Time Machine Trip to June 1905

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

June 2, 1905

People who have had occasion to drive into the country report that farmers have commenced working out their poll tax and incidentally ruining the country roads. The work consists of plowing up the ditches and placing the loose earth in the center of the highway.

1905 Kaukauna High Graduation Class

Modern Classical Course 

Justin Joseph Curtin

Raymond J. Dietzler

George Krahn

Else Rettinghouse

Rose H. Schubring

John N. Schneider

Stanley J. Slizeski

 

German Course

Will Cordoran

William E. Earles

Edward A. Lindberg

Arnold C. Otto

Verna Pequin

Rosana Elizabeth Roe

 

English Course

Marguerite E. Knight

Leo E. Moran

John F. Taugher

 

June 9, 1905

The Russian Fleet was practically annihilated by the Japanese Fleet over the weekend. Word from Manchuria is that the Czar's troops are in open muting. This is the crowning disaster in a series of calamities that have overtaken Russia since the opening of the war.

Five new locomotives have been ordered for the Ashland division of the Northwestern and will make their appearance in a couple days. They are heavier than the present engines.

 

Burglars broke into a saloon at Wrightstown Tuesday night and robbed 2 slot machines belonging to Gus Johnson of this city of $50. Certain Wrightstown parties are suspected.

 

H.H. Patterson, a brakeman of the Northwestern Road had both feet taken off at Eland Junction Wednesday night and at present it is in the hospital in Clintonville. He was on top of the freight car at the time of the accident, setting the brake, when the chain broke letting him to the ground he fell between the rails. He makes his home in Kaukauna residing with his mother.

 

June 16, 1905

The meeting of the property owners along the north bank of the government canal was held last week to take some steps toward ascertaining what the prospects might be for securing a retaining wall along the canal. A committee will visit Oshkosh to confer with Congressman Davidson about the matter.

 

June 23, 1905

Running at full speed, an "extra," consisting of a switch engine and caboose, crashed into a handcar late Friday afternoon on a bridge spanning Konkapot creek, a mile and half east of the city. Of the ten section men aboard all saved their lives by jumping except Eugene Hughes. In his effort to escape Hughes came in contact with the front edge of the engine and was thrown into the creek at a point the water was five feet deep. Sam Ross descended to the bottom and succeeded to bring him to the surface. He was alive but then died of his injuries.

It was decided Justice Lennon’s court Saturday that Mrs. Ernestine Grimm of Kaukauna is not guilty of taking flowers from her mother's grave in the spirit of revenge after they had been placed there by her sister.

 

Joseph Jacoby of the Town of Buchanan met with a serious accident on Saturday afternoon. The young man employed as a car repairer in the yards here was transferred to Port Washington. While working under a freight car, another car coming down the track bumped into it, one of the wheels passed over his left foot. He was taken to the hospital in Manitowoc it was found necessary to amputate his foot at the ankle.

Appleton and Kaukauna played baseball on Sunday afternoon, resulting in another defeat for the boys from the county seat. The low score 5 to 2 made the game an interesting one from the start. The Appleton tossers blamed Umpire Johnson for giving the game to Kaukauna. Of course, some excuse is better than none at all.

 

June 30, 1905

The water in the Fox River is gradually receding, having gone down several inches since the first of the week. The majority of boats are again making regular trips.

 

It is almost certain that a soldier’s monument will be erected in Kaukauna in the next year or two. The members of the Women's Relief Corps have the matter in charge and expect to raise the necessary funds through entertainment and contributions. The amount of money to be invested is presently unknown and will be decided at a later date.

Hotel Brothers narrowly escaped being destroyed by fire at an early hour on Saturday morning. Henry Lake, night watchman, visited the dining room and found it filled with smoke. Going down to the basement he discovered a fire in the laundry room and lost no time in sounding the alarm. The firemen were on the scene and remarkable time and soon had a lead hose playing on the fire. Many of the guests were aroused by the smoke and the alarm.