Kaukauna Times March 1901
By Lyle Hansen
March 1, 1901
It is no unusual sight
to see the drayman and iceman hauling a load of crystal thru the back doors of
different residences these days. Many of the citizens in town have run dry and
housewife’s cry 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 them 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
Grignon's 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 on
the west end of second street for several months were completed March 1. An
open house was held music was furnished each evening by the Nugent-Chamberlain
trio.
St. Mary’s Church, South
Kaukauna.
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 burning 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.
March 22, 1901
There is some
indefinite talk in Green Bay, of harnessing the waterpower at Wrightstown or
Little Rapids and electricity transmitted to Green Bay for general use.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison died
Wednesday afternoon, March 13, 1901, at Indianapolis, aged 67 years, 7 months.
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 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.
