Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen KAHS
January 3, 1896
Capt. D. J. Brothers has appointed as
postmaster to succeed Thomas Reese by President Cleveland. Mr. Reese will
continue to carry on his news stand, tobacco and fancy good store, in which he
already has a good track established. Mr. Brothers will move the office to his
building on Lawe Street.
Kaukauna has lost
another landmark as the New Year starts. Kaukauna's first tavern was destroyed
by fire last Saturday; the tavern located at the transfer point on the old
Plank Road known as "Bowery." The structure was erected in 1849.
The river is completely
frozen over and excellent for skating with ice so smooth and clear as
glass.
Clara Manders, aged 16
years, died at the asylum Monday and was buried this afternoon in the asylum
cemetery. She came from Kaukauna and had been at the county asylum ever since
it was established.
January
10, 1896
Luther Lindauer is now
harvesting his annual crop of ice from the river above the dam. The ice at
present is about a foot, thick and clear as crystal.
The Thompson Club is being thoroughly
renovated this week, and new paper is added to all the walls. A housewarming
ceremony will occur on Saturday evening, to which all friends are invited.
Menominee pays a bounty
on sparrows. 1,550 were killed by boys in that city during November. They get
three cents apiece for them.
Molly, Polly, Annie, Maggie, Peggy, Nancy and
Nan are as much in vogue today as in the olden time and in all probability,
will continue to be given as Christian names to baby girls for all time. Some
parents refuse to give first names to their children, preferring that the
children should choose their own names. A Methodist was approached by a woman
who asked that her daughter be baptized Luci thur. Lucifer! Lucifer! Never will
I name a child that. Then he continued as he sprinkled the water upon the brow
of the baby. George Washington, I baptize thee. She was called by that name
from there after.
January
17, 1896
The Oneida Indians are
pressing a claim against the government for $17,000 dating back to the time of
the allotment of land to them several years ago. They were to receive $25,000
from the government to assist them in farming operations. They claim that only
$8,000 of the amount has been paid.
January 24, 1896
A bright young girl from
a neighboring town described the word kiss as follows. "Kiss is a noun,
though generally used as a conjunction. It is more common than proper. It is
not very singular and generally used in the plural number, and it agrees with
me.
While unloading a car
of coal at the Northwestern sheds on the south side last Saturday the workmen
were startled by finding a corpse in the bottom of a car. How he got in there
was most likely down among the coal mines. The remains were taken out an
interred and there is an affected family somewhere mourning the untimely
departure of a Bruno.
January 31, 1896
Now that sleighing is
good, the Oneida Indians have commenced their annual harvest and sale of poplar
pulp wood. It is no uncommon occurrence for thirty to forty loads of wood to be
delivered at Kaukauna in one day. The Thilmany Paper Company and the Reese
Company are the principal buyers.
Another one of Kaukauna’s early pioneers has travelled to that borne from whence no one returneth. Peter Lewis, aged 78, breathed his last and passed to his reward on Sunday afternoon. He was born in Eden, North Brobend, Holland, June 11, 1818. He came to Little Chute in 1853. He and his wife then moved to Kaukauna to enter the employment of the Fox River Improvement company in the building of the present government canal.
