Hello
Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up
the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to March of 1901
For today’s trip Debbie DeBruin will be sitting in the front seat operating the Time
Machine. The big wheel is spinning, the years are clicking back and in no time
we are back on East Second Street on Kaukauna’s
Southside.
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Julius Martens building a new store.
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Miss Emma Grignon has died
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Ex-president Harrison has died.
Charles Raught - Editor Kaukauna Times
Charlie has left the papers
on the chair out front of the Times building. Let’s see what’s in the news this
month.
Your old newsman – Lyle
Hansen
PS: I have been watching the candidates’ debate. Just one time
I’d like to see a liar’s pants catch on fire.
March 1,
1901
It is no unusual sight to see the drayman and iceman
hauling a load of crystal to the back doors of different residences these days.
Many of the citizens in town have run dry and housewife cries for ice, because
she believes that cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Julius J. Martens Co. will commence erection of the 50
x 90 solid brick structure adjoining their present store. The front of the
building will be red pressed brick and of the same design as the present
building so that it will be one solid block.
Brakeman James Riley and James W. King were badly
injured at Medina last week. The caboose in which they were riding jumped the
track while the train was in motion and rolled over, tossing them around
inside. King was brought to his home in this city, three ribs have been found
broken and he is confined to bed.
When Theodore Roosevelt was a little boy he and a
playmate used to walk together to a private school. Their way took past a
public school. One-day little Teddy appeared in a new sailor suit. This was too
much for the public school boys. Teddy and his chum saw trouble ahead, came on
with their fists clenched and the battle began. A few minutes later he and his
companion where on their way somewhat less tidy than when they started, leaving
behind them a tamed and lame bunch of surprised boys. For a week there were
daily fights with the same results. One morning after an especially hard
battle, Roosevelt said to his friend “Let’s go around the block and come back
and fight ‘em again.”
March 8,
1901
From present appearances it will be a case, this
spring, of the office hunting the man and not the man the office. As to the
mayoralty no one seems to want it. Mayor Kuehn says "once is enough for
me" and refuses to be counted in for a second nomination.
Ms. Emma Grignon, age 42, passed peacefully away in
the presence of her brothers and sisters, Tuesday morning. She is the daughter
of Charles and Mary Grignon. Her parents were pioneer settlers of Kaukauna, her
father having been born here in 1808. The Grignons are the oldest family in
Kaukauna.
Signs of spring where apparently in evidence last
Friday and Saturday but a sudden chill wave from the Arctic region came upon us
Monday and Tuesday with the most disagreeable cold of the past winter. The
thermometer indicated 2° below zero on Saturday.
The improvements which have been under way at the
railroad Y. M. C. A. building or Thompson club for several months, were
completed March 1. An open house was held music was furnished each evening by
the Nugent-Chamberlain trio.
The four stained glass windows which were ordered in
February of 1900 from Innsbruck, Austria, arrived here last week and have been
set in place. Titles of the scenes represented are as follows: “The Ascension,”
The Crucifixion,” “Christ Carrying the Cross” and “Christ Crowned with
Thorns.”
March 15,
1901
There was considerable excitement for a short time at
the Hotel Faust fire Saturday morning when it became known that one of the
boarders who occupied a room on the lower floor, Joe Coon, had not been
aroused, and was still in the building. Learning of the predicament of his warm
friend, Will Hogan, pulled his coat over his head and dashed into the burning
building to save the life of his comrade.
There is some indefinite talk in Green Bay, of
harnessing the water power at Wrightstown or Little Rapids and electricity
transmitted to Green Bay for general use.
March 22,
1901
An eight-year-old child at Marinette has swollen to
twice its natural size and the doctors are puzzled. He probably got too near a
pail of water after eating dried apples.
Indianapolis Ind., March 18 – Escorted by three
regiments of infantry and a battalion of artillery, the remains of ex-president
Benjamin Harrison Saturday were taken from his home in N. Delaware St. to the
state capital to remain in state until Saturday night.
March 29,
1901
George West's saloon on Lawe Street was entered by
thieves some time after closing last Sunday night, and what change there was in
the till stolen. A slot machine was also pried open and about $8.00 in nickels
taken. The thieves then helped themselves to a lunch, wine and cigars, and left
the same way they entered, through the rear door which was broken in.
Another evidence that Kaukauna is a convention city.
The next meeting of the “Old Maids” convention will be held here. Our people
may congratulate themselves on having this opportunity to welcome the delegates
from all of the world representing the large and popular and greatly beloved
class of old maids.
Another disastrous wreck occurred on the Chicago
Northwestern railroad at Little Rapids Wednesday afternoon. The north bound
afternoon passenger train which passes through Kaukauna at 2:17 was running at
about 50 miles an hour and struck the head end of a freight which had blocked
the siding at Little Rapids to allow the passenger to pass, the switch having
been left open. When engineer Jones saw the open switch he shut off the steam
and put on the brakes. He stayed at his post until the train collided and died
in his cab. Ordinarily there were a few passengers on the train however, there
were twenty members of the Lawrence University mandolin and Glee club of
Appleton. They were aboard for a concert tour, many sustained injuries.
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