Last week the Appleton Crescent completed the thirtieth
year of its existence. The Crescent is one of the best weekly papers in the
state. The Post Co. of Appleton announced that they will commence the
publication of a daily in that city about the first of April. The new daily
will be twelve cents per week.
The Wisconsin Telephone Company has decided to install a
telephone exchange in Kaukauna, and with the instruments having already arrived
and about seventeen subscribers secured, all is now in readiness. The Lake
Shore and Northwestern depots, it is understood, are on the list, which will
make it very convenient for travelers who don't wish to sit around the station
waiting for delayed trains. The central office will be located at the drug
store of T.M. Kellogg.
March 9, 1883
The hotel business in this village is booming. Landlord Schmitz of the Kaukauna House on the corner of Desnoyer Street and Wisconsin Ave., reports a house full of boarders and an increasing business every day.
The electric light is pleasant to look at but perfectly shocking when the wires are grabbed.
Some of the newspapers seem to think it wonderful that many
of our millionaires were once poor boys. Success in life does not depend upon
the starting point but the direction of the start and the vigor and endurance
and good judgment that are brought into play that bring results.
Chihuahua, Mexico – A party of ranchmen swooped down on an Indian camp
several days ago and cleaned things out. Ten Indians were killed, and
twenty-five squaws captured.
March 16, 1883
A bus is again running between the railroad stations and
hotels. This will be of great convenience to traveling men who have theretofore
had to "hoof" it after arriving at our village. We hope Mr. Beaulieu
will continue this new enterprise. It certainly "fills a long felt
want" and is deserving of success.
March 23, 1883
The workmen in the stone quarries are busily engaged at
present blasting out stone to be used in the railroad paint shop. In some respects,
this building will be superior to any of the structures the company has yet
erected. Like the other buildings belonging to the Lake Shore Company, it will
be made almost entirely of stone, but the stones for this building are being cut
to fit some particular place almost as brickwork.
M. Barholdi’s gigantic statue of Liberty is so nearly
completed that much of it is ready for shipment to America. The whole of the
figure probably will have reached New York before the end of the year. Only
$80,000 of the $250,000 has been raised so far for the pedestal fund.
March 30, 1883
The streets are now beginning to get very muddy, and people
feel the need more than ever of sidewalks.
At no place along the river are there manufacturing
advantages equal to those that Kaukauna and Ledyard possess. The waterpower
which is formed by the enormous fall in the river at this point can be utilized
to a much greater extent than any other power on the Fox. The fall is about
sixty-two feet within a mile. There are three waterpower canals, those being
the Governments, the Kaukauna Waterpower Company and the Meade and Edwards. The
first two named get their power from the government dam. The Gov't canals is
situated on the north side of the river and already there are built the
following manufactories: Router Bros. Spoke and Hub factory, Hewitt Bros. and
Jansen Sash, Door and Blind factory and sawmill, W.A. Doane Pulp Mill, Eagle
Paper and Pulp Mill, and the Franklin Flour Mill. There is room for many more
factories. The canal of the Kaukauna Waterpower Company is situated in Ledyard
on the south side. It was built in the years 1880-81 from plans furnished by
Jos. M. Barker, engineer in charge. Mr. E. C. Morrison is the present engineer
and Superintendent in charge of the work. On this canal are the following manufactories:
The Bradner Smith Company pulp mill, the Casad Machine Shop and the shops of
M.L.S. and W.R.R. Company. This is
considered the finest waterpower canal in the west. The Meade & Edward's
canal is located between islands No. 3 and 4 and is formed by joining the two
with a substantial stone dam and has a capacity of 2500 horsepower. On this
canal are erected, Geo. Kelso's pulp mill, the Union pulp mill, which has a
greater capacity than any other pulp mill in the country, and the Fox River Pulp
Company mill.
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