Kaukauna Times - October 1881
By Lyle Hansen
October 7, 1881
The funeral car to
carry the body of the president Garfield is shown in the above picture. The
platform is 8x16 and twenty feet high. It is to be pulled by twelve black
horses.
Fresh ripe strawberries
on the first of October are something unusual for the climate. But James Lambie
has laid on our table a package containing a dozen stems of wild strawberries,
each with five or six berries thereon, ripe and with a delicious flavor.
October 14, 1881
And still the rain
continues. As severe a rainstorm as we have had this season was on Tuesday. It
commenced at four o'clock in the afternoon and continued until nine in the
evening, the amount falling being immense. The river is as high as it is during
the spring freshets and if the rain does not cease, much damage may result.
About 150 hostile Chiricahua are on the war
path in Arizona and are causing settlers much trouble. Six teamsters were
killed at Cedar Springs along with four soldiers and a telegraph operator. Four
miles from Wilcox one sergeant was killed and six privates wounded.
October 21, 1881
Constructed or in the
process of construction this year in Kaukauna.
Thamer & Geele's
pulp mill.
G. F. Kelso's pulp mill.
Paper & Novelty
Co's Works.
Kaukauna Flouring Mill,
with one hundred barrels of flour daily.
Union Pulp Co's Mill. Paper & Pulp Mill.
The Kaukauna Water Power Co. commenced grading Fifth avenue in Ledyard on Monday. This company is always awake to the wants of the live town across the river.
A nervous-looking man went into a store the
other day and sat down for half an hour or so, when the clerk asked if he needed
help, he said “No”. I just want to sit in
a quiet location as per instruction from my physician. I noticed you didn’t advertise
in the newspaper so I knew this place would be very quiet.
Trouble in Ireland – Parnell, the leader
of the home rule party in Ireland was arrested near Dublin on the 13th
and cast into prison. The arrest was made under orders by her majesty’s chief
secretary for Ireland, on the charge of inciting the people to a violent
resistance of the new land act law of parliament. The arrest threw Dublin into
a ferment of excitement, and it is feared the act will only add fuel to the
existing flame of revolution turbulence.
October 28, 1881
Business for the past
two weeks has been rather slack in Kaukauna. This is owing to the terrible
condition of roads leading to town, and when they are sufficiently dried, to
admit teams traveling on them without going down in the dampened dust further
than a foot or two, business will liven up.
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