Time Machine Trip to September 1882

 

Kaukauna Times – September 1882

By Lyle Hansen 

September 1, 1882

Last Friday afternoon a man by the name of Hass was coming from the South side and crossed the North Channel by bridge, walking on the tops of the new piers. He got safely over the first but fell through on the second and went into the rapids. Fortunately, several men on the island saw the man when he fell in. By wading into the stream and making a "chain work" of themselves, they managed to reach Hass and with great difficulty pulled him ashore.

 

It isn’t often that a couple is married in three languages, but at a wedding in Cleveland, Ohio.  The justice performed the ceremony in English and German, the bride responded in Bohemian and the groom answered in German.

September 8, 1882

Yesterday morning policeman Schraw found a strange horse and rig hitched to a neighbor’s fence. An investigation proved to be the property of an Oshkosh Livery Company. It is suspected that the rig was stolen in Oshkosh, and the horse tired in Kaukauna and was there abandoned.

A young Virginian has invented a machine which turns out 150 cigarettes per minute. It is on exhibition at Lynchburg.

 

A boy of six and a girl of two, at Ballardville, Neb., are mated for marriage by their parents, who have signed an agreement that the marriage shall occur in 1897.

September 15, 1882

Now that the old bridge is partially torn up, it's very dangerous to cross, even by daylight, people should now be warned, and not try to cross there after dark, unless it is absolutely necessary.

September 22, 1882

"No paper this week, we're moving to a new location."

September 29, 1882

Reuter’s Block - Wisconsin Avenue

This week finds a change in the Times office location. We have left the old quarters from which the Times was first issued and have taken our abode in a more comfortable office just opposite the old one. We extend a hearty invitation to all our readers and friends to visit us in our new sanctum upstairs in the Reuter's Block.

Wisconsin Avenue veiw looking east from Desnoyer Street. 

This village is looking bright in its fine business block and residences, most of which has been painted up, within the past year or so, and there is a comfortable air of thrift and compensated industry in their main street. In point of respectability of buildings, Kaukauna compares favorably with places of far greater pretensions. The town is evidently a thriving place, but both sides of the river ought to be under village organization, and will, if the citizens consult their best interests.

Wolves are becoming disagreeable numerous in the vicinity of Amherst. Last week a pack very closely followed a young man who was coming home from work in the evening he found safety at the house of a neighbor.