Kaukauna Times – June 1894
By Lyle Hansen
June 1, 1894
The Kaukauna Times made
its appearance this week in an 8-column folio, with new headings and other
typographical improvements.
A reception was tendered
to the high school graduating class of ’94 by the class of ’93 last Saturday
evening at the home of Miss Lessie Chamberlain, one, of the class of ’93. The
occasion was a most pleasant one in all ways. Class members of the class of ’93
and ’94 were all present along with the teacher, principle and school board.
After a pleasant meal served by the ladies of the class of ’93 a meeting was
held to form an alumni association. Percy Gibson was chosen president and Miss
Anna Reese secretary and treasurer of the Alumni. The vice-president will be
chosen later from the class of ’94.
Menasha Press – A gentleman accosted
a small boy fishing at the dam last week and asked him: “Well sonny, what
luck?” “Nuthin’ much, only one perch and two democrats.” “What do you mean by
the two democrats?” “Those two bullheads”, returned the young fisherman as he
pointed to his catch.
Miss Rosa Hoffman, a cutter girl employed at
the Kaukauna Paper Company’s mill got her dress caught on a shaft and was wound
around quite a number of times, narrowly escaping be killed. She was badly
bruised but fortunately escaped with no broken bones.
Little Chuters are
objecting to the proposed inter-urban electric road on the grounds that it will
take their trade out of town.
June 8, 1894
Quite a large number of
dogs have been poisoned on the south side during the past week. Someone is
evidently trying to beat the city out of $2.00 tax.
John Hiting’s delivery
horse ran away Monday noon and scattered things about promiscuously.
The second class of
graduates of the free high school in Kaukauna passed through the doors of that
institution last Monday evening. The
valuable lessons that have been learned in school life will aid each graduate in
their lives journey. The exercises were held at Heindel’s Hall and the audience
that gathered to witness the same was so large that the hall was filled to
capacity. The nine members of the 1894
graduating class of Kaukauna High school are:
William Donohue, Laura
E. Edgell, Bert W. Fargo, Francis E. Foster, Arthur A. Frambach, Bertha E.
Hussey, George Kalk, Alfred W. Mill and Alice J. Walker.
June 15, 1894
Duluth, Minn., June 7 – Naganab, chief of all the Chippewa
Indians, died at the age of 99 years at the Indian reservation at Fond du Lac.
As early as 1826 through his efforts the treaty was made with the Sioux and
Chippewa by which they recognized the sovereignty of the United States. In 1856
he negotiated the treaty by which the Indians ceded to the government the
northern part of Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was blind and in poverty when he
died.
The policemen now appear in their new helmets with regulation clubs in their hands.
Anton Mankoskey, Julius Kuehn, Thomas
Earles
Daniel Reardon.
The policemen now
appear in their new helmets with regulation clubs in their hands.
A new hardware firm to
be known as Haas & Merbach will open up for business in the McDaniel’s
building on the corner of Crooks Avenue and Third Street, south side.
A meeting of paper
manufacturers of the Fox River Valley and Wisconsin River was held at Neenah
with every mill represented. An
executive committee was appointed with the power to close down every mill
immediately to relieve the market of an over production and check any tendency
to lower prices.
Rutland, Vt. - Isaac Hanks, a 70-year-old miser, is charged
with having caused the death of his wife by denying her food. Hanks had been
found guilty by a jury. A recommendation of mercy accompanied the verdict and
the offender, who is said to be worth more than $75,000, was let off with a
fine of $1000 and costs.
June 22, 1894
Helf & Ristau,
proprietors of the City Brewery, have started to erect a solid brick malt
house. 25x56 feet, two stories high, with a fine basement. The building will
cost about $2,500 outside of the machinery and apparatus that goes inside. This
item will be read with pleasure by farmers hereabouts as it will open a market
for their barley which heretofore has been shipped away.
O’Connell,
Kromer, and Hewitt led the Kaukauna baseball team to victory over Menasha 12 to
7.
A steam powered merry-go-round has been
taking in nickels on the south side this week.
A few years ago, a
showman in Philadelphia desired to end the life of a vicious elephant in his
company. He slipped a large rope around the brute’s neck and then hitched the
ends to two other elephants. The free elephants were then driven in opposite
directions tightening the rope around the victim’s throat. It was all over in
about a half hour.
Great
rain on Sunday was worth thousands to farmers.
June 29, 1894
Thilmany Pulp & Paper Mill received an
order for 200,000 reams of tissue paper last week. It will take ten cars to
carry the 100,000,000 sheets of paper to New York.
Farmers tell us that
the past week has been unsurpassed for crops of all kinds, and the prospects
for an abundant yield were never better than at this time.
Four young boys were arrested Tuesday for
bathing in the Government canal at the third lock. The charge was that they did
not wear bathing suits.
George Langway, one of the men employed in painting the new viaduct, fell from the draw bridge last Wednesday afternoon and was drowned. When he fell in the crew gave an alarm and they attempted to rescue him. Several men diving to the bottom but could not find him.
Looking East - Wisconsin Avenue –
Kaukauna
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