Hello Fellow Time
Travelers,
Well it’s
time to fire up the old “Time
Machine Chair” and travel
back in time to March of 1907.
For today’s trip my old
friend David Schwalenberg 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.
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
March 1, 1907
The girls' basketball
team of Kaukauna High School is in the field for championship having defeated
Manitowoc, their old rivals, 13 to 4. It was the most fiercely contested game
ever played in this part of the state.
In general, the citizens
of Kaukauna feel that it would be wise for the city to have its own electric
plant and run it with the water works system, instead of accepting the offers
of the Kaukauna Gas Electric Light & Power Co. The common council is still
discussing the matter and considerable thought will be given the matter before
decision is reached.
Demolished Engines Here – The two engines that collided at Vanbuskirk three weeks ago, in which three railroad men were killed, arrived here Wednesday morning. What was left of the smaller one was loaded on a flat car. The other battered and almost shapeless came in on its own running gear. The collision occurred on a curve while both were under full headway.
March 8, 1907
Several months ago,
City Treasurer John Coppes shot a silver-grey fox while hunting in the woods
near Hollandtown. He sent the pelt to the Heimeri tannery at Jefferson and
recently received word that the skin was ready for delivery or that he could
leave it there and take $250. John took the $250 and says that will pay his
hunting expenses for years to come.
Wolves Causing Trouble – Wolves are so numerous in the
vicinity of Amberg that people hesitate sending their children to school. Some
packs have followed children to their door.
A Chicago office boy looking for a job, was asked whether he used profane language. He replied “I kin, if necessary.” He got the job.
It is said that Andrew Carnegie is about to make a gift that will cause Mr. Rockefeller’s $32,000,000 to look like thirty cents. By the time this cruel warfare is over, we fear the price of oil will be $1.98 a gallon.
Shoplifters Busy – Several merchants have suffered at the hands
of shoplifters the past month. The loss was especially heavy during valentine
season. Several youngsters were made to empty their pockets but no arrests were
made.
March 15, 1907
The first colored
couple ever united in marriage in Kaukauna took their solemn vows before
Justice H. J. Mulholland at his office Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. They were
Robert Jones, who has made his home here since last summer, and Mrs. Mary
Nelson of DePere. The couple has already taken up housekeeping on Main Avenue.
The groom is employed in the Kaukauna machine shop.
In the railroad
accident at Antigo a couple of weeks ago, it will be remembered that Will Beard
was so badly scalded by escaping steam that he had to be brought to a hospital
there. Large quantities of skin had peeled off, leaving him in serious
condition and that skin grafting had to be done. Six men volunteered to donate
patches of their skin for their friend. The grafting was successfully done.
A $100,000 Estate -
Father De Wilt, who recently died, left an estate of $100,000 to be
divided. St. Norbert’s college, St. Joseph’s orphan asylum, Wrightstown church,
which he was pastor of for 31 years and also churches at Little Chute, Duck
Creek and Montello will receive funds. Each of his former housekeepers will
also receive a portion.
March 22, 1907
A south side woman sat up until one o'clock the other night waiting for her husband to come home. At last, weary and worn out with vigil, she went upstairs to retire, only to find her husband in bed fast asleep. Instead of going down town, he had stolen into bed, this made his wife so mad she didn't speak to him for a week.
March 29, 1907
There is a story going
the rounds of a farmer who used an automobile horn to call his chickens. When
he got them well trained an automobile tooted its horn in passing. The chickens
started after the machine and fourteen hens and two roosters ran themselves to
death.
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