Kaukauna Times –
February 1904
By Lyle Hansen
February 5, 1904
The plant of the
Menasha Woodenware Company, the largest factory of the kind in the world, was
closed Monday by a strike following a cut in pay of the pail foremen. Nearly
1,000 men are involved.
The seventh and eighth
graders of Park School took a sleigh ride to Appleton Saturday evening.
George Kranz offers for
sale his farm in the town of Kaukauna, consisting of 80 acres. A large barn and
other buildings on the premises. Will sell for $5000.
February 12, 1904
A scene showing the main dam and the
Northwestern car shops.
John S. Van Nortwick, president of the
Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company has purchased the remaining interest in
the Kaukauna Waterpower, the Badger Paper Company and the Brokaw Pulp Company
also known as the "Little Badger." The transfer involves stock to the
amount of $230,000. Joseph Vilas, Sr., Col. H. A. Frambach and Joseph Vilas,
Jr. sold their interest to Mr. Van Nortwick. The dawn of a new era has now come
to Kaukauna. The transfer consolidates waterpower interest under one
management—extensive improvements will be commenced.
Baltimore, Md., The Baltimore fire has
at last been checked, but the main business portion of the city is a smoking
ruin. Seventy-five blocks, nearly 2500 of the finest buildings in the city have
been swept away.
January was an
unusually cold month, the coldest since 1888. Monday January 25 the temperature
reached 30 degrees below zero.
The Czar of Russia
says: “By the grace of God, we declare war against Japan.”
February 19, 1904
Jack Frost ought to
join the union and quit working overtime.
As you keep chucking coal into the furnace remember that the ground hog
himself is a wood chuck.
Street Commissioner.
Theodore Schmaltz met with an accident Monday morning which will confine him to
the house for several months. While assisting, teamster, John Beck with the load
of lumber for the city, he stepped in front of the team to quiet them, the
animals having showed signs of becoming nervous. Just as he did so, one of the
horses plunged forward and struck Mr. Schmaltz knocking him down. The horses
then broke free from the rig and in the mixed-up Schultz had one leg, fractured
between the ankle and the knee.
Louis Zentner,
electrician for the Oshkosh Gas Light company, was electrocuted at the top of a
pole. He received 2200 volts, and his body was shockingly burned.
February 26, 1904
A large section of the
Outagamie Paper Company’s dam situated at the head of their waterpower canal
went out Tuesday night, seriously crippling this company's pulp producing
department. Eight of their ten pulp grinders are shut down and as a consequence
the wood room is only running with a small force of hackers.
As a result of war in
the Far East, (Russo-Japanese War) silk is on the rise. Kaukauna ladies are
already supplied for the coming season, so that the upward grade prices will
not worry this locality.
It is announced that
the circus trust has decided that no longer will parades be given. Hereafter,
if a small boy wants to see the elephant, he must dig up his four bits or take
the chance of being clubbed as he sneaks under the tent. People viewed the worth
of the parade as much to them as the big show itself.
Racine, Wi., Driven by flames
from their cells and beds in the madhouse into the outdoors, 200 panic stricken
and lightly clad crazy men and women roamed about in almost zero weather Friday
night while the Racine county asylum burned to the ground. Asylum attendants
herded together all the lunatics they could find and control and gave them
shelter at a nearby church, however sixty of the patients were not found.
Many of Mrs. Geo. W.
Lawe’s friends called on her Friday, the occasion being her 88th
birthday.
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