Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen
April 6, 1900
The voters of Kaukauna
no longer know a political party. They pick their man and vote regardless of
what ticket he’s on.
Julius Kuehn was elected mayor of
this city on Tuesday, defeating H. S. Cooke for the position. Kuehn won the
race by 131 vote majorities, securing big wins in the third and fourth wards,
giving him the advantage.
The career of Susan
B. Anthony, who has retired from the presidency of the National Woman’s
Suffrage Association and to who in honor of her eightieth birthday, a grand
reception was tendered in Washington. She made her first speech in public in
1849 in New York.
April 13, 1900
Eden Park Hall together
with adjoining buildings was destroyed by fire about 1 o’clock this
morning. Thus, passes into history what
at one time was one of the handsomest summer resorts in Wisconsin. About
fifteen years ago Louis Altendorf bought the land on the bluff overlooking the
Fox and converted the spot into what seemed rightly named a garden of Eden, or
Eden Park. It soon became Kaukauna’s nook of Paradise. A large entertainment
hall, bowling alley and other amusement were erected. Docks welcomed excursion
boats to the park. The Kaukauna Fire Department responded to the fire but was
prevented from crossing the street to extinguishing the flames, as the park was
outside of the city limits.
April 20, 1900
The public library is
about to place 400 new books on their shelves. An installment of 166 of the lot
arrived Saturday, which Miss Bell, the librarian is now busy cataloguing and
arranging.
Arthur Beck, the
lineman who roosted on the telephone pole on the northside for several hours
last Friday evening in defiance of police demands to come down, and in the
meantime entertained a large audience below with yards of the most vulgar
language ever heard outside the realms of Hades, was arraigned before Justice
Koch the next day and paid $28.38 for his choice bit of amusement.
April 27, 1900
Last Friday was pay-day
at the Combined Locks Paper Mill and one of the employees, a machine tender,
drew $87.00 for his month’s work. While
changing his cloths he laid his coat containing the money in a small pocketbook
on a sill of an open window over the river. A slight touch dislodged the coat,
which fell into the swift current and soon sank out of sight. The employees of
the mill turned out and searched for a long time but could not find any trace
of the coat or pocketbook.
Republicans and
Democrats alike are devising all kinds of schemes to reduce the surplus of
revenue now piling up in the treasury. It is strange, but under Democratic
administration it was not necessary to enact legislation to prevent an abnormal
growth of the surplus.
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