Time Machine Trip to July 1907

July 5, 1907

Despite the fact that Pabst Brewing Company has for many years sold thousands of dollars’ worth of their product annually in this city, one saloon alone having paid them over $10,000 in the last eight years, they have this year refused to pay the required license of $200 to maintain a warehouse and wholesale their amber fluid in this city. If this big brewing concern, does not see fit to pay into the city's exchequer the customary license to dispose of their beer here than there is no reason why the residents should not consider that they have withdrawn from Kaukauna and try to acquire a taste for some other brand.

 Messrs. Will and Earl Nugent went to Chicago Tuesday to arrange for the apparatus and moving picture privileges with which to open up a new five and ten cent theatre in the building on Lawe street which they have occupied as a billiard hall and will convert the room into a theatre. The Nugent Bros. are both good musicians and will undoubtedly put on a good entertainment.

A horse belonging to Mr. Stone of the firm of Golden & Stone was badly frightened while hitched in front of his company store on Wisconsin avenue Monday evening by firecrackers thrown under his feet by small boys. After the boys repeated this performance the horse finally broke its halter and ran up the street colliding with a farmer’s buggy causing damages.

July 12, 1907

Some unknown party cut the rope of an arc light on Wisconsin Avenue about 11 o'clock Monday evening which permitted the lamp to fall to the street. The motorman of an Appleton car was the first to discover the lamp and reported to a policeman who in turn notified Supt. W. B. Montgomery of the electric plant. Mr. Montgomery immediately turned off the electricity and sent a man to make necessary repair. The severing of the rope caused the wires to drop to the ground and had anyone came in contact with them it would have meant instant death as they were carrying 3,800 volts.

  

Summer Frocks for young girls

July 19, 1907

Alderman Hoehne has just made an important addition to his machine shop by the purchase of a large size Fifield engine lathe, twenty feet in length and which will swing work 37 1/2 inches in diameter. This new lathe is to enable him to handle with facility the largest paper mill work. This fine piece of machinery weighs 10,000 pounds and Mr. Hoehne has anchored it on solid cement piers resting on bed rock, so there is not the least trace of a jar in turning the heaviest work.

July 26, 1907

Navigation was blockaded for several hours by a car loaded with 54,000 pounds of pulp that was backed into the government canal at the second lock while the drawbridge was open. The Marston, loaded with coal, was entering the lock on its way up river at the time and narrowly escaped being crushed when the car went over. An empty coal car was pushed on top of the car of pulp which stood on end. Fortunately, no one was injured. Not-withstanding the immense weight to which it was subjected the end of the car remained intact so that little damage resulted to the contents.