Time Machine Trip to May 1906

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

May 4, 1906

The regular monthly meeting of the common council was held this week. The committee on fire and police were instructed to inspect the city jail and cause needed repairs to be made, and also to keep their weather eye open for a new fire department horse team and figure on the disposition of one of the teams now in service.

 

Silver dollars in Kaukauna will probably not be nearly so plentiful in the future as they are now. One and two dollar bills will likely take their place in considerable degree.

 

The Evelyn passed through the city Monday on her way to Green Bay loaded with grain, lumber and merchandise.

 

The Little Chute team defeated the Appleton Athletics at Little Chute Sunday by the score of 18 to 2. A member of the visiting team threw mud at a Little Chute player which came near resulting in a general mix up.

 

 

A passenger train ran into a freight train at Kiel, Monday morning. Five men were injured one of whom has since died.

 

In order that the city of Philadelphia might be rescued from the ice famine, a powerful ocean-going tug has accomplished the almost impossible feat of capturing a large iceberg and towing it into port. Never in the world's history has this wonderful achievement been duplicated.

 

Your husband is a very deliberate man, isn't he? Indeed, he is. Did he ever know to do anything in a hurry? No never! He plans every movement with utmost deliberation and lingers strenuously over every detail. I have often thought that if he ever died suddenly, it would be an awful shock to him.

 

May 11, 1906

The fence surrounding the baseball grounds is being repaired preparatory to the opening season game. The grandstand has been provided with a new wire screen, and a wire has been run from the home plate to first base in order to keep the fans at a proper distance.

 

Doctor H. B. Tanner who had been in Mexico for the past two months superintending the work of construction on a new Rio Tamasopo Sugar companies mill left the south for home yesterday, being summoned by the illness of his wife and also his aged father Ford Tanner of Appleton who had suffered a stroke.

 

 

The Kaukauna Lumber and Manufacturing Co., ever alive to the march of improvements at their model plant on the Island and are about to commence running all their machinery by electric power. They have rented a fifty-horsepower motor from the Kaukauna Gas and Electric Light company.

 

George Sawyer was shot and killed at Chilton while trying to force his way into the residence of Mrs. Joseph Schultz. Mrs. Schultz is now under arrest.

 

May 18, 1906

Fishing at sunrise is now a popular pastime with many Kaukauna anglers who may be seen heading for Combined Locks each morning about daybreak. Some of them have returned with big strings. The largest pickerel caught so far weighed nearly ten pounds.

 

Joseph VandenWall, the oldest prisoner behind the walls of at Waupun prison, died Tuesday.  He was sentenced from Green Bay to serve a life term for a murder committed there in 1862. He served for 44 years at Waupun.

 

Company G of Appleton has secured a rifle range just on the other side of Little Chute, where a natural backstop exists. The soldiers have been without a range for several seasons.

 

Maggie Obarskie, who is employed in one of the local paper mills, had a narrow escape from death at an early hour Thursday morning. While stepping over a shaft that was about a foot from the floor her skirt got caught in a set screw and before she was aware of it she was drawn into the shaft. After making one revolution she grabbed a post nearby and clung to it until the machinery was shut down.

 

 

A twelve-horsepower touring car capable of carrying five persons, arrived here from Chicago Saturday. G. J. Quigley, Superintendent of the Ashland division of the C. & N. Railroad, the owner of the car.

 

 

L. P. Haskins, of Madison stopped over in Kaukauna between trains Friday with a party of Oneida Indians whom he was taking to Michigan to work at his father's cranberry marshes. Over 100 Indians have already preceded the party. The Indians will live in tents and were accompanied by several squaws who will be doing their cooking. The work is done almost exclusively by Indians, as they are more familiar with the cranberry growing than the white race.

 

May 25, 1906

Myriads of sand flies, the first that have visited Kaukauna in years, descended on the city Monday and for two days made life anything but pleasant. They swarmed about the river and streets in clouds and found their way into stores and residences where they expired by the thousands. Shovels were used in disposing of them. No cause was assigned for the visitation.