Kaukauna Times – January 1912
By Lyle Hansen
January 5, 1912
Renn and Co. nearly
lost a horse Wednesday when it broke through the ice on the upper river while
they were engaged in scraping the surface and which was nearly drowned before
it could be rescued.
Cornelius Giesbers, who
came to the Fox River Valley in the party headed by Father Vandenbroek, the
first Catholic priest to establish a church at Little Chute and who was one of
the earliest pioneers of Little Chute and Outagamie County, died last Saturday
at his home in Green Bay at the age of 87 years. Mr. Giesbers was born in Mell, Holland, in
1824. In 1848 he elected to join the party headed by Father Vandenbroek and
sailed to America. After landing in New York, the party headed directly to
Wisconsin and in a couple months after leaving his native home he arrived at
the banks of the Fox River at the point where the thriving village of Little
Chute is now located. He is survived by seven children.
The Wisconsin Traction,
Light, Heat and Power company has been endeavoring to have the village board of
Little Chute pass a franchise giving the aforesaid company the right to furnish
gas and electricity current to the village for lighting and power purposes.
Tragedy was narrowly
averted Tuesday at the home of Anton Frank when the clothes were nearly burnt
off his little daughter Genafavo, age 4 years, while she and her brother were
trying to light a candle in a room on the upper floor. The little tots’ clothes
caught fire and the older one began screaming for help and took his sister
downstairs. Mr. Frank heard the screams and caught the burning baby in his
hands. He carried her to the kitchen and dashed a pail of water on her.
A resolution was
introduced and unanimously passed authorizing empowering the Mayor to demand
and take possession of the plant of the Kaukauna Gas, Electric Light &
Power company as per orders of the Railroad Commission. Mayor Coppes received
authorization to operate the plant on behalf of the city until further
settlement is affected, and a commission appointed to take charge of the city's
new acquisition. Manager Montgomery, who has been, in charge of the plant, and
regular employees of the company, have been retained under the agreement
between the representatives of the company and the city to continue operating
the plant.
The Supreme Court of the United States made a ruling Monday
that “beer is a commodity and railroads must carry it, when offered for
transportation from one state into dry counties of another state, regardless of
the laws of the latter state.” The ruling was made on a case covering the
shipment of beer from Indiana into “dry” counties of Kentucky.
January 12, 1912
The annual meeting of
the stockholders of the First National Bank was held at the bank room in the
Central block. The following officers were elected: President, Frank F. Becker,
vice-president, Julius J. Martens, Cashier William J. Tesch.
The intense cold
weather is causing manufacturers and the Chicago Northwestern company much
trouble along the waterpower in keeping their property from danger by the fast-forming
ice and big ice flows constantly menacing them. A large crew of men is needed
every day on the railroad bridge just below the Union Bag plant cutting away
the cakes of ice consistently being formed by the below zero weather.
The large electric power plant in Appleton was
flooded with water Tuesday night on account of ice forming against the railroad
bridge. All power and light service in Appleton was shut off from 11 pm Tuesday
night to 10 am Wednesday morning.
ANOTHER ICEHOUSE - Fred Reichel is preparing to erect an icehouse
on the lower end of the Island near the Lindauer Mill and put in a supply of
ice for general distance division next summer.
January 19, 1912
Paul Pagel has purchased,
of John H. Corcoran, the blacksmith shop and equipment on Wisconsin Avenue
formerly owned by Fred Dettmann. Mr. Pagel is a practical horseshoer and
blacksmith, having been in this service in the German army for 3 years before
coming to America.
January 26, 1912
Not a Kaukauna picture
The boys and girls are
all looking forward to a rare winter's sport with their toboggans. Considerable
enthusiasm is being awakened among tobogganers who are organizing a club with
the prospect of a fine winter sport commencing this Friday evening at the slide
they have built where Kaukauna Street extends on the Fox River at the Wisconsin
Avenue crossing. This plan that the toboggan slide is well iced and that the
steep incline at that point will give them such an impetus that they will be shot
across the full width of the River on the ice.
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