Time Machine Trip to August 1896

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen KAHS

August 7, 1896

A Green Bay woman thinks while Kaukauna and Green Bay were at it, the curfew ordinance should have included husbands, compelling them to be in after a certain hour.

 

The Mercury has been boiling over the top of thermometers this week.

 

Louisville Kentucky, Aug. 5 – A white man was sold at public auction at Elizabethtown yesterday under the vagrancy law. He was Lawrence Peak, and the services for six months realized $12.75.

 

August 14, 1896

Spectators at the ball games can now read the score every inning from a large score board erected on the grounds by Dr. Harrington, the dentist. At the same time, they can find out where to get troublesome molars extracted.

 

The new issue of the 1896-dollar bank note has appeared in this city. The new note is a departure from the usual work in that line. The design for the new one-dollar bill is that of a reclining figure instructing a youth standing at her side. The new notes present a neat appearance but from their novel appearance make people suspicious of them, the prevalent idea being that they are counterfeits.

 

NO MORE BARE LEGS - The racing board of the League of American Wheelmen has decided to permit no offensive costumes to be worn by any of the participants in the events at the national meeting this week in Louisville. This determination will unquestionably meet with the heavy approval of the public at large as well as with the endorsement of the great body of bicyclists. It will also, it is believed, have the effect of causing many people to violate good taste in the matter of custom to cloth themselves in more conventional garb.

 

August 21, 1896

A street preacher has held forth on the corner several evenings this week and loudly proclaimed that "the end of time has come." that Gabriel would toot his dinner horn in 1898. The preacher also has a man Friday, a sickly, penitent looking chap. that accompanies him as a bodyguard, and usually pops up just in time to cause a discord in the songs of halleluiah.

 

Capt. D. J. Brothers and comrades T. M. Kellogg, Herman Pauli, Peter Nettekoven, and John Timmers, K. L. Harrington, J. Martins, Fred Lindauer, J. H. Chamberlain, C, Egan, Thomas Reese, James Conway and C. C. Green attended the reunion of the survivors of the members of the 14^th Wisconsin Vol. Inf. at the Oneida reservation last Tuesday. All the “old boys” report a good time. 

         A home on wheels is good way to travel.

 

August 28, 1896

The Times has received a notice from Dr. Wilkie, the Humane Society Agent, calling upon teamsters, hack men, etc. to provide their horse with fly nets during fly season, or said teamsters will be prosecuted for cruelty to animals.

 

“Flags don’t vote,” said a Democrat this morning, in deprecation of the significance of the numerous McKinley and Hobart flags floating over the city. “Neither do the flags fight,” answered in a G. A. R. man but when the rebels saw the union flag, they knew that there were some frightening men under it.

 

Word was received here Wednesday that Chas. O'Brien was killed at Ashland while switching in the yard of the Chicago and Northwestern Ry. company at that place. Deceased was a young man favorably known, having resided here for a number of years. He was married to Miss Nellie Bartley of this city last fall. He will be buried at Fond du Lac.

 

A ballot box was put up at the Combined Locks paper mill recently by the employees to test the vote. A count of the ballots showed 95 votes cast, of which 89 were for McKinley and 6 for Bryan. Straws show which way the wind blows.

 

    

Umpire Herzog, of Manitowoc, got into a dispute with catcher Kromer last Sunday and as a result of the altercation Kromer was struck and Herzog subsequently arrested. The trouble was settled by the visitor anteing up eight dollars.

  A young fellow who gave his name as Harry Morgan was run down by the Kaukauna police last Friday and now languishes at the county jail to await trial for grand larceny. Morgan entered the saloon of Peter Verbatim at Kimberly last Friday morning and while Verbatim had stepped into a side room, proceeded to the money drawer, taking what cash it contained together with a silver watch and a revolver. Marshal Kuehn was notified of the theft and having learned that the fellow had started in the direction of Kaukauna set out to find him. Morgan was sighted over on Beaulieu hill and a lively chase commenced. The fellow took downhill with Jule in the rear. He crossed the tail race near the ball grounds and stripped off his coat and vest Jule followed. The chase continued over through the quarry, across the lower flats, over the hills north of the city and up the Northwestern track to the Malone Road where the man was lost in a cornfield. Jule came back to the city and enlisting the services of the other police officers set out on another hunting tour. Morgan was traced along down the road toward DePere, and the force started out in a rig to head him off. At about 10 o'clock Morgan was captured by Policeman Mankosky on the railroad track just out of DePere and was marched back triumphantly to Kaukauna. A number of shots were exchanged during the day's chase, and Jule says it was a "reg'lar picnic."