Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen
September 1, 1905
President Roosevelt
The envoys of Japan and Russia at their peace conference have agreed upon terms and are busily engaged in drafting the agreement. This ends the war in the far east and President Roosevelt is the hero of the hour being praised around the world for the part he played in bringing the tow waring countries to an agreement. Russia’s prestige in the far east has been crushed and her rank in Europe is no longer what it was.
The excursion to High
Cliff on the steamer Evelyn last Sunday was attended by a large crowd from
Kaukauna, Appleton, Neenah and Menasha. The lake was rough and, as a
consequence a large number of passengers became seasick. Several lost their
hats and were forced to return home bareheaded.
The little two-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. August Bozer of the south side was struck by lightning
during the storm this morning. He was unconscious for over an hour but at this
time has recovered.
September 8, 1905
Mrs. Nic Hentz of this
city bears the distinction of being the mother of three pairs of twins and
three single births, in all nine children, born in eleven years. Five boys and
four girls make up the family.
P. A. Gloudeman of
Little Chute, who runs a successful general store, finds his business
increasing so rapidly that he will add another store in width to his present
building. He currently employs eight clerks in his store.
Something novel in the way of baseball is promised at the Kaukauna Park next Sunday evening novel in several ways. In the first place the team that is to go against the Kaukauna team is composed of full-blooded Cherokee Indians right from the Cherokee reservation down in Indian Territory and appears in native dress and war paint. In the second place the game is played at night under arc light illumination. Fifty arc lights of 1000 candle power each are used.
September 15, 1905
At a meeting of the
village board pf Little Chute on Tuesday evening the Kaukauna Electric Light
company was granted a ten-year franchise to furnish commercial lights in that
village.
September 15, 1905
The Cherokees
introduced a new game here Sunday baseball by gaslight and got the whey
walloped out of their red skins for doing so. The Kaukauna team didn’t show
very well to the new novelty for the first half of the game but when they got
their bearings they pounded out home runs and two baggers enough to the beat
the Redskins 9 to 4.
This week we will see
the new round house practically completed and, in another week, it should be
ready for the reception of engines. Everything will be finished but the tracks
in the building by Saturday night and the new structure is a compact,
substantial building that the company has long needed here.
September 22, 1905
With this issue The
Times enters upon the twenty-sixth year of its existence, having completed
twenty-five years last week. The twenty-fifth anniversary is usually termed the
silver jubilee, and we wouldn't mind it a bit if a lot of our subscribers who are
in arrears would call around and drop a few silver coins in our till to help us
celebrate the event properly. The Times has labored incessantly for a quarter
of a century to advance the interests of Kaukauna and undoubtedly will continue
on for the golden anniversary mark. Some of the silver dollars which we have
outstanding if paid now on our silver anniversary will help greatly to give us
a fresh start.
A North Carolina girl
advertised for a husband and got one from Texas. The cost of the ad. and
wedding outfit was $38. After seven months hubby died leaving the widow a life
insurance policy of $10,000. Who says that advertising doesn’t pay?
The crew of Italians
employed on the south side sewer were paid off Saturday afternoon and left
town. The discharge of a giant firecracker in the house they occupied in the
middle of the night is said to be the cause of their sudden disappearance.
Landlord Mulholland of the Grand View Hotel was paid off by the crew and they
failed to return to work Monday morning.
The Badger bowling
alleys in the Rupert building on Second Street will open this evening for the
season. The rate will be five cents for each game.
A Seminole Indian was
fined $50 for horse stealing but the land grabbers who stole whole counties are
still at large.
Joseph McCarty has
commenced building a modern porch on his residence on Wisconsin Avenue which is
to be different from any in the city as it will be built of rock faced concrete
blocks up to the usual height of the railing presenting a unique appearance and
being of very substantial character. It will have colonial columns above the
rail and will be eleven feet in width thus affording ample setting room when
needed. It will be extended in length to the present driveway alongside the
house.
September 29, 1905
The Times and the
Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean one year for $1.55, if paid in advance. Can you beat that combination?
Wenzel Cabot, a real estate from Green Bay, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on the charge of kidnapping Michael McCarty a farmer of the Town of Kaukauna, who has been missing since September 14. Cabot is currently being held in the county jail as not being able to furnish a $1,200 bond.
Basketball promises to be popular with the high school students this year. The girls have already taken steps toward organizing teams.
Rather than have her husband pay her fine Mrs. Christina Huss, who appeared in court on a charge of assault and battery, went to the county jail for a period of ten days. She is 34 years of age and the mother of six children, the youngest of whom she took with her. The complaining witness was Marcella Verhasselt also from the Town of Freedom.
The plant of the Dundas Woodenware Company at
Dundas, including the elevator building adjoining and the depot of Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad Company were totally destroyed by a fire in the early
hours Tuesday. Just how the fire originated is not known but it is presumed
that the fire started in the boiler room.
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