Time Machine Trip to April 1904

 

Kaukauna Times – April 1904

By Lyle Hansen

April 1, 1904

Over 1800 pairs of shoes were just received and are now on sale at Bartsch’s Family Shoe, Second street So. Kaukauna. 

 

The city of Kaukauna was the last place in the county to make return of delinquent taxes to the county. The delinquent tax list this year in the county is the smallest in years, the total amount returned being $7,162.69 less than 1903.

 

The hens have been doing good work of late and the price of eggs has gone down so that Easter can be properly celebrated.

 

April 8, 1904

Coal has taken a tumble of fifty cents a ton, but it has happened at the wrong time of the year to induce any paeans of thankfulness.

 

Thousands upon thousands of ducks can be seen daily now on the river before the fifth lock. They will not be plentiful next week after hunters take a few shots at them.

C. E. Raught was put into office over incumbent Mayor Mulholland. Raught, in winning his second election for the position, claimed only a 22-vote majority in the election, enjoying his greatest success in the third ward, where he held a 154-95 edge.

 

April 15, 1904

A flock of seven or eight big white swans were seen for several days last week gracefully sailing around in the river above the Combined Locks. The bombardment of ducks which opened up Sunday morning scared them away from this locality.

 

Hundreds of ducks have been slaughtered by hunters along the river this "week. The warfare opened up Sunday morning and will last until sundown, April 25.

 

April 22, 1904

Levi Rupert, carrier on rural route No. 14, had his mail wagon quite badly demolished Saturday in a runaway. Levi was true grit however, and piling his smashed wagon out to one side of the road borrowed a rig and made his regular twenty-four miles through mud and slush.

A blind man with but one leg made the rounds of Kaukauna Tuesday and Wednesday. He claims he was an ex-engineer and was injured in a wreck. He did not receive justice in the courts and was now selling lead pencils, shoestrings, and collar buttons.

 

A man was seen chasing his derby hat along Fifth avenue in New York. Every time he approached it a gust of wind blew it away. After several attempts an onlooker called out to him to fall on it and score a touchdown.

 

April 29, 1904

 

W. E. Smith, the Second street grocer, who has kept tab on the weather all winter, says that there has been snow on the ground this winter steadily for 169 days.

 

Brakeman Harry Ray came home from Fond du Lac Wednesday evening badly bruised up, by an accident which resulted in when, the caboose in which he was riding tipping over. The switchman Kelly, who was with him, was killed.