Saturday, September 28, 2019

Time Machine Trip to September 1889


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.  

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