Time Machine Trip to November 1904

 

Kaukauna Times 

By Lyle Hansen

November 4, 1904

The fire department was called out about 11 o'clock Monday evening, an alarm having been turned in by someone indulging in Halloween pranks. Had the party been located there would have been at least one case on the police docket the next morning.

 

The new stone arch bridge across Konkapot Creek is now open for travel.

The red men in the Oneida reservation are much displeased over the recent decision of the department of the interior. The money from the sale of Indian lands will be held on deposit and not released to the tribe. 

 

November 11, 1904

Rules forbidding Catholics to attend Saturday or Sunday night dances and forbidding saloon keepers from holding church offices will be discussed in Milwaukee in January.

 

 

The Anti-Cigarette club was formed at the Brokaw Memorial church last Monday evening. Officers were elected and the next was scheduled.

 

President Roosevelt sweeps every northern state, and the Republicans sweep the country. For three and a half years, Theodore Roosevelt has been President by constitution decree of succession following the death of President McKinley. Now he has been elected by the overwhelming decree of the American people.

 

Kaukauna high football team and East Side high school Milwaukee battled for supremacy Saturday afternoon in the State Championship series. Up to that neither had been beaten. Milwaukee arrived here on the 11:14 train with 17 players. The men almost giants in comparison with the local team. It was a battle royal from start to finish as the teams surged up and down the field. The game was witnessed by the largest crowd of spectators to attend a game here. The game ended in a tie.

 

 Governor - Robert La Follette 

With a wheelbarrow for a vehicle, Mike Neissen will be propelled by Henry Wittmann between their rival places of business on Monday afternoon. This came about through Robert La Follette’s win and their friendly political rivals.

 

November 18, 1904

 

Captain David J. Brothers died of heart failure Tuesday evening at the age of 67. Captain Brothers will forever live in the history of Kaukauna, for he was one of our best known and most active citizens for years and leaves a monument to his memory which entitles him to due respect now when the last farewell rites are being administered.

 

The Kaukauna Athletic football team were defeated at Green Bay last Sunday by a score of 20-0.

 

An Appleton interurban car was derailed at a point on the line about a block north of Park School, on Lawe street Sunday. The derailment was caused by several children heaping a quantity of loose gravel upon the rails resulting in the car being unable to pass over.

 

November 25, 1904

Commencing next Monday, the local drug stores will close in the evening at 9:30 o'clock every day expect Saturday when closing hour will be 10:00. Heretofore the drug stores have kept open until about 11:00 o'clock, long after all other places of business have closed. The new arrangement is for the benefit of the clerks employed among the various pharmacies.

 

Landlord George Mulholland of the Grand View Hotel purchased the property adjoining the hotel on Second Street for $2,500. Next spring he will tear out the building and proceed to make extensive alterations to the hotel property.

 

Accidents in Paper mills – A fifteen-year-old boy was wound around a shaft at the Menominee mill Saturday and was torn to pieces. At the Brokaw mill here Lewis Cakin a beater engineer will lose the sight of one eye from a wood chip and Leo Kewash an employee in the beater room cut a gash in his leg while cutting pulp with an axe. At the Fox River Paper mill at Appleton. Sunday Maurice Boland tripped and fell, breaking three ribs.

 

Joseph Kerry returned home from Niagara Tuesday forenoon with two deer – both bucks, one weighed 350 pounds and the other 174 pounds. This is the largest buck reported taken this year.

Partly because the football season is drawing to a close and because of the injuries of several members of the team, it has been decided to play no more games for this season. Curtin has not yet recovered from the effects from a knee injury in the state championship game last week and Emmet Hayes is precluded from further play owing to the result of an injured leg.

Time Machine Trip to November 1894

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

November 2, 1894

Disagreeable weather and extra precautions by the police, kept the bad spirits indoors Wednesday evening “Halloween” and the night was a quiet one.

 

Teeth extracted free without pain, at the North Side Dental Parlors, when plates are ordered. Plates can be had for $10.00, and a good fit is positively guaranteed.

 

The north side schools were all closed on account of several new cases of diphtheria in the neighborhoods.

 

Little Chute – There were 120 teams in the concourse that followed Peter Schaefer’s remains to the cemetery at Little Chute last week Thursday, one of the largest ever seen in these parts.

 

November 9, 1894

The Kaukauna Water Works Company has filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State, capital $100,000. The incorporators are J. F. Moffett, J.L. Hutchins, Hampton Corlett, Peter Reuter and P.M. Reuter.

 

For several weeks past there has been a very unsavory smell emitted from the seats occupied by three democratic aldermen at the city hall. The TIMES reporter overheard a conversation two weeks ago that started us to investigate. The three aldermen had attempted to extort a bribe of $2,000 from an official of the interurban in exchange for their votes for the passage of the franchise. The deal was made in writing and the TIMES has the copy. This paper has exposed much chicanery in the past, but this is the richest of all.  

