Time Machine Trip to March 1906

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

Kaukauna Historical Society

March 2, 1906

The City Brewery of the north side has been sold by Peter Helf to John Regenfuss, consideration of $8,300. The property transferred   includes   the brewery, malt house, dry kiln, and two cottage residences, occupying the corner of Desnoyer and Tobacnoir Streets, four lots in all. The new proprietor has been connected with the Walters Brewing company at Menasha for a number of years and is quite well versed in the business. Extensive improvements will be made to the plant.

 

The regular spring Kermess at Little Chute was held Monday and Tuesday and was attended by the usual large crowd, all the neighboring cities being present.

 

The depth of a mother's love was shown at Appleton, Monday when Mrs. Joseph Kabat of Reedsville, visited her son Wenzel E Kabat, the alleged murderer of Michael M McCarthy at the county jail. The broken-hearted mother spent all day there with her son, the conversation was carried on and the Bohemian language the guards were unable to report the trend of the conversation. There is no dungeon too low or scaffold too high for mother’s love cannot reach.

 

 

According to a letter received at the office of the Chilton Times, the High Cliff property has been sold and will be improved. H. Caldwell, M. D., of Saint Louis, Missouri, states he negotiated the purchase of the High Cliff property for the sum of $12,000. The company which the doctor is connected will build a $20,000 hotel and sanitorium. They will also build a harbor and have docks and all the necessary boat landings.

 

March 9, 1906

M.A. Raught has leased the vacant room in the Central block building, formerly occupied by the Secker Bros. furniture store, and will run a first-class restaurant therein about the first of May. In addition to a choice line of confectionery, fruits, etc. a large ice cream parlor will be fitted up and a handsome soda fountain installed. Mr. Raught has not yet decided upon the full details of the new establishment but has assured the people of the city of an up-to-date restaurant in every respect.

 

A young man entered Cohan’s clothing store and told the proprietor he wished to buy a coat and a vest. He was having the desired articles and then having them on suddenly rushed out the establishment. Cohan shouted, “Stop the thief!” A policeman taking in the situation at a glance drew his revolver to fire at the fleeing culprit. Seeing this the proprietor rushed up to the officer and explained shoot him in the pants, the coat and vest are mine.

 

Miss Ida Enter of Seymour, a domestic who claims to have been duped by a man she consented to marry and was fleeced out of $100 in Minneapolis. She was in Appleton Wednesday in search of the man who also duped other girls. It is said that the man had obtained some of $100 to $300 from no less than six servant girls this past year.

 

March 16, 1906

Druggist F.M. Charlesworth is now the owner of two drug stores in this city, one on each side of the river, having purchased Dr. H. B. Tanner's pharmacy on Wednesday. Mr. Charlesworth will continue his north side store and also the newly acquired one, conducting the latter under the name of the Kaukauna Drug Co. The purchase of the south side store by F.M. Charlesworth brings it back into the possession of the one who established the store in Kaukauna, he having started the first drug store in the village of Ledyard upwards of a quarter of a century ago.

Rochester, N.Y. March 13th. Miss Susan B. Anthony is dead. The long and eventful life of the noted suffrage came to an end on Tuesday morning.

 

The Sun has called attention to the fact that half-hour cars at certain times of the day are necessary between this city and Appleton, but it appears that the Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat and Power company are in the business for all there is in it, regardless of the comforts of the patrons. The editor of the Sun made the trip from Appleton to Kaukauna, Tuesday afternoon on a car leaving the county seat at 4:15 and had the pleasure of standing up the entire trip.

 

The basketball game between Kaukauna high school girls’ team and Menasha which was played at Heindel’s hall Friday evening proved a decided victory for the home team. Very few fouls were called and the excitement was intense. Kaukauna scored 20 points to the visitors 5. 

 

March 23, 1906

At a meeting at the office of Drs. Tanner and Donaldson on Friday night, local physicians decided to increase their fees on the first of April. After that date a day visit will cost $1.50 instead of $1.00 as heretofore. An ordinary night visit between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. will be $2.00. For all country work a rate of one dollar per mile will be charged. Confinement cases will range from $10.00 to $15.00. The minimum for office consultations will be fifty cents.

 

Something never heard of in this city took place on Sunday at the Kaukauna Gun Club shoot at which over 200 people were present. Gus Hilgenberg brought two birds in one shot. Hilgenberg made a clear square breaking the full number of 26 blue rocks at 25 shots. At the seventh shot somehow and throwing up two birds as is the custom they made flights slightly different angles and happened across each other in the course just at that moment the shot struck, breaking both birds to make in a record never known among sportsmen here.

 

March 30, 1906

J. L. Anderson, the Wisconsin Avenue grocer, will start a dollar from his store, to which has been attached a ring and a number of tags. The tags announce that the object is to demonstrate that a dollar spent at home will return to the original spender eventually, to be paid out again and again, and thus be kept in circulation among resident people, while a dollar spent abroad seldom, if ever, returns to the local channels of trade. Those who come into possession of this particular dollar are requested to write their name on one of the attached tags and spend it again the first time they have occasion to spend a dollar. The mission of this dollar is a worthy one and everyone who gets possession of it should assist in proving the advantage of trading at home by carefully following the instructions.

 

Commencing January 1st, 1907, the salary of the Catholic priest in the Green Bay diocese which had been $600 at the lowest will be $700.00. Parishes having from 200 to 300 families will pay their pastors at least $800.

 

The floating bridge at Kimberly was damaged by the wind, ice and water Thursday breaking in the center. Workmen have been busy since the accident repairing the structure and it will be sometime before usage to the mill will be able to continue.

 

Reverend Fathers Kuhlmann and Otten of St. Louis, or conducting mission at St. Mary's church, Kaukauna, commencing Sunday April 1st and continue one week. The mission will be in the German language on Sunday April 8th.