Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen
October 3, 1884
The Kermis or better
known as "harvest festival," commences at Little Chute on Monday
morning next, and will continue for several days. This custom prevails
principally among the Holland people who, after the gathering of the crops,
celebrate the event.
The bridge committee
has finally obtained permission to place the bridge at the foot of Wisconsin
Avenue, which is not the most convenient location but still the most desirable.
The bridge will have a center swing and span seventy feet in length, instead of
sixty feet, as originally planned. The work of building stone piers will begin
immediately.
A Pittsburg court has
just decided that the directors of the collapsed Penn Bank, in that city, are
individually liable for the amounts deposited with that bank. A few more such
decisions would lead to a more thorough inspection of the affairs of banking
houses.
Floods in China have
resulted in the deaths of 70,000 people in a population of 44,000,000 in an
area of the country. In the face of such
a disaster the recent floods in Ohio and Mississippi seem insignificant.
Little Freddie was
talking to his grandma. “Grandma, Do you belong to the Presbyterian Church?
“No”
“To the Baptist?” “No.”
“To any church?” “No.” “Well grandma, don’t you think it is about time to get
in something?”
October 10, 1884
Now is the time to lay
in a stock of fuel for winter. Nicholas Gerend, the Ledyard coal merchant will
sell coal from now until October 15, for $7.50 per ton, delivered in the bin.
Owing to the expiration of his partnership with
E.C. Bidwell, through limitation, John D. Lawe will no longer be connected with
THE TIMES as an editor and publisher.
North Carolina – Senator Zeb Vance
tells how he captured the vote of a backwoods settlement. He hadn’t been to the
place and didn’t know the boys. He came to the place on horseback and came upon
a cross-roads grocery with about sixty sovereigns. He cracked a few jokes and
seemed to be getting along pretty well with them. Then he noticed an old man
with shaggy eyebrows and big brass spectacles. The old man didn’t much pay
attention to him, and he figured he must be the head of this clan. “This is Mr.
Vance, I believe, and you have come here to see my boys about their votes, I
believe?” “Yes, that is true” he
answered. “What church might you belong to?”
Vance didn’t belong to any church and knew that religion and meeting was
a big thing in the backwoods. Well, my grandpa came from Scotland and most
everybody is Presbyterians over there. Not seeing any sign of sympathy for
grandpa, but my grandmother came from England, and they are Episcopal there. He
paused and the old man spit tobacco on the ground. My father was Methodist,
still no sign of satisfaction from the old man.
My momma was a Baptist and it’s my opinion that every man must go under
the water to get to heaven. The old man got up and took Vance’s hand. “Your,
alright Mr. Vance then turned to the crowd and said, “You boys can vote for
this man”. Then he handed Vance a flask from his coat pocket to seal his faith.
Evansville Argus – It was his first appearance,
and the church was packed. Brother Harrison, the boy preacher came in and took
a seat in the pulpit before the arrival of the other minister. A little old
lady looking at him intently walked up to the pulpit and beckoning to him: “My
boy, come down here and sit with me; that’s the place for the preacher.”
October 17, 1884
A beautiful electric
light is to be seen every evening on the south side of the river, near the Lake
Shore depot. It is stationed on a very high pole and furnishes a good light for
a long distance to every direction.
The bodies of two horse thieves were discovered
suspended from a tree on Poplar River, near Virginia City, Mont., on the 24th.
This makes thirty-seven thieves lynched by vigilantes this season.
The work of building a center pier for the new
draw bridge commenced this week under the direct supervision of Bernard
Corcoran. A cofferdam is being built for the purpose of shutting off the water.
After completing this, the balance of the work will be completed very rapidly.
During the month of
September there arrived at New York from Europe 26,872 immigrants. The arrivals
at this port since January numbers 267,000.
Harper’s Ferry is to be
sold. This is the building which John Brown made famous twenty-five years ago.
It’s a pity it cannot be preserved as public property with the history
connected to it. There is no fear that the grim and heroic old crusader who
made his final struggle there will never be forgotten. His memory safely
enshrined “and his soul goes marching on.”
There has been a
remarkable increase in the number of small farms in the South since the war. In
South Carolina there are now five small farmers where there was but one twenty
years ago.
October 24, 1884
Many of the business
blocks on our main streets have, this fall, been veneered with brick. Not only gives them a solid appearance but
furnishes visitors with a much better version of Ledyard as a business town.
Let us have more brick blocks.
October 31, 1884
A Chinese pamphlet
against Europeans has been published in Hong Kong. It asserts that Europeans
are not human beings at all, but wild animals descended from monkeys. They do
not honor their parents nor ancestors. They come into China pretending to
preach a religion which they do not practice themselves and introduce vice and
crime into that country.
The hum-tum thing among
dudes is now to shake hands with the left hand. This enhances the general
effect since the right hand is busy with the end of a mustache.
The first snow of the
season came last week but has disappeared and now we may expect a fine Indian
summer.
This issue of The Times will be the last before
the great presidential election. So far as politics are concerned this paper
has been neutral. In this issue we publish a republican and a democratic
communication.
Jefferson Davis, in his
flight after the collapse of the Confederacy abandoned his horse near Macon and
took to the woods. On the horse was a silver mounted saddle. The saddle has
been recovered after nineteen years and last week a Georgian sent it to Mr.
Davis as a present.
Boston
Globe
– “Are you going to make your husband a Christmas present this year” asked a
friend. “I’m afraid not” “I had designed to and had saved the money for that
purpose, but I saw a lovely bonnet that I could not resist.” “What present have
you in mind for your husband?” “Oh, I
have a splendid present for him, and it will suit him exactly.” “I shall give
him a box of those very expensive cigars.” “How have you managed to save up so
much money?” “Oh. I haven’t done it that
way, when he leaves his box of cigars out, I take one each time and by
Christmas I have enough to fill a box.”
No wise young woman
will marry a man who treats either his mother or sisters with disrespect or
neglect. Poverty is not a bar to marriage, but meanness or drunkenness should
not be allowed.
A man named Bonnet is running for a political
office in Minnesota. The ladies are for him first and last.
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