Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Time Machine Trip to November 1898

November 4, 1898
The first services in the new Holy Cross church were held last Sunday in the new chapel in the basement.



The poles for the electric light company have arrived and will be placed in position for wiring at once. About December first a grand change in the streets of Kaukauna will be witnessed.



November 11, 1898
"I told my employer I had only 10 cents to my name. Guess what? He tried to borrow it off me."

It all went Republican from top to bottom, the state, county and city of Kaukauna. Such was the result of Tuesday’s election. The voters seemed to be perfectly content with their present lot and let it go at that.

A valuable horse owned by R.C. Grignon was killed by the Monday morning train in front of A.C. Black’s place. The horse had somehow gotten out of its pasture and making it way home when it was killed.

The Little Chute depot was destroyed by fire at an early hour Thursday morning. Everything of value was saved from the building by the bucket brigade who are famous for hustling things in Little Chute.


November 18, 1898
James Jacobson, who was in Northern Wisconsin deer hunting, sent home two fine deer by American Express Tuesday. Ed Driessen has some venison on sale at his market on Wisconsin Avenue.



November 25, 1898

  







St. Mary’s Church as it will appear when completed. 





The dedicatory services at St. Mary's Church were carried out Thanksgiving Day. About 1,000 persons attended the services in the large new edifice on Kaukauna's south side.




The powerful pumping engines for the Kaukauna Water Works arrived Tuesday. There are two of them, with a capacity of 1,500,000 gallons daily.

Julius Martens, the enterprising Third street grocer and dry goods dealer, is about to open a crockery house on the corner of Third street an Reaume Avenue.

Some unknown party entered the saloon of John Van Dinter in Little Chute and took the contents of the till Monday.




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