Kaukauna Times - January 1902
By Lyle Hansen
January 3, 1902
There was quite a flurry in the bread market on the south side for a short time last Saturday afternoon. Fred Wiggers delivery team indulged in a runaway careening the wagon on Third Street. Buns and bread took a drop and were scattered promiscuously along the highway.
The first of the new issue of ten-dollar buffalo bill was
placed in circulation by the treasury department. The bill is named the buffalo
bill because of the central figure of a large buffalo.
January 10, 1902
Joseph McCarty, who is
now engaged in cutting ice for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad company,
made record in filling his own ice houses, which task he completed in a trifle
less than four day, the shortest time in which it was ever accomplished.
Although the ice is not very thick so far, this winter, it is of much better
quality than usual.
At the council meeting of Tuesday evening, application was made by H.A.
Frambach for a franchise granting to him, his successors or assigns, permission
to erect and conduct an electric light plant in Kaukauna. The franchise also
adds that it is the ultimate intention to take up the claimed franchise and
present rights and property of the Kaukauna Electric Light Company and transfer
them to the new company.
January 17, 1902
A six-year-old boy
named Pendergast, residing in the town of Kaukauna, was kicked by a horse last
Friday. His skull was crushed in on the right side. Dr. Tanner was summoned and
found the boy in serious condition with little hopes of being saved. He administered
aid and trepanned the skull removing the portion resting on the brain. At last
reports the boy was doing well and seemed to be on the road to recovery.
Not a wheel turned at
the plant of the Union Bag and Paper Company in this city last Saturday, out of
respect to the memory of Vice President A. N. Perrin and Secretary Treasurer
Frank Washburn, the officers of the company who were killed in the New York
Central tunnel collision, and whose funeral occurred that day.
A. W. Patten, 74, the
well-known paper manufacturer died at his home in Appleton Wednesday
morning. He was born in a poor family in
Massachusetts, and he spent his youth at labor to assist in the support of the
family. He possessed the vigorous natural abilities learned by observation of men
and affairs. He rose from the ranks of a poor boy to die as a multimillionaire
with interest in several paper companies one of which is the Outagamie Mill in
Kaukauna.
This locomotive was
manufactured by the railroad boys on the southside of Kaukauna for the purpose
of decoration at their fourteenth annual Thanksgiving ball given at the
Kaukauna opera house. The work on the little engine is do perfect that it
resembled the “real thing”.
The Appleton physician
who decided that smallpox is only acne must have turned some of his patients
loose. A woman with her face and hands badly broken out with the disease
boarded the train there bound for Brillion. As soon as the news spread through
the car that smallpox was on board the train there was a scramble of passengers
to the next car. When the train arrived in Kaukauna the woman was alone in the
car. Dr. Nolan who happened to be on the train was called to examine the case
and pronounced it sure-enough small-pox. The car was cut from the train and moved
to a siding then attached to the rear of the train and proceeded to Brillion.
The car will be thoroughly fumigated and disinfected in Brillion.
January 24, 1902
Blue jays and meadow larks have made their appearance according to reports from the rural districts, indicating an early spring.
St. John’s Catholic
church
at Little Chute has declared a dividend on its pew rentals to the parishioners.
The pew rents for 1901 were $200, in excess, of the church expenditures and
having no debt to apply to. Rev. Fr. Knegtel declared a $1 each to the 172 pew holders.
January 31, 1902
The First National Bank
came near being turned into an ice rink. A water pipe in the office of Dr.
Titus just above the bank in the Central Block sprung a leak and for two hours
during the afternoon, while he happened to be absent, a stream of water poured
onto the floor and down through the ceiling. Before the break could be fixed
and the stream shut off about an inch of water stood on the tile floor of the
bank and bank employees were doing business beneath umbrellas to shed the flood
from above.