 

Russia, Nov. 1 – The Czar is dead. Alexander III, the ruler of all the Russia expired at the Castle of Livadia from an illness. All the members of the royal family were present at his death bed.  It is understood that his son Nicolas will immediately issue a proclamation declaring himself Czar and all officials will take an oath of allegiant as soon as possible.

 

St. Petersburg, Russia, Nov. 2 – The imperial heralds in brilliant uniforms this morning announced the death of Alexander III and the ascension to the throne of Russia of Nicholas II.

The Republicans own the earth. The tidal wave that washed over the state Tuesday is still rolling up a majority for the Republican ticket. The Republicans have swept before in Wisconsin but this time it is every state where there was an election held. The Democratic Party carried only ten counties in the state. 

 

November 16, 1894

The case of City of Kaukauna vs. Martin Heindel, for violation of license clause, came up for trial before Justice Conlon. The defense asked for a jury trial, which was granted. The jury found the defendant not guilty, as the doors of his saloon were closed, and although the lights were burning within, no proof could be furnished that liquor was sold after 11 o’clock.

 

John D. Lawe, who will manage the new Hotel Brothers, says they expect to open about the 25th of this month, and be prepared to serve Thanksgiving dinner.

 

An Oklahoma girl of 21 shot and killed a man who jumped her homestead claim. Where is the man who said women were all born tender-hearted?

 

The roads have been in terrible condition for the past two weeks due to the heavy rains. 

 

After a careful investigation of the newspaper reports and examination of evidence submitted to us, we believe there are sufficient grounds to warrant that charges are preferred against Aldermen Brost, McGahn and Eimmerman for conduct unbecoming public officials in soliciting money for their votes in the Electric Railway franchise.

Mayor H. B. Tanner - E. A. Baker, City Atty.

 

William Brower, of this city, purchased a suit of clothes at Foerster Bros., the south side tailor, and although he took the suit he failed to liquidate. Statements and requests to settle followed, until patience ceased, said Messer. Foerster garnished young Brower’s wages. This aroused the ire of the latter and armed with a couple of revolvers he sauntered into the tailor shop and walking up to Albert Foerster, without warning said, "I came to settle up that bill," and pulling out one of his guns fired. Mr. Foerster saw his movement in time to slightly dodge and as a result the bullet passed through his necktie and lodge in the wall.

 

November 23, 1894

Much complaint is being made, against the present issue of two cent postage stamps, as being insufficiently treated with mucilage. Many of them refuse to stick to letters.

 

Dr. F. J. Wilkie has compiled his annual report for the Fox Valley Humane Society and finds that 917 cases have been attended to during 1894, of which 323 cases were cruelty to persons and 594 cruelties to animals.

Upon calling a meeting of the common council to order last Tuesday evening, Mayor Tanner was notified by the City Clerk that he had received the following notice:

You are hereby notified that I am the legally qualified alderman and that the Mayor has no authority to suspend me from the performance of my duty as alderman. I demand that you keep my name upon the official rolls of the city, or I will take legal action against you.

Peter J. Brost, Alderman third ward of the City of Kaukauna.

Mayor Tanner at once filed a notice of the following suspension: Charges have been preferred against alderman, Brost, McGahn and Eimmerman. They are suspended pending the action of the common council by order of the mayor under Section 24 of the city charter.

 

Work on the water works commenced Tuesday. Preparations are being made to cross the river from the pumping station to be located on the Island, and digging has gotten underway.

 

The omission of the word “no” from F. G. Passino’s advertisement last week put entirely the wrong wording of the same. The adv. last week read, “We fear comparison” which all patrons of that establishment know to be false.

 

Indian Agent T. H. Savage is making contracts with the Indians on the Menominee reservation for logging the coming season.

 

All the pulp grinders at the mill of the Combined Locks Paper Co. are being operated. This is the only mill on the river which can be run owing to the low water.

 

The city being short on funds we at the TIMES would suggest that the opera house be leased, wherein to hold the trials of the suspended alderman and an admission be charged.

 

Appleton is getting to be a moral town for sure. All houses of bad repute were closed, and now all gambling rooms have been closed.

 

November 30, 1894

The skating rink was opened for the season Thanksgiving afternoon and evening. Chas. McKenzie and Jos. Lewis will manage the place of amusement this winter.

Mary Sweeney, the window smasher, who has visited Kaukauna several times on her regular rounds, has been sentenced to the insane asylum at Mendota.

London, Nov. 26 – A comely woman of the unfortunate class was found dead in Kensington at midnight. Her throat was cut ear to ear and some of the newspapers are intimating that it is another crime of the “Jack the Ripper” order. 

 

St. Petersburg, Nov. – This morning large crowds were assembling in order to secure places along the route of the royal wedding procession of Czar Nicolas II and his bride, Princess Alexandra.      

Time Machine Trip to November 1884

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen 

November 7, 1884

Appleton politicians will shake hands no more with citizens of these villages. Having now obtained what they wanted they give us the "shake" by staying away for the next two years.

