Time Machine Trip to February 1895

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

February 1, 1895

The "gas engine tricycle" is one of the latest steps in the march of progress which seems destined in the end to dispense with the horse. This vehicle carries three persons, and its two-horse engine has power enough left to trail one or two buggies or a loaded wagon behind, over a good road. A lever regulates the speed from ten to twelve miles an hour, downward, and two and one gallons of gasoline-about 25c worth-will run it 12 hours. It’s a horse that needs no grooming and makes no litter.

 

A car containing eighty barrels of Miller’s Milwaukee beer arrived here this week.

 

Katherine Beauchamp, the servant girl who was arrested several weeks ago for stealing two rings from the residence of Dr. H. B. Tanner, had a trial at Appleton last Saturday and was sentenced to four months in the County jail. Her story to the court was that she picked up the rings fearing that they would be lost and put them in her pocket. She said she did not wear the dress after that day and had totally forgotten about them.

 

The Central Wisconsin Electric Railway Company, of Oshkosh, filed articles of association with the secretary of state Monday. The purpose is to operate a railway in the city of Oshkosh and between that city and Kaukauna, about thirty miles, for the carrying of either passengers or freight.

 

Marshal Julius Kuehn has been appointed as deputy for the county. Jule’s duties are to collect state license monies from hawkers and peddlers.

 

February 8, 1895

B. M. Berendsen of Green Bay, who masqueraded as a priest and attempted to wring a confession from a prisoner at the Brown County jail last week has made a public apology.

 

Twenty-four degrees below zero last Monday morning.

 

A special report was received from Madison Tuesday conveying good news to the residents of Kaukauna and the proprietors of the mills. The state supreme court met today to hand down a decision in favor of Kaukauna in the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company vs. the Kaukauna Waterpower Company relative to proportions of the flow of the water of the Fox River below the dam to the south channel.

 

 

The hardware store of Haas & Merbach on the corner of Crooks Avenue and Third Street was badly damaged by fire Wednesday night. The fire department quickly responded and did excellent work, extinguishing the flames, before much damage was done to the building. The stock, however, was badly wrecked, being burned, smoked up and rusted from water.

 

Kaukauna is bound to have a water works system and things are materializing this week that bid fair to produce a system this summer. Within the last week, Mayor Tanner has received communications from Mr. W. H. Fritchman of New York, who plans to come to Kaukauna in the near future to pick up the end of the thread dropped by Hotchkins and his company.

 

February 15, 1895

The Times new cylinder press is having a tedious journey to get here. It left Boston on the 14th of January, passed through the eastern blizzard and arrived at Chicago on the 28th. From there the car had started for Kaukauna but up to date has only reached Milwaukee, where it is side-tracked to be re-wheeled, having broken down.  The railroad officials are kind enough to inform us that "its coming" however, so we smile and bear it.

 

February 22, 1895

Thos. Duffy of Hollandtown was a pleasant caller at The Times office Monday, paying up six years subscription. Thos. don't come in often but when he does it counts. Let this be an example for a few more to follow.

 

At Seymour, Wednesday, Mrs. Shipley, a woman of destitute circumstances had been living with a family of small children in a single room during the past winter; their only provisions consisted of what was given to them by a few charitable persons. Mrs. Shipley has died more of want of proper food and nourishment than anything else. Neighbors will care for the children. If Seymour is still in such a state of barbarism as to let a woman actually starve to death, let it be cut off of Outagamie County and dropped into the Oneida reservation and sunk in some worthless piece of swamp land.

 

Appleton - Mary Wollenstein, aged twelve years, died Sunday of typhoid fever at the home of her mother on Second Avenue. Five others in the family of nine have had the disease, two are convalescent and three are down with it. This is a family that recently moved here from Kaukauna and about who is responsible for care is a disagreement between Appleton and Kaukauna.