Kaukauna Times - April 1903
By Lyle Hansen
April 3, 1903
The Wisconsin assembly
has passed a measure absolutely prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or
importation of cigarettes or cigarette paper in this state. It has also passed
a bill making it unlawful to take beer or other intoxicating liquors into a
voting booth during the progress of an
election.
The little 2-year son
of Mr. and Mrs. Weidenhaupt of the south side was fatally burned Monday
morning. Mrs. Weidenhaupt had step over to the neighbor’s house for a few
minutes leaving the boys 2 and 4 alone at home. It is believed the 4-year-old
found some matches causing the fire.
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April 10, 1903
The human race is
divided into two classes-those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit
and inquire why it wasn't done the other way.
April 17, 1903
A washout occurred on
the Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat and Power Company’s line just west of
Little Chute. Twenty employees of the company were called out and worked from 7
o'clock until noon before it was in shape. There is quite a grade in the line
just this side of Little Chute and heavy rains of the past few days and nights
washing down the hill carried the earth from under the track and in places the
tracks dropped two feet.
April 24, 1903
The delivery of mail on
Rural Route No. 14 has been attended with considerable difficulty for several
weeks, no fault of carrier Rohan. Last week the storm washed out three
culverts, the bridge worse than before and the town line road north has been impassable.
In consequence the carrier goes as far as he can one day, it being impossible
to cross the bridge, and the reverse way the next, a portion of the route being
served each day. If the residents of the rural district want their mail
promptly and daily, they will have to attend to their roads and bridges. The
carriers are not furnished with balloons or flying machines and cannot jump
their mail wagons over fallen bridges and washed-out culverts.
The first boat of the
season arrived in Kaukauna Thursday. The U. S. gov’t transport Wolf came down
from Oshkosh.
Joplin, Mo., A mob of
2,000 person’s marched through the streets the other night threatening all
negro residents. Men and women fled in terror before the mob. Many homes were
set on fire. The outbreak began after a local police officer was killed by a
negro tramp.
Frank Goetzman, aged 16
years, thirdhand on the No. 3 machine at the Thilmany Mill suffered a very
painful injury Monday night at about 11 o’clock when his right thumb was
completely severed. The boy showed remarkable nerve, as he never uttered a cry
of pain.
Kaukauna High School
Baseball
The Kaukauna High School
baseball team twisted the Menasha boys all up in a knot last Saturday afternoon
and tossed them over the fence. The Kaukauna boys trotted bases until they were
weary, piling up a total of 36 runs in seven innings against 3 allowed to their
opponents.
George Kromer,
proprietor of the Farmers Home on the south side, celebrated his 54th
birthday Wednesday. He arrived in Kaukauna in 1869. He is still a firm believer
in the future of the Lion of the Fox and expected to see the city grow to at
least twice its present size.
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