Kaukauna Times November 1900
By Lyle Hansen
November 2, 1900
Arnold Verstegen, one
if the original pioneer settlers at Little Chute, is not expected to live,
having just suffered another stroke of paralysis. He is 80 years of age and has
resided at Little Chute since 1850. He has been married twice and is the father
of 24 children.
Norman H. Brokaw, 43 years of age and one
of Kaukauna's leading citizens, passed away on Tuesday at his home following a
short illness. Brokaw was, for a time, one of Kaukauna’s biggest pulp
producers, buying an interest in the Bradner & Smith Company's mill in this
town in 1885 and establishing the mill as a leader. After the sale of his first
mill, Mr. Brokaw organized the Kaukauna Fibre Company and erected the present
site of the company.
Manitowoc, although eager to revenge itself for last year’s defeat to Kaukauna, was severely beaten by our boys again Saturday by a score of 30-5.
November 9, 1900
William McKinley and
Theodore Roosevelt, of the Republican Party, have been elected President and Vice-President respectively,
by a majority of electoral votes, larger than given in 1896 to McKinley and
Hobart.
George Washington
Freeman Horner Green, a former negro slave, died at Hempstead, NY. at the
reputed age of 123 years. He was once owned by Gen. Geo. Washington.
November 16, 1900
The breaking of the safe
at the south side freight depot of the Chicago and Northwestern road which had
been planned by two fellows who were apparently tramps, was frustrated last
evening by one of the pair weakening and in their vernacular “squealing on his
partner”
For those who see
Attorney McMullen on the streets with a stubby growth of beard ornamenting his
face, is the result of his dilemma. A bet on the past election is what causes
him to look this way. He wagered six months without a shave if Bryan did not
win.
November 23, 1900
Z. E. Borst, station
agent for the Chicago and Northwestern road at Combined Locks, and an amount of
money variously estimated at from $100 to $500, are missing from their
accustomed place in the depot. Officers
about the country are notified to be on the watch for him.
W. A. Kelso during the
past fall tore down the old Kelso homestead, which was built about 1850 by his
father, George Kelso. In the ruins Mr. Kelso found a copper coin which was
coined during reign of George the Third in the year 1797.
November 30, 1900
Owing to the prevalence
of smallpox in the northern part of the Wisconsin and upper Michigan peninsula,
quite a number who intended to go to the woods for the winter have decided to
remain at home.
The James Jacobson party of deer hunters returned Saturday from the Northwoods. The party of five came home with seven deer. Mr. Jacobson was the most successful as he shot a doe and her two fawns soon after entering the woods.
An Omaha man was fined
$5 for breaking his engagement and laughing at the funeral of the woman who was
to have been his mother-in-law.
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