Time Machine Trip to June 1899

June 2, 1899

Last evening, at the Opera House on the island, a class of nine, five young men and four young ladies—comprising the 1899 graduating class of Kaukauna High School bade good-bye to their alma mater and entered "The world's broad field of battle."

Classical Course

Gertrude Bossard

Blanche Eckardt

English Course

Marvin Watson

George Kinney

Paul Hallock

Scientific Course

Lucile Long

David Finnegan

Alice Rothwell

Albert Kuchler

The new water wheel for the Kaukauna Electric Light Company arrived Saturday and is presently being placed into position.

Mr. E. Landremann of the south side, has received the appended welcome letter from the nurse who has been taking care of his son who was wounded in battle in the Philippines and has been in a hospital. “At his request I have the pleasure of writing you the good news that he is now completely out of danger. His wound is healing nicely the bullet having passed thru his right side and out his back.”

June 9, 1899

Two accidents in one day to a wedding party seem almost too much, but they occurred Tuesday at Mau-Nicholas wedding. The carriage containing the bridal couple was overturned while coming down Beaulieu Hill, throwing the entire party out into the mud. In returning to the house, when partly up the hill, another bus heavily loaded, broke loose from the team letting the rig run back part way down the hill. This time a part of the load jumped out into the same muddy roads.

The Outagamie County Clerk has issued a marriage license which hints at an interesting romance. Alexander Schennadore of the Oneida Indian reservation, a full-blooded Indian, and the bride will be Miss Mabel Bennet, who has been a teacher at the Oneida school for the past two years. The bride comes from South Dakota and her mother has made no objection to the wedding of the red man to the white school teacher.

Dr. Tanners new Drug Store located on the south east corner of Second Street and Main Avenue. 

June 19, 1899

The tornado that has swept out of existence the prosperous little city of New Richmond is the most disastrous in point of fatality ever occurring in this section. The exact number of dead is still unknown, but it will certainly reach 100, and very probably will considerably exceed that figure.

Mr. Peter Broehl has leased Eden Park and again opens this pleasure resort to the public. The park can be secured for picnics and parties. The bowling alley and refreshment hall will run as usual.

June 23, 1899

Wednesday was the longest day in the year. It is the summer solstice and theoretically the middle of summer. And yet we hardly seem to have emerged from the spring rains, while corn is not all planted, and what has been planted is but a little above the ground.

June 30, 1899

The plant of the Kaukauna Electric Light Company narrowly escaped being undermined last Tuesday morning. The rear end of the flume gave away and allowed the water from the canal above to flow through with tremendous force, tearing out part of the underpinning of the plant and washing out a portion of the side wall. Huge stones 2 feet square were torn from the race-bed and carried along for ten feet to the wall in the rear.