Time Machine Trip to June 1900

Kaukauna Times -  June 1900

June 1, 1900

The most terrible accident that ever happened in this vicinity occurred. Thursday morning at 8 o’clock, about two miles this side of Forest Junction a whole family consisting of a man, his wife, three children, and a brother were blown out of existence in an instant by dynamite.

Kaukauna High School Graduates 17 students for 1900:

Mary Katherine Bossard

William H. Boyle

Margaret Inez Brewster

Genevieve Germaine Donahue

Elmer Fullerton

Cora A. Glass

Clo Alvis Glass

Garlon E. Harrington

Kathryn Rose Heid

Frank Homer Kennedy

Leonard Nelson

Grace E. Potter

Charles J. Schiefelbein

George B. Schwachtgen

Kenneth Boyd Tanner

Pearle Alice Towsley

Lida Mae Wellington

June 8, 1900

Photographer Donner has just purchased the right to a new process for transferring photos to the inside surface of watch cases. It is the latest thing out. The likeness is transferred direct to the gold surface and has the appearance, and in fact is, printed right into or unto the plate.

June 15, 1900

Ristau Bros. keep putting in improvements at Hotel Ristau. This week they added a first-class bath. They have hot and cold water on both floors with closets for the ladies and gentlemen. This house has been so full all summer that they have had to use Columbia Hall for a sleeping room.

The Union Bag and Paper Company bag factory addition will start up next Monday with twenty-tour bag machines in operation, several of them being the new machines which make the automatic folding bag. There are to be eighteen of this type of machine when the whole plant is running. The finishing room is also completed and will commence operation at the same point as the bag making department.

June 22, 1900

Fire destroyed the barn in the rear of G.W. Fargo’s furniture store on Wisconsin Avenue last Tuesday morning, entailing a loss of upwards of $500.  Mr. Fargo had considerable of his undertaking stock stored in the barn and much of it was damaged. The origin of the fire is not known but those who first saw the blaze state that it started on the outside near the manure thrown from the barn. Owing to the continued dry weather spontaneous combustion was most likely the cause of the blaze.

June 29, 1900

A heavily loaded train of nine coaches of passengers from Fond du Lac and vicinity, crashed into a double header freight train in the Chicago & Northwestern railroad switch yards at De Pere at 10:10 o’clock Sunday morning. The baggage car telescoped the smoker, cutting it off completely just at the tops of the seats and smashed in the forward part of the next coach.  Seven were killed and over fifty injured some quite severely.