The Russian military officers have invented a new system of nocturnal signals. A small balloon is sent aloft from which is suspended an Edison electric light. By means of a connecting wire the light can be kindled and extinguished at will and code of signals readily arranged.

Ninety-five thousand sheets of paper are daily consumed in printing Uncle Sam’s money and stamps.

November 14, 1884

Our citizens are glad to know that the work of building the center pier of the new draw bridge is progressing finely. A large force of masons is now at work and the stone foundation has already been laid, the latter is 26 feet in diameter.

Cattle-raising as the chief vocation in Montana but cattle stealing is a vocation not far behind it. There is no region in the world where horse and cattle stealing are attended with greater danger. The theft of a horse or cow in that region is not worth the price of twenty feet of rope. There is very little judicial laws in Montana and since fifty thieves have been lynched in that territory over the past six months, seven being hanged at one time a few weeks ago. Even with the summary way of dealing with thieves in the stealing business it continues to flourish.

A young lady in South Georgia placed an advertisement in a local paper. “Wanted, by a young lady not 30, a husband, be he a bachelor, widower or dude. I am good-looking weigh 110 pounds, can cook, wash and iron.” 

 

November 21, 1884

The count is ended; Democrat Grover Cleveland is named President of the United States.

 

Among the most interesting phases of the overthrow of the Republican administration are the revolutions to be made in the civil service of the United States. At no other time in history has there been so vast a change owing to the number of federal employees having increased enormously over the past few years. There are 110,000 persons in the government’s employment at this time including 50,000 postmasters. The official guillotine will be set up in Washington next month and nearly one hundred thousand Republican office holders’ heads go into the basket.

Chinese mobs have been committing fearful outrages on places of Christian worship. In Kwangtung Province alone, four Roman Catholic and five Protestant churches were destroyed, and 120 Christian’s homes were looted. The trouble began when Chinese workmen refused to load a French merchant ship in Hong Kong. They were taken to police court and fined $5 each. An attempt to resist resulted in sixty rioters being arrested. Chinese officials have turned a blind eye as churches throughout the country are being destroyed. Chinese soldiers are participating in the beating of the Christians.

Woodmen’s wages at Eau Clair continue at from $15 per month for choppers and sawers and $26 for more expert labor.

At La Crosse, on the evening of the 10^th Charles Bunn, sitting in his residence, heard someone fumbling at the back door. He then heard someone ring the bell at the front door. Looking through the window he saw three forms on the front porch. Not doubting that they were burglars he shot through the window with a shotgun killing a girl, who with the others had come to call on Mr. Bunn’s servants. 

November 28, 1884

The village board, at their regular meeting on Monday last, appointed Fred McGray as policeman in the place of Patrick Hayden who had resigned. Fred is an upright young man and will undoubtedly make an excellent officer.

Time Machine Trip to October 1974

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

October 2, 1974

Kaukauna’s Badger Northland unveiled its new $3 million plant to the public last week amid the acclaim of state and city officials. 

Demolition of the old railroad buildings on the former railroad property will begin within the next month undertaken by a Green Bay contractor who won’t charge the city anything for the work.  The company requests salvage rights to lumber but will leave the stone for the city’s use.

The Ghosts defeated Neenah 10-7 in a homecoming win over the Neenah Rockets last Saturday at Doty Bayorgeon field.  It was the first time in 11 games that the Ghosts were able to overcome the Rockets on the gridiron, throwing off a curse that was first cast in 1962.

 

October 9, 1974

The 100^th anniversary mass at Holy Cross Church Sunday evening was attended by visiting clergy, who concelebrated with Father Roy Crain, pastor.

 

Crop losses in Outagamie county may run as high as $20 million as result of killing frosts at the end of September which resulted in a large number of farms registering zero production as far as grain is concerned in 1974.

 

October 11, 1974

A request for a new post office in Kaukauna is being studied by the U.S. Postal Service Milwaukee region office. The request was made some time ago by Postmaster Robert Grogan. Grogan cited the small size of the present post office, first occupied in 1937.

 

October 16, 1974

Kaukaunans will get at least one gift two months before Christmas. We get our Wisconsin Avenue bridge back. October 25 is the date set for the opening to vehicle traffic according to Mayor Robert LaPlante and city engineer Robert Natrop.

 

October 18, 1974

A smokeless stack was what Roloff Manufacturing Corp. hopes will be the result of this installation. The $110.000 installation will prevent particulate emissions.

A record enrollment at Kaukauna High School for the year 1974. More than 3,600 students are attending Kaukauna public schools this year. Of that number 1,517 are enrolled in high school this being a new record according to business manager Thomas Nytes.

 

October 23, 1974

Has changing the highway speed limits to 55 miles per hour saved lives? As of August 1974, there has been a reduction of 174 lives lost on the roads.

  

Raymond Brittens Celebrate

35^th Wedding Anniversary