Kaukauna Times by Lyle Hansen
September 6, 1889
The rain came in the
nick of time. Farmers had already begun to haul water from the river here to
water stock. The water in Lake Winnebago is one-foot lower than it was a year
ago.
According to the laws
of the state of Wisconsin every parent of a child between the ages of 7 and 14
shall cause such child to attend some public or private day school not less
than twelve weeks in each year. Failure to comply with the law will result in a
fine of not less than $3 and not more than $20 for every offense per week to
comply with this law.
There are quite a
number of small boys who visit the Northwestern depot for the purpose of
jumping onto moving trains. Parents look to your boys or they will be brought
home a corpse.
The rising generation
of colored youth in the south is far from being polite. On the contrary, there
is a manifest disposition to put on airs. Not long ago an elegantly dressed
white gentleman road his horse up to the sidewalk in front of an Austin, Tex.,
hotel dismounted and snapping his fingers at a colored youth said:
“Here boy! Hold this
horse while I go into this store for a minute.”
“Am dat dar horse so spirited
dat it takes two men to hold him?”
“Of course, it don’t take two me to hold him,”
replied the white gentleman.
“Den if one man can
hold him what does yer want me for? Why don’t yer hold him yerse’f”
John Spranger, south
side jeweler, has taken out a patent on his musical clock. It has a cylinder
for music and plays on the hour. He has been offered $15,000 for rights by a
firm in Ohio.
Haas and Breier, south
side contractors, have recently received orders to build four new homes in
Kimberly for mill employees there. The homes will be built for $700 each.
September 13, 1889
Although the village of
Florence, (Now called Kimberly and Combined Locks) one mile above here, is
diminutive in point of population; its name was placed before the gaze of
thousands this week. On Saturday last the report was telephoned to the central
office here that an earthquake had been felt at the Combined Locks works and
that considerable damage to the mammoth paper and pulp mills of the Van
Nortwick Rogers Company had been done. The cause of the sudden gush of water
through the mill walls was looked to. The large stone wall on the south end of
the dam, which is about fourteen feet in thickness, had separated in the center
leaving a crack which the water came through.
The new machinery at
Thilmany's paper mill was put in motion today.
A Georgia moonshiner
who was released from jail on Friday was found at work at his still on Saturday
and again arrested.
London September 10 -
“Jack the Ripper” is at work again. At 5 this morning a policeman found the
body of a fallen woman lying at the corner of a railway arch in Whitechapel.
Her head and arms were cut off and she was dead less than an hour. This is the
worst murder of the whole series in the area.
The portion of the
Sioux Reservation in Dakota to be opened to settlement will make 56,000 farms
of 160 acres each.
September 20, 1889
The much-talked-about screen
for the Thilmany paper mill arrived last Friday and was immediately placed in position.
This screen was manufactured by Chr. Wandel, at Reutinger, Germany, and is the
only one of the kind in the United States.
John Earies who has
been soliciting light orders for the new electric light plant says he is
meeting with better success. About 500 lights have been contracted for so far
and the Lake Shore shops will contract for 200 lights.
The TIMES office will
be moving to new quarters this week. The Hunt building on Wisconsin Avenue has
been fitted to receive us. Our customers will no longer be requiring climbing a
flight of stairs to see us anymore.
The gum craze has
struck Peshtigo with the full force of a cyclone. One merchant recently
received an invoice of one hundred pounds.
Neenah Gazette: The paper mill located at the Combined Locks
is called the Florence Mill. It can never have a post office as the other
Florence in Wisconsin is ahead of it and the law will not admit to post offices
of the same name in one state.
The new state,
Washington, results in the forty-two-star flag but will not be legal to fly until
July 4, 1890.
September 27, 1889
Since moving into our
new quarters, we have been bothered considerable with tramps. We are now
negotiating with a medical college in the East and intend to supply bodies for dissecting
purposes if the rush continues. Beware! Ye knights of the railroad tie and free
lunch counter.
A blast of dynamite at
the tail-race was set off Friday morning and John Tensel a labor at the Badger
paper company four hundred yard distant was struck with a piece of rock and
quite badly injured.
Hurley, Wisc., A bank robbery was committed Saturday night.
Something over $39,000 was taken from the vault. The robber was observed at the
work of opening the safe, but he had the coat and hat of the cashier he was
allowed to proceed.
The State Inspector of
Public Schools was in town last Saturday. He was satisfied that Kaukauna would
experience no problem in establishing a free high school. Mr. Hussey, the
superintendent of schools in Kaukauna reported that he is confident that
twenty-five of the pupils that were examined last week would pass and be
entitled to a seat.
