Kaukauna Times – August
1904
By Lyle Hansen
August 5, 1904
William Bruce, who was
captured last week by Sheriff Mitchell, sawed his way out of jail Saturday
night. This is the second time this year that Bruce has secured his liberty by
breaking out of the county jail.
The city, for the
consideration of $1 hand paid, agrees to give the Kaukauna Electric Light
company a franchise for the lighting of streets for a period of ten years. The
City agrees to take at least 50 arc lights.
Pittsburg, Pa., Charles Schaffer, a
17-year-old boy married to Francis Hulings a 17-year-old girl on May 21 this
year. He claims he was taken by force by his parents and given an old fashion
spanking. He was then taken from his bride and returned to his parents’
farm.
August 12, 1904
The Union Bag and Paper
Company mill is being laid up for repairs, probably for about ten days. Thursday,
they broke their main core-wheel and had to send for another. Two days before
they stripped the cogs from the same wheel, but this time it broke beyond
repair.
Railroad detectives
have been in this city for the past few days looking for a car thieve. Frank
Schmidt of Appleton was caught in the act of breaking seals on railroad cars.
He then took them to Black’s woods on the riverbank where he had a stock of clothing
hidden.
E. T. McClure of
Chicago has taken over the management of Hotel Brothers. The citizens of
Kaukauna wish him success in his undertaking.
Alton, Ill., While
swimming in the Mississippi river Friday Michael Riley, his daughter and six of
her little girl friends were drowned when they stepped from the sand bar into
the deeper water.
Dead are Michael Riley 32 years old his
daughter Elizabeth 11 years old.
Three girls aged 14-years-old, one girl 12-year-old,
one girl aged 10 and one girl 8 years old.
August 19, 1904
The papermakers' strike
in the Fox River Valley was broken Monday, the men returning to work under the
terms of the mill owners. The manufacturers have agreed to take back all the
striking operatives, but the men have to return to work on the long schedule.
Two Kaukauna young men
by the names of Nelson and Solar, who were sailing on Lake Winnebago owe their
lives to two young ladies who rescued them late Saturday afternoon. The boys
boat capsized about a mile offshore and their cries were heard by the ladies
who came to aid in a rowboat.
August 26, 1904
The school census of
Kaukauna shows an increase of 55 children of school age in the two districts as
compared with 1903 to a total of 2,268.
W. C. Wendt, last of
Denver, Colorado, and who will be remembered as a former clerk at Tanner's Drug
Store, has leased the storeroom in the Watson block of Wisconsin Avenue and
will therein establish a new drug store about the 15th of September.
Dr. H. B. Tanner and
James I. Toner of the library board staked off the new location of the library
site Tuesday morning. The deed for the land had been secured from the Green Bay
& Mississippi Canal company. A copy of the deed and a photograph of the
site will be sent to Mr. Carnegie tomorrow. Work on the site will commence as
soon as the site receives the sanction of the donor.
The days of long G. A.
R. parades are in the past. It is the height of folly to ask the old boys to
walk over rough pavements in the hot sun. When the old boys get together, they
should be allowed to visit instead of exhibiting their bent forms for the
enjoyment of the strong.
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