By Lyle Hansen
It is customary in the
first issue of a new journal or newspaper for the editors and publishers to
announce to the public their intentions in establishing the paper, and also to
outline policy which will be pursued. To the editor of THE TIMES this is a simple
task. In the first place, our primary object in establishing a paper in
Kaukauna is to make money. Not that we expect to grow rich at the business, now
or hereafter, for newspaper men are proverbially always poor; but to earn an
honest living by hard work and close attention to the interests of the
community in which we have cast our lot is, for the present, our aim and
desire. In the second place, our every effort, consistent with truth and
justice, will be given to the building up of Kaukauna and the development of
our unrivaled water-power. In this direction we shall find ample material at
all times for the editorial columns of our paper. No other point in the lower
Fox River Valley equals us in respect to natural facilities, or a condition of
general desirability for the location and
establishment of manufacturing institutions. But more of this hereafter.
Politics and religion will not be discussed in these columns. While we shall
endeavor from week to week to furnish our readers with the latest news of all
kinds and from all sources, we shall eschew all partisan bias, leaving each and
every one to choose his own course, politically speaking, uninfluenced by us,
and while THE TIMES will always and under all circumstances advocate morality and
all kindred virtues, we shall leave for the clergy and the religious press the
inculcation of the principles of religion, and the propriety of attending to
its duties. With this brief declaration of principles, the proprietors of THE
KAUKAUNA TIMES make their best bow to you, the citizens of Kaukauna and
vicinity, and respectively ask your support and cooperation in our new
enterprise.
C. H. Hopkins and L. A.
Gates: Publishers
September 16, 1880
They will come to
Kaukauna! A man arrived in town last
week with a team of mules all the way from Kansas. He had heard of our famous
little town and the chance here for working men and drove across the country to
find a home with us. He and his mules are now employed on the new canal and of
course are happy.
The poorest girls in
the world are those who were never taught to work. There are thousands of them.
Rich parents have petted them; they have been taught to despise labor and
depend on others for a living and are perfectly helpless. If misfortune comes
their case is hopeless. Every daughter should be taught to earn her own living.
Well-to-do parents must educate their children to work.
September 24, 1880
Farmers, if you want
The Kaukauna Times for a year and haven't the money to spare, bring us a good
load of hard wood, a few bushels of potatoes or almost any kind of farm produce
and we will make a "riffle" with you.
Two thousand tons of
steel rails have been laid this season by the Wisconsin Central company on its
line between Kaukauna and Menasha. The company will continue laying steel next
year.
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