan Huss 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.
·
St. Mary’s adopt plans for a new church
·
Holy Cross church approves plans for expansion.
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
June 4, 1897
Kaukauna youths can still be seen smoking the deadly
cigarette. The question is where do they get them? Someone will ere long feel the costly clutch
of the new state law if they don't desist from sales to minors.
Fr.
Rhode has had plans prepared for the enlargement and improvement of Holy Cross
church, by building on fifty feet in length and a cross section thirty feet,
enlarging the seating capacity to the number of two hundred seats. The estimate
cost of the whole project is $10,000.
The
banquet given by the High school alumni at the Hotel Brothers last Saturday
evening for the reception of the members of the class of ’97, was one of the
most pleasant social occasions of the season. The event was attended by fifty
people.
It
would be advisable for the Kaukaunans not to play any more exhibition games if
they intend to play horse each time. Have the Kaukaunans reached a stage where
a scrub team like the Menashans can wallop them?
Memorial
Day was universally observed in Kaukauna last Monday, more so than it has ever
been in the past. Flags floated from most of the staffs about the city and may
business places as well as residences were decorated for the occasion. Several
mills remained down all day. The day was bright and committees visited the
cemetery at Little Chute and here to mark the resting places of comrades. At
9:30 the G.A.R. Post accompanied by citizen groups and flower girls decorated
the graves. The parade down Wisconsin Ave. was formed at 1:00 pm.
St. Mary's Church has adopted the plans for a new
building to be built on the corner of Seventh Street and Hendricks Avenue. The proposed edifice was designed by
Druilding, an architect from Chicago. Fr. Steinbrecher stated the estimated
cost of the building now stands at $25,000.
John Earles, who for years has been manager of the
Kaukauna electric light company, has severed his connection with the company,
and is taken a permanent departure for the west. Mayor Joseph McCarthy succeeds
Mr. Earles as manager of the Electric Light company and has assumed the duties
of the position.
Charles
W. Stribley has resigned his position at the Wood Pulp Supply company in
Appleton and taken that of a bookkeeper for Thilmany Pulp and Paper Co.
June 11,
1897
The bell tower of the south side Congregational church
was struck by lightning during the heavy storm. The damage was light however,
only a few shingles tore from the roof.
June 18,
1897
The coming Fourth of July promises to be the grandest
celebration ever for Kaukauna. There will be greased climbing, sack and running
races, wheelbarrow and egg races, tub race in the rapids, stone and hammer
throwing, jumping and other athletic contests. Prizes will be awarded to all
winners.
Dan
Stock has given up the management of Eden Park and moved to Milwaukee. Joseph
Mertes will now manage the park.
June 25,
1897
The Kaukauna Marble and Granite Works shipped a large
monument to Sherwood Tuesday, for George Wolf.
It will be the finest in the Sherwood
Cemetery
The
Sheboyganders were given their first defeat last Sunday by the Kaukaunans at
the local grounds in a hotly contested game. It was one of those games which
kept the crowd interested from start to finish. Frambach occupied the box for
the home team, this being the first game he has twirled. The game ended
Kaukauna 6 Sheboygan 3.
The
trial for Peter Ross, for the murder of his wife, was concluded last Friday,
and after deliberation all night the jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter
in the fourth degree. Judge Goodland sentenced Ross to the maximum sentence of
two years. Ross will now be charged in the murder of Katie Duprey, which crime
was committed at the same time and place as the killing of her sister, Mrs.
Ross. The killing of the Duprey woman did not enter into the trial just closed.
The
Appleton city Council has just killed the proposal ordinance licensing bicycles
in the sum of $.50 to $1. The action was taken on advice of the city attorney
and other lawyers that the license would be illegal.
The contract
for the electric wiring of the new Park school building was awarded Monday to a
Milwaukee company for $175, the lowest bid out of five other companies.
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