Time Machine Trip to August 1902

Kaukauna Times - August 1902

By Lyle Hansen

August 1, 1902

Julius Kuehn has set the pace in the building of a new cement sidewalk in front of his business block of Second Street, and several others have fallen in line for the same kind of substantial improvement. A cement walk is by far the cheapest in the long run and is generally being adopted in all the larger cities. When once laid in the proper form, it will remain for a lifetime. The life of a board walk is only seven years, at best.

August 8, 1902

Jurors in the United States will hereafter receive $3 per day instead of $2 as has been the custom for years past.

August 15, 1902

The infant child of Albert Kims, aged 2 years, lost its middle finger yesterday. It was chopped off by his four-year-old brother while the children were at play in the woodshed. The bone was badly crushed and the finger hanging by a mere thread, so that Dr. Blair had to amputate it.

King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and Queen Alexandra were crowned at Westminster Abbey on August 9.

August 22, 1902

Twenty-five years ago, next Sunday, way back in 1877 when Kaukauna was but a small village and the south side of the river was still a wilderness only dotted here and there by fields of cultivated farmlands, Rev, R. Pieper gathered a few of the Lutheran faith in this vicinity together and founded the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church of Kaukauna. In 1877 the congregation numbered eight to ten families.

Madison, Wis., Aug. 16 – William Carter, the negro, who is accused of having assaulted Ann Zimmerman at her home near this city was captured last night. He turned himself over to two young men in a passing carriage near the city.  He said he did not wish to run away and all he wanted was a fair trial. Carter accompanied the men to the Sheriff’s office. When brought to the jail he made the following statement. “This is no case of criminal assault, mister,” “It was just like this; I was acquainted with the lady and was called into the house, and she had a bottle of whiskey, and we were setting at the table when the neighbors came in and made a holler. “If I plead guilty, I’ll plead guilty to a lie, but that will be the best way, for if I don’t plead guilty the people would turn against me and make it worse for me.” I was scared and that’s why I ran. I know she wouldn’t say nothing against me but there ain’t no way of telling what the others would say and I wouldn’t have a chance.” 

(William Carter plead guilty to improper conduct and sentenced from 5 to 15 years in prison.) 

 

August 29, 1902

Mrs. Bates, widow of Will W. Bates who was killed in the switchyards a couple of months ago, has settled with the Chicago and Northwestern railroad company for $1,800, and the usual additional considerations such as a life pass for herself and family.

 

Mrs. Sarah Jane Lawe Grignon, 78, of Green Bay, youngest sister of the late Geo. W. Lawe of this city and the last remaining member of the Lawe family, died at Green Bay Friday. She was the only surviving daughter of Judge John Lawe and the widow of Alex Grignon, a very early settler of Kaukauna.

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