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Time Machine Trip to August 1901

 

Kaukauna Times - August 1901

By Lyle Hansen

August 2, 1901

The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hartmen came near losing his life Tuesday. Bridge tender Chas. Egan saw the little fellow just in time to shout to Jos. Miller, who rescued the child barely in time to save him from falling off the edge of the Lawe Street Bridge, while it was open for a boat to pass. No one present saw the baby as it ran towards the opening, and had it not been for Mr. Egan, it would surely have fallen off the edge of the bridge which is about forty feet above the water.


The oldest person in the state and perhaps the oldest in the Northwest is “Chebona”, a squaw living on the Oneida reservation. Chebona is 115 years old as she was born in the fall of the year 1786. She remembers well her journey to the west from the east coast in the 1820s. 


The following notice was posted at the Union Bag and Paper Company plant last week and the new schedule went into effect Saturday. Commencing August 1 this mill will start at 7 am on Mondays and shut down at 6 pm on Saturdays. Employees are to arrive at work sufficiently early and have the machines running at 7 am. 


The 200 Italians, who are doing the grading for the new double track of the Chicago Northwestern Road, are very slow workmen compared to those of other nationalities. The men are small in stature and can endure all kinds of hardships. They are easily managed and look as if they were perfectly content with their lot. - Appleton Post. 


Fred Glaff, who was injured in the south side switch yard of the Northwestern Road several years ago, has filed a claim for $10,000 against the company. It will be remembered that Glaff was engaged in doing some repair work under a car when another car was kicked onto the repair track and he was run over, both legs being crushed above the knees. The company had agreed in the settlement to giving him a guaranteed lifetime job. He claims the agreement had been violated by his being laid off.


August 9, 1901

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith, who resided in this city at one time but of late, have lived in Tallahassee, Florida, arrived in Kaukauna last Saturday. They rode all the way from the south to Kaukauna in a buggy drawn by a small driving horse, covering a total distance of 2,200 miles in a period of 95 days.


Articles were filed with the Register of Deeds last week Friday incorporating the Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company of this city. This means no particular change in the mill, the management or the product. Heretofore the company has been simply a private organization, and the incorporation is for the purpose of effecting greater facility in some of their business transactions.


The United States treasury has just paid $948,000 for new gold coming in from the Alaskan Klondike.

Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 7 - Two cases of white-capping occurred in the state in counties remote from each other. In one case 16 masked men appeared at the home of William Gore in Howard County. They took him to the woods, tied him to the tree and whipped him.  He was charged with neglecting his wife and child. Matthew McKenzie of Monroe County was the other victim. He too was taken from bed at midnight by masked men and brutally whipped. He was then given five days in which to leave the County. The charge against him was that he was too lazy to work.


August 16, 1901

Gus Schloeter was called to Dundas as a witness in the case of Peter Griesch, charged by the humane society with having mutilated a horse to the extent of pulling its tongue from its mouth. Despite testimony as to the nature of the crime, Griesch got off with a fine of $5 and costs amounting to $35.00.


The Lindauer Pulp Company is adding another mammoth new pulp grinder to their mill on the Meade Edwards Canal.


The four “hello” girls at the Neenah exchange went on a strike last week and their places were immediately filled by the manager, who found girls anxious for their places.


Governor Geer of Oregon has again refused the offer of great number of his admirers to buy him an expensive mansion. I am too poor to accept it he says. I am living comfortably in the house I rent and to buy a fine house for me to furnish would be laying too heavy a burden on my shoulders. 


August 23, 1901

William Berg of Omaha, Neb., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Berg a prominent manufacturer of this city, arrived here Monday to spend a week with his parents. Mr. Berg had not seen his son since he left Kaukauna nearly 40 years ago and naturally many changes have taken place in that period.


Another cut of 20% of the amount of water available for power went into effect Monday under government orders. The lake has been going down very rapidly for the past week and unless rain falls soon the river water will be shut off entirely.

Doctors O. G. Lord, W. N. Nolan and D. A. Titus made a careful diagnosis of cases at Columbia Hall near the Hotel Ristau, on Wednesday of this week and have issued a signed certificate to the effect that no smallpox has existed here and that the children were simply ill from a common disease known as  chickenpox. The quarantine had been lifted and the scare is over in Kaukauna. 


August 30, 1901

A North-Western Road engine and box car plunged through a canning factory at Janesville. The building was of brick just finished at a cost of $150,000 and ready to open Monday. It is now in ruins. The engine struck the big water tank and it fell lengthwise of the whole building and crushed it.


While playing among the cinders of the former Wieckert Company site at Appleton Saturday, Harry Peebles found the gold watch of Robert Pasch, who was killed in a boiler explosion at the plant two years ago.

Martin Verstegen, 15, of Little Chute was fatally injured while at work at the Kimberly paper mills Saturday afternoon. The young man was a tender on one of the machines and in some way was pulled into the machinery.  Young Verstegen had been employed at the Kimberly mill for the past two months and was about to leave his position that night, having earned enough during his summer vacation to purchase a bicycle, which was his soul object in working.


 

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