Friday, September 2, 2022

Time Machine Trip to September 1912

 

Kaukauna Times – September 1912

By Lyle Hansen

 

September 6, 1912

William Powers of Holland reported the electrical storm of Sunday night the worst in years in that vicinity. A number of trees in his pasture and fields were struck and torn to splinters by the lightning. Mr. Powers considers he was lucky that his horses, which were in the pasture under the trees, were not killed.

 

Three people drown in the Fox River in Appleton Thursday evening, having gone over the upper dam in a gasoline launch.  The engine failed to work, and the swift current swept the boat over the falls. Harold Schultz was operating the motor when it failed. He was with his mother, Mrs. Charles Schultz, and a neighbor Mrs. Frank Diener.

Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Allis of Milwaukee, arrived to visit relatives in Kaukauna Monday, by auto. They reported it a grueling trip over muddy roads, Through deep sink holes and across dangerous bridges. At one point a puddle in the road were so deep it stopped the engine. A farmer with a team pulled them out. Mr. Allis says no more Wisconsin trips.

 

September 13, 1912

Renn & Co., wood and coal dealers, are building an innovation in the way of an elevator and car unloader for handling clippings.  The elevator has been built about thirty feet high and twenty feet square.

 

September 20, 1912

Word came from Atlantic City states that girls no longer are to be seen along the beach unprotected by stocking. Now the girls are protesting that the men should be treated likewise.

 

Emil Hoeft, employed at the Kaukauna Fibre company, was quite badly injured this morning by being caught in the belt of the chipper. He was taken to his room at Dreger’s where he is boarding. He is a single man about 40 years old.  


The Seymour fair management has contracted the Mills Aviators of Chicago to give flights there. The Mills Aviators have given rides at many fairs throughout Wisconsin.

 

Miss Rosia Mangold had her hair caught in the fast-running machinery of a typesetting machine. Miss Mangold came close to being scalped and only escaped by the machine being promptly shut off. She was taken home and told to rest for a few days.

 

September 27, 1912

This week the Training School will have completed the first fortnight of its existence. The total enrollment is twenty-five with students from Kaukauna, Seymour, Shiocton, West De Pere and the towns of Kaukauna and Buchanan.


If there were Carnegie medal for ideal husbands, a Chicago man surely should be so decorated. He weighs nearly 200 lbs. and by trade is a boiler maker. He found he could not earn as much as his 98lb wife who works as a dressmaker. He proposed to do all the housework including taking care of the baby. His wife would then be the bread winner of the family.



 

The local rural mail carriers will get a raise in salary under a new law passed by the post office department. The carriers with a twenty-mile route will receive $1,100 per year.

 

Peter Reuter, who left Kaukauna six years ago to enter the United States Marine corps, came back to his native town Saturday. Since leaving he has traveled in many lands and climates and by his looks has benefitted much. He has also gained educationally in his service.


While excavating at the new Thilmany pulp plant on the Grignon flat last week workmen found two Indian skulls bones and artifacts in a former Indian mound. The legend is that once a great cannon located on the hills on the east side of the river swept the Indian village which was known to have existed here. Lawrence College gathered many choice relics from the mounds for their museum.

 


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