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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