Time Machine Trip to June 1912

 

Kaukauna Times – June 1912

By Lyle Hansen

June 7, 1912

The Sheboygan Classes of the Reformed Church is being held in Kaukauna this week. Upwards of fifty pastors and as many laymen representing the church organizations are attending the convention in conjunction with the Classes, the local congregation will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Immanuel Church.

 

About five hundred feet from the streetcar tracks and near the crest of the slope to the Fox River at Combined Locks stands a log barn that is now one of the oldest buildings on the river between Green Bay and Fond du Lac. For many years the old barn stood as a silent sentinel as men would come and men would go and the river flowed on forever the storms soaked its shingles and the hail beat and slivered them till now there is scarcely a whole one left to keep out the wintry snows.

 

June 14, 1912

F. W. Findenkiller has an unusual chick hatched at his home. It is a chick with three eyes. A third eye is in the middle of its head along with one on each side. The bill is malformed allowing room for the extra eye. 

Seventh and Eighth Grade Classes Holy Cross School, Top Row E. Hoffman, Marie Rutter, Marie Chopin, Laura Hoffman, Ceil Qaust, Marie Black, Ruth Schwin, Marie Koelm bottom row Hildegard Regenfuss, Marie Regenfuss, Frances Minkebige, Mayme Weber, Della Schwin, Julia Bork, Mary Bayorgeon.

 

Joseph Jansen suffered a severe and painful injury Tuesday at the Combined Locks paper mill by having his thumb caught between the rolls of a paper machine.

 

During the summer season, the Crystal Theatre will be open four nights each week - Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. Excellent pictures will be shown with complete change of program each night. Admission 5 cents. 

 

Herman Hoehne, after several tests with his Indian Motorcycle, has entered his machine in the June 30 races at Appleton. Mr. Hoehne has one of 4-horse-power model which he has enter and with which he hopes to win a prize.  

 

June 21, 1912

Mrs. Lydia Grignon Freund, wife of Charles Freund, of Oconto, died Friday at the age of 59 years. Mrs. Freund was born in Kaukauna, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Grignon; her grandfather was Augustine Grignon who was the third earliest settler in Grand Kakalin.

 

Final action in the location of the Outagamie County Sanatorium for the care of tuberculosis patients was completed Wednesday, and the site on the Anton Miller farm in Little Chute was chosen. It is near the Alex Grignon place and runs from the Appleton-Kaukauna Interurban car line down to the bank of the river, below the government locks. The location of the building is said to be ideal, with a deep wooded background and terrace slope to the Fox River below, and beautiful views of the river scenery in every direction. Bids for the construction of the administration building will be advertising next week and building will commence as soon as possible, as several patients are waiting.

The Rev. Father Vandenbroek established a small colony of Hollanders in what is now the Village of Little Chute on June 8, 1948 being sixty-four years ago last Friday. The band of followers has dwindled to seven survivors in Little Chute and four outside of the village from the original group. The survivors of Father Vandenbroek’s little band are: George, Henry and John Williamson, John Johnson, George Coonen, Mrs. Anna DeGroot, Mrs. Walter Justen, Mrs. R. Verheuven, all of Little Chute; C. H. L. Hamer Kaukauna; Herman Ebben, Freedom; Mrs. John Toonen, Kimberly; Martin Coonen, Darboy.

June 28, 1912

President William Howard Taft and Vice-President James Schoolcraft Sherman were re-nominated by the Republican national convention in Chicago on the first ballot.