Time Machine Trip to Febraury 1903 and 1913

 

Kaukauna Times - February 1903

By Lyle Hansen

February 6, 1903

 

The Kaukauna fire department was out in full force Thursday morning for an exhibition run before the lenses of a moving picture camera for the purpose of securing a scene to be reproduced for a show to be given on February 17. The scene will show the opening of the doors at the engine house after the sounding of the alarm and the departure of the horse drawn fire apparatus led by Chief Schubert down Third Street.

 

 

 

Photographer Richardson took a group picture of the members of the Fox Club last Thursday.

 

Isaac John, an Oneida Indian, who was recently brought to Milwaukee from Green Bay to answer to the charge of carrying liquor upon the reservation Aug. 30, 1900, was arraigned Monday. The court sentenced him to 60 days imprisonment in the county jail and to pay a fine of $100 and costs.

 

February 13, 1903

 

Within the past eight weeks upwards of $4,000 has been contributed by members of St. Francis church toward the fund started to cancel all indebtedness of the congregation which was created a couple of years ago by the erection of the present splendid edifice to take the place of one burned. This leaves a balance of but $1,200 and this will undoubtedly be wiped out before the close of 1903.

 

John Hiting has sold his stock of groceries to the Julius J. Martens Co. and will convert this store building into a bowling alley.

 

Adolph Henke started Tuesday morning for Green Bay on a visit. While crossing Lawe Street bridge one of his ears got frost bitten but he kept on to the depot and by that time the whole ear was frozen solid. The frost was drawn out by an application of snow, but it swelled three times its usual size.

 

The Kaukauna High school athletic team goes to Appleton February 27 for an athletic indoor meet with the high school teams of Ryan and Third ward of Appleton and the Neenah team at Lawrence University. There will be five events consisting of high jump, shot put, pole vault, 25 yard dash and relay race. The winning teams of five men each to take part in a contest later on at Milwaukee. 

  

Another one of the pending cases in the long- drawn-out case between the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal company and the Kaukauna Water Power company was commenced in the circuit court at Appleton. This action is to determine the value of the water wrongfully used by the power company from the water from the canal.

 

February 20, 1903

When the Smith Grocery on Second Street was opened for business Tuesday several inches of water was found to cover the entire floor of the store. Someone had left the water running upstairs the night before, the drainage pipe became clogged with a piece of paper, and as a result the water poured onto the upper floor and down into the grocery. About $50 worth of goods was damaged.

 

 

February 27, 1903

Twenty-two degrees below Wednesday morning. Talk about a slice of the North Pole for breakfast.

  

 

1913

February 7, 1913

Kaukauna is grieving the loss of one of her prominent citizens. Nic Faust died Sunday as a result of pneumonia brought on by a train accident ten days ago.

Ray Jacobs, age fifteen years, died at St. Elizabeth’s hospital at Appleton last Friday night as result of being run over by a Northwestern car. He had left work at the Standard Manufacturing company and caught a ride on a box car for home. As he was about to get off at the Bates Street crossing, he slipped and went under the wheels. He was conscious on the way to the hospital but later died of his injuries. He was practically the only support of his widowed mother.

The Electric Light and Water Works Commissioners held a joint meeting Monday and after giving due consideration decided to recommend to the common council combining the two into one to be designated as the Kaukauna Utilities Commission with a membership of five.

 

February 14, 1913

 

A crew of men has been busy for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company all the week rebuilding the platform along the front of the freight depot on the Southside of Kaukauna. 

The Farmers and Merchants Elevator company is now in line for business, having got their feed grinding outfit in running order today.

 

Peter Verstegen of Kaukauna Motor Sales Company has just purchased another new automobile from the J. I. Case Manufacturing Co., of Racine. The new machine is a 30-horsepower 5-passenger and a very handsome auto.

 

February 21, 1913

Dr. F. E. Donaldson, a Kaukauna physician, has added a pulmometer to his equipment. The pulmometer is an oxygen apparatus and is the only one this side of Fond du Lac.

 

St. Petersburg – The most colossal murder trial will begin. Mme. Kusnezowa will be placed in the dock charged with murdering 1,012 children by poison. Kusnezowa kept a baby farm outside of the city where illegitimate children were adopted for $25. Since the place was opened five years ago the death rate among the infants had been tragically high. When the police began to make inquires the large number of bodies were discovered. It was determined at that time that many of the babies had been poisoned.

   

The Kaukauna Girls’ basketball team played Bushey’s Business College at Appleton last evening. The Kaukauna team are Janet Strathearn, Center; Lottie McCarty, forward; Hortense Berens, Guard and Captain; Mildred Kenney, forward; and Roselia McMorrow, Guard.

As a result of a clash with John I. Beggs, of the Wisconsin Light and Power Co., the “White Way” along College Avenue at Appleton is in darkness. The businessmen have asked Mr. Beggs to pay to replace 1,100 feet of streetcar tracks which he refused to do. In order to make their demand more forcible the businessmen have cut off the arch illumination which they pay Beggs’ company $160 per month. They may be biting off more than they bargained for as it will take more than a paltry $160 to make the Beggs’ company  spend several thousand dollars for the rails.

 

February 28, 1913

 

Saloon keepers are to be barred from holding office in Wisconsin if bills pending before the legislature become laws.