Time Machine Trip to October 1899

October 6, 1899

Hardware men are kept busy these days setting up stoves. The cold weather came unexpectedly, and about three weeks earlier than usual.  A number of old residents are scratching their heads and trying to think just what year was as cold as this during the month of September.

The Combined Locks Paper company let all the water out of their pond above the dam Tuesday for the first time in ten years. As the dam is twenty-one feet in height and flows back three-fourths of a mile it contained a vast amount of water. The greatest sight caused by the emptying of the pond was the fish which made their home in its depths. The news soon spread, and people came with pails, bags and boxes. Thousands were secured and carted away in wagons.

Indiana has carried back to the South the Confederate flag which her soldiers captured from Terry’s Texas Rangers in the Civil War. The formal exercises incident to the return of the flag took place at the Texas State fair at Dallas. The state of Texas made extensive preparations for the event and there was a great outpouring of men who served the Confederate flag.

Next year we may expect to read something like the following in the paper. About 10 o’clock this morning a horseless milk wagon loaded with cowless milk collided with a brainless rider on a chainless wheel. The luckless wheelman was badly injured and being homeless, he was taken in a horseless cab to the home for the friendless.

October 13, 1899

The Union Bag and Paper Company signed contracts Saturday for the construction of a one-story addition at the top of most of their paper mill located on the government canal in the city, and for a two-story office building immediately adjoining on the front corner next to the Thilmany mills.

The Democratic Philadelphia Times does not seem to have great faith in the party. It says that the “Democrats have no more chance to elect Bryan president in 1900 than they have to make a railway journey to the moon.”

October 20, 1899

Luther Lindauer is delivering ice to his patrons which he had stored eight years ago next winter. It is the first time since he commenced the ice business that he ran so low in that article. These layers of ice which he is now taking out are on the bottom and are frozen solid.

Mrs. Johana Coll, of Fond du Lac, while in a paroxysm of nausea, threw up a live full-grown frog. She had been a sufferer of stomach troubles for years, none of the physicians by whom she was treated were able to diagnose her case. She stated that for l years she had symptoms of movement and jumping.

October 27, 1899

It is said that there is not an idle brick layer or stone mason, plasterer, or carpenter in the city of Kaukauna. It is certain there never was a better demand for such laborers. Russell Bros. has been looking several days for stone masons without avail, to do work on their wheel pit.

George Brenzel has completed his sentence of ninety days for selling liquor to the Oneida Indians and is home.

The employees of the railroad shops were reduced to nine hours a day Monday although every department is crowded with work. The reason is assigned to the shortening of daylight working hours.