Time Machine Trip to May 1900

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

May 4, 1900

Clara Stelow, an employee of the Kimberly & Clark Co. at Neenah had a stroke of luck last Thursday morning which seldom fails to the lot of girls who work in the rag room of a paper mill. While at work sorting rags she found $260 sewed inside the lining of an old coat. The money was rolled up and there were thirteen $20 bills.

  

In a resort in western Galveston, Texas, a white woman was sold at auction for $40 by a man claiming to be her husband. The woman begged not to be sold. A bartender purchased her.

A dog poisoner is at work in the first ward. Martin Morris’ dog died from eating poison on Friday and Al Pennings’ dog was very sick the same day. Cookies filled with paris green were found in the lot between the residents.

May 11, 1900

Like the squaw of the American Indians the women of a colony of Russian settlers, who came to Canada about three years ago and located in the great northwest are treated as slaves. Not only do they take the places of horses in plowing, but they also perform other heavy work.

   

May 18, 1900

Cornelius Ebbens came near losing his life Sunday at the picnic held by the Kaukauna Gun club near their boat houses. Ebbens and a companion were out boating and returning when he lost his balance and fell headfirst into the water. His fall created a big laugh by all and his struggles in the water were scarcely noticed. Gus. Hilgenberg saw the danger the man was in and plunged in to rescue him in time to save his life.

The Kaukauna baseball team went to Sheboygan last Sunday for their opening game of the season and were “walloped proper” by a score of 5 to 23.

May 25, 1900

Cloe Glass, Genevieve Donahue, Margie Brewster, Kathryn Hyde, Mamie Bossard - all high school seniors.  KPL

The commencement exercises of the class of 1900 of the Kaukauna High School will occur next Monday and Tuesday evenings.  Seventeen graduates is the largest class that has graduated from the school since it started. The list of graduates are Mary Katherine Bossard, Willian H. Boyle, Margaret Inez Brewster, Genevieve Germaine Donahue, Elmer Fulierton, Cora A. Glass, Cloe Avis Glass, Garlon E. Harrington, Kathryn Rose Hyde, Frank Homer Kennedy, Leonard Nelson, Grace E. Potter, Charles J. Schiefelbein, George B. Schwachtgen, Kenneth Boyd Tanner, Pearle Alice Towsley, Lida Mae Wellington.