Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen
January 5, 1900
It will be 00 this year
if you abbreviate it.
The river above the dam
was literally covered with skaters New Year’s Day. The ice was in excellent condition being free
from snow and the crowd that enjoyed the sport was the largest that has been
seen on the river in years.
January 12, 1900
The new mammoth mill of
the Union Bag and Paper Company recently received a roof. The floors in the
structure are now being laid and the bag machinery will soon begin to arrive.
The annual meeting of
the Y.M.C.A. Board of Directors was held last Monday evening. The average daily
attendance for the year was 132, number of lunches served daily, 108, total
membership 132. The building has been a busy place.
Dan Crowe’s block on
Second Street occupied by Wm. Rosholt’s barber shop was badly damaged by fire
about 3 o’clock Wednesday morning. The flames started somewhere around the rear
stairway and spread upward until the roof was all ablaze when discovered. Dr. Quillan who occupied the rooms upstairs
narrowly escaped suffocation, having to crawl out of the front window and along
the protruding windowsill to the adjoining block where he was admitted to the
rooms occupied by Messrs. Cohn and Warshasky.
January 19, 1900
The Bank of Kaukauna
has purchased the vacant lot on Wisconsin Avenue owned by Butler Bros. consideration
$1000 and as soon as frost leaves the ground will commence erection of the
building to be used extensively for a bank.
It will be but one story high, built of solid brick.
The mammoth 300
horsepower boiler ordered for the Thilmany mills, has arrived here Monday along
with the crew of men to put it into place.
Reading, Pa. – A wedding was rudely
interrupted by an irate woman, who claimed the groom was her husband. Jacob
Simon, an employee of a hat factory was about to get married when the employees
went on strike. As he was at the alter with his bride to be. the service was
stopped by the woman. The wedding was at once postponed. The woman was not his
wife and had been hired by the union to disgrace him for not joining the
strike.
John A. Watson, who has
just been appointed postmaster at Kaukauna, was in Appleton this morning being
shown the new post office in that city. He is an energetic and capable young
republican and will make a good record as postmaster in Kaukauna without any
doubt.
Luther Lindauer has a
crew of men at work this week getting out the ice supply for the railroads in
Kaukauna and Clintonville. About 400 cords will be put into storage. The ice
being taken from the river near Eden Park.
January 26, 1900
Coffee has advanced 2
cents a pound in the last week. The cause of the advance is ascribed to the
bubonic plague, which is inflicting the countries in which the choicest coffees
are grown, and against which quarantine regulations have been established.
Harvey Bills has added
an excellent saddle horse for hire to his livery on Third Street. He will also
add a ladies’ saddle horse as soon as a one can be found.
Manager Nelson of the
Kaukauna High School and several members of the high school track and field
team went to Appleton last Saturday to meet the managers of Ryan, Neenah and Menasha
high schools to meet in preparation for the coming season.
The case of Leslie
Wheelock against the Town of Freedom for damages as result of voting. A year
ago, last fall, the Indians visited the Freedom voting precinct, but the board
of inspectors refused to let them vote. Mr. Wheelock began action in the circuit
court against James Garvey, chairman of the town of Freedom for damages. Mr.
Wheelock’s attorney presented the decisions of the United States and state of
Wisconsin courts. Mr. Garvey’s attorney admitted that his client was in the
wrong and that the Indians should have been allowed to cast votes in the
election due to the guarantees to the Oneida Indians. The court entered a
judgment for the plaintiff for nominal damages.
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