December 6, 1889
The demand for the
paper manufactured by the Thilmany Company is increasing. The output of the
mill is engaged far in advance and several orders have been refused.
The inhabitants of this
city are still seen in the thoroughfares with lanterns in their hands during
the evening. The electric light seems to be forthcoming in the spring. The
south side will be lighted first and the north side will come in around the 4th
of July.
Tramp, tramp, tramp.
The tramps are marching. These individuals have begun their wanderings from
place to place.
The American College
game of football is getting to be a nice, gentle, pleasant game. Seldom ever a
man is entirely killed now in a game, and lovers of the sport say that the time
is coming when a game can be played without more than two or three men getting
ruined for life. Of the seven colleges that play football there are
seventy-seven players. There were fifty-one serious accidents recorded last
year.
December 13, 1889
Jefferson Davis died in
New Orleans the morning of December 6, 1889. He was 81 years old. Many of his
friends and family were with him when the end came. He was born in Missouri and
in 1824 entered West Point Military Academy, graduating in 1828. He served in
several wars and in 1835 eloped with the daughter of Gen. Zachary Taylor,
afterward President of the United States. He left the army in moved to
Mississippi and entered politics. He later returned to the army fighting in the
Mexican war. He was appointed to the United States Senate in 1847 and later was
appointed secretary of War by President Pierce. When the south seceded, he
resigned his seat in Congress and was chosen the President of Southern
Confederacy. At the end of the war he was held prisoner for two years. A charge
of treason was lodged against him but was dismissed the same year.
We have been informed
that somebody has torn down part of the new fence that encloses the Kelso
cemetery and have carried off the boards. Several parties are quite incensed
over the matter and mean to see that it is not continued.
Parents take care of
you children lest called upon later to mourn their loss. Thin ice and deep
water have caused many drowning accidents.
Hiram Lester, now an
inmate of the poor house at McDonough Ga., is thought to be the oldest man in
the country. His age is 120 years. Col. Sloan who is over 80 years old
remembers Lester when he was a boy as an old man. He eats and sleeps well and
says he has given up all idea of ever dying. He remembers the Revolutionary
War.
December 20, 1889
The continued wet
weather of the past few days has dampened the holiday spirit of the local
merchants, and they do not anticipate a rushing business this year. Many of them,
therefore, wear rather long countenances and feel like biting the heads
off a pound of nails.
The roller rink opened
Tuesday evening with quite a large attendance.
All the mills on the
power at Appleton were obliged to shut down for several hours one day this week
so the water in the river would rise to sufficient height to allow the steamers
Evelyn and Hutchinson to pass up the river.
If there is “luck in
odd numbers” the next hundred and ten years ought to be lucky, for the figure 9
will continue to stand in the dates until the year 2000.
Little Rock, Ark., Four highwaymen were lynched December 17. They
had robbed a well-to-do farmer and left him for dead. When found by his
neighbors he was able to describe the men before he died. A vigilance committee
was formed, and they caught the murders and lynched them.
December 27, 1889
A petition will soon be
circulated among the business men of Kaukauna, praying that the common council
take the preliminary steps towards establishing a public library in this city.
It will ask that the question be put to a vote of the citizens at the spring
election.
Peter Juley, a boy
employed at the Kaukauna Paper Company mill, had three fingers of his left hand
badly smashed in the calendars of the paper machine Tuesday.
Mrs. Wetzel, known as
“Injun Mag,” was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct last Saturday and
will “rest her weary limbs” behind the bars of the county jail.
Enough snow fell
Saturday night to make pretty good sledding and the merry jingling of the
sleigh-bell was heard on the streets Sunday.
A Girl wanted for
scrubbing purposes is the way the ad reads in the Appleton paper. This may be a
difficult position to fill as the girls would want to know to which end of the
mop they are to be attached.
He blew into the TIMES
office about 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon and after gazing around awhile inquired
if he couldn’t “Talk through that ‘ere thing a minute just for fun.” He said he
would like to be able to tell his friend that he talked through one of them. Receiving
permission to “talk through it” he looked around then stepped up to one of the
electric lamps and hollered hello loud enough to wake up the hired man on his
farm seven miles away. He then put his ear to the lamp waiting for a reply.
When told of his mistake he said he knew there was no such dumb thing and was
going to wallop Jim if he ever told him such a story again.
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