Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine and travel back in time to June of 1912.
For today’s trip Karen Mader will be sitting in the front seat and 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 for us on the chair out front of the Times office.
Charles E. Raught – Owner, Editor & Publisher
Let’s see what’s in the news this month.
Your old newsman - Lyle Hansen
PS: Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden.
June 7, 1912
The Sheboygan Classes of the Reformed Church is being held
in Kaukauna this week. Upwards of fifty pastors and as many laymen representing
the church organizations are attending the convention in conjunction with the
Classes, the local congregation will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the Immanuel Church.
About five hundred feet from the streetcar tracks and near
the crest of the slope to the Fox river at Combined Locks stands a log barn
that is now one of the oldest buildings on the river between Green Bay and Fond
du Lac. For many years the old barn stood as a silent sentinel as men would
come and men would go and the river flowed on forever the storms soaked its
shingles and the hail beat and slivered them till now there is scarcely a whole
one left to keep out the wintry snows.
June 14, 1912
Joseph Jansen suffered a severe and painful injury Tuesday
at the Combined Locks paper mill by having his thump caught between the rolls
of a paper machine.
During the summer season, the Crystal Theatre will be open
four night each week - Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Excellent
pictures will be shown with complete change of program each night. Admission 5
cents.
Herman Hoehne, after several tests with his Indian
Motorcycle, has entered his machine in the June 30 races at Appleton. Mr.
Hoehne has one of 4-horse-power which he has enter and with which he hopes to
win a prize.
June 21, 1912
Mrs. Lydia Grignon Freund, wife of Charles Freund, of
Oconto, died Friday at the age of 59 years. Mrs. Freund was born in Kaukauna,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Grignon; her grandfather was Augustine
Grignon who was the third earliest settler in Grand Kakalin.
Final action in the location of the Outagamie county
Sanatorium for the care of tuberculosis patients was completed Wednesday, and
the site on the Anton Miller farm in Little Chute was chosen. It is near the
Alex Grignon place and runs from the Appleton-Kaukauna Interurban car line down
to the bank of the river, below the government locks. The location of the
building is said to be ideal, with a deep wooded background and terrace slope to the Fox
River below, and beautiful views of the river scenery in every direction. Bids
for the construction of the administration building will be advertising next
week and building will commence as soon as possible, as several patients are
waiting.
Little Chute was founded on June 8, 1848. It was sixty-four
years ago last Friday the Rev. Father Vandenbroek established a small colony of
Hollanders in what is now the Village of Little Chute. The band of followers
has dwindled to seven survivors in Little Chute and four outside of the village
from the original group. The survivors of Father Vandenbroek’s little band are:
George, Henry and John Williamson, John Johnson, George Coonen, Mrs. Anna
DeGroot, Mrs. Walter Justen, Mrs. R. Verheuven, all of Little Chute; C. H. L.
Hamer Kaukauna; Herman Ebben, Freedom; Mrs. John Toonen, Kimberly; Martin
Coonen, Darboy.
June 28, 1912
President William Howard Taft and Vice-President James
Schoolcraft Sherman were re-nominated by the Republican national convention in
Chicago on the first ballot.
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