Time Machine Trip to January 1906

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

January 5, 1906

Roller skating is the most popular amusement in Kaukauna at the present time. The rink was crowded at the opening party Saturday night and again on New Years, afternoon and evening. It is the intention of the management to give skating parties every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening with a matinee party for ladies and children each Saturday afternoon.

 

The Times collector will start tomorrow on the customary round at this season of the year for our regular settlement with every business firm. Prepare your bills, if you have any and kindly be ready to balance up accounts.

 

Dr. A. M. Foster’s horse was frightened Wednesday evening by a coasting party on Reaume Avenue and ran away, badly demolishing the cutter attached. The horse ran down 2nd St. and across the railroad tracks as far as Coppes place then came back to Harvey Bill's barn where it is stabled. Miss Weber was in the rig with the doctor when the horse first became scared but fortunately both escaped without injury.

 

Madison WI. - A man who 30 years ago walked the streets of Madison, a penniless stranger, was inaugurated governor of the state of Wisconsin Monday. By the resignation of Robert M. La Follette who accepted the United States senator ship. Lieutenant governor James O. Davison of Soldiers Grove takes his place.

 

Superintendent J. C. Hart of the Oneida reservation believes that he will have an epidemic of smallpox to contend with this winter. There is one suspected case of the disease on the reservation now and before leaving Wednesday morning Mr. Hart instructed the native physician to examine very carefully the patient and quarantine the people immediately affected with the smallpox.

 

After a good deal of study and work it has been figured out why so many editors get rich. Here is the secret to success. A child is born in the neighborhood; the physician gets $10 the editor gets to publish the name of the happy parents and is sent off with $0. The baby grows up and is married, and the editor publishes another long flowery article about the accomplishments of the bride the minister gets $10 and a piece of cake and the editor gets $0. When the time of passing comes, the doctor gets $25 to $100, the minister gets $15, the undertaker gets $50 to $100, the editor publishes the obituary 2 columns long and gets $0.

 

January 12, 1906

 

The Wisconsin Telephone company has three crews of workmen engaged in constructing rural telephone lines in Outagamie County. Within a few weeks dozens of farmers in the county will be connected with telephones.

 

The palmy days of roller skating are back again in Kaukauna and manager John Lawe has a good attendance every rink night of this sport. He has 125 pairs of skates, and every pair is rented out each night.

 

A serious accident occurred Saturday in Dundas, Peter Peters, a boy about 16 or 17 years of age, who was working for John Brooks on a wood sawing machine. He was working on the end when the frame holding the saw became loose and suddenly jumped and the saw running at high speed struck Peters in the face cutting him in a terrible manner. Physicians from Kaukauna and Forest Junction attended to the lad. Twenty-eight stitches were necessary to close the wound. The boys’ eyes were not injured.

 

On Saturday morning the incorporators of the Little Chute bank filed articles of incorporation with the registers of deeds in Appleton. The $15,000 has been divided into 150 shares and are owned by the following gentleman H. J. Verstegen, Peter Gloudeman, Henry Weyenberg, Henry Mollen and Wm. Geenen.  

 

January 19, 1906

If Wisconsin boys do not watch out, their girls will go to North Dakota to marry some prosperous young farmer. Girls are in demand in that state. As there are many young men who have taken up claims there and want to marry and settle on the land. Mrs. John Callahan of Upham, North Dakota has written to the postmasters of several cities in Wisconsin, asking that publicity be given to the fact that young women possessing good qualifications can find husbands and good homes in that state.

 

The Kaukauna ball team, winners of the pendant of the Fox River Valley league for the season of 1905, is without a manager. John Coppes, who had been the head for the past five seasons and who is one of the most successful baseball managers in the state, has decided to retire.

 

Boston, Mass. - Harvard University has abolished the game of football because as played it is a menace to the morals, as well as the bodies of the players. The discontinuance of the game is a result of vote taken recently at a secret meeting by the board of overseers when it was decided that intercollegiate football at Harvard would not be permitted until the rules and regulations had been changed.

 

January 26, 1906

The little sausage known as "Frankfurter" and "Wiener" was, according to the Wiener Neue Freie Presse, offered for sale for the first time in 1805, and the centennial was observed in Vienna by the butchers' guild. The inventor of the sausage was Johann Lahner, who named it for his birthplace, Frankfort.   The   business founded a hundred years ago by a poor man has yielded a fortune to its various heads. It has always remained in the same family and is now conducted in Vienna by Franz Lahner, a grandnephew of the original Frankfurter sausage man.

  

John McMorrow, the iceman, is certainly a hustler. From the time he commenced it was just 55 hours filling his two ice houses on the north side and has 50 tons of good ice piled upon the outside. He finished his job and scarily had time to get his tools off the ice and his sliders pulled out when the ice broke up and ran out leaving the river clear from the bank to bank. It was a close call, and Mr. McMorrow is congratulating himself that he employed so many men and rushed to work as fast as he did.

 

 

Chicago - Three young men were convicted of robbery and were sentenced to imprisonment for life by Judge Barnes. As the defendants were minors, they would be sent to Pontiac. Eight robberies in one night were charged against the trio, who found all the victims in the vicinity of Milwaukee Ave. and Augusta St., but the largest amount of money secured by them was $1.00. The youths said they owe their downfall to the evil influences of cheap dance halls on the north side.

 

The Outagamie County board refused to pay seven Oneida Indians $2.00 each for services rendered as clerks at the last election. Surely this Indian question is a perplexing one. The Indians have representation without taxation; hence it is supposed that the county fathers think that the red men have no pay coming.