Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s
time to fire up the old “Time
Machine Chair” and travel
back in time to May of 1898.
For today’s trip Jan & Bud Mayer, 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 Third Street on Kaukauna’s Southside.
Charles
Raught, Times owner, has left the newspapers on the chair out front.
Your old
newsman - Lyle
May 6,
1898
The Kaukauna boys are signing up as a volunteer company to
answer the call at anytime if needed during this time of war with Spain.
Atlanta, Ga. – All negro members of
the state militia who volunteer their services to the governor for the war with
Spain will be notified that they cannot be received in the Georgia contingent
and advised to apply to the regular army for admission.
During the excitement that prevailed last
Saturday when the news of the drowning of Leo Fechter, 11, was circulated on
the street, N. D. Schwin hurriedly left his place of business to join the crowd
on the river bank, forgetting to lock his doors. During his absence, the bar
till was taped by someone amounting to about $10.00.
Commodore Dewey’s squadron has won a
decisive victory over the Spanish fleet in a battle fought off the coast of
Manila. It lasted for several hours and resulted in a crushing defeat for
Spain.
Peter Essler was
appointed by the city council as a member of the fire department to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Jacob Kromer, Jr.
May 13, 1898
The north side billiard
hall has again opened up under the management of Ed Hilgenberg. It is also used
as the recruiting station of the company of military being organized.
May 20, 1898
The Kaukauna Company of
volunteers recently formed here has made arrangements to use the old finishing
room of the Badger mill for an "armory." The boys will drill on the
baseball field when the time comes.
Mrs. Mary E. Grignon, 80, widow of Charles
Augustin Grignon, died Friday at the home of Mrs. M. J. Meade. With the death
of Mrs. Grignon this city and the state as well, loses one of the earliest of
settlers, who blazed the way to civilization and settlement in the days when
Wisconsin was still a territory. She
came to Kaukauna or “Grand Kakalin” as it was known after her marriage to
Charles A. Grignon at Green Bay in 1837. They spent the first two years here
living in the home built by Dominic Ducharme in 1790, the first home to be
built in the state of Wisconsin. In 1839 Charles Grignon constructed the
Grignon home also known as the “Mansion in the Woods” a few hundred yards east
of the Ducharme home. Many of the old-time
travelers who passed through here, can look back to the warm hospitality
extended to them at the Grignon home. The Grignon’s always had their door open
to the weary and hungry travelers.
May 27, 1898
The mill of the
Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company will be involved in a new undertaking in the
near future, now that the new addition to the mill has been completed. The
plant is preparing to manufacture waxed papers, which can be done through the
use of a new invention, which Mr. Thilmany has recently purchased.
President McKinley
issued a proclamation Tuesday calling for 75,000 more volunteers which will
raise the military to 280.000. We will soon be saying goodbye to the Kaukauna
Company.
Conductor O’Brien and his train crew had some
trouble with tramps who refused to leave the train at Kaukauna the other night.
Stones and sticks were freely thrown but no serious damage was done. The crew
was successful in dislodging the tramps.
Dr. H. B. Tanner delivered Mrs. Wm. Peeters of
the south side a pair of twins, both boys, last night. The new arrivals make
eleven children in that family.
(Photo not of the
Peeters boys)
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