Kaukauna Times – April 1901
By Lyle Hansen
April 5, 1901
Dr. Charles D. Boyd
In the election earlier
this week, Dr. C. D. Boyd totally ran away with the race for the position of
mayor, defeating W. N. Nolan by the largest majority this city has ever seen in
the race for mayor. Boyd claimed the victory with a 295 majority, with his
biggest advantage coming in the first and second wards, where he held a
majority of 131 votes in each. The victory scored by Dr. Charles D. Boyd is
unprecedented in this city his majority being nearly three times as large as
the usual majorities given the mayor elect.
John Sprangers has
turned loose his inventive ingenuity once more and this time has produced an
automatic fishing apparatus. The line is attached to a spring somewhat the
style of a mouse trap and so arranged that when the fish takes the bait the
spring is released, and the hook is jerked upward very quickly. John says one
man can manage half a dozen lines at one time.
A branch of the paper makers’
union was instituted in this city Sunday afternoon by William Hamilton national
organizer from Watertown, New York. The Kaukauna union, which is known as No.
26 of the National Paper Makers’ Union, numbers over 40 members and our
employees of the Combined Locks Paper Company, Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company,
Outagamie Paper Company and the Union Bag and Paper Company. The meeting was
held at Heindel's Hall in which nearly 100 paper makers were present. The
objects of the Association for the betterment of trade conditions and to
advance the interest of its members.
The Southside post
office will be moved and open for business next Monday morning in the room
adjoining the present location which was recently vacated by the First National
Bank. Postmaster Raught makes the change, so as, to secure the use of the safety
vault formerly used by the bank. The room has been very nicely decorated and
will make a model office.
Gilbert F. Germanson
Little Chute, Wisc., April 3 – The village is in a state of great
excitement over the election. At the caucus Gilbert F. Germanson was unanimously
nominated for village president. It is known that Germanson was in favor of
fire protection which many do not favor. Monday morning all the ballots were
made out for Kilsdonk alone. The Germanson party is wild and serious trouble is
feared.
April 12, 1901
There is a quaint old
Holland clock undergoing repairs at Anton Ver Keilen’s on Wisconsin Avenue. Its
owner, Mr. Driessen, values it very highly as it is an heirloom, descending
from his great-great-grandfather's family. On the back side of the curiously
wrought case is found the date of its manufacture, which was 1696, being now
205 years old.
John Coppes, who will manage the
Kaukauna aggregation of baseball players this season, says there is to be some
good ball playing in Kaukauna during the coming summer. Rates to Milwaukee and
return have been secured at the very low figure of $2 dollars down and back,
which is less than the boys paid to Sheboygan and return last year.
Steps have been taken
by government authorities to stop the wholesale practice of bigamy by the
Indians living on the Oneida reservation. In view of the fact that the steadily
increasing privileges being granted the Oneidas they may soon be make full-fledged
citizens and the authorities believe it is now time to act properly and vigorously
in order that serious complications of various natures may be avoided. Swapping
wives, the same as horses is a frequent occurrence at the present time among
the Oneidas.
April 19, 1901
Pastor Father
Steinbecker
of St. Mary's church has succeeded in placing the last of the two big stained-glass
windows in position. This window is an immense one measuring nearly 12 X 23
feet and costing $1,000 and portrays the "Descent of the Holy Spirit on
the Disciples.
Otto Kloehn, age 15
years, a helper at the paper machines at Thilmany Mill, got his hand caught
between the calendars Wednesday night and badly crushed. Dr. Titus was called
to set the broken bones and pull the skin back into place. Young Kloehn stood
bravely without once winching or crying out with the pain of the operation and
without the use of anesthetics. It is not known if the hand can be saved.
April 26, 1901
Cpt. John Hendrick Aupaumut
Mrs. Margaret Beauleiu,
76 years old, is the daughter of a revolutionary soldier, Jacob Davids of this
city. She has recently returned to her home at Gresham, Shawano County. She
bears the distinction of being the oldest living native born resident of
Wisconsin. She was born in Kaukauna in a log house at the foot of Beaulieu
Hill, the ruins which are yet standing. Her parents came here in 1825. Mrs.
Beauleiu’s memory of the old times and events are remarkably good and delights in
talking about them. She remembers well Indian chief Kon Ka Pot whose home was
at the foot of the bluff that runs along Konkapot creek and named after the chief.
She can point out the spot opposite John Brills house where lies the once
famous Indian chief and Revolutionary soldier, John Hendrick Aupaumut. She also remembers
Paul Ducharme, a brother of Wisconsin’s first settler, Dominic Ducharme, at the
Grand Kau kau lin,
The coffer-dam cribs,
etc., put in at the Combined Locks last fall by Hackworthy Construction company
for the purpose of commencing work on the construction of the proposed new pulp
mill, and which work was suspended on account of high water, were all carried
away last Friday by a heavy volume of water coming down river. The loss in work
and material to the construction company was about $2,500.
The Marten's feed and
sale stable which was removed from the old stand on Third Street to allow for
the erection of a new addition to the Julius Martens block will be rebuilt on a
larger and more extensive plan on a vacant lot down the street.
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