Friday, November 5, 2021

Time Machine Trip to November 1901

 

Kaukauna Times - November 1901

By Lyle Hansen

November 1, 1901

Fred Louin, of the town of Freedom, and Edward Schultz of Appleton, were delayed about 2 hours on the Kaukauna road, while driving from this city to Freedom. A pine snake estimated at 12 feet in length, and 15 inches through was lying across a point, 7 miles from this city, and despite their efforts to scare it away the huge reptile calmly remained in the road and denied passage. One of the parties was compelled to go back to the first farmhouse a distance, of 3 miles, procure a rifle; but upon return the snake had gone, and they continued, on their way.


One hundred and ten ring horses of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show were crushed to death in a railroad wreck near Lexington, North Carolina Tuesday morning. Among the horses killed was “Old Pap,” Cody's favorite saddle horse. “Old Eagle” the star ring horse was also killed. Cody is heartbroken over the slaughter. He said that the loss is $60,000. The accident was a result of a head-on collision.

 




Leon F. Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley, paid the life penalty for his crime in the electric chair Tuesday. He was given three contacts of electricity before he was finally pronounced dead.


Shot by His Brother – Frank Garvey, the 14-year-old son of William Garvey was accidentally shot by his brother John while hunting Sunday afternoon. The boys were engaged cleaning their guns at the time of the accident.


Luther Lindauer sold 2000 yards of crushed stone to the Inter Urban company for a top dressing over the stone ballast. This amount will be needed from Kaukauna to Little Chute.


November 8, 1901

Did you read the other day about the man falling off his bicycle and cutting his throat so badly with his collar that he bled to death? This never would have occurred had the collar been laundered at the Hand Laundry for we leave no rough edges on our work.


The football team of the Kaukauna High school added another victory to the credit last Saturday by defeating the East Green Bay High by the score of 11 to 10. The shady work was done by the players and not the crowd as the game proceeded. It was in the second half that the team began “playing dirt” with the Kaukauna team. After an advancement on the field by Kaukauna the ball was placed on the ground by the referee for the second down when one of the Green Bay players seized the ball and ran almost the entire length of the field for a touchdown. Referee Morton ordered the ball to be brought back and given back to Kaukauna who had possession of it before it was stolen by the Green Bay team. The Green Bay team refused to play unless they were allowed the touchdown. Rather than see the game come to so sudden end the Kaukauna team captain Nelson ordered his team back on the field to continue to play.

 

Mail Delayed - Charles Peters, postmaster at Little Chute, was discovered to be suffering with an attack of smallpox Thursday morning, which is at present an epidemic in the village, over fifty cases having been reported up to date. A quarantine was promptly instituted at the post office, causing a long delay in mail service.


The Wisconsin Supreme Court the reversed the ruling of the circuit court that the Kaukauna Waterpower company holding that the rights of that of the Mississippi Canal company must be maintained for the use of water. The Supreme court ruled that Kaukauna must pay the Mississippi Canal company for the use of water for power from the Fox River.   


November 15, 1901

Between 15,000 and 20,000 freight cars are needed for immediate use by the railroads center in Chicago. Not since 1886 has the freight car shortage been as great as present.


County Asylum Crops - Supt. George Downer of the county asylum has just completed harvesting his corn crop, which was the biggest ever raised. He also has about 50 tons of cabbage, the biggest portion of which he will sell.  

 

Old Hotel to be Reopened - Col. H. A. Frambach, owner of the hotel building which stands at the corner of 3rd Street and Reaume Avenue, has led contracts this week for a general overhauling of the place so it can again be opened. The hotel will, when renovated and remodeled, be placed in charge of a competent person and run as an exclusive rooming house. The hotel, with additional rooms, will help provide accommodations for the many railroad boys who are constantly being turned away for lack of sufficient rooms at the Thompson club.  


November 22, 1901

The game law limits the number of deer killed by a single hunter to two, but no limitations as to the number of hunters shot has, as, yet been fixed.

 

A Handsome Front – The large glass front of the new block of the Julius J Martens company was placed in position Monday. The front is the largest in Outagamie County and is, similar, to stores in Milwaukee or Chicago. 

 

Killed in The Woods – Anton Vandeweyer, of Little Chute, received a telegram from the northern part of the state Monday morning announcing the death of his son, who was instantly killed while at work in the woods. His son had left home about a week before.  


November 29, 1901

A bank, to be called the Farmers and Traders Bank, with a capital of $25,000 is to be established in Wrightstown.




As a preventative of the many accidents which occur during the deer shooting season from some careless hunter mistaking men for deer, a, correspondence suggests that no license be issued to anyone unless he wears a bright red coat and cap - with a heavy fine for hunting deer without the scarlet uniform. But the fellow who can't distinguish a man from a deer probably would think that a red deer would be worth shooting, in order, to preserve its skin as a mere curiosity.










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