Time Machine Trip to July 1898

July 1, 1898

The Village of Little Chute is rather indignant that they should be designated as a wooden shoe town in the Milwaukee Sentinel. While it is true that wooden shoes were once made in Little Chute there are fewer worn in this town than are worn in Appleton and if the reporter from Appleton should show his face in town again he will have a cold shoulder turned toward him.

July 8, 1898

The Fourth of July was celebrated with great enjoyment as the news of Admiral Samson's victory at Santiago when his fleet destroyed the Spanish fleet without the loss of a single ship.

A gold watch belonging to Miss Carrie Reuter was stolen from the residence of her father John Reiter on the southside, one-day last week, it is having been taken from the dresser in her room. Marshall Conlon was informed of the thief and immediately commenced a hunt. It was asserted that a young man attempted to sell a watch for a small sum in an Appleton saloon, claiming it was his wife's. The bartender examined the watch and upon opening the case found a photo of Miss Reuter within. He once surmised that something was wrong and making excuse step out to summon the police. The thief was taken into custody.

July 22, 1898

The twelfth annual reunion of the 21st Regt. Wis. Volunteers was held in Kaukauna over the past week. More than the two hundred and fifty veterans and their families gathered here for the two days enjoying themselves. The original regiment numbered 960 men; and saw action throughout the South from October 1862 to June 1865. Of the 960 men only 260 returned to Wisconsin at the end of the war.

The Martens and Overbeck company of this city have filed articles of incorporation with the state. The company will open a dry goods store on the south side in the Mill block.

A.A. Nugent, of Kaukauna was in Appleton last week said to a reporter of the Post that he thought Kaukauna people generally were in favor of the interurban road to that city.

A party of gamblers from Oshkosh entered the city early Wednesday morning expecting to do a “land office business” among the old boys, but they were quickly corralled by the police force under orders from Mayor Raught and ordered out of town with their paraphernalia on the first train.

July 29, 1898

Merchants should bear in mind that the streets of a city can be made to look neater if the sidewalks in front of their establishments are occasionally swept off.

Bathing in the waters within the city limits is prohibited by ordinance between the hours of 5 AM and 9 PM unless the bathers are cladded in swimming clothes of some description.