Time Machine Trip to May 1903

 

Kaukauna Times - May 1903

By Lyle Hansen

May 1, 1903

No more moonlight excursions for the girls at Lawrence. The faculty has issued an order that no female student of Armsby Hall shall go boating or driving, with or without male escort, after 6 o'clock.

  

 

Next Monday will be a gala day for the lady Maccabees of Kaukauna, in fact not only this city but for all the lodges in this district. On that day Kaukauna will be the centralizing point for the lodges of Green Bay, Oshkosh, Manitowoc, Appleton, and the other hives within the district. Miss Lillian Hollister, Supreme Commander, district from the Maccabee headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, will be present along with Miss Emma R. Green, State Commander of Wisconsin.

 

May 8, 1903

The well on the premises of John Kavanaugh on Reaume Avenue, has been condemned by City Physician Nolan and the board of health and ordered closed. It was decided that the water of the well was contaminated with typhoid germs, the several cases of fever on the southside having been traced to that source.

 

May 15, 1903

The local barbers wore a smile Tuesday morning when they learned that the barbers' license bill had passed the state legislature and the governor has fixed his sign thereto. The bill provides for the establishment of a state board to examine barbers as to their qualifications and issue them a license. 

A daughter’s unselfish love for a father has been proven by the strangest of all transactions which could take place in civilized American. In a Kiowa village in Indian Territory an educated and attractive girl of Indian birth offering herself up at auction to the highest bidder thus gaining money to cancel a debt which her father had when he died without paying. “Singing Swan” is her name, and she needed $25,000 to free the debt. A man whose wife, also a native, had died several years ago bid the $25,000. He presented her with a check for $25,000 and then introduced her to his children as their sister.  

 

Mrs. Harriet Meade has submitted a proposition to the special committee who have the matter of selecting a library site in hand, wherein she proposes to donate a site for the Carnegie building. The site is the lot on the north bank, facing Wisconsin Avenue. The acceptance of the offer would place the building contrary to the committee's initial plans for building on the south side. No definite conclusion has yet been formed on the matter.

 

May 22, 1903

While Johnnie Kobussen and Albert Tillman were returning home from a Sherwood party, they fell asleep and allowed their horse to travel unreined. The horse soon discovered this fact and took to the side of the road to indulge in a banquet of green grass. After wending its way some distance, the animal got too far from the roadside and the buggy was overturned, landing the boys in the ditch. Nothing was injured except the feelings of the boys when the truth came out.

 

Utica, New York - As recompense for having stolen her pocketbook in 1888, George H. Todd, a miserly traveling peddler, has bequeathed $40,000 to Mrs. Peter Jordon. Todd had been looked upon as penniless beggar but after his death a wallet was found in his pocket containing a bankbook. 

 

May 29, 1903

 A total of 19 students will graduate from Kaukauna High School this year.

Modern Classic course:

Martha G. Berens

Eva M. Krebs

Barbara M. Kraemer

Walter Sanbert

German course:

Ashley R. Armstrong

Mildred B. Coughlin

Cyrus C. Fischer

Anna H. Hyde

Sara J. Jansen

May G. O’Boyle

Francis M. Ralph

Harry W. Ralph

Theodore Seggelink

English course:

Will B. Cornell

Loretta M. Daley

Urban E. Landreman

Rose B. Manning

Peter F. McMahon

Roy Edgar Nelson

 

May 29, 1903

 

Justice Baker, of Kaukauna, rendered a decision discouraging the use of figurative language. A young woman working in a paper mill and not belonging to the union was denounced by a union member as a "scab." The justice sentenced the man to pay a fine and cost aggregating $23.66.

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