Kaukauna Times - September 1901
By Lyle Hansen
September 6, 1901
The following is the
complete staff of the Kaukauna High School: Principal, A. M. Olson; assistants,
Leo Schussman, Miss Lulu M. Dysart, Miss Agnes Black, and Miss Mabel M. Potter.
The Inter urban is making rapid strides with
its grading these days and has reached a point less than one mile from here.
There are 30 to 40 teams at work all along the way. It certainly looks at the
date as though the company would make good its promise of running its cars into
Kaukauna by the first of November.
It would have been unnecessary to have told
anyone that the hunting season opened last Sunday. It was made manifest the
moment a streak of grey touched the eastern horizon and such a bombardment as
was set up along the river here has never been equaled.
The TIMES celebrates another birthday today, it
is having been twenty-one years ago that the first issue was pulled from the
press by the publishers Hopkins & Cates. At that time the south side was in
its primeval state. The south side and its business district were covered in
trees.
September 13, 1901
President McKinley was
shot twice by an assassin as he was holding the man's hand in a clasp of
friendship at the great Temple of Music a few moments after 4:00 p.m. on
September 12. A false report at noon today that McKinley was dead was followed
by a report at 12:30 that the president was still alive and resting
easily. Upon receiving the report at
noon, Frederick Lindauer of the south side dropped dead, the news having
undoubtedly shocked him so that it affected his heart.
September 20, 1901
Theodore Roosevelt
It had been reported at noon on the 14th that our honored and beloved President had passed away, and many of our citizens, shocked by the sudden and unexpected turn that his condition had taken, were gathered in small groups sorrowfully discussing his untimely taking away. President McKinley's death resulted in Theodore Roosevelt being made President of the United States.
Twenty years ago, this
month the country was in mourning similar to that of today, the death of
President Garfield having occurred September 26, 1881.
The Oneidas are to receive half a million
dollars from the government before long. This money is in payment for the
Kansas land claim pending for some time. It is estimated that each Oneida will
receive between $200 and $300. There are currently about 2000 Oneidas on the
reservation.
September 27, 1901
Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, was
sentenced to die in the electric chair after a trial lasting less than seven
hours. "Henceforth let his name not be spoken, written, or printed; let
his face not appear in public prints; let him be as one who has never lived.
The law has set its verdict on his crime; hence forth his person and life
belong to justice and to oblivion."
You have noticed that a great number of boys of
this city are attached to the hind-end of a cigarette. The law states that the
sale of cigarettes to minors shall be punishable by a fine of not less than
$5.00 or more than $20.00 and imprisonment for no less than five days or more
than thirty days.
Combined Locks Mill
Fred Olm of the south side had a narrow escape
from death at the Combined Locks paper mill Monday morning. A portion of the
plant was shut down for repairs. When Fred was doing repairs to the paper
machine someone turned it on. He was carried down the belt and fell to the
floor below. Dr. Tanner was summed to attend his injuries which are not of a
serious nature.
Make a little man out of your boy by dressing
him in one of those three-piece suits at Frank Konrad’s.
Kaukauna manufacturers in common with those of
most every city revealed a few men last week who were more pleased than grieved
at the death of President McKinley. Several of these men were spotted here and
are now minus their positions. They should have probably come to the fact that
this is a country of free speech, it is better at such times to be deaf and
dumb than express their traitorous voices.
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