Kaukauna Times March 1921
By Lyle Hansen
March 3, 1921
Thomas Edison, the electrical wizard, asked as
to labor conditions answered: “I am not against the eight-hour day or any other
thing that protects labor from explorations at the hands of ruthless
employers. But it makes me sad to see
young Americans shackle their abilities by blindly conforming to keep step with
the shirker. Every person has a chance to become whatever he wants to be.”
March 10, 1921
Colonel H. O. Frambach, one our early citizens
and prominent in establishing Kaukauna's industrial and commercial life, died
Tuesday evening at his home in Los Angles, as a result of a stroke. He served
under General Grant in the secret service being promoted from Private to
Colonel for his service. He is best remembered in Kaukauna as the man who built
the first paper mill in the Fox Valley-Badger Paper Mills in Kaukauna and
Menasha. He also organized a private bank in Kaukauna and was the first president
of it. The bank later merged into the present First National Bank of Kaukauna.
Woodrow Wilson left the White House
last Friday after a tenure of eight years and retired to private life a
physically broken man. He may safely leave the final verdict to history as to
the judgment of his administration for the country will soon forget the
narrow-minded partisans who under the guise of patriotism wrought their
personal ends. The country will remember that the period of 1913 to 1921 its
president was by all odds far and away the strongest man who ever occupied the
White House.
March 17, 1921
Chief of Police R. H.
McCarty has
advised the Fire and Police Commission that a motorcycle policeman should be
appointed who will be able to "nail" auto drivers when they exceed
the speed limit prescribed by city authorities. He also urges citizens to report
any drivers who are speeding or fail to turn corners properly so he can make
the arrest and take the offender into court. For the first offense a warning
could suffice but on the second offense a heavy fine would be administered.
March 24, 1921
Some alleged wealthy
bloods from Fond du Lac with more money and booze than regard for the rights of
others visited the city last Thursday afternoon and about suppertime stopped their
car on Second Street and began to offer passers-by a drink from a quart bottle labeled
Wine of Pepsin. After exchanging words
with a policeman who appeared on the scene the visitors tried to evade arrest,
stepped on the gas, and drove their Hudson Super Six car down the street at
what a Chicago man, described as little less than sixty miles an hour, forcing
everybody on the street to get out of the rowdies' way. Undertaker Freehan who was crossing the
street narrowly missed being run over as the speeding car lurched from one side
of the roadway to the other. Officers took after the flying car and Chief
McCarty at last rounded up the speeders and placed them under arrest. The car
was placed in charge of a driver who took it to Fond du Lac as the offenders
were ordered to appear in court Saturday which they promised to do. Failing to
show up at that appointed time they were notified to appear on Monday, which
they did and paid the customary fine.
March 31, 1921
Clem Hilgenberg has taken possession of the
barbershop which he recently purchased from George Howk at the foot Desnoyer
Street on Wisconsin Avenue and is ready with the aid of the former proprietor,
to scrape the face or cut the hair of all who are in need of razor or scissors.
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