Kaukauna
Times
By Lyle Hansen
November
6, 1896
The
great battle is over; the Republicans have swept the country, and on the 4th of
next March William McKinley will take his seat in the presiding chair of this
nation and the banner of protection, prosperity and sound money will once more
float at the nations masthead.
No
sooner was the news of McKinley's election received here, than the mills
started to blow their whistles to let the workingman know that the wheels of
industry would commence to start again the next day.
The
elections smoke of battle has cleared away, but the smoke of the victor’s
cigars has taken its place.
Our silver dollar will buy two of Mexico's common everyday pieces of bullion.
A terrible accident occurred Monday afternoon at
Combined Locks whereby a brakeman of the Ashland division of Northwestern Road
lost his life. When the train reached Kaukauna John Clancy was missing. The
train then ran back to the Locks on the sidetrack the mangled remains of the
man where found. The decease resides in Antigo where he leaves a wife and four
children.
Kaukauna High School at 100%. That is still the
percentage of our football team. Tuesday, they won their fourth match game at
Neenah by a score of 28 to 6. Our 11 went to Neenah on the 11:52 passenger train
and returned on the 8:05 with colors flying and great enthusiasm.
November
13, 1896
The Supreme Court
recently ruled that Kaukauna cannot have a water works system under the
franchise granted a couple years ago to Wells, Reichert & Co. What new
steps will be taken in this matter is not yet known.
Appleton
is advertising for bids on the large new schoolhouse. This will undoubtedly be
the case here soon, the Supreme Court having settled the ownership of the piece
of property known as Lawe’s Park, which was purchased several years ago by the
North side district as a school site.
Humane
agent Wilkie's annual report for the year ending November 27 shows a total of
864 cases attended to, 342 of which were cruelty to persons and 522 cruelty to
animals.
The
heavy snowstorm that set in the next day after election put a damper on all the
Republican joyful blowouts and in consequence the cities around here have not
had an opportunity to celebrate.
The
County workhouse is pronounced finished, having cost $1850 and $150 for the
land total $2000. A high fence must be built and a 500-foot sewer constructed along
with a barn and out houses.
November
20, 1896
It was pay day in
Kaukauna this week for the employees of the Chicago and Northwestern railways,
and for the first time in many months the men received gold for their checks at
the First National Bank. Gold coins have been quite a scarcity in the tills for
some time but now that the money question has been decided in the recent
election the yellow money has come out of hiding.
The north side school
board will hold a meeting within a few days to take some action relative to the
building of the proposed new schoolhouse on the property known as Lawe's Park.
The
senior girls came down to schools Saturday afternoon with their kitchen aprons
and scrubbing brushes and as a result our new laboratory looks considerably
better.
For the first time in
many months every paper and pulp mill in Kaukauna is running at full capacity
by water power. Even the pulp Mills on the Meade and Edwards canal have plenty
of water now
Columbus
Miss., - Mins Collier, a Negro, attempted an assault upon Miss Tilly
Vaughan, a respectable white woman, living about 12 miles east of this city.
Collier had a preliminary trial and was held at a store in charge of the
constables. Monday night a mob of over 100 men overpowered these officers and
Tuesday morning Collier’s body was found dangling from a limb of a nearby tree
Marshall Jule Kuehn
The first business taken up Tuesday morning at
the County board was the election of an overseer to the new county tramp house.
14 applications were filed for the position, Marshall Kuehn being one of
several from Kaukauna. Marshall Jule Kuehn was chosen for the position. The salary for the position was fixed at $2400
per year, out of that amount Mr. Kuehn will have to furnish all the supplies
for the workhouse including lighting, heating, bedding, necessary clothing and
board for the prisoners.
November 27, 1896
The schools at Menasha have closed until after
the holidays to prevent the spreading of diphtheria, a large number of cases
being reported in that city.
The
apportionment of high school funds by the state has been completed for this
year. Kaukauna will receive $265.95.
Thousands
of Americans, reading of the brilliant success of Helen Keller on passing the
entrance examination of Harvard University, had made an effort to realize the
achievements of this most wonderful girl of 16. They have recalled that she is deaf and dumb
and blind and that she has been so since her childhood. She had lived for many
years in an abyss of darkness and silence and loneliness.
Fifty
legs – One Bicycle
Tim O'Brien had his nose bitten off in a fight
at Green Bay but doctors are making him a new one out of flesh from his arms.
The fifth trophy has been added to our football player’s belt. It was last Saturday they succeeded in defeating DePere 18 to 0.
The new 300-horsepower Corliss engine, just
added to Kaukauna Fiber Company’s plant, was started up for the first time
Tuesday. With this new engine and a second digester which has just been added
the output of the plant is raised to about 11 tons of Sulphite fiber per day.
All
rights and titles of the central Wisconsin electric Railway Company of Oshkosh
were sold by the Sheriff for $3076 last Saturday. The company was organized
three years ago to build a line in Oshkosh and an inter-urban line from there
to Kaukauna.
Pretty Salvation Army
Maids
