Kaukauna Times – October 1902 and 1912
By Lyle Hansen
October 3, 1902
X-rays are destroying
cancers at the Harper Hospital Clinic, says the Detroit News. One patient has
already been discharged: his cancer all gone. Two other men are taking daily
treatment under the rays and their cancers are rapidly falling off in no time
at all.
October 10, 1902
W. J. Garsen of Green
Bay has leased the vacant Reuter store building on Wisconsin Avenue and will
fit the same up for a first-class bowling alley. The building is of sufficient
length and width to put in several alleys, which will be done immediately. He
then hopes to organize local clubs for home contests as well as tournaments
with neighboring cities.
St. Paul Minn., Mr. James
Weir and his wife are the proud parents of 11 pairs of twins, 22 children. Every
birth came with a boy and a girl. All the children are in the best of health.
October 17, 1902
Harold Weekes, captain of the Columbia
University eleven, is the greatest half back on the gridiron today, according
to Capt. Chadwick of the Yale team. This graceful tribute is endorsed by the
whole college football world declares that Weeks is a modern football
phenomenon.
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So many people are
learning to get along without anthracite coal these days that when the strike
is ended it will be a wonder if the market is not soon overstocked, with the
results of lower prices than were ever before known.
Frank Weinkauf, of
Kaukauna, came near drowning in the fox river Friday night in Appleton when he
and a friend took the Ashland division train. At the depot Frank step from the wrong
side of the train and landed in the canal. Darkness prevented him from being
found for some time. He found shore downstream and walked back to town.
October 24, 1902
The coming election
will mark an important epoch in the history of the Oneida Indians as it will be
the first time that they have had a voting precinct on the Reservation.
St. Paul Minn., James Weir
and his wife are the proud parents of 11 pairs of twins, 22 children. With every
birth came a boy and a girl. All the children are in the best of health.
St. Paul, Minn., - Jim
Younger, a member if the Jesse James gang, was found dead of a self-inflected
gunshot wound October 20. He left a note that he was disappointed that he was
not allowed by the board of pardons to marry a woman he loved.
Racine, Wis., Oct. 20 – Mrs. Hattie Barton,
age 15-years, was this morning granted a divorce from her husband Tobias Barton.
Mrs. Barton told the court that she married Barton two years ago when she was
only 13 years old on advice of her older sister. Her husband had now left town some
time ago and his hereabouts is unknown.
October 31, 1902
The fire department
were given two runs Sunday night, the first being early in the evening to
extinguish a blaze in a shed on Beaulieu hill and other after midnight on account
of the illumination of the heavens on the south side from the Brockman farm
fire in the town of Buchanan.
October 1912
October
4, 1912
The women's suffrage organization suggest that
the members talk to other women workers with a view to forming an estimate as to
the strength of the suffrage sentiment in their particular location. One
member, who has employed the same washerwoman for last six years reported that
she put the question to this lady. “Are you in favor of votes for women?” She asked.
“I don't pay any attention to politics, the woman replied, I leave it all to my
husband.” Well, how does your husband stand on women's suffrage? “He doesn’t stand at all. He believes in
women staying at home minding their own business.” How many families do you
wash for? “Six.” What does your husband do? “He ain’t doing nothing right now
unless he found something this morning.”
Mr. and Mrs. John Niesen moved to Kaukauna
having purchased the restaurant and ice cream business of R. P. Olin and will
open business there next Monday morning.
October 11, 1912
Coach Grogan is working the men hard,
developing speed and accuracy and pounding "football" into them every
minute. The football fans of Kaukauna may be sure of seeing some real football
played by the locals this year. The team
is made up with the following members: center - Rennicke; guards - Olm and
Hayes; tackles - McNaughton and Strathearn; ends – Werely and Sadlier;
quarterback – Lee Schroeder; fullback – Gus Lindauer; left halfback Jewell; right
halfback - 0. Schroeder.
St. Petersburg, Russia – Americans are to be
invited to take part in the Infant Mortality Conference to be held here. There
are 4 million children born in Russia each year, and 2 million of them die as
babies. Last year's conference, held in Berlin, gave Hungry the world's
championship for fighting infant mortality, as all children under 14 years who
are orphans or have bad parents come under state protection. The government
bears the entire burden of 54,000 homeless children.
The Regenfuss Brewing Co. is engaged in
enlarging their facilities for the transaction of their constantly growing
business. It is certainly encouraging for these gentlemen John and Jacob
Regenfuss, that their efforts are being appreciated by home demand for their
product.
Herman Knitter, Jr., aged 18, died Monday from
diseases resulting from an injury he received a year ago. While engaged in work
at the mill of Union Bag and Paper company. A pile of paper fell on him badly
injuring his side and back. The injuries later developed into complications
causing his death after over a year of intense suffering. The young man was
always patient and at first lived in hope of recovering but toward the end
realized that the struggle was against him.
Joseph Hentz 21 years old from Kaukauna was
fatally injured early Saturday morning at the new plant of the Thilmany Pulp
and Paper company. He was painting under a railroad car that was on hoists when
the hoist gave way. An examination at St. Elizabeth hospital in Appleton
revealed the fact that his back was broken. Everything was done to alleviate
his condition, but medical aid proved futile.
An eight-pound baby boy arrived at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. George Kailhofer last Friday, all doing fine. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Vanevenhoven Wednesday night and there is rejoicing in the family.
The Kaukauna high school football team again
demonstrated their supremacy on the gridiron by defeating the East Green Bay
team in a score of 28 to 3 at the Kaukauna ballpark Saturday. Kaukauna gained largely by plunging the opponent’s
line for short but insistent gains of 5 to 15 yards a time, then “Butts” Hayes
went through the line for the touchdown and Jewell kicked goal.
October 18, 1912
The Crystal Theatre on the south side will open
on the 19th with a new manager and a new name. William Van Dyke, for
several years leader of the Olympia orchestra, has purchased the stock of the
company. The new name will be the Vaudette, and good music will be furnished
under Mr. Van Dyke's directions, a violinist, with a change in program every
evening.
Before a campaign speech in Milwaukee on
October 15, Theodore Roosevelt, the presidential candidate for the Progressive
Party, was shot at close range by saloonkeeper John Schrank while greeting the
public in front of a hotel. Schrank’s .32 caliber bullet, aimed directly at
Roosevelt’s heart failed to mortally wound the former president because its
force was slowed by a glass case and a bundle of manuscript in the breast
pocket of Roosevelt’s heavy coat. Schrank was immediately detained and
reportedly offered his motive that “any man looking for a third term ought to
be shot.” Roosevelt, who suffered only a flesh wound from the attack, went on
to deliver his speech with the bullet still in his body. After a few words, the
former “Rough Rider” pulled the torn and bloodstained manuscript from the
breast pocket and declared, “You see, it takes more than one bullet to kill a
Bull Moose.” He spoke for nearly an hour and then was rushed to the
hospital.
October 25, 1912
The Boston Red Sox won the World Series,
defeating the New York Giants 3-2, at Boston. The series had been tied 3-3, and
the deciding game was tied 1-1 after nine innings. The Giants scored in the 10th
but gave up two runs when an easy fly ball was dropped.
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