Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to July of 1897.
For
today’s trip Dan Coffey 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
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Interurban set to come to Kaukauna
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A new fire alarm bell is placed in engine house
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The Badger Mill destroyed by fire
Publisher Charles Raught 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
July 2, 1897
Tie a
string about a yard long to a, door key and take the string in the right hand
holding it so the key will clear the floor for 5 inches. Hold the string steady enough the key will
begin displaying back and forth in a straight line. Have another person take
your left hand and the motion of the key will change from the pendulum swing to
a circular swing. If a third person would take the hand of the second person,
the key will stop.
It
took 12 innings to decide the game last Sunday between Sheboygan and Kaukauna
at Sheboygan. Sheboygan captured the final score 5-4 through the aid of the
umpire.
A
Milwaukee newspaper says: The proposed interurban electric railroad between
Neenah, Menasha and Kaukauna will be built. A portion will be completed during
the present year from Menasha to Appleton distance of about 8 miles.
Come to Kaukauna to spend the Fourth of July. If you
are already here, stay, for this city is going to have one of those
old-fashioned let the eagles scream kind of Fourths that you will read about.
The Kaukauna business men's Association has charge of the arrangements this
year and they are leaving nothing undone to make the celebration a grand
success. A salute of guns and canon at sunrise will give notice that today's
festivities have commenced.
July 9, 1897
Births and deaths must be registered now, under a new
law which went into effect July 1. Failure to comply is punishable with a fine
or imprisonment or both.
At the meeting of the common council Tuesday evening.
Twenty-four saloons and to outside breweries were granted licenses. There will
be a few more licenses taken out within the week but the total number of
saloons in the city will be greatly reduced, there having been 43 in business
July 1 last year.
July 16, 1897
Bicycle
without a wooden rim in this country is a rarity yet only a few years ago the
wooden rim was unheard of in this connection. The wooden rim is strictly an
American idea. Hundreds of patents for special features pertaining to bicycles
are granted each year by the United States patent office but the majority of
them die a natural death. The wooden rim is undoubtedly the most valuable
contribution America has given to the bicycle.
Joseph
Stempa, 9-years old, had a narrow escape from drowning last Saturday in bathing
below the second lock. The little fellow got out into the boiling current from
the lock valve gates and was carried down. Lock-tender C. A. Fuhlstrom plunged
into the water when the boy sank for the last time and brought him out. It required
nearly a half an hour's work to resuscitate him.
July 23,
1897
A new alarm bell, much better toned has been placed in
the belfry of the engine house, in exchange for the new one recently purchased,
which did not meet requirements. The company from which the bell was purchased
makes the exchange at no extra cost to the city. The common council decided to
purchase a new hose wagon for the fire department.
A
blind man led by a dog was seen upon the streets here last Tuesday. It was one
of those cases of the faithfulness of a dog to his master. The noble beast
seems to fully realize his charge and purpose.
James
Neely, a brakeman in the employ of Chicago and Northwestern road on the Ashland
division, while attempting to switch at Appleton Wednesday, fell under the
engine of his train and had his one leg crushed so bad it had to be amputated.
He had left Kaukauna on the morning freight.
Go
out on the street corner at any time and you'll hear men talking about hard
times and no work. Such fellows are not the kind that want work, they are
looking for snap jobs where they can lay in the shade and draw a salary. An
Appleton contractor advertised last week for 35 men to begin work Thursday. Two
were all that responded.
The
11th annual reunion of the 21st Regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry will be
held in Kaukauna in 1898. This city through the Business Men's Association and
the attending comrades from here extend an invitation to the survivors of this
Regiment to come and enjoy the pleasures of Kaukauna next year and they
accepted the bid.
July 30,
1897
Fire
broke out in the third story of the Badger Mill Sunday night about 11:30 by
spontaneous combustion and before it was discovered had gained such headway
that the mill was doomed to destruction. Col. Frambach is of the opinion that
the best they can do will be to escape with a loss of $75,000. The loss of the
mill will be keenly felt in the city, for it throws out of employment about 125
men, boys and girls. The Badger plant was established in 1885 and has been one
of the leading industrial institutions of Kaukauna. There have been times over
200 hands were employed at the mill. The mills monthly payroll has run as high
as $6500. The plant was equipped throughout with the automatic sprinkler system
but it failed to do its work.
A
well-dressed couple walking down the street.
A man
in Racine died leaving $35,000 to be divided between his heirs. The heirs got
into fighting and now the heirs get 15,000 and the lawyers 18,000. It is better
to be a lawyer then an heir.
Kaukaunaites
seem to have the Alaskan gold craze about as bad as people in other sections of
the country. Everybody here from business men on down are talking of the
Klondike region, and those who have not already decided to throw their caster
into the Alaskan ring and tested luck are dreaming willfully of the cans of
gold dust they might soon possess.
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