Time Machine Trip to February 1900

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

February 2, 1900

The ready-prints or patents for today’s issue of The Times have failed to arrive. And inquiry shows that they have evidently miscarried or been sidetracked somewhere between here and Chicago. In consequence of which, and with a desire not to delay publication of the home news for our readers, The Times comes to you in a half sheet or abbreviated form. We regret the non-arrival of the balance of the paper, but patents or no patents we still adhere to the rule of getting out “on time” and here we are “slightly disfigured but still in the ring”

February 9, 1900

Last Sunday the Chicago & Northwestern Company started their section crew at work laying new steel rails from Kaukauna to Dundas. They put down 234 feet the first day.

February 16, 1900

The immense dryer roll or cylinder on the largest tissue paper machine at the Thilmany Pulp & Paper mill cracked on Friday last. A space of thirty inches across one of the heads occurred. The machine was at once shut down and several workmen from the Kaukauna Machine Works repaired the break, so that it was again started up within 24 hours. It is the largest dryer cylinder in the world and measures ten feet in diameter.

Following the death of the Fox River Valley Interurban, a new franchise was presented in Kaukauna for an electric railway to run through this city and is presently being considered. Following a few amendment changes, the Common Council passed a franchise granting the Little Wolf River Telephone Company to enter and do business in Kaukauna.

February 23, 1900

The Kaukauna fire engine was summoned to Kimberly yesterday afternoon by the breaking out of fire in the large paper mill there.  Mayor Charlesworth had the apparatus sent to the station but just as it was being placed on the rail car news was received that the blaze was under control.

New mail wagon is being used.