Time Machine Trip to October 1895

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

October 4, 1895

The case of State of Wisconsin vs. Geo. Brenzel for selling liquor without a license came up for jury trial before Justice Mitchell here last Friday. Witnesses were put on the stand who swore they had obtained drinks at Brenzel’s place of business and the liquids tasted like beer and whiskey. With such evidence that the laws of Wisconsin had been openly violated, the men who were on the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty and Brenzel was discharged.

 

There are few roadways as yet in the Union upon which a horseless carriage might safely travel. Whether petroleum or electricity is to be the favorite motive power; there is no doubt that horseless carriages will soon be no novelty in this land. At first, they will no doubt be so costly that only the rich can afford to ride in such chaises, but soon they will probably be brought within the reach of people of moderate means. 

It may seem strange to some people that firms in Chicago should be able to get printing at better rates in Kaukauna than in the metropolis, but it is a fact nevertheless, for The Times has of late, in cooperation with the Badger mill furnished some very large orders for Chicago houses. On Monday the Times presses finished an order for 1,000,000 soap wrappers for the Cosmo Soap Company of Chicago.

  

Several cases of diphtheria are reported on the north side, and everyone should exert the utmost precaution to stamp it out before another epidemic sets in. Use disinfectants and preventatives. 

  

The red man is rapidly joining the ranks of the good Indians. There are now about 357,000 left in the United States – a decrease of one-third in twenty-five years. At that rate the race will have vanished within half a century.

 

DePere. Wis., Oct. 2 – The second annual fair of the Oneida Agricultural society opened at the reservation. The fair is exclusively managed by the Indians. Music is furnished by a band of all Oneida Indians conducted by Dennison Wheelock.

The new tissue machine at the Thilmany mill was started up Wednesday and moved off nicely.

October 11, 1895

It was much colder Tuesday night than many are aware. Water froze so hard as to burst water pipes that were not covered.  The pipes at Affronter’s corner, used by Chas. Jacobs to fill his sprinkler, were cracked open by ice. John Bodman, the Lawe street bridge tender, declares that a thin scale of ice formed on the government canal that night.

Oshkosh saw an opening for a little free advertising, so she just dipped her pen and sent a telegram to Dallas, Texas asking that the Corbet-Fitzsimmons fight be pulled off at Oshkosh and offered $30,000 for it. Wisconsin has a law against prize fighting but if the offer is accepted the event will be brought to the Indian reservation near Shawano, which is not under state authority. 

 

The Kaukauna Electric Light Company has ordered meters and will put them in several hotels, churches and halls of the city. The current used will not be paid so much per light.

 

October 18, 1895

On Friday last the mill owners on the government canal received notice from U.S. Marshall Pratt that warrants had been issued for their arrest by U.S. District Attorney Weigman of Green Bay. The charge   being   repeated violations of the law in regard to the use of water from the canal.  All the mills on the list, were: The Western Bag company, Thilmany Pulp and Paper company (greatest offender), Kaukauna Electric Light company, (next worst of offender), Kaukauna Lumber Manufacturing company, and Russell Bros.' flouring mill.

Two wagonloads of fish, illegally netted at Oshkosh were seized at Little Chute early Monday morning by Deputy Game Warden Julius Wait. The wagons contained 19 barrels of fish, weighing about 5000 pounds. The drivers of the outfit were arrested.

Several new cases of diphtheria broke out on the north side this week and on Wednesday morning the schools were ordered closed for the week.

 

President Grover Cleveland

While the president of United States intends to the affairs of the richest country on earth for about $175 per day the president of France get $750 per day. The incomes of crowned rulers vary from $2000 per day the King of Belgium to $30,000 a day the income for the Czar.

October 25, 1895

A man in this vicinity states that he "first met his wife in a storm, took her to the first ball in a storm, popped the question in a storm, and has lived in a storm ever since.

The three-year-old child of Anton Reith died Wednesday afternoon of black diphtheria. The little one was playing around the house Tuesday, apparently in good health: before the next evening had breathed its last and by Thursday was interned in the Catholic cemetery. 

Just watch for the smiles coming your way tonight, when you tell her you have ordered a ton of coal from F. H. Hayes.

Unless heavy rain comes the mills and manufactories operated by waterpower along the Fox River will be obliged to shut down inside of a week. During the past 10 days the water level of Lake Winnebago lowered more than 3 inches, though complying with the order of the war department, this brings the water down to within 1 inch of the limit established by the department.