Friday, October 14, 2016

Time Machine Trip to October 1897


October 1, 1897
The new Park School building will be open to the public for inspection Saturday. The recently completed building will open for school this following Monday morning.



Mrs. Josephine K. Henry, if she were elected to the presidency of the United States, would stand for the demonetization of silver, for prohibition, for universal suffrage and agnosticism. She is a Kentucky woman who has already been mentioned as a candidate for presidential nomination in 1900.



The Oneida fair this year seems to have drawn a larger crowd from the surrounding cities and towns than usual. People came from far and near, in carriage and bus, by wheel and afoot; lumber wagons loaded from the outskirts of the reservation, market wagons and all kinds of rigs brought their quota. The exhibits by the Indian women are quite varied, consisting of embroidered articles of various kinds.  Cooking, especially bread was very good.

The Ahnupee Record has changes its name so as to conform to the new name of the city and is now called the Algoma Record.
 
October 8, 1897
The eight Oneida Indians convicted of raiding a saloon west of Green Bay three weeks ago, were sentenced to three years each and 90 wampum. This was the lightest sentence that could be inflicted.

October 15, 1897

An exchange tells of a lady that died and as the pallbearers were conveying her to her resting place, they stumbled and dropped the casket. The concussion brought the deceased back to life and she lived another six years. On the way to the grave six years later the grief stricken husband stepped in front of the pallbearers at the place of the previous stumble and announced "steady boys, steady."
  
October 22, 1897
A city football team has been organized here within the past week and every afternoon finds a number of boys down at the ballpark practicing. The team will be a sure winner if weight is to be taken into consideration. The team consists of Arthur Frambach, Delbridge, Kwapil, DeForest, Miller, Nugent, Sargent, Titus, McCarty, Schell, B. Fargo, Gross, Green, Hackett and others.


All ticket agents and telegraph operators of the Northwestern road will hereafter be compelled to wear uniforms. The company started out a party of tailors from Chicago last week to take measures all along the line. They reached Kaukauna Saturday. The uniforms are of the regulation blue, trimmed with brass buttons. The words "ticket agent" or "operator" will also be placed in gold letters upon the caps.

One of the Lake Shore switch engines struck and killed a cow belonging to George Kromer near the Badger mill Monday.  

Dr. H. B. Tanner, Pres. of the Yukon Gold Mining and Transportation company, of this city, has received a letter from a former Kaukauna lady, Mrs. Retta Duncan, who is now located at Skagway, Alaska. Mrs. Duncan will be remembered here by many having been manager of the Transient Restaurant until a few months ago, when she departed for Tacoma, Wash. she is a punky woman determined to capture a part of the untold wealth of Alaska. “This is a great place. Carpenters get paid $5.00, but nearly everything is overdone. It only takes two men from 1 1/2 to 2 days to build a house. My place is a tent and the door is only tied with a string. Shoes seem to be the most expensive. Have paid $3.50 per pair that go for $1.00 in Kaukauna.”

October 29, 1897
The boys at the engine house had a small fire at their own place last Sunday. Some of the gasoline used on the engine heater leaked out and started on fire. The engine was removed from the house and the fire was extinguished without damage.


Henry Hoffman, of Appleton, who has the contract for the construction of the new St. Mary's church fell from the scaffold at the building last week Saturday afternoon and broke his left leg. Dr. O. G. Lord was called and set the fractured limb. It will be several weeks before Mr. Hoffman will be able to attend to his work again.

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