Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen
May 4, 1906
The regular monthly meeting of the common council was held this week. The committee on fire and police were instructed to inspect the city jail and cause needed repairs to be made, and also to keep their weather eye open for a new fire department horse team and figure on the disposition of one of the teams now in service.
Silver dollars in
Kaukauna will probably not be nearly so plentiful in the future as they are
now. One and two dollar bills will likely take their place in considerable
degree.
The Evelyn passed
through the city Monday on her way to Green Bay loaded with grain, lumber and
merchandise.
The Little Chute team
defeated the Appleton Athletics at Little Chute Sunday by the score of 18 to 2.
A member of the visiting team threw mud at a Little Chute player which came
near resulting in a general mix up.
A passenger train ran
into a freight train at Kiel, Monday morning. Five men were injured one of whom
has since died.
In order that the city
of Philadelphia might be rescued from the ice famine, a powerful ocean-going
tug has accomplished the almost impossible feat of capturing a large iceberg
and towing it into port. Never in the world's history has this wonderful
achievement been duplicated.
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Your husband is a very
deliberate man, isn't he? Indeed, he is. Did he ever know to do anything in a
hurry? No never! He plans every movement with utmost deliberation and lingers
strenuously over every detail. I have often thought that if he ever died
suddenly, it would be an awful shock to him.
May 11, 1906
The fence surrounding
the baseball grounds is being repaired preparatory to the opening season game.
The grandstand has been provided with a new wire screen, and a wire has been
run from the home plate to first base in order to keep the fans at a proper
distance.
Doctor H. B. Tanner who
had been in Mexico for the past two months superintending the work of
construction on a new Rio Tamasopo Sugar companies mill left the south for home
yesterday, being summoned by the illness of his wife and also his aged father
Ford Tanner of Appleton who had suffered a stroke.
The Kaukauna Lumber and
Manufacturing Co., ever alive to the march of improvements at their model plant
on the Island and are about to commence running all their machinery by electric
power. They have rented a fifty-horsepower motor from the Kaukauna Gas and
Electric Light company.
George Sawyer was shot
and killed at Chilton while trying to force his way into the residence of Mrs.
Joseph Schultz. Mrs. Schultz is now under arrest.
May 18, 1906
Fishing at sunrise is
now a popular pastime with many Kaukauna anglers who may be seen heading for
Combined Locks each morning about daybreak. Some of them have returned with big
strings. The largest pickerel caught so far weighed nearly ten pounds.
Joseph VandenWall, the
oldest prisoner behind the walls of at Waupun prison, died Tuesday. He was sentenced from Green Bay to serve a
life term for a murder committed there in 1862. He served for 44 years at
Waupun.
Company G of Appleton
has secured a rifle range just on the other side of Little Chute, where a
natural backstop exists. The soldiers have been without a range for several
seasons.
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Maggie Obarskie, who is
employed in one of the local paper mills, had a narrow escape from death at an
early hour Thursday morning. While stepping over a shaft that was about a foot
from the floor her skirt got caught in a set screw and before she was aware of
it she was drawn into the shaft. After making one revolution she grabbed a post
nearby and clung to it until the machinery was shut down.
A twelve-horsepower
touring car capable of carrying five persons, arrived here from Chicago
Saturday. G. J. Quigley, Superintendent of the Ashland division of the C. &
N. Railroad, the owner of the car.
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L. P. Haskins, of
Madison stopped over in Kaukauna between trains Friday with a party of Oneida
Indians whom he was taking to Michigan to work at his father's cranberry
marshes. Over 100 Indians have already preceded the party. The Indians will
live in tents and were accompanied by several squaws who will be doing their
cooking. The work is done almost exclusively by Indians, as they are more
familiar with the cranberry growing than the white race.
May 25, 1906
Myriads of sand flies,
the first that have visited Kaukauna in years, descended on the city Monday and
for two days made life anything but pleasant. They swarmed about the river and
streets in clouds and found their way into stores and residences where they
expired by the thousands. Shovels were used in disposing of them. No cause was
assigned for the visitation.
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