Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to June of 1888.
For
today’s trip
Jerry & Bernice Bruecker, will be sitting in the front seat
operating the Time Machine. The big wheel is spinning and the years are
clicking back in no time, we are back on Wisconsin
Avenue on Kaukauna’s Northside.
Charles
Raught, Times owner and editor, has left the newspapers on the chair out front.
PS: Why did the chicken walk across the playground
– To get to the other slide.
Your old
newsman - Lyle
June 1, 1888
The wrestling mania is
so epidemic that boys of all sizes can be seen in their tussles along the walks
any day. The instinct is so strong that when two meet they can't refrain from
taking hold of each other, to see who can lay the other down and roll him over
on his back.
J. W. Black has opened
a stone quarry near the fifth lock.
The increase in
population in this city is remarkable this spring. New comers are arriving
constantly and more are expected.
On Monday officer
Conlon noticed a suspicious looking tramp near the train depot and took him in
custody. He was found to have a large amount of jewelry on him. He has been
placed in jail until the owner can be found.
Cincinnati – Andrew Wetzel was tried for keeping his
saloon open on Sunday contrary to law. Seven witnesses testified to the fact
that his saloon was open and selling intoxicants on Sunday. No testimony was
presented in his behalf. The jury was out ten minutes and returned a verdict of
not guilty.
Rochester, N.Y. – All street car drivers employed have struck
for ten hour work days with pay remaining the same at $2.00 per day. No cars
were running and people are standing around.
June 8, 1888
A street lamp is among
the improvements added to Oak Street on the Island. A lamp has also been placed
at the foot of the hill on Second Avenue.
President Cleveland has been re-nominated by the National
Democratic Convention. The Republican National convention nominated Gen.
Benjamin Harrison of Indiana, for president.
Two years ago, Samuel
Johnson, an old Negro, was lynched in Eatontown, N.J. Now word comes in the
form of a confession from a real criminal that Samuel was innocent and Richard
Kearney, a Negro, was the guilty man.
The Reformed
Presbyterian Synod of the United States has adopted a resolution deprecating
the publication of Sunday newspapers. All members who advertise in the same
shall receive proper discipline.
June 15, 1888
The Frambach pulp
grinder is the invention of Col. H. A. Frambach, paper manufacturer, treasurer
of the Badger Paper Co. His original grinder made a ton of dry pulp by utilizing
only 100 horse power, and the improved machine now makes 3,000 pounds with the
same power. He has just invented an improved grinder that uses but 35
horsepower, in making a ton of pulp. The principles underlying the construction
of them are new.
Mr. R. H.
Pierce, a representative of the Edison Light Company of Chicago, has been
in this city during the week, canvassing the town and otherwise looking over
the field here, for the purpose of putting in an Edison light plant.
A couple of women of
ill-repute from Appleton made themselves look ridiculous on our streets
Wednesday. They had partaken too freely of “Iowa hopine” and were consequently
noisy. Officer Conlon ordered them to leave town and they departed for their
“native land.”
June 22, 1888
Work has now begun in
real earnest at Luther Lindauer's new brick yard. The manufacture of bricks at
this place is no longer experimental. The test kiln was burned last week and
the brick furnished have been decided a No. 1 by some of our experienced masons.
A car load of this building material has been shipped by Mr. Lindauer to Watersmeet
last week, this being the first brick ever sent out from our city.
Gov, Hill of New York
has signed the bill abolishing hanging for all murders. After January 1, 1889 deaths
will be by electricity thereafter.
Two Italians with a
trained bear performed upon our street Wednesday.
The case of the
Kaukauna Water Power Company versus the Green Bay & Mississippi Canal
Company has been appealed by Kaukauna to the United States Supreme Court. The
case has gone against Kaukauna in the circuit court and the Wisconsin Supreme.
The water power is very important to the factories in this city.
June 29, 1888
“One of our subscribers
who is considerably in arrears said he would call by January 1st and
settle, if he was alive. He still appears on our streets, but as he did not
call, it is natural to suppose that he is dead, and is simply walking around to
save funeral expenses."
Milk Shake! The latest
drink can be found at Knapp's restaurant.
Antigo now has a
population of 3,337. In 1882 the population was less than 200.
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