Kaukauna Times - May 1881
By Lyle Hansen
May 6, 1881
Last week while
blasting was in progress at Thanner & Gelle's new pulp and paper mill, a
flock of ducks happened to fly over just as a blast was fired. Even at about
300 feet in the air, one was killed by a piece of stone. Captain Nicholson took
the fowl home for his dinner.
The growth of Kaukauna has been wonderful during the past year and that growth, we believe, is a substantial one. From a mere hamlet of 300 or 400 people we have grown so that at this writing 1200 or 1500 is the actual population of the young city. And still they come and yet there is room. All these people are busy. Not an idler is to be found on the streets. These people are earnest workers and believe that Kaukauna has a future. Within two years from now it is safe to predict that the population will be at least 5000. Mills, factories, machine shops, etc. have already been started that, when completed, can hardly fail of drawing that number of people hither. These institutions are on a scale larger than ever before known in this valley. They will entirely ellipse and overshadow all similar manufacturing enterprises now inaugurated in this section and we will shortly have the liveliest young city in Northern Wisconsin.
Mrs. J.B. Elliott of Mt. Vernon, O., for the past six months has been a great suffer. She thinks a snake of considerable size has grown in her stomach. She says she can feel it crawling around and biting her. Physicians ordered her to fast for ten days and then coax it out with a pan of milk. After five days without anything to eat she became prostrated and subject to fainting spells and compelled to take nourishment. The case is of much interest among the medical fraternity.
May 13, 1881
A sweet little spring
blossom in the shape of a bouncing baby girl appeared at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Eiting weighing 11 pounds. The delighted father furnished the boys the cigars.
Racine – A little daughter of
Mr. Joseph Myrtle is very sick today; her brain being badly injured from the
effects of jumping rope. It is probable she will not live. Every parent should
warn their children not to jump rope as two to three deaths occur from its
effects every year.
A Janesville lady, schoolteacher, who is 80 years old is still an active teacher.
May 20, 1881
Telephones have been
put in connecting the offices of Dr. Tanner and Bidwell at the Kaukauna Times, and the Eastman Bros. The instruments work to a charm, all you have
to do is stand in the Doctor's office with the door open, and call to Bert
Eastman who has his window open, and you can talk just as well as if it were no
telephone connecting them.
May 27, 1881
J. E. Casey of Oshkosh,
and Joseph Schraw, of Kaukauna, arrested two young men about a mile this side
of Wrightstown Wednesday morning. They were wanted in Oshkosh for breaking into
a dry goods store. All the stolen goods were found in their possession.
